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Back to Back Barries: Is the media giving Pauline Hanson a free pass?
19 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Barrie Cassidy and Tony Barry dissect Pauline Hanson’s National Press Club appearance this week and ask: is the leader of One Nation treated differe...
Newsroom Edition: Pauline Hanson’s Trumpian attack on the press
18 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Pauline Hanson’s ascendancy in Australian politics was underscored this week by her first address to the National Press Club. In a lengthy speech, t...
Broken Trust: how police are failing to protect children from domestic violence
17 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Mason Jet Lee died at 22 months old after his stepfather punched him so hard his bowel ruptured. An exclusive Guardian Australia investigation has fou...
‘Grandpa in a bunker’: is Putin losing control?
16 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Russian affairs reporter Pjotr Sauer on Vladimir Putin’s increasing isolation – and seeming paranoia – as ordinary Russians become more restive ...
Trump celebrates with a peace deal and cage fight
15 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
More than four months since the launch of Operation Epic Fury, Donald Trump and Iranian officials have announced an end to the war. News of the deal c...
Is Australian music at risk of extinction?
14 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Australian music industry is in crisis, but it wasn’t always that way. In the 1990s and early 2000s, a healthy number of Aussie artists were mak...
The Sunday read: I face sexist abuse every day as a female MP – Full Story podcast
13 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A truck-mounted billboard featuring AI-generated images of Victoria’s premier, Jactina Allan, which has been travelling around Melbourne for several...
Back to Back Barries: Who is donating to One Nation?
12 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Tony Barry and Barrie Cassidy discuss One Nation’s successful fundraising drive which raised nearly $3m this week. They look at how the major partie...
On the ground in the Belfast riots
12 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Guardian reporter Hannah Al-Othman on the anti-immigrant rioting in Northern Ireland and the residents afraid for their lives
Newsroom Edition: Are the Liberals already surrendering to One Nation?
11 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
One Nation’s predicted primary vote is ahead of both the Labor government and Coalition opposition for the first time, marking a new level of popula...
The politics and profit of a World Cup in Trump’s America
10 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Kick-off is just hours away in what is already shaping up to be one of the most controversial and complex Fifa World Cups as geopolitical disputes and...
El Niño is imminent. How worried should Australians be?
09 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Australia is set to experience its first El Niño weather event since spring 2023, according to the Bureau of Meteorology and other agencies. The phen...
Should Married at First Sight be taken off air?
08 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Allegations of rape and sexual assault on the UK’s Married at First Sight have brought a fresh focus on the Australian version. Former Mafs contesta...
Why diphtheria is spreading in remote Indigenous communities
07 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Australia is facing the largest outbreak of diphtheria, dubbed a ‘disease of poverty’, in living memory. For decades, the highly contagious and li...
The Sunday Read: Will Australia stand for how the US treats its allies?
06 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When news broke that Australia will buy only secondhand nuclear submarines from the US, it signalled a major shift in the Aukus deal. It’s made Emma...
Back to Back Barries: Does One Nation have a ceiling or a wall?
05 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Barrie Cassidy and Tony Barry break down the new Redbridge polling that shows One Nation with the highest primary vote in the country, a result unprec...
Newsroom Edition: Are falling house prices a trap for Labor?
04 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Josephine Tovey speaks with Gabrielle Jackson, Patrick Keneally and Jonathan Barrett about why Labor is damned if they do, and damned if they don’t,...
A daughter’s plea to halt her father’s deportation to Nauru
03 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When Australia’s high court ruled indefinite immigration detention unlawful in 2023, Sara’s* father returned home to Australia’s east coast afte...
Decoding America: Trump is throwing a party for himself. Will Americans RSVP?
03 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Co-hosts Reged Ahmad and Jonathan Yerushalmy ask where it all went wrong for the United States’ 250th anniversary celebrations as artists pull out o...
