Episodes

  • Back to Back Barries: Is Labor in trouble over tax?

    Back to Back Barries: Is Labor in trouble over tax?
    May 29 2026
    Tony Barry and Barrie Cassidy examine the government’s struggle to sell its ambitious tax changes as the legislation hit parliament this week. The Barries also look at the pros and cons of a ‘teal’ party and dig into new Redbridge polling that shows One Nation could overtake the Liberals as the official opposition
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    35 mins
  • Newsroom Edition: Why a ‘teal party’ could backfire

    Newsroom Edition: Why a ‘teal party’ could backfire
    May 28 2026
    The rise of One Nation continues to drive a realignment on the right of Australian politics. This week, we saw signs of a possible shift in the progressive centre. A handful of independent parliamentarians have spoken up about the possibility for a new teal-tinged party. It comes as the government pushes ahead with budget reform after worsening poll numbers for the prime minister, and Tony Abbott is set to be crowned as the next president of the Liberal party. Jo Tovey speaks with Mike Ticher and Dan Jervis-Bardy about the week in politics and if a potential ‘teal party’ would be good news for One Nation
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    28 mins
  • Human rights lawyer Francesca Albanese on life under US sanctions - Podcast

    Human rights lawyer Francesca Albanese on life under US sanctions - Podcast
    May 28 2026
    The UN special rapporteur for Palestine, Francesca Albanese, discusses the war in Gaza, living under US sanctions, and the antisemitism accusations she has faced over the last two years
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    29 mins
  • Decoding America: the Republicans turning on Trump

    Decoding America: the Republicans turning on Trump
    May 27 2026
    Co-hosts Reged Ahmad and Jonathan Yerushalmy look at whether the Iran war, a new $1.8bn ‘anti-weaponisation’ fund and Donald Trump’s intervention in Republican primaries is turning his own party against him. They also look at The Late Show with Stephen Colbert going off air, and whether it signals the end of American political satire. You can support the Guardian at theguardian.com/fullstorysupport
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    26 mins
  • The death penalty returns to Israel

    The death penalty returns to Israel
    May 26 2026
    Earlier this month, Israel’s far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, celebrated his 50th birthday – with a noose-themed cake, and a message written in icing: ‘Sometimes dreams come true.’ As the Guardian’s senior Middle East correspondent, Emma Graham-Harrison, explains, for decades Israel had an effective moratorium on capital punishment. Yet in the past two months it has passed two laws around the death penalty – to be applied seemingly only to Palestinians. Annie Kelly asks about this new era of the Israeli justice system, and whether there are any dissenting voices in the country against it
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    27 mins
  • David Pocock on whether a 'teal' party is possible

    David Pocock on whether a 'teal' party is possible
    May 25 2026
    There has been a whirlwind of speculation about whether the ‘teal’ independents could come together to form a new political party. According to independent MP Zali Steggall, the time is ripe for a strong push from the progressive side of politics, as new polling predicts One Nation could overtake the Coalition as the leading opposition party. Independent senator David Pocock says he is open to the idea but that it is not without risks. He speaks to Reged Ahmad
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    22 mins
  • Exclusive: Leaked documents show BHP’s climate backtrack

    Exclusive: Leaked documents show BHP’s climate backtrack
    May 25 2026
    Nour Haydar speaks with Christopher Knaus about the BHP files – the cache of internal documents leaked to the Guardian and the ABC’s Four Corners – which show that the world’s biggest miner has war-gamed ways to massively delay decarbonisation
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    21 mins
  • New Zealand grapples with how to protect its braided rivers

    New Zealand grapples with how to protect its braided rivers
    May 24 2026
    Braided rivers are a stunning and rare global phenomenon – waterways that change direction and size, weaving multiple dynamic patterns influenced by rain and glacial shifts.Reged Ahmad speaks to New Zealand correspondent Eva Corlett about how the waterways are now under threat as communities around them have sought to tame and control their flow, leaving Māori tribes to watch the ecological impact with horror. You can support the Guardian at theguardian.com/fullstorysupport
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    17 mins