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Peter Drew's 'Aussie' posters, seen around our cities, have now been copied in Melbourne by someone using a picture of the younger of the two Bondi shooters. Meanwhile Peter has issued a social media callout for young right wingers, and those who fear immigration, to engage with him. Guest: Peter Drew, Adelaide-based artist.Producer: Ann Arnold

Iran’s president has signalled a potential diplomatic shift, saying he has directed diplomats to seek negotiations with the United States as fears of a military confrontation appear to subside. President Masoud Pezeshkian wrote on social media on Tuesday that he had instructed the foreign minister to pursue “fair and equitable negotiations” with Washington. What does this mean for the future of the Islamic Republic? Guest Ali Ansari, Professor of Iranian History, and director of the Institute for Iranian Studies at the University of St Andrews, UKProducer Ali Benton

The US Dept. of Justice published over three million additional pages from the Epstein files containing over a thousand references to Donald Trump, as well as photos and references to other high profile people such as Elon Musk and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, but Bruce Shapiro thinks the Trump information is a distraction from the backlash against ICE's killing of nurse Alex Pretti. Meanwhile journalism is under attack in the States, with the arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort, using a law designed to protect people from anti-abortion protesters, and a Democrat has had a surprise win in Texas. Guest: Bruce Shapiro, contributing editor with The Nation magazine and Director of the Global Center for Journalism and Trauma. Producer: Catherine Zengerer

When the Colleano circus family came to town, it was a big deal. Their acrobatic skills took them from Lightning Ridge, to New York and London in the 1920s and 30s. Circus life, kept the Colleano’s relatively safe. The family outmanoeuvred punitive and racist Australian laws to travel the world, concealing their Indigenous heritage. Part creativity, part survival. Pauline Clague calls herself the " Black Nancy Drew". She's made a documentary about the family, called The Colleano Heart. Guest: Director and filmmaker, Pauline ClagueProducer: Ali Benton  Check out SBS on Demand to watch The Colleano Heart

Israel reopens the Gaza-Egypt crossing at Rafah, under strict conditions. Plus: on February 8 the Israeli president Isaac Herzog will be arriving in Australia, beginning a five-day trip to honour the victims of the Bondi terror attack. But Herzog's visit has become a focal point for those protesting Israel's war in Gaza. Guest: Irris Makler, veteran Jerusalem correspondent for ABC, SBSProducer: Catherine Zengerer

What is going on with the conservative side of politics? A motion to spill the leadership of the Nationals failed on Monday afternoon, and by the end of the day David Littleproud had met with Sussan Ley to discuss a possible reunification of the Coalition. The infighting comes as a Redbridge poll puts One Nation's primary vote at a whopping 26 per cent.

"Our politics is dumb and completely short-sighted and personally obsessed." At 93 Barry Jones, former ALP National President, writer and public intellectual, has a thing or two to say about politics and society. He sits down with David Marr for a long discussion on the nature of parliament, his frustrations about climate inaction, his relationship with Bob Hawke, his view on AUKUS and the numinous experience of hearing the music you love, performed exquisitely.  Guest: Barry Jones, former ALP politician, writer and social activist.Producers: David Marr and Catherine Zengerer 

Thomas Willing was a merchant trader, America’s first bank president, and its first central banker. Willing bankrolled – and in the process helped save – the American Revolution and then fundamentally shaped the financial architecture of the young Republic. Yet at a decisive moment in Willing's life he voted against independence, as a clash between Pennsylvania's moneyed elite and the emergent lower and middle classes embroiled the politics of 1776 in bitter class conflict.  Guest: Richard Vague, author of “The Banker Who Made America: Thomas Willing and the Rise of the American Financial Aristocracy, 1731-1821”,  published by PolityProducer: Catherine Zengerer

With the National Party leaving the Coalition, and a Nats leadership spill pending, we look at the disproportionate power the Nats have wielded in the Coalition. 

Springtails are pretty much everywhere, and all over the world. They are important nutrient recyclers, but not many people know about them. Guest: Mark Stevens, Senior research scientist at the South Australian Museum. Affiliate associate professor at Adelaide University’s School of Biological Sciences. Co-author, with Cyrille D’Haese of Sorbonne University, of an article on springtails for The Conversation Producer: Ann Arnold

When Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney stepped onto the stage at the World Economic Forum in Davos , no-one expected him to set the world on fire. His speech went viral, as he talked of the rupture to the rules-based order and called on middle powers to step up. “If we’re not at the table, we're on the menu,” he said. He never mentioned Donald Trump’s name, but his message was clear. He was there to garner support from countries equally alarmed by a United States gone rogue. His speech came fresh off the back of a visit to Xi Jinping in China and he was keen to sell Canada’s virtues to the Davos crowd as well. So what is he up to?  Guest:  Ian Austen, The New York Times Canada CorrespondentProducer: Catherine Zengerer

On January 24, nurse Alex Pretti was protesting the presence of immigration officers in Minnesota when he was detained and surrounded by Border Patrol guards. Two guards shot Pretti in the back, killing him on the street. Pretti was 37, and Trump officials initially blamed him for his own death. Bystander video contradicted the official accounts, and now Trump has begun to distance himself from the killing. Will Pretti's killing force Trump to alter his aggressive tactics? Will there be more violence? Guest: Bruce Shapiro, contributing editor with The Nation magazine and Director of the Global Center for Journalism and Trauma

If you looked at Australian history through the lens of a single day — January 26 — what kind of nation would you be looking at? In his new book Matt Murphy has collected an event from each of the 237 Straya Days we've had since 1788. Some days shaped the nation, some days were terrible, and some were plain weird. Guest: Matt Murphy, part-time historian and author of Straya Day: The unofficial history of Australia's national dayProducer: Alex Tighe

Last year saw the biggest expansion yet of Indigenous Protected Areas. Advocates say IPAs are the ideal approach for managing ecologically important land, while reconnecting First Nations people with their country, and providing employment.  Guest: Associate Professor BHIAMIE  WILLIAMSON, from Monash University. Chair of Country Needs People, a not for profit organisation that supports indigenous land and sea management.  A Euahlayi  man from north-west New South Wales. Producer: Ann Arnold

On this Australia Day, we look at the political weaponising of multicultural Australia, and immigration, and we ask how this is playing out in voters' minds. Guest: Kos Samaras, pollster, and director of strategy and campaigns with the Redbridge Group, which analyses community perceptions. Former Labor Party strategist. Producer: Ann Arnold