Kathryn Robinson is joined by Georgia Wilkins, Jacqui Munro, Dr Norman Swan and Rachael Jacobs to discuss another COVID wave in the third year of the pandemic, and why Australians are setting up and ruling their own nations.

Ellen Fanning and the panel discuss the countdown to the US midterms and what matters most to American voters, the latest on the war in Ukraine, plus the decision to extend the age a person can stay in foster care in NSW.