One Nation and the brewing anti-abortion culture war
02 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Support for Pauline Hanson’s populist party has given fresh impetus to a loose network of activists trying to chip away at reproductive rights.Reged...
Peter Garrett on why Australians deserve the truth about Aukus
01 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Former environment minister Peter Garrett will lead an independent inquiry into the Aukus defence pact, launched by a group of Labor veterans and publ...
Why is Tony Abbott back?
31 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Former prime minister Tony Abbott didn’t exactly disappear from the limelight after he lost his seat in the ‘teal’ wave of 2019, but his new rol...
The Sunday read: what the NDIS cuts reveal about Australia’s ‘warped’ priorities
30 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been more than two weeks since the Albanese government handed down the federal budget and the criticism has not stopped. Guardian columnist and...
Back to Back Barries: Is Labor in trouble over tax?
29 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Tony Barry and Barrie Cassidy examine the government’s struggle to sell its ambitious tax changes as the legislation hit parliament this week. The B...
Newsroom Edition: Why a ‘teal party’ could backfire
28 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 progre...
Human rights lawyer Francesca Albanese on life under US sanctions - Podcast
28 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The UN special rapporteur for Palestine, Francesca Albanese, discusses the war in Gaza, living under US sanctions, and the antisemitism accusations sh...
Decoding America: the Republicans turning on Trump
27 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Co-hosts Reged Ahmad and Jonathan Yerushalmy look at whether the Iran war, a new $1.8bn ‘anti-weaponization’ fund and Donald Trump’s interventio...
The death penalty returns to Israel
26 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Earlier this month, Israel’s far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, celebrated his 50th birthday – with a noose-themed cake, and a...
David Pocock on whether a 'teal' party is possible
25 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
There has been a whirlwind of speculation about whether the ‘teal’ independents could come together to form a new political party. According to in...
Exclusive: Leaked documents show BHP’s climate backtrack
25 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
New Zealand grapples with how to protect its braided rivers
24 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Braided rivers are a stunning and rare global phenomenon – waterways that change direction and size, weaving multiple dynamic patterns influenced by...
The Sunday read: the NT government's 'alarming' response to Kumanjayi Little Baby’s death
23 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In the wake of the death of the Warlpiri girl Kumanjayi Little Baby, the Northern Territory government announced a sweeping review of its child protec...
Tim Wilson on the Liberals’ economic vision
23 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In his biggest address so far, shadow treasurer Tim Wilson described the federal budget as an ‘economic earthquake’ at the National Press Club. He...
Back to Back Barries Live: How long will Angus Taylor survive as Liberal leader?
21 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this special recording of the Barries in front of a live audience of 600 at the Sydney Writers’ festival, Barrie Cassidy and Tony Barry discuss w...
Decoding America: Who really writes Trump’s Truth Social posts?
20 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Host Reged Ahmad and the Guardian’s US site editor Jonathan Yerushalmy examine Republican Thomas Massie’s loss in the Kentucky primary after a vic...
Ebola, hantavirus: can the world avert another pandemic?
19 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It has been nearly three weeks since the first reports that a rare hantavirus had spread through a cruise ship, killing three people and infecting oth...
Patrick Radden Keefe on power and greed in London
18 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In Sydney ahead of his Australian book tour, investigative journalist Patrick Radden Keefe speaks to Reged Ahmad about his Australian roots and his ne...
Coles caught red handed, so what next?
17 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Australian retailers are on notice after the federal court handed down a landmark judgment against the nation’s second-largest supermarket chain. Co...
Stateside: Stacey Abrams on why gutting of the US Voting Rights Act is ‘evil’
17 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The US supreme court demolished the 1965 Voting Rights Act when it ruled in Louisiana v Callais in April that states can’t consider race in redistri...
The Sunday read: Scapegoating migrants and anger at a failing political system
16 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
One Nation’s historic win in Farrer has drawn conservative politicians into yet another harmful debate about immigration. Author Sisonke Msimang say...
