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Coalition splits – again – over hate speech laws
21 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Coalition is in disarray after the resignation of three Nationals frontbenchers on Wednesday. The senators, including Bridget McKenzie, breached s...
'So much change, so much chaos': One year of Trump 2.0
20 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Ronald Reagan’s presidency of the 1980s is known as the ‘Reagan Revolution’, while Franklin D Roosevelt - the only president who has...
The rise and fall of one of Australia’s most powerful criminals
19 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Kazem Hamad rose rapidly to become one of the nation’s most powerful organised crime players. The syndicate he is accused of heading waged a rel...
Aus Open prize money is at an all-time high. But are players being paid enough?
18 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When Australian Open stars, such as Carlos Alcaraz and Aryna Sabalenka, hit the courts this week, they’ll do so with the support of screaming fa...
Best of 2025: Bill Shorten on Albanese's Trump triumph, and the opposition's next move
15 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Inside Politics is still on a break, but we’re set to return in two weeks. Today, we return to an episode released just after Anthon...
Why Kevin Rudd resigned, and what it means for our relationship with Trump
14 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When Kevin Rudd announced on Monday that he would leave his post as ambassador to the United States a year early, it was a penny-drop moment for many....
Is the Iranian regime about to collapse?
13 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The protests that have been spreading across Iran now, for weeks, have been growing more violent. Video footage and eye witnesses described security f...
Floods at one end, bushfires at the other. What's behind Australia's climate 'whiplash'
12 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
While firefighters in Victoria battle devastating bush fires that have destroyed homes and livestock, at the other end of the country, Queenslanders w...
First Trump invaded Venezuela. But it may not be Greenland that's next
11 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On the first day of the new year, Donald Trump wrote on his social platform Truth Social, what he wanted for 2026. And I quote, “Peace, peace on...
Best of 2025: Albanese meets with Trump next week. Anything could happen
08 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
We’re on a break over summer, our dear chief political correspondent Paul Sakkal is probably off to a yoga retreat somewhere in Bali, and we ret...
Best of 2025: Is Dezi Freeman being glorified like the other 'daring, desperate or deranged' fugitives who came before him?
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Hi, it’s Samantha Selinger-Morris here, and I’m the host of The Morning Edition. We’re bringing you the best episodes of 2025 before...
Best of 2025: Women were once ‘essential’ to the Liberal Party. What happened?
06 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
We’re bringing you the best episodes of 2025 before your Morning Edition team returns next week. Last May, the incumbent Labor government swept ...
Best of 2025: What is freebirthing?
05 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Hi, it’s Samantha Selinger-Morris here, and I’m the host of The Morning Edition. We’re bringing you the best episodes of 2025 before...
Best of 2025: Why gangland figure Tony Mokbel could walk free
04 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Today we’re heading back to a court in Melbourne with crime writer Chris Vedelago. It was the day when one of the last remaining figures from th...
Best of 2025: The rallies, the neo-Nazis, the flag-draping: How politics on immigration have led to this point
01 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Happy New Year. We’re on a break over summer - lucky us - before we return at the end of January for another year of Inside Politics. Today, we&...
Best of 2025: Chifley, Hawke, Rudd. Albanese beat them all. But what’s next?
31 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Remember how there was a federal election? In this episode, we return to Anthony Albanese's astonishing landslide victory in May with former chief pol...
Best of 2025: How a dancing Robert Irwin became America’s antidote
30 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we return to a good news story as we kick off a new year. The fame of Robert Irwin, the son of ‘crocodile hunter’ Steve Irwin, was ...
Best of 2025: The lawyer (and author) who represented Palestine in international court
29 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As we say goodbye to 2025, we can only hope we also see an end to the swirling chaos of multiple wars that raged across the world, and in the case of ...
Best of 2025: The tobacco tax causing carnage in our streets
28 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A tax on tobacco seemed like a great idea to deter smokers and raise revenue. But, as the price of cigarettes soared, major criminal organisatio...
Best of 2025: A Labor 'landslide' and disaster for Dutton
25 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hi and Merry Christmas! Your Inside Politics team is on a little hiatus over summer before we return at the end of January. In the meantime, we hope y...
Best of 2025: Is this the beginning of the end of the American empire?
24 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We’re bringing you the best episodes of 2025 before your Morning Edition team returns mid-January. It was another big year for the human headlin...
Best of 2025: The sentencing of mushroom cook Erin Patterson
23 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We’re bringing you the best episodes of 2025 before your Morning Edition team returns mid-January. Well, the mushroom murders was the crim...
Best of 2025: Is Prince Andrew an existential crisis for the monarchy?
22 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We’re bringing you the best episodes of 2025 before your Morning Edition team returns mid-January. Today, we return to an episode recorded...
