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Inside the Greens' interest rate demands
Episode 1356
The Reserve Bank should lower interest rates, and if they don’t, the government should make them, according to the Greens.
Their spokesperson for econ…
1 year, 8 months ago
What 'tough on crime' means in Queensland
Episode 1355
The Liberal National Party has been in the political wilderness in Queensland for most of the past three decades. But in a month’s time that’s likely…
1 year, 8 months ago
‘Muzzling’ advocates: the Albanese government’s reliance on NDAs
Episode 1354
In more than 30 years of lobbying for gambling reforms, Tim Costello says no government has tried to silence him through the use of a legally binding…
1 year, 8 months ago
Easey Street and ‘the boy with the knife’
Episode 1353
If you ask a Melbourne local, almost all of them would have heard of the 1977 Easey Street murders.
In one of Victoria’s most brutal unsolved killings…
1 year, 8 months ago
TikTok politics: Very demure, very Dutton
Episode 1352
Peter Dutton is now on TikTok, and his first post was about as inspiring as you might imagine. It’s shot in an office, he’s wearing a suit, and he’s …
1 year, 8 months ago
Read This: Friends, Mary Beard Fans, Countrymen, Lend Me Your Ears
Episode 1351
Even if you’re not an obsessive Ancient Rome aficionado, you may have heard of Mary Beard. With more than 20 books to her name, including the wildly …
1 year, 8 months ago
Fake artwork and discrimination: The MONA Ladies Lounge saga
Episode 1350
In a court case earlier this year, an art installation at Hobart’s Museum of Old and New Art that was designed to playfully poke at the historic and …
1 year, 8 months ago
‘They don’t want us here’: an asylum seeker’s shattered education dreams
Episode 1349
As a child refugee in India, Harini dreamt of making it to Australia to study medicine and become a doctor.
She arrived in Australia in 2013 when she …
1 year, 8 months ago
University bosses and their million-dollar salaries
Episode 1348
When Bill Shorten finally gave up his hopes of ever becoming prime minister, one door closed and another, much more lucrative, door opened.
In his ne…
1 year, 8 months ago
Jim Chalmers, Angus Taylor and the future of the Reserve Bank
Episode 1347
When Jim Chalmers said that interest rate hikes were “smashing the economy” he was either stating the obvious or starting a war, depending on who you…
1 year, 8 months ago