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Making childcare universal: Will it be an election secret weapon?
Episode 1271
There’s no nice way to put it: Australian childcare is broken, and not just for those with children.
It’s prohibitively expensive, getting the days yo…
1 year, 8 months ago
Peter Costello's decade at Nine: Is this the end of his public life?
Episode 1270
Peter Costello’s legacy was set. He was the longest serving treasurer in Australian history and under the then prime minister John Howard, he transfo…
1 year, 8 months ago
How Home Affairs became a scandal factory
Episode 1269
Barely a week goes by when the Department of Home Affairs isn’t under the blowtorch of media or political scrutiny.
In one way, the level of scrutiny …
1 year, 8 months ago
Climate Wars II: Judgement Day
Episode 1268
Two years ago, on the day after the Labor government was sworn into office, Minister for Climate Change and Energy Chris Bowen called a press confere…
1 year, 8 months ago
Is Joe Biden’s ceasefire plan already failing? (Update)
Episode 1267
The US has a proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza, and this one seems to be gathering momentum.
It’s not much different to the previous plans, except that…
1 year, 8 months ago
Disgraced consultancy given deal to run government ‘ethics' training
Episode 1266
If you were a public service chief picking a firm to run ethics training, would one of the big four consulting firms be your first pick?
They have fac…
1 year, 8 months ago
Xi Jinping’s right-hand man is coming to Australia
Episode 1265
Australia is about to receive a visit from the most senior Chinese leader we've had on our shores in almost a decade.
But this visit by Chinese Premie…
1 year, 8 months ago
Zero accountability: Rick Morton on the NACC dropping robodebt
Episode 1264
When the robodebt royal commission’s final report landed, it was scathing. It condemned the entire scheme, the individuals who rolled it out and the …
1 year, 8 months ago
The Weekend Read: Atticus Bastow on the mysteries of the universe at the bottom of an abandoned mine shaft
Episode 1263
Over 90 years ago, a Swiss astrophysicist theorised there was an unseen, unobservable force that sits behind the universe we know.
He called it ‘dark …
1 year, 8 months ago
How the new vape ban is splitting the Coalition
Episode 1262
There’s an issue exposing fault lines within our political parties and pitting their traditional supporters against each other, fracturing the electo…
1 year, 8 months ago