Episodes

  • Why the Christchurch attack still awaits a full reckoning

    Why the Christchurch attack still awaits a full reckoning
    Mar 22 2026
    In 2019, a white supremacist murdered 51 worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch in what was New Zealand’s worst mass shooting. On the seventh anniversary of the terror attack, New Zealanders gathered once again to commemorate the tragedy. But in Australia, some say we have yet to reckon with the massacre which was perpetrated by a man raised and radicalised in Australia. Imam Alaa Elzokm and investigations reporter Ariel Bogle speak to Reged Ahmad about why Australia struggles to confront its connection to the massacre and what could be done to confront Islamophobia
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    23 mins
  • The Sunday read: Why the Reserve Bank needs to be more cautious

    The Sunday read: Why the Reserve Bank needs to be more cautious
    Mar 21 2026
    The Reserve Bank of Australia has decided to raise interest rates once again amid surging costs of living and the war on Iran. Independent economist Nicki Hutley says perhaps it’s time the RBA takes its own advice
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    6 mins
  • Introducing Off Duty: The Crime

    Introducing Off Duty: The Crime
    Mar 21 2026
    On the evening of 29 December 2011, police officer Clifton Lewis was moonlighting as a security guard at a Chicago minimart when two men walked in. They shot him several times, then took off with his gun and police star. A week later, police had their suspects: four men affiliated with a gang called the Spanish Cobras. For hours, under intense police questioning, they all said they didn’t do it. But that didn’t seem to matter. This is episode one of Off Duty, an investigation by the Guardian’s Melissa Segura
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    27 mins
  • Back to Back Barries: Will the Iran war trigger another recession we have to have?

    Back to Back Barries: Will the Iran war trigger another recession we have to have?
    Mar 20 2026
    Barrie Cassidy and Tony Barry examine the fuel crisis and whether the Australian public will blame the Albanese government for the growing economic fallout from Trump’s war on Iran. They also discuss Liberal MP Andrew Hastie’s criticism of – and distancing from – the US president, the RBA’s raising of the cash rate and why the treasurer, Jim Chalmers, is ‘opening the door’ for a recession
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    26 mins
  • Newsroom edition: how Pauline Hanson’s One Nation is changing politics

    Newsroom edition: how Pauline Hanson’s One Nation is changing politics
    Mar 19 2026
    Josephine Tovey speaks with Mike Ticher and Sarah Martin about why the electorate is flocking to the rightwing political movement, and what major parties can do to win voters back
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    28 mins
  • What Nigel Farage will say for money

    What Nigel Farage will say for money
    Mar 18 2026
    The Reform UK leader has a lucrative extra gig sending paid-for Cameo messages. But an analysis of more than 4,000 show they include videos for a neo-Nazi group and a rioter. Henry Dyer reports
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    32 mins
  • Will One Nation go mainstream in South Australia’s election?

    Will One Nation go mainstream in South Australia’s election?
    Mar 17 2026
    South Australian premier Peter Malinauskas is predicted to win this Saturday’s state election by a landslide – but that’s not why this poll is attracting so much interest. Analysts and politicians alike are watching because this will be One Nation’s first real test since its surge in opinion polls. Can this rightwing populist party translate those eye-opening numbers into seats? Chief political correspondent Dan Jervis-Bardy went to Adelaide to find out. He speaks to Reged Ahmad about what One Nation voters told him, and why the major parties are seeking to learn lessons on how to counter the party’s rise
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    22 mins
  • Will the strait of Hormuz torpedo Trump's war?

    Will the strait of Hormuz torpedo Trump's war?
    Mar 17 2026
    Events in the narrow waterway are causing chaos around the globe. The Guardian’s energy correspondent, Jillian Ambrose, explains why
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    27 mins