The Front
Episodes
Hear Erin Patterson’s police interview in full
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We have voice-acted Erin Patterson’s police interview, as played to the jury in her triple-murder trial. Patterson, who denies any wrongdoing, t...
Has Vladimir Putin outsmarted Donald Trump?
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump’s plan to bring peace to Ukraine is faltering, but he can’t walk away. We unpack why Vladimir Putin has the President in bind...
TV’s million-dollar journos
25 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Who’s the highest earner on TV? And who earns 600 grand for two hours’ work? Today - the top salaries on free to air television. Fin...
The Studio - Seth Rogen’s smash-hit series skilfully skewers Hollywood
23 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Art v Commerce - a tussle as old as time. Seth Rogen’s new show, The Studio on Apple TV, takes a brutal - and hilarious - look at modern-day Hol...
Explicit messages found on Erin Patterson’s phone
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A fresh twist in the mushroom triple-murder trial: expletive-laden Facebook messages found on Erin Patterson’s phone that labelled her husband a...
The secrets of Joe Biden’s rapid decline
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As controversy rages about how much Democrats and Biden insiders knew about the former president’s cognitive decline, foreign editor Greg Sherid...
Have the Nationals blown themselves up?
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nuclear power - and political power games - break up the Liberal-National Coalition. National editor Dennis Shanahan tries to make sense of David Litt...
Did Israel just change its battle plan?
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Disarming Hamas rather than destroying it - and occupying Gaza rather than pounding it. Today - why Benjamin Netanyahu changed up the war. Find ...
Have hackers stolen your tax refund?
18 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hackers have harvested potentially millions of dollars from unsuspecting taxpayers by submitting bogus tax returns – and nobody knows how. Find ...
Nagi v Brooki: Down to the last crumb
16 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Two whip-smart journos join us to discuss the cookbook controversy. Sexism, intellectual property law, and who was the first person to stick a lemon u...
The uni students who turned their backs on Jews
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jewish groups are condemning what they say was antisemitism and racism on a university campus. University of Sydney students have voted to reject a ne...
Mushroom expert told authorities death cap poisoning was impossible
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
No sign of death caps - that was the judgment of a leading mushroom expert asked to analyse beef Wellington from Erin Patterson’s fatal lunch. T...
Whistleblower’s tale of a bankrupt tycoon’s NDIS ‘rort’
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Crime journo Dave Murray uses his shoeleather journalism skills to report a ballooning scandal about the National Disability Insurance Scheme Find out...
Winners and losers in Albo’s big shakeup
12 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A new Attorney-General, Plibersek demoted, Dreyfus and Husic to the backbench: the thinking behind Anthony Albanese’s reshuffle - and who’...
Pope Leo vs China
11 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
China is cracking down on religious freedom and Pope Leo XIV faces a raging controversy about a deal his predecessor signed with Xi Xinping’s Co...
Trent Dalton reveals his deeply personal new book
09 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The nicest man in journalism and literature is Trent Dalton, our colleague here at The Australian and global bestselling author of Boy Swallows Univer...
Roger Rogerson’s first kill? The mystery of ‘Shotgun Johnny’ Regan
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The 1974 murder of ‘Shotgun Johnny’ Regan has never been solved. Now, his family wants answers. That’s where The Australian’s ...
Could Kashmir trigger nuclear war between India and Pakistan?
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As missiles, artillery fire and claims of terrorism fly between India and Pakistan over the disputed territory of Kashmir, we ask Foreign Editor Greg ...
Erin Patterson’s elderly uncle on surviving deadly mushroom lunch
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The only survivor of a deadly mushroom lunch has told a jury after eating allegedly poisoned beef Wellington, he led a prayer for his niece, who is pl...
How Labor and the Libs could freeze out the Greens
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Greens are bragging they’ll host the balance of power. But how well did the Greens really do at this election - and could Labor and the Libe...
What Albo 2.0 will do with his immense new power
04 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Medicare, energy, tax, workplace change and reconciliation: Federal Labor celebrates an historic victory and the devastated Liberals look for a new le...
A portrait the Archibald Prize rejected: Jewish leader Alex Ryvchin, by Johannes Leak
02 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As the annual controversy swirls around the finalists for the Archibald Prize, we look at an artwork that didn’t make the cut: a moving portrait...
Mushroom cook Erin Patterson did ‘taste tests’ on kids, husband alleges
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Emotional testimony by Crown witness Simon Patterson in the murder trial of his wife Erin, who has pleaded not guilty to deliberately poisoning elderl...
Mushroom trial begins: Murder, or a ‘terrible accident’?
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Erin Patterson served a mushroom meal that killed three elderly relatives and made another seriously ill. The crown says it was murder. Patterson says...