Back to Back Barries: Angus Taylor’s migration muddle
15 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Barrie Cassidy and Tony Barry deliver their verdict on the federal budget – including opposition leader Angus Taylor’s targeting of migrants in an...
Jim Chalmers responds to the budget’s critics
15 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The political editor, Tom McIlroy, and the economics editor, Patrick Commins, speak with Jim Chalmers about the criticisms that his ‘reforming’ an...
Newsroom Edition: Labor broke a promise for bold reform. Does it matter?
14 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In a big gamble, Labor broke a big promise. In this week’s budget, the government announced changes to capital gains tax and negative gearing. Treas...
Will renaming this health condition lead to better care for women?
13 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
PCOS is a hormonal disorder that, according to the World Health Organization, affects 10% to 13% of women of reproductive age. It is estimated that mo...
Decoding America: Trump takes tech bros to China
13 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On the eve of Donald Trump’s trip to Beijing, co-hosts Reged Ahmad and Jonathan Yerushalmy examine how the US president’s approach to relations wi...
Labor’s ‘ambitious’ budget: will it be enough to fix the housing crisis?
12 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has handed down what he calls the most important budget in decades. As Donald Trump’s war on Iran continues to cause chaos ar...
Why does everyone hate Keir Starmer?
12 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Aditya Chakrabortty on the Labour leader’s predicament – and if he may be the last prime minister of the two-party system
Bullying or entertainment? Inside the Kyle and Jackie O courtroom
11 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Kyle Sandilands and Jackie ‘O’ Henderson may have left the airwaves but the former radio duo have now taken the show’s drama into the courtroom ...
One Nation’s historic win in Farrer
10 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On Saturday, the right wing party won a lower house seat for the first time as voters registered their fury in the New South Wales Farrer byelection. ...
The Sunday read: Paul Daley on going the distance in an EV
09 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Amid fuel insecurity due to the US-Israel war on Iran, Guardian Australia columnist Paul Daley takes his first holiday driving an electric vehicle. St...
Back to back Barries: One Nation’s Trump-sized achilles heel
08 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Barrie Cassidy and Tony Barry dive into new Redbridge polling that shows Pauline Hanson’s support of Donald Trump’s war on Iran could turn voters ...
Newsroom Edition: Michelle Milthorpe on fighting One Nation in Farrer
07 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This Saturday’s byelection in Sussan Ley’s former seat of Farrer is expected to be a tight two-horse race between a community independent and a On...
An Infowars insider on the warped world of Alex Jones
07 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
As the satirical online newspaper the Onion waits for court approval to take over the conspiracy website Infowars, Helen Pidd speaks to a former staff...
Does Labor have the appetite for reform?
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week marked the start of Anthony Albanese’s fifth year in power. His time in office so far has often been described as ‘cautious’ and risk ...
Decoding America: The US says war with Iran is over - is it?
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When is a war not a war? When politics is involved. Co-hosts Reged Ahmad and Jonathan Yerushalmy look at the White House’s insistence that Operation...
Everyone is talking about Farrer, here is what you need to know
05 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This weekend’s byelection in the NSW regional electorate of Farrer could yield an historic result that signifies a shift in Australia’s political ...
'Hope shifted to grief': the death of Kumanjayi Little Baby
04 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Jefferson Lewis has been charged with murder over the death of Kumanjayi Little Baby near Alice Springs. The Warlpiri girl went missing on Saturday 25...
Bondi royal commission: what more could have been done?
03 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The interim report of the royal commission on antisemitism and social cohesion has handed down its first 14 recommendations. It says there is no gap i...
The Sunday read: Malcolm Turnbull’s stark warning to the Liberals
02 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Farrer byelection is just days away and the former prime minister has stern words for his party: ‘Echo the hateful policies of One Nation and ri...
Back to Back Barries: Focus on Farrer
01 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Barrie Cassidy gives his take on the mood in Farrer after moderating a debate with the candidates in Albury, while Tony Barry raises new statistics th...
