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Latest episodes
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23 min
Neck and neck in the 2026 New Zealand election
As consequential elections around the world make global headlines, another election closer to home is flying under the radar. New Zealand’s election on 7 November could define the…
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19 min
Will Australia ever get Snowy Hydro 2.0?
Back in 2017 the then prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, announced an ambitious expansion of Australia’s towering public infrastructure project, Snowy Hydro 2.0. Estimated at a cost…
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32 min
Israel votes: Netanyahu’s future on the line
Israeli citizens are about to vote in what’s being seen as elections that are almost existential when it comes to the future identity of the country. That’s because since the Octob…
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41 min
Do politicians lack the courage to turn the temperature down?
Tony Barry and George Megalogenis (filling in for Barrie) examine the response to the horrific alleged attack on independent MP Helen Haines this week. While the prime minister ple…
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15 min
Alan Jones on Trial: Alleged victim’s mother “trusted” Jones | Week 11
The mother of the youngest complainant wept on the stand after being presented with a note written by her son alleging ‘something happened’ at Alan Jones’s property at Fitzroy Fall…
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21 min
Can Japan’s firebrand PM survive a second year in power?
One year ago, Sanae Takaichi became Japan’s first female prime minister, taking over a party in crisis. Since then, she’s defied the doubters, not just surviving as leader in a cou…
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34 min
Katie Zacharia and Trump’s women problem
In this episode of Guardian Australia’s US politics podcast, co-hosts Jonathan Yerushalmy and Reged Ahmad look at how Katie Zacharia broke the record for shortest tenure as White H…
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28 min
Why terrorism laws stopped Sally Rooney selling books in the UK
The bestselling author says her novels will no longer be supplied to British bookshops due to fears of prosecution. Zoe Williams and Haroon Siddique report
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18 min
What the Helen Haines tragedy means for Australian democracy
Helen Haines, the independent federal MP for the Victorian seat of Indi, is in a critical condition and has lost a leg after an alleged attack outside her electorate office in Wang…
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18 min
The allegations against the Greens’ Jordon Steele-John
The Greens senator for Western Australia, Jordon Steele-John, has blamed ‘nasty political games’ for the timing of allegations of misconduct towards women spanning nearly a decade.…
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46 min
NAZA: the film the Israeli government does not want you to see
Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor on their new film interviewing Israeli military insiders on the vast, AI-assisted systems their sources say are being used to kill civilians in Gaza.…
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48 min
Black Box: The Chatbots | What I Saw at the Double Six Ranch | Ep 6
From his remote property in rural Texas, the millionaire businessman Michael Samadi is plotting a new kind of civil rights movement – for the welfare and protection of AI systems.…
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32 min
Back to Back Barries: Why Josh Frydenberg isn’t the Liberals’ saviour
Tony Barry and Niki Savva (filling in for Barrie Cassidy) examine the ‘festival of Josh’ that played out in the media this week as the former treasurer spruiked his new memoir. The…
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10 min
‘I couldn’t breathe’: Russell Brand trial hears from first alleged victim
Former comedian Russell Brand is on trial facing multiple charges of rape and sexual assault against six women, spanning a decade from 1999 to 2009. On Thursday the court heard evi…
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19 min
Alan Jones on trial: Will Alan Jones take the stand? | Week 10
After the youngest complainant began giving evidence, Judge Glenn Walsh placed a non-publication order on much of this week’s testimony. In this episode, Guardian Australia media c…
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33 min
Everything you need to know about the midterms
In this episode of Guardian Australia’s US politics podcast, co-hosts Reged Ahmad and Jonathan Yerushalmy take a special look at the midterms which are coming up in early November.…
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26 min
How Firmus went from Australia’s AI 'fairytale' to flop
It was supposed to be an Australian business success story. Just over a week ago local AI company Firmus was preparing to hit the market with a value that would put the startup in…
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50 min
‘Gaza is a moral tear in the universe’ – Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
Are we really living through ‘end times fascism’? The authors Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor think so. In a new series from the Guardian, the pair speak to Radical Thinking with Adit…
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21 min
Why does Hegseth want the world to see a death by firing squad?
It has been nearly 100 years since the last public execution in the US but, on 3 December this year, that could change. The US secretary of war, Pete Hegseth, said last week that t…
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22 min
The Australians buried together in unmarked graves
Using evidence from family and friends, analysis of cemetery registries, and aerial and satellite imagery, a special investigation by Guardian Australia has found that ‘persons wit…