Why Bondi junction hero cop Amy Scott was ready to die
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The untold story of Inspector Amy Scott and the day she took down a mass murderer at Westfield Bondi Junction. Find out more about The Fro...
A dark horse in the race for Pope
28 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Pierre Batista Pizzaballa – the keffiyeh-wearing, Hebrew-speaking cardinal in Jerusalem who offered to exchange himself for the hostages –...
What happened to Virginia Giuffre?
27 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Australian’s Queensland bureau chief Michael McKenna reveals the truth behind one of the last interviews given by prominent Prince Andrew ac...
Les Miserables storms the barricades with an arena spectacular
25 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Irresistible melodies, stirring lyrics and a ripping story of injustice and revolt: Les Miserables is back. Today: Review editor and Les Mis superfan ...
Death in paradise prompts NT bail crackdown
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A 71-year-old friendly grocer loses his life. Suspicion turns to an 18-year-old accused rapist who was on bail. Now the political fallout begins. ...
Is the Coalition’s defence cash splash too late to the party?
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After a long wait, the Coalition’s multi-billion-dollar defence policy is here. Is it too late to help them at the polls? Find out more about Th...
All eyes on Rome as cardinals convene to pick a new Pope
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After Catholic leaders lay Pope Francis to rest in Rome, they’ll choose a new pontiff. Who it is at this stage is anyone’s guess. Find out...
Does Russia want a military base in Indonesia?
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our Defence expert unpicks what Russia’s up to in Indonesia - and if we should be worried about its appearance in our neck of the woods. Find ou...
The tiny theatres and town halls keeping live music alive - on the road with Sarah Blasko
18 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Come with us on tour with Sarah Blasko, one of Australia’s most gifted singers, in tiny town halls and bush theatres where live music is alive a...
China’s trade-war revenge
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Chinese exporters in Guangzhou are brazenly flouting US tariffs – and flaunting it on TikTok. Our correspondent unpacks this new phase of the gl...
How Facebook monetises teen misery
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Australian revealed how Facebook pitched ads at children in despair. Now a Meta whistleblower exposes the company’s attempts to spin the sto...
Billion-dollar babies: Pressure on public health as private births decline
14 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Private birthing units are closing around Australia, and experts say it could cost taxpayers dearly if big, structural changes aren’t made. ...
Major parties bet the house on election campaigns
13 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Labor and the Coalition announced competing housing policies at their official campaign launches. Could either one win the election? Find out more abo...
Facing death, Midnight Oil’s Rob Hirst wants to be useful
11 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rob Hirst has pancreatic cancer. He’s handling it with all the soul you’d expect from one of the songwriters who made radical 80s politics...
Trump and Xi Jinping: clash of the megalomaniacs
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our man in Beijing, North Asia correspondent Will Glasgow, unpacks how Chinese President Xi has mishandled the tariff war, and how it can possibly be ...
White House at war: Elon Musk v Peter Navarro
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Two of Donald Trump’s closest advisers are at each other’s throats. The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, is openly ridiculing Peter N...
Is your super safe from hackers?
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
An elderly lady had $400,000 drained from her super account by hackers - but the industry and law enforcement have been flat-footed in response. ...
Ferris Bueller tried to tell us tariffs don’t work
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump’s tariffs have upended everything we thought we knew about global trade – but we might not be here if we’d listened to ...
How the Teal sausage gets made
06 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Victorian Teal independent Ben Smith had a secret church meeting with One Nation’s Mike Brown – but neither side will cop to how or why it...
Is Netflix’s Adolescence worth the ordeal of watching it?
04 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The glowing reviews of Adolescence all say it’s a ‘tough watch’. But is it fair to boys - and parents? Luckily our expert Tim Dougla...
What’s going on with Virginia Giuffre?
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Her claims of being abused by Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein rocked the Royals – but Virginia Roberts Giuffre just wanted a quiet life i...
Why don’t schools understand boys?
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A new study shows boys slipping further behind in schools as debate about their mental health and online influences dominates the culture. Find out mo...
Chinese spy ships in Australian waters: what’s Beijing up to?
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A so-called Chinese spy ship is circumnavigating Australia, apparently mapping the seabed and the location of undersea cables. What exactly is Beijing...
The first kiss Chris Dawson says proves his innocence
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal, Christopher Michael Dawson – who was covered in our podcast The Teacher’s Pet – says he’s...
Albo v Dutton: Let the mind games begin
30 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This election will get deeply personal as Labor tries to wrong foot Peter Dutton and the Coalition homes in on Anthony Albanese’s judgment. ...
The White Lotus: who’s dead - and whodunnit?
28 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Gaitok. Rick. Saxon. Gary. Tim. Chloe. Chelsea. Piper. Victoria. Who could be the White Lotus killer - and who’s the victim? Join us for the ult...