Newsroom Edition: the ugly politics of chasing One Nation
30 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
There were ugly scenes at Anzac Day dawn services when a small handful of people booed during the welcome to country in several cities. Most politicia...
Guardian Essential poll: Pauline Hanson has another breakthrough
30 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The One Nation leader now has a higher job approval rating than Anthony Albanese and Angus Taylor, and, for the first time in the Essential poll, the ...
Mitch Brown on the AFL’s homophobia problem
29 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The AFL has again found itself embroiled in allegations of on-field homophobia. St Kilda’s Lance Collard was handed a nine-week suspension for using...
Is Sanae Takaichi the most powerful woman in the world?
29 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Justin McCurry on Japan’s heavy metal-loving prime minister and her plan to amend the country’s pacifist constitution
Decoding America: Is the US’s political violence the worst it has ever been?
28 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In the wake of the shooting at the White House correspondents’ dinner, Donald Trump and the White House machine have come out fighting – blaming t...
David Smith inside the White House press dinner shooting
27 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When gunshots were heard from inside the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night, attendees weren’t sure what was happening or if the...
The new Michael Jackson biopic. Why now?
26 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A blockbuster film about the controversial singer could make US$1bn worldwide. Owen Myers, the deputy arts editor for Guardian US, tells Nosheen Iqbal...
The Sunday Read: the real cost of Labor’s NDIS cuts
25 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Autism advocate and researcher Clem Bastow argues the inclusive world disability advocates fought so hard for is being torn apart
Back to Back Barries: Can Labor’s 'tough decisions' save the NDIS?
24 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Tony Barry and Barrie Cassidy examine health minister Mark Butler’s announcement this week that Labor will move thousands of people off the NDIS to ...
Newsroom Edition: We are in a ‘fossil-fuel crisis’. Is Labor meeting the moment?
23 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It has been almost two months since the US and Israel launched a war on Iran, unleashing violence across the region and chaos in the global economy. B...
Disability minister Mark Butler on the ‘necessary’ cuts to an NDIS ‘under pressure’
23 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Nearly 15 years after Julia Gillard introduced the national disability insurance scheme (NDIS), the Albanese government announced the most significant...
How Victoria’s treaty heralds a new era of politics
22 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
After about a decade of work, voting has closed for Victoria’s First Nations treaty body, and next month those elected will form a new-look First Pe...
How bad is the Australian economy going to get?
21 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week the treasurer, Jim Chalmers, warned that Australians could face tougher times ahead as the economy is held ‘hostage’ by the US-Israel wa...
Decoding America: Is Trump having regrets as ceasefire deadline looms?
21 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Reged Ahmad and Jonathan Yerushalmy talk about Donald Trump’s erratic social media posts, as commentators try to understand the US president’s str...
A homeless man died in public in Sydney. How did his death go unnoticed?
20 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The strange and lonely death of Bikram Lama exposes a glaring gap in homelessness services. Reged Ahmad speaks with Guardian Australia’s chief inves...
The vulnerable children charged with possessing extremist material
19 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Nour Haydar speaks with investigations reporter Ariel Bogle about how a ‘bad’ law means children charged with possessing extremist material may no...
The Sunday read: Who gets to be Australian?
18 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week, in the wake of opposition leader Angus Taylor announcing the Coalition’s new hardline immigration policy, author Yumna Kassab questions h...
Back to Back Barries: the Coalition’s “risky” immigration plan
17 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Tony Barry and Barrie Cassidy discuss the opposition leader, Angus Taylor’s, new immigration policy and why Tony sees it as a strategy to come secon...
How Gina Rinehart lost hundreds of millions of dollars in court
16 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this bonus episode of the Walkley-nominated series about Australia’s richest person, senior correspondent Sarah Martin and producer Joe Koning ex...
Angus Taylor’s Trumpian immigration plan
15 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Liberal leader Angus Taylor has announced his new immigration policy including a crackdown on immigration and an emphasis on ‘Australian values’ i...