Best of 2025: Belle Gibson's cancer con
21 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hi, it’s Samantha Selinger-Morris here, the host of The Morning Edition. We’re bringing you the best episodes of 2025 before your Morning ...
Tony Abbott on running for Senate, AUKUS and cultural ‘self-loathing’
20 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this bonus episode of Inside Politics, former primer minister Tony Abbott joins host Jacqueline Maley and chief political correspondent Paul S...
Anger in the aftermath: Albanese and the Bondi attack
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week it feels wrong to talk about politics in the wake of the horrific antisemitic massacre at Bondi Beach on Sunday. Australians and Sydneysider...
Courage and kindness in the face of the Bondi attack
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On the evening of the shooting at Bondi, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said: “An attack on Jewish Australians is an attack on every Aust...
Holocaust survivors chose Sydney after the war. Then came the Bondi attack
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Michael Visontay heard of the shootings at Bondi Beach on Sunday, his first instinct was to call his son, who often swam there. Then came the sic...
A voice note from our reporter on the Bondi shooting
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We're releasing an additional episode today featuring one of our reporters, Elias Visontay, who was at Bondi Beach with a friend on the night of the t...
Bondi terror attack: On the ground after mass shooting
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sunday’s Bondi Beach terrorist attack, which targeted a Hanukkah celebration, was the worst mass shooting in Australia since Port Arthur. Some i...
How horror Bondi Beach terror attack unfolded
14 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As we record this on Sunday night, 11 people have been confirmed dead in a mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Sydney, with the New South Wales Police Com...
Inside Politics: The ‘dirty business’ of MP expenses
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we're delving into the expenses scandal, if indeed we are calling it a scandal, that has engulfed the Communications Minister Anika Wells. A $1...
Trump and the Caribbean boat strikes: Did a war crime occur?
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The video is, according to those who have seen it, horrific to watch. Two sailors cling to the debris of a blown-up boat in the Caribbean, when they&r...
The sex offenders being protected under secretive orders
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our mastheads have discovered that a number of sex offenders have committed crimes - in our communities - after serving their time in prison. And here...
What happens when social media goes ‘dark’ for Australian teens
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Parents across the country have been wringing their hands for months about how the social media ban will work – and more so, if it will work.&nb...
Blood on the ground: What’s happening in Sudan
07 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When American author Anne Applebaum travelled to the frontlines of the Sudanese civil war this year, she gave herself a stern remit. Bare witness to, ...
How does a government minister spend $100,000 on flights to New York?
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week the Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was on his honeymoon after his low-key Lodge wedding last weekend, while Senate estimates rolled on in C...
Kate McClymont on the fake accountant, the solicitor, and the stolen millions
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Mark Leishman and his wife Kathy first sought out the help of George Dimitriou, they were suffering with cash-flow problems at Mark’s busin...
Will 'Gentle Density' help fix our ‘housing stupidity'?
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
New figures out on Monday show that the median house values in Sydney, Canberra and Brisbane have become, well, kind of insane. They’re the kind...
Why shark attacks in Australia are increasing
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It really was the stuff of nightmares. A Swiss tourist, who was swimming with dolphins off the NSW coast, was suddenly mauled by a three-metre bull sh...
How real is the rise of One Nation?
30 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Pauline Hanson marched into the Senate last week wearing a burqa, it felt, for a moment, like we were back in the 1990s. Those were the sor...
Barnaby defects, Hanson offends and Sussan Ley comes on the podcast
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Well, Barnaby Joyce finally announced his resignation from the Nationals this week, paving his way to join One Nation, in a week where Pauline Hanson ...
'Nice is nice': How a dancing Robert Irwin became America's antidote
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We feel like we’ve known him since he was in nappies. But now, at 21, the fame enjoyed by Robert Irwin - the son of Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin...
‘They view it as a contagion’: Why Trump wants our migrant data
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump has long tried to stamp American institutions - and the daily life of his country’s citizens - with his ultra-conservative ideology...
Why the BOM spent $96 million on its website
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Bureau of Meteorology has been plagued with public stuff-ups, including, just a few years ago, a false tsunami alert sent to half of the country.T...
'Blood oil': How Australia is funding Russia's war
23 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Shortly after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Australia banned the importation of Russian crude oil. Even so, Russian oil is still making ...
Albanese wants to protect Australia ‘as it is’. But is it good enough?
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Recently on this podcast we have been highly fixated on the problems within the Liberal opposition and we have neglected the government somewhat. ...
The 'helpers' of Singapore – raising expat children, while never seeing their own
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a Sunday at a park in Singapore, and, as journalist Zach Hope observed, it’s the servants day off. They lounge on picnic rugs, shakin...
The political 'killing season' has begun, so who are the new leaders?
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There can be no mistaking it – it is that time of year known as the killing season. Because, as of this morning, there are two state political l...
Trump and Epstein: How significant are the new emails?
