Amy Remeikis

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642 appearances 5 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 9 Jul

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The Briefing · It’s all John Howard’s fault, says Amy Remeikis · 3 Jul 2026 podcast

I very happily am a Queensland girl.

I was covering Queensland state politics.

I did the Campbell Newman government.

And at the end of that, my editors at then Fairfax were like, OK, it's time for you to come to Canberra.

And I was like, oh, I'm not sure I want to do that.

But I also look at politics as storytelling and narratives about people's lives.

And that while we often see it as this horse race where we're talking about, you know, it's blah, blah versus blah, blah.

It's actually the policies that matter.

And it's policies that matter to people who are not always represented by Canberra.

And whenever we think of political journalism, it's often, you know, the scandals or the incrementalism.

But I find that political journalists...

don't tend to have as much life experience as the people that they're covering politics for.

It's quite a wealthy media class now in the press gallery and in journalism in general.

And that's partly because you have to do so much free work in order to even make it as a journalist, that unless you are financially secure, you actually can't

make it through those beginning years.

And I was lucky enough to have spent so much time in regional journalism and really built my way up that I was able to come to Canberra quite a bit older than most people do when they get to Canberra.

But I had an understanding of life, of what it meant to, you know, survive on Centrelink, on what it meant to survive on, you know, single parent income in

and what health policy meant and what it was like having a chronic illness and trying to navigate some of those systems.

And so I thought, okay, well, maybe I should go to Canberra and see what it's like.

And went, was picked up by the Guardian

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