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The election budget: What's in it for you?
Episode 1513
Jim Chalmers has handed down the Labor government’s election budget.
Front and centre was a surprise tax cut for all Australians, along with many of …
1 year ago
The end of the Gaza ceasefire
Episode 1512
The ceasefire in Gaza collapsed a week ago as Israel launched a series of airstrikes.
Since then, more than 600 people have been killed, including ch…
1 year ago
‘The gangsters have gone f*cking nowhere’: The failed clean up of the CFMEU
Episode 1511
When footage of a CFMEU “health inspector” assaulting a woman was made public last week, it shocked a lot of people. But many union members weren’t s…
1 year ago
Read This: Robert Dessaix Is a Fox (Not a Hedgehog)
Episode 1510
Tasmanian writer Robert Dessaix is a man of many talents when it comes to the written form – from travel memoir and fiction to biography and philosop…
1 year ago
‘If I was on the Labor side of politics, I'd be worried’
Episode 1509
Kos Samaras spends hundreds of hours listening to what voters really think.
In focus groups and in surveys, his research and political strategy firm,…
1 year, 1 month ago
China, Australia and the warships off our coast
Episode 1508
Over the past month, a flotilla of Chinese military ships came close to Australian shores unannounced.
They conducted live-fire drills off the coast …
1 year, 1 month ago
The Catholic Church’s legal loophole for abuse
Episode 1507
Are Catholic priests employed by the Church, or by the hand of God?
This question was at the heart of a five-year legal battle between a survivor of …
1 year, 1 month ago
‘Frankly terrifying’: Albanese’s secret climate report
Episode 1506
In December last year, a group of crossbenchers dialled into a secret call with the Albanese government.
It was to get a briefing on a government-com…
1 year, 1 month ago
Peter Dutton and the caravan of explosives
Episode 1505
The discovery of an abandoned caravan full of explosives on the outskirts of Sydney earlier this year triggered widespread panic and fear.
There wer…
1 year, 1 month ago
Part 1: Inside Elon Musk's takeover of the US government
Episode 1503
Acolytes of Elon Musk, working in the Department of Government Efficiency, are currently gutting the US government, with Musk claiming he’ll find sav…
1 year, 1 month ago