Nobody’s fired: How Donald Trump is handling an epic group chat fail
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Top Trump administration officials accidentally shared sensitive information with The Atlantic’s editor. Should they have been texting about it ...
How $50 cigarettes burned a giant hole in the budget
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Labor is cracking down on the illicit tobacco trade in a big way – and it comes at a cost to the budget’s bottom line. Find out more about...
Surprise! A teeny tiny tax cut in the Budget
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A $27 billion deficit and a ‘cute’ $5-a-week tax cut which the Coalition is already opposing. Our experts’ verdict on a budget Jim C...
A dispute between two Australian Jewish lawyers hits the courts
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah Schwartz and Zara Cooper both say they’re fighting antisemitism - so how did cross words on social media turn into a matter for the courts...
What are Albo and Chalmers really up to with this Budget?
23 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
National editor Dennis Shanahan breaks down the strategy Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmers think might help them win an election. Find out more ...
Mystery of the abandoned baby: Nicole Kidman brings Liane Moriarty’s The Last Anniversary to TV
21 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you loved Big Little Lies, Nine Perfect Strangers and Apples Never Fall, get ready for The Last Anniversary. Today - how Nicole Kidman ensured this...
Guided by God to an online gambling fortune
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Virtual Gaming Worlds founder Laurence Escalante is one of the new faces of wealth in Australia, featured in The List: Australia’s Richest 250. ...
Cannon-Brookes break-up shakes up Australia’s Richest 250
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Another Richest 250 list – another billionaire breakup to keep things interesting, and a new name cracks into the Top 10. Find out more ab...
Trans athletes are about to be banned from the Olympics
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As the International Olympic Committee meets to elect a new president with a mandate to overhaul the Games, the candidates are united on one issue: tr...
What’s Acknowledgement of Country got to do with a law degree?
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Law students who refuse to perform an Acknowledgement of Country will be failed. Janet Albrechtsen unpacks what it means for the law – and Austr...
Gina Rinehart and a billionaire family’s dirty laundry
16 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Investor John Hancock says dealing with his billionaire mother Gina Rinehart is ‘not easy’ and critiques some of her investment decisions....
How do we feel about Michael Jackson the musical?
14 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A genius, a superstar - and maybe a paedophile. The complex Michael Jackson is the subject of a big-ticket musical fresh from Broadway, now playing in...
How celebrity chef Matt Moran won over the bushies who hated him
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Celebrity chef Matt Moran on food waste, fake meat, and his plans for a tiny country pub ahead of The Australian’s Global Food Forum. Find out m...
Jewish Australians aren’t feeling reassured about anti-Semitism
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Police say a caravan ‘terror’ plot was a hoax and anti-Semitic attacks weren’t motivated by hatred of Jews - but that’s small ...
Trump brawls with Malcolm Turnbull, as huge tariffs kick in
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump and Malcolm Turnbull are at each other’s throats just hours before tariffs kick in. What does it mean for our economy? Find out mor...
Gambling titans roll the dice on Star Casino
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Star Entertainment has been saved from failure by competing takeover bids by the US-based Bally’s Corporation and partners from Hong Kong. Find ...
Critics hate Meghan Markle’s TV show. Why does Netflix want Season 2?
09 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Love, Meghan is a syrupy lifestyle-cooking show on Netflix that has been widely panned. Today - why Netflix wants to go again, and what we all mi...
Dragon sex: how romantasy became a billion-dollar book genre
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Fairy smut, elf porn - call it what you like, romantasy is the hottest fiction genre on the planet. So why are today’s women yearning to be sedu...
WA loves Labor – but not Anthony Albanese
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Western Australians will go to the polls on Saturday, but a likely state Labor victory won’t necessarily spell success for the Federal governmen...
Are we sending troops to Ukraine?
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As Trump and China reshape the world, Defence Minister Richard Marles and shadow Andrew Hastie lay out their vision at the Defending Australia summit ...
Labor’s hydrogen hopes fade
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Green hydrogen was meant to be a major part of the government’s renewables-only path to net zero. Why are most of its projects crumbling? Find o...
Albo and the art of the soft-soap interview
03 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
‘Tis the season for politicians in Hawaiian shirts with their glowing partners to reveal ‘the real me’. And Anthony Albanese’s...
Vance’s rage, Trump’s appeasement: now what for Ukraine?
02 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump wants to be like Winston Churchill. But is he really like Neville Chamberlain, appeasing Vladimir Putin as Chamberlain appeased Adolf Hit...
A deep dive into The Cruel Sea
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As they prepare for a new album launch - Straight Into The Sun is out on March 7 - Australian rock superstars The Cruel Sea show the youngsters how it...
‘Bronwyn’ Live: behind the scenes of our blockbuster podcast
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Momentum is building around The Australian’s blockbuster investigative podcast Bronwyn, about the unsolved disappearance of mother Bronwyn Winfi...
