Tonight on Late Night Live with Phillip Adams - Tuesday 27 November 2012

**Bruce Shapiro reports from the U.S.A.

**As Australia wrestles once again with how to deal with asylum-seekers, lawyer and human rights advocate, Julian Burnside offers his preferred policy.

**Mikita Brottman presents a detailed history of the hyena, including the magic, myths and rituals surrounding this remarkable, but much maligned animal.

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