Episodes

  • Are Australian weapons destined to be used in Sudan atrocities?

    Are Australian weapons destined to be used in Sudan atrocities?
    Nov 18 2025
    Australia exports more arms and ammunition to the United Arab Emirates than it does to any other country in the world. And just this week Team Defence Australia holds a prime slice of real estate at a weapons fair in Dubai. But human rights advocates are calling on the government to suspend defence exports to the country over reports it’s arming a militia responsible for mass killings in Sudan. Senior reporters Ben Doherty and Henry Belot tell Nour Haydar about Australia’s growing role in the global weapons trade.
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    23 mins
  • Broken trust: why police are failing to learn from their own mistakes

    Broken trust: why police are failing to learn from their own mistakes
    Nov 17 2025
    Ben Smee, Guardian Australia’s Queensland correspondent, has been reporting on the national crisis of domestic and family violence, as well as the culture and attitudes inside the Queensland police, for years. In the final episode of this special Full Story investigation, Broken trust looks at how police are failing to learn from their own mistakes. Guardian Australia can reveal allegations from a former senior Queensland detective who has accused police of covering up their own failures in cases in which vulnerable women died after seeking police protection, and alleges she was ordered to ‘protect the organisation’s reputation at all costs’
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    49 mins
  • Broken Trust: how police failed Hannah Clarke and her children

    Broken Trust: how police failed Hannah Clarke and her children
    Nov 16 2025
    Ben Smee, Guardian Australia’s Queensland correspondent, has been reporting on the national crisis of domestic and family violence, as well as the culture and attitudes inside the Queensland police, for years. In the first episode of this special Full Story investigation, Broken Trust uncovers exclusive new evidence in the case of Hannah Clarke and her children. It looks at serious police failings, in the lead-up to the murders, that were overlooked by the coronial inquest and not investigated by homicide detectives
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    48 mins
  • Introducing Broken Trust: a two-year investigation into the domestic and family violence crisis - podcast

    Introducing Broken Trust: a two-year investigation into the domestic and family violence crisis - podcast
    Nov 15 2025
    Ben Smee, Guardian Australia’s Queensland correspondent, has been reporting on the national crisis of domestic and family violence, as well as the culture and attitudes inside the Queensland police, for years. In this special Full Story investigation, Broken Trust can reveal exclusive new evidence in the case of Hannah Clarke and her children, a domestic and family violence homicide that made national headlines. The series looks at serious police failings, in the lead-up to the murders, that were overlooked by the coronial inquest and not investigated by homicide detectives
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    6 mins
  • The Epstein files are back to haunt Trump

    The Epstein files are back to haunt Trump
    Nov 14 2025
    Just when Donald Trump thought he could celebrate the end of the longest government shutdown in US history, the Democrats had a trick up their sleeve. They released another batch of emails, some from the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, who wrote that ‘of course he knew about the girls’, referring to Trump. This week, Jonathan Freedland speaks to the Guardian’s George Chidi about why the Epstein files will not go away and how the saga is likely to unfold over the next few weeks
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    25 mins
  • Newsroom edition: is Labor doing enough to solve the housing crisis?

    Newsroom edition: is Labor doing enough to solve the housing crisis?
    Nov 13 2025
    The housing crisis is getting worse. Prices are going up at the fastest rate in almost four years, and as more Australians are being locked out of the market many are struggling to pay the rent. The government knows the scale of this crisis, but progress has been slow.Bridie Jabour talks to head of newsroom Mike Ticher, deputy editor Patrick Kennelly and national news editor Josephine Tovey about whether the government has found the right solutions to fix the housing crisis
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    21 mins
  • Is Trump going to war with Venezuela?

    Is Trump going to war with Venezuela?
    Nov 13 2025
    Who is pushing Trump to send the US navy to Venezuela? With Andrew Roth and Tom Phillips
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    32 mins
  • Inside the Liberals marathon meeting to ditch net zero

    Inside the Liberals marathon meeting to ditch net zero
    Nov 12 2025
    It took nearly five hours, but Liberal MPs emerged from today’s party meeting with a decision on whether to drop net zero. And while leader Sussan Ley is holding off until tomorrow to announce the final outcome, senior Liberal sources say 28 speakers wanted to jettison the 2050 target entirely, 17 expressed a desire to retain it in some form, while four were on the fence. Chief political reporter Dan Jervis Bardy tells Nour Haydar what happened inside the meeting, what tomorrow’s outcome means for the future of the Coalition, and whether Sussan Ley’s leadership is on the line
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    24 mins