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump has long sworn that his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein was no big deal, that he didn’t know about his abuse of girls and women, ...
Wasting billions: The government system hurting your hip pocket
16 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Four years ago, when our senior economics correspondent, Shane Wright, pointed out the failings of our central bank, government leaders, including the...
Inside Politics: The Coalition’s net zero word salad, and Ley’s leadership ‘not safe’
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week in federal politics there was really only one show in town, and that was the compelling and 'can't look away' car crash that is the Liberal ...
The NYT asked if women ruined the workplace. Women had some thoughts
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Did women ruin the workplace?” This was the question that was put forward in a New York Times podcast that - no surprises here - quickly ...
Blood and honour: why couldn’t the NSW Government stop a neo-Nazi rally?
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How could dozens of white supremacists be allowed to rally outside of the NSW parliament building, on Saturday morning? And why didn’t the ...
John Laws: The power of one Sydney shockjock
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tributes have flown in – from the likes of actor Russell Crowe and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese – for John Laws, the polarising broadca...
REDs is the hot topic among athletes and amateurs, but is it real?
09 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever taken on a 10km run, or a half marathon - maybe pushed yourself just a little too much, without properly researching what you should be ...
Jane Hume on rebranding net zero, and Hastie's abortion comments
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been a rather torrid week for the Coalition, with yet more messy fighting over whether it will dump its commitment to Australia achieving n...
Our hospitals and GPs are struggling. Are Albanese’s fixes working?
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese swept back into power in part on the back of an $8.5 billion investment in Medicare, what he described as the “s...
A birthing trend is leading to deaths. Why is 'freebirthing' growing in popularity?
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A series of tragic deaths of Australian mothers and babies, as a result of so-called “freebirthing” has put this practice into the spotlig...
An impending 'Spermageddon': New study on the everyday chemicals lowering sperm count
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is "Spermagedon" coming? Well, the results of a new study on men's fertility and testosterone levels has left experts concerned as male sperm counts p...
'The most intense attack of my career': Alex Greenwich on what happened with Mark Latham
02 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
High-profile politician Alex Greenwich is used to the robust world of public office, but he says he had never experienced such an intense attack ...
Inflation figures were bad, so why focus on Albanese’s T-shirt?
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're going to talk about the government's weaknesses, which might seem a little bit counter-intuitive, because Prime Minister Anthony Alban...
Is Prince Andrew an existential crisis for the monarchy?
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, King Charles was doing something the British royal family are accustomed to - shaking the hands of royal fans who had lined up for a chance...
The private powerbroker who has Lachlan Murdoch’s ear
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2005, Rupert Murdoch famously sided with his right-hand man, former Fox News chairman and now disgraced businessman, Roger Ailes, over his son, Lac...
2025 Good Food Guide Awards: The revealing trends and best restaurants
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You sure can tell a lot about a person by what they eat. Actor Marilyn Monroe once said that she was told her eating habits were “absolutely biz...
Fake pubic hair on a g-string for $70, a joke? Not if you're Kim Kardashian
26 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You couldn’t escape last week without hearing the ad for Kim Kardashian's latest rage-bait release: a so-called micro thong with faux pubic hair...
Bill Shorten on Albanese's Trump triumph, and the opposition's next move
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The week in federal politics could not have been more fun. We had Prime Minister Anthony Albanese travel to Washington, finally, for his meeting with ...
Have we just seen a tipping point in the US-China fight for supremacy?
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For decades, analysts have been predicting the moment when China would inevitably overtake the United States as the world’s strongest power. Tha...
Inside the Trump and Albanese meeting: two deals and a humiliation
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It was the meeting that has been hanging over our prime minister’s head for nine months. But Anthony Albanese’s face-to-face with Donald T...
They might rescue you from danger. But is Westpac Rescue safe?
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
They are the heroes who might be called to winch you to safety, if you fall into a crevasse, get stuck in a bushfire, or find yourself circled by shar...
Victoria's treaty is an Australian first. What will this agreement mean?
19 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Victoria is on the cusp of legislating a treaty with Indigenous people.When it's enacted, Victoria will become the first state in Australia with such ...
Albanese meets with Trump next week. Anything could happen
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
They said he couldn’t do it, but he’s doing it. In a few days, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, fresh from a week’s holiday, will be...
We have them. Trump wants them. Are rare earths Australia’s secret superpower?
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Remember when Donald Trump began a tariff war with ... the world? We thought that was old news. But over the weekend, the US president and Chinese Pre...
Will the treasurer’s “humiliating” tax backflip help, or hurt you?
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It was the superannuation tax plan that helped Labor achieve a landslide victory in the last election. Though some of Australia’s wealthies...
Hostages free after 737 days, but is the war over?
13 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The 20 surviving Israeli hostages who had been held captive by Hamas in Gaza, have finally been released.The Israeli Defence Force has released the fi...