The Google search that could have averted Khaled Sabsabi art disaster
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Artworks depicting Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah and the 9/11 attacks were missed by bureaucrats choosing Khaled Sabsabi for the Venice Biennale....
Slater + Gordon’s ‘fake email’ nightmare
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Secret salary details, brutal takedowns of colleagues - and a furious workforce. Today, the HR disaster engulfing plaintiff law firm Slater + Gordon.&...
The tech sex scandal blowing up WiseTech
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Australian businessman Richard White founded a billion-dollar tech business before a series of personal dramas caused mayhem. Now his brainchild WiseT...
Pope Francis - and who will be next?
23 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The legacy of a Pope who infuriated many traditionalists and disappointed some progressives - and the most likely candidates to replace him. Fin...
Is Beyonce’s Cowboy Carter really a country album? No - it’s bigger
21 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is Beyonce’s Grammy-winning Album of the Year Cowboy Carter really a country album? No - it’s something much bigger. Find out more a...
Trump vs Zelensky
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Donald Trump trump called Zelensky a dictator, signalling an end to the US-Europe alliance in support of Ukraine. This has been met with war...
Koh Samui braces for the White Lotus Effect
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The glittering HBO global blockbuster The White Lotus has already transformed the economies of Sicily and Hawaii, and now Thailand’s next. Today...
Get ready for an April election
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Reserve Bank of Australia has finally cut interest rates by 25 basis points to 4.1 per cent. It’s a small but welcome relief to anyone who h...
Khaled Sabsabi and the Venice Biennale art scandal
17 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How artist Khaled Sabsabi was picked, and then dumped, from Australia’s Venice Biennale mission - and why his art about Hezbollah and 9/11 have ...
Aboriginal boy Cassius Turvey’s murder ‘not about race’
16 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The fatal beating of Noongar Yamatji schoolboy Cassius Turvey was not racially motivated, a jury hears as four adults go on trial for his murder...
Spit and the secrets of movie music
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Composer Elliott Wheeler - the composer behind Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis and The Great Gatsby, Netflix’s The Get Down and new movie Spit starri...
The lies of Belle Gibson and Apple Cider Vinegar
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Australian’s journalist Richard Guilliatt - who exposed Belle Gibson as a fraud - on why he’s not happy that a Netflix hit has given c...
Sam Kerr’s own goal
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
She’s been found not guilty of racially harassing a London cop - but the Matildas captain has taken a giant reputational hit. Today - what next ...
Ita Buttrose in the witness box
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Antoinette Lattouf v the ABC in the Federal Court heard from former ABC chair, 83-year-old media doyenne Ita Buttrose. Find out more about The F...
Dodging Trump’s huge steel tariff
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Anthony Albanese and Kevin Rudd scramble for an exemption from Donald Trump’s 25 per cent tariffs on steel and aluminium. Find out more ab...
Labor’s by-election bloodbath
09 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Crime and the cost of living have dealt Victorian Labor a potentially devastating political blow in the heartland seat of Werribee. Find out more abou...
Guy Pearce’s brilliant baddie in The Brutalist
07 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From Neighbours to Priscilla to the Oscars: Guy Pearce’s star turn as a very bad man in The Brutalist. Find out more about The Front...
Trump’s trans revolution
06 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The headspinning pace of Donald Trump’s executive orders shifts to trans people’s participation in women’s sport. Find out mor...
Sam Kerr accuses cops of racism
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Matildas star Sam Kerr has pleaded not guilty in a London court to intentionally causing racially aggravated harassment, alarm or distress to a police...
The ABC’s ‘Antoinette problem’
04 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Legal action brought against the ABC by freelance journalist Antoinette Lattouf is under way in the Federal Court. Find out more about The Front podca...
Unpacking Donald Trump’s trade war
03 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our panel of experts weigh in on the tariffs that have prompted a new trade more and sent global politics into a spin. Find out more about The Front p...
Bibas babies’ fate hangs in the balance
02 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Questions are swirling around the fate of some of the Middle East conflict’s youngest hostages after their father was freed by Hamas. Find out m...
Asia’s rock gods Mayday are heading our way
31 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Catchy, dreamy, wildly entertaining Taiwanese superstars Mayday aim to entice Australians to their Beatles-with-glowsticks giant stadium gigs. Find ou...
Is Steve Smith the last batting legend?
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Steve Smith is the fourth Australian to clock up 10,000 test cricket runs. But could that feat become a rarity in a stacked cricket calendar? Find out...
Inside Albo’s ‘exquisite’ visit to Toorak
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Anthony Albanese and Dan Andrews attended a lavish dinner in one of Melbourne’s ritziest suburbs. But it’s the company that’s prompt...