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Pauline Hanson’s Socialist Gas & AI Lit Prizes
Season 1 Episode 214
This week on News Weakly, Sami Shah looks at what happens when populism accidentally stumbles into good policy while everything else quietly catches …
5 months, 1 week ago
Broken Promises, Gambling Cowards & The Empathy Wars
Season 1 Episode 213
This week on News Weakly, Sami Shah looks at what happens when politics stops pretending to care equally about everyone.
Labor’s latest budget is comp…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Pink Flamingos & The Objectivity Wars
Season 1 Episode 212
This week on News Weakly, Sami Shah looks at the stories Australia keeps turning into culture wars instead of solving.
The death of Kumanjayi Little B…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
From the River Indus to the Mediterranean Sea
Season 1 Episode 211
This week on News Weakly, Sami Shah takes on one of the most circular, exhausting debates in modern politics: how we talk about Israel and Palestine—…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
NoPEC, Air Pauline & The Journalism Tax
Season 1 Episode 210
This week on News Weakly, Sami Shah looks at power, money, and the systems that insist everything is working fine while clearly not working at all.
Th…
6 months ago
NDIS Cuts, Gas Lobby Power & Free Speech Meltdowns
Season 1 Episode 209
This week on News Weakly, Sami Shah looks at what governments call “hard choices” and what they quietly refuse to choose.
The federal government plans…
6 months, 1 week ago
208 - Blockading the Blockade, The 'D' in NDIS is 'Defence' & Iran’s Execution Boom
Season 1 Episode 208
NEWS WEAKLY 208 – April 18, 2026
This week on News Weakly, Sami Shah returns to a world that somehow got worse while he was away.
The Middle East desce…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
207 - Ceasefire Pending, Rejected, Threatened, Walked Back, Re-Threatened!
Season 1 Episode 207
NEWS WEAKLY – 207 – 28 March 2026 | Australia Politics, Middle East Ceasefire, Teacher Strikes, ABC Walkout
TOP STORIES OF THE WEEK
This week on News W…
7 months ago
206 – From Drone Strikes to DJs
Season 1 Episode 206
NEWS WEAKLY #206 – War on Iran, RBA Interest Rate Rise, Sydney DJ Controversy & Forgotten Afghanistan War
This week on News Weakly, Sami Shah breaks d…
7 months, 1 week ago
205 - Are you Hussain or Yazid?
Season 1 Episode 205
NEWS WEAKLY – The Story of Karbala
This week, I step away from the headlines to tell one of the most powerful stories in the Muslim world: the Battle …
7 months, 2 weeks ago