A Melbourne father accused of a crime. An American lawyer thinks he's innocent
12 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It is one of the most unspeakable crimes a parent can be accused of – shaking their vulnerable baby so badly, that they sustain brain damage, or...
Tim Wilson on Hastie's exit, and bringing back that 'big Liberal energy'
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The member for Goldstein, Tim Wilson, is a guest on the podcast this week during a very interesting time for the Liberal Party. Last week, home affair...
Japan poised to elect first female leader – 'Iron Lady' Sanae Takaichi
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Japan is preparing for its first ever female prime minister. Sanae Takaichi, the 64-year-old hardline right-wing conservative, likens herself to Marga...
Wi-Fi on the long-haul: Is the final frontier of silence over?
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re lucky enough to be on a plane these days, flying somewhere, it’s so easy to feel ungrateful. Does anyone need to watch the film ...
Free range? Or food fraud? The new tech exposing ‘bogus’ Australian food labels
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Can we trust food labels? As in, is the chicken in the supermarket fridge really free-range like it says it is? Are the "local" prawns from a fis...
The deaths at Alva Beach. Was this a case of self-defence?
05 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Almost seven years ago to the day, on the NRL grand final weekend, a bizarre set of events unfolded.An injured woman knocked on the door of a stranger...
Introducing: Diagnosing Murder
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For decades, families in Australia and overseas, have been accused of one of the worst crimes imaginable. Diagnosing Murder is an investigative podcas...
Can Albanese claim credit for Trump’s peace plan?
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The prime minister has just returned from 10 days of high-wire diplomacy, initially at the United Nations in New York before swinging through London a...
Why Western democracies are struggling against Russia's and China’s 'hybrid war'
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On the weekend, Denmark reported unidentified drones had appeared above its major military bases. It was the country’s third drone alarm in a we...
Click to cancel: How hard should it be to end a subscription?
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We all know how annoying it can be to cancel a subscription, whether to a streaming service or gym membership, but when do ‘'subscription traps&...
The ‘remarkable breakthrough’ made for Huntington’s disease
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Researchers say they have, for the first time, dramatically slowed the progression of a cruel and devastating neuron condition called Huntington&rsquo...
Chemtrails to the elitist cabal: Why conspiracy theories are thriving in the White House
28 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There was a time when people who believed that the government can control the weather, or that Wi-Fi causes cancer might have been social pariahs.&nbs...
Albanese’s warning on tyranny, dictators, and his selfie with Trump
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today we are bringing you a special international episode of the pod. The prime minister has spent the week in New York addressing the United Nations,...
Trump just insulted almost all world leaders, to their faces, but what does it mean?
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How to make sense of the last two weeks?Because it isn’t just that Russia has stepped up its global aggression by invading the airspace of vario...
Charlie Kirk memorial: love, hate and Trump’s vow for the future
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For many people who watched the coverage of Charlie Kirk’s memorial, it was the sounds that struck them the most.The triumphant 60,000 conservat...
Life, death and Optus: Should the telcos be trusted to run Triple Zero?
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Optus is in the firing line once again over an outage that left customers unable to call Triple Zero for 13 hours. In that time, four people died &nd...
No fry zone: Should councils be able to block fast food outlets?
21 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Once upon a time, the dangers of eating too much fast food were at the front of our minds thanks to documentaries like Super Size Me. But that was mor...
Coalition combust over net zero. Will the anti-climate action stance work?
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The government announced its 2035 emissions reduction target this week, committing Australia to climate action despite a retreat from the United State...
A primer on Australia’s climate target
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A flurry of numbers relating to climate change have been tossed around all week. But what do they mean? Today, environment and climate reporter Bianca...
Why Gen-Z fury led to destruction in Nepal
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Three years ago, mainstream newspapers in the West had a bit of fun ridiculing so-called nepo-babies, and the unfair advantage enjoyed by the children...
From children’s entertainer to political celebrity. The rise of Jacinta Nampijinpa Price
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s charisma has led to her meteoric rise, and also, to her recent relegation to the back bench.Lambasted for her positio...
‘The cult of the leader’: The professor who left America says fascism is flourishing
14 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
US President Donald Trump is a fascist, running an authoritarian regime. We hear this allegation a lot, now. But is he? Really? Fascism expert Jason S...
Why the sacking of Jacinta Nampijinpa Price could turn the senator ‘into a martyr’
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Controversial Liberal senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price was sacked from the Coalition frontbench this week. Price left Opposition Leader Sussan Ley wit...
Why Australia is trying to out-woo China for influence in the Pacific
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When we think of countries trying to show the world their power and influence, we might think of muscular shows of force, like China’s army para...
'Like an episode of the Sopranos': Life inside the clean-up of the CFMEU
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
More than a year ago, the CFMEU – one of Australia’s most powerful unions – was placed into administration, after an investigation b...