Episodes

  • Is 2026 the year Albanese’s political honeymoon ends?

    Is 2026 the year Albanese’s political honeymoon ends?
    Dec 1 2025
    Prime minister Anthony Albanese has ended the parliamentary year on a high – passing the long promised nature laws and celebrating a wedding. But inflation is moving in the wrong direction, far-right populist sentiment is on the rise, and gambling and housing reform are continuing to fester. Does Labor have a plan to confront these big social and economic challenges? Political editor Tom McIlroy and chief political correspondent Dan Jervis-Bardy join Nour Haydar to discuss what lies ahead for Labor as the sun sets on the 2025 parliamentary year
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    28 mins
  • Bringing Indigenous languages back from the brink

    Bringing Indigenous languages back from the brink
    Nov 30 2025
    More than 250 languages were spoken across Australia before British colonisation. Now only half are still in use as a result of policies that suppressed and prevented First Nations people from speaking their mother tongues. Indigenous affairs reporter Ella Archibald-Binge travels to two communities including her country to hear from elders, teachers and students about efforts to revive native languages and close the education gap
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    28 mins
  • Sussan Ley says ‘still up for the job’ of opposition leader

    Sussan Ley says ‘still up for the job’ of opposition leader
    Nov 29 2025
    Ever since she was elected opposition leader, Sussan Ley has faced strong criticism from within her party and across the parliament. Some commentators even predicted she’d be out of the job already. But she has made it to the last sitting week of parliament for the year. On the other side of the aisle, the Albanese government managed to meet their own deadline to legislate changes to outdated nature laws – by settling on a deal with the Greens. Political editor Tom McIlroy speaks to Ley about her disappointment over the long-awaited reforms, Barnaby Joyce resigning from the Nationals and why she thinks ‘it’s never been about me’
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    26 mins
  • Maga moms, Trump babies and Erika Kirk: Republicans woo women in run-up to midterms

    Maga moms, Trump babies and Erika Kirk: Republicans woo women in run-up to midterms
    Nov 28 2025
    Erika Kirk – the widow of Charlie Kirk, the rightwing activist killed in Utah in September – has indicated she would be willing to support JD Vance in a 2028 presidential bid. Katie Miller, the wife of White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller, invites senior Republicans on to her podcast for discussions with conservative women. And the Trump administration is developing baby-boom policies it hopes will help gain the backing of women in the midterm elections. Jonathan Freedland speaks to the Guardian columnist Arwa Mahdawi about the Republican drive to win over women
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    27 mins
  • Newsroom edition: unpacking Pauline Hanson’s burqa stunt

    Newsroom edition: unpacking Pauline Hanson’s burqa stunt
    Nov 27 2025
    This week, Senator Pauline Hanson donned a burqa in parliament and refused to remove it, attracting significant attention. Bridie Jabour talks to editor Lenore Taylor, head of newsroom, Mike Ticher and national news editor Josephine Tovey about political stunts and how the media should cover them.
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    24 mins
  • Australia’s most notorious fugitive: where is Dezi Freeman?

    Australia’s most notorious fugitive: where is Dezi Freeman?
    Nov 26 2025
    Porepunkah shooting suspect Dezi Freeman remains missing three months after he allegedly shot and killed two police officers, and wounded a third. Justice and court reporter Nino Bucci tells Reged Ahmad about the unease felt by those living in the Victorian town, and police theories of where Freeman could be
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    21 mins
  • The frantic push to bring peace to Ukraine

    The frantic push to bring peace to Ukraine
    Nov 26 2025
    First there was a 28-point plan pushed by Trump last Wednesday, as a solution to end almost four years of a war that has devastated Ukraine and killed hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians. By the weekend, there had been a redraft. A slimmed down 19-point proposal. This time seemingly less skewed towards Russia. By Tuesday, at a summit in Abu Dhabi, US, Russian and Ukrainian officials were hammering out a third version. The Guardian’s Russian affairs reporter, Pjotr Sauer, told Nosheen Iqbal what it has been like to watch these twists and turns
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    25 mins
  • Is Lebanon the new flashpoint for Israel?

    Is Lebanon the new flashpoint for Israel?
    Nov 25 2025
    Israel’s latest strike in Beirut on Sunday, which killed at least five people and wounded 28, has dramatically escalated existing tensions in the region and left many in Lebanon anxious about what may follow. Beirut-based journalist William Christou speaks to Nour Haydar about the Lebanese government and Hezbollah’s responses to the strike and Israel’s ongoing presence in south Lebanon, despite a ceasefire agreement.
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    15 mins