What will it take for the PM to speak up against Trump?
14 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Earlier this month, as the United States and Israel’s war on Iran raged, the prime minister frustrated many when he reiterated his support for the U...
Decoding America: Trump v the Pope
14 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Decoding America, Reged Ahmad and Jonathan Yerushalmy look at Donald Trump’s war of words with the Pope, that AI image and the bl...
Who should pay for the health impacts of the climate change?
13 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Over recent years, the warnings about the threat posed by rising sea levels have been getting louder and more urgent. Now, a new international commiss...
Two US court losses show the shifting tide against Meta – Full Story podcast
12 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Last month in the United States in two separate court rooms, in two separate states and in the span of just two days, the world’s most powerful soci...
Is this the end of Viktor Orbán’s regime?
11 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
“Hungary has been a model for the Trump presidency for a while now,” the Guardian journalist Flora Garamvolgyi tells Helen Pidd. “And US Republi...
Back to Back Barries: Cutting through Trump’s ‘wall of noise’
10 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Tony Barry and Barrie Cassidy discuss the fragile ceasefire in Iran and the pressure building on Australian politicians to respond to Donald Trump’s...
Newsroom Edition: Did the Albanese government try to bury its gambling reforms?
09 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Released just hours before Australians began their Easter long weekend, the Albanese government’s long awaited reforms to gambling advertisements ha...
Will Albanese find fuel security in Singapore?
08 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
While the US and Iran have agreed to a two-week ceasefire that could lead to the reopening of the strait of Hormuz, the consequences of Donald Trump’...
The arrest of Australia's most decorated war hero Ben Roberts-Smith
07 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Australia’s most decorated living soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith, has been arrested at Sydney airport in relation to alleged war crimes. He was subseque...
Decoding America: Trump lashes out at Australia
07 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Decoding America is a new weekly podcast from Guardian Australia hosted by Reged Ahmad with Jonathan Yerushalmy, one of our editors on the internation...
Move over Murdochs, here come the Ellisons
06 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret Sullivan on the billionaire father and son buying up the US media
What’s behind the injectable peptide craze?
05 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Grey-market injectable peptides – a category of substances with obscure, alphanumeric names such as BPC-157, GHK-Cu, or TB-500 – have developed a ...
Energy minister Chris Bowen on the impact of the fuel crisis
03 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The minister for energy and climate change, Chris Bowen, tells Guardian Australia’s political editor, Tom McIlroy, that despite shortages at petrol ...
Newsroom edition: the PM goes prime time, but is he still going soft on Trump?
02 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Jo Tovey speaks with Patrick Keneally, Gabrielle Jackson and Patrick Commins about Anthony Albanese’s rare national address, cost of living relief a...
Albanese warns Australians that next few months ‘may not be easy’ - Full Story podcast
01 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The prime minister addressed the nation on Wednesday evening in a rare move to reassure the public, as the economic fallout from the war on Iran conti...
How the war on Iran has brought reality crashing down on Donald Trump
01 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
David Smith speaks with Reged Ahmad about how the Iran war is testing Donald Trump’s ability to bend the world to his will
What Labor’s changes mean for the price of your petrol
31 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Facing pressure over mounting petrol prices, the prime minister called an emergency meeting of the national cabinet on Monday to come up with a plan f...
Will Trump put boots on the ground in Iran?
31 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
As thousands of US soldiers and marines arrive in the Middle East, Iran is accusing Washington of privately plotting a ground assault while publicly t...
What we know about the shooting of Dezi Freeman
30 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Fugitive Dezi Freeman, the man allegedly responsible for the shooting deaths of two officers at Porepunkah, has been killed after a seven-month manhun...
What’s behind the push for more Australian babies?
29 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When the new Nationals leader, Matt Canavan, addressed the media earlier this month, he shared a vision of a ‘hyper’ Australia with ‘more Austra...