{"podcast":{"title":"Global Roaming with Geraldine Doogue and Hamish Macdonald","slug":"global-roaming-with-geraldine-doogue-and-hamish-macdonald-6755533","podcast_index_feed_id":6755533,"rss_url":"https://www.abc.net.au/feeds/103189114/podcast.xml","website_url":"https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/global-roaming/","image_url":"https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/58c0d4d2bb3eaeda6d7c9d98ca7d81be.jpg?src","author":"ABC Australia","episode_count":316,"summary":"A war breaks out, a leader emerges, a revolution unfolds. How did it happen, and what are the implications for you? Award-winning journalists Geraldine Doogue and Hamish Macdonald are joined by two new hosts, former foreign correspondent Kylie Morris and journalist Latika Bourke in London. Every day, they'll be discussing the biggest world events and how to make of sense of them. Along with expert guests, they take a single topic and examine it with Australian eyes. Challenging, thoughtful and fun, Global Roaming is your user's guide to what the world is talking about.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-24T00:22:17.188490+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/global-roaming-with-geraldine-doogue-and-hamish-macdonald-6755533"},"episode":{"title":"The Alliance | Your questions answered","slug":"the-alliance-your-questions-answered","published_at":"2026-09-18T01:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/global-roaming-with-geraldine-doogue-and-hamish-macdonald-6755533/the-alliance-your-questions-answered","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/global-roaming-with-geraldine-doogue-and-hamish-macdonald-6755533","url":"https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/global-roaming/the-alliance-your-questions-answered/107094488","audio_url":"https://mediacore-live-production.akamaized.net/audio/02/oj/Z/s2.mp3","summary":"After The Alliance mini-series drew a flood of listener mail, Hamish McDonald and Geraldine Doogue open the mailbag and bring in Guardian Australia's Ben Doherty to answer the hardest question listeners asked: how much control does Australia actually have over the US military presence on its own soil? Doherty's investigation found the US has access to roughly 110 of Australia's 150 defence installations, including Pine Gap, permanently commanded by a US soldier, and bases used by nuclear-capable bombers. From 2032, we could also see nuclear-armed submarines through HMAS Stirling in Perth. Doherty reveals that, under the US policy of \"strategic ambiguity,\" Washington won't say whether nuclear weapons are on board, and Canberra wont ask.Plus, what are the \"shared values\" our alliance is based upon and what are the alternatives?Guest: Ben Doherty, senior reporter with Guardian Australia. You can read Ben's full investigation here. Get in touch: We'd love to hear from you! Email us at global.roaming@abc.net.au Find all the episodes of Global Roaming now via the ABC Listen App or wherever you get your podcasts.","meta_description":"After The Alliance mini-series drew a flood of listener mail, Hamish McDonald and Geraldine Doogue open the mailbag and bring in Guardian Australia's Ben…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1746,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/global-roaming-with-geraldine-doogue-and-hamish-macdonald-6755533/episodes/the-alliance-your-questions-answered/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/global-roaming-with-geraldine-doogue-and-hamish-macdonald-6755533/the-alliance-your-questions-answered.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}