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The world according to Tony Abbott
Episode 1699
Charlie Lewis writes about politics for Crikey.
He’s been a close observer of Tony Abbott – from his time as a Liberal Party bomb thrower, to his fa…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
This is Alice Springs: Children of the Intervention
Episode 1698
From afar, Alice Springs is a whirlpool of myth and truth. A town with competing interests and few solutions, marked by chaos and decades of governme…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
This is Alice Springs: The coppers
Episode 1697
Police are everywhere in Alice Springs. You see them driving pursuit vehicles and caged vans on the streets, or stationed outside the bottle shop che…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
This is Alice Springs: Mparntwe
Episode 1696
Alice Springs is littered with “For Sale” signs as those who can afford it are packing up and leaving. Punitive government curfews made daily life mo…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Why Chalmers backtracked on big super balances
Episode 1695
This week, the federal government dramatically re-wrote its signature tax policy.
The changes mean that a small section of people with very high sup…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Why David Pocock was booted from parliament's sports club
Episode 1694
The Australian Parliament Sports Club has been attracting a lot of unwanted attention lately – for registering as a lobbying group, accepting sponsor…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
‘ISIS brides’ and the Aussie kids stuck in Syria
Episode 1693
In a desert camp in northeast Syria, behind razor wire, with thousands of other people, live 12 Australian women and 25 Australian children. They are…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
The embassy run by exiles
Episode 1692
When the Taliban retook Afghanistan in August 2021, the country’s embassy in Canberra stayed open.
It’s an embassy in exile – staffed by diplomats fr…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Why protests are getting more dangerous
Episode 1691
Melbourne photojournalist Alex Zucco was cleaning her camera lens when a police officer hit her directly in the face with a stream of capsicum spray …
7 months, 3 weeks ago
The outdated trans study still doing damage
Episode 1690
In the 1970s, eight children in Perth were sent to a psychiatric hospital to be ‘treated’ for being transgender. Their experiences became the basis o…
7 months, 3 weeks ago