Featured Shows and Episodes ABC NEWS Live Stream ABC NEWS features continuous, commercial-free coverage of major breaking stories in Australia and around the world. S2026 The Waiting Game Anne Connolly investigates the government's new "once-in-a-generation" aged care reforms - finding families waiting in limbo and a secretive algorithm that experts say often gets funding wrong. Monday 17/8/2026 Planet America returns with the midterm elections on the horizon and the populist left seeing a big surge in momentum. Will this cost Democrats when voters head to the polls? We ask influential and controversial political commentator Hasan Piker. Australian Story S2026 The Final Act When dancer Roz Hervey was diagnosed with motor neurone disease, her daughter, actor Tilda Cobham-Hervey, stepped behind the camera to record her mother's life story. With hours left to live, Roz made a dying wish. Monday 17/8/2026 Troubles are mounting for Meta as a court case exposes its role in a mental health crisis. Another "Outback" doco caught staging scenes while receiving public funding. Plus The Daily Telegraph's family struggling to buy a home, who also happen to own a portfolio of investment properties. Monday 17/8/2026 The debate over GST revenue. Sarah Ferguson interviews Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young. Plus could Anthony Fauci face time in prison? Jenny McAllister - NDIS Minister (16/8/2026) David Speers discusses the week in politics with Lenore Taylor, Jane Norman and Mark Kenny including reforms of the NDIS, gambling advertising, migration, housing, the GST, interest rates and the sitting week in Canberra. If You're Listening Why MAGA is turning on Russia Ukraine struck an Iranian ship in the Caspian Sea, exposing a secret Russia-Iran arms pipeline. Meanwhile pro-Trump influencer Laura Loomer, once virulently anti-Ukraine, is now touring Kyiv with Zelenskyy. So what changed? 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