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Australian Politics

In the Australian Politics podcast, Guardian Australia's political team examine what’s happening in Australian politics and why it matters to you

  • Solar panel farm at sunrise in rural Australia.

    Essential report: is Labor being honest about how hard the energy transition will be? – Australian Politics podcast

    Paul Karp talks to Peter Lewis about why voters are backing Labor’s Future Made in Australia plan while overestimating the cost of renewables
  • Minister for Industry and Science Ed Husic at a press conference in the Blue Room of Parliament House Canberra.

    Ed Husic on why Islamic Australians feel their voice is not being heard on Gaza – podcast

    Guardian Australia’s foreign affairs and defence correspondent Daniel Hurst speaks to Ed Husic about how the industry and science minister is making his voice heard on the Israel-Gaza war, as well as the government’s push to support domestic manufacturing and deliver what it calls ‘a future made in Australia’
  • Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Birmingham speaks to journalists in the Press Gallery at Parliament House in Canberra, Tuesday, March 26, 2024. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

    Simon Birmingham on the Coalition’s stance on a Palestinian state – podcast

    Political editor Karen Middleton speaks with Coalition spokesperson on foreign affairs, Simon Birmingham, about his party’s strong criticisms of foreign minister Penny Wong’s speech for a two-state solution and the recognition of Palestine as a state
  • A 'sold' sign for an Australian property

    Essential report: how voters want to tackle Australia’s housing bin fire – Australian Politics podcast

    Guardian Australia chief political correspondent Paul Karp talks to Peter Lewis from Essential Media about voters’ views on fixing Australia’s housing system
  • Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong speaks to the media

    Penny Wong on the week Australia condemned Netanyahu – Australian politics podcast

    Guardian Australia’s chief political correspondent Karen Middleton speaks to foreign minister Penny Wong after Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom was killed – alongside six of her colleagues – in Gaza by an Israeli airstrike on Monday
  • Greens Senator David Shoebridge

    David Shoebridge on Labor’s ‘Trump-like’ immigration proposals – Australian politics podcast

    Guardian Australia’s chief political correspondent, Paul Karp, speaks to David Shoebridge, the Greens’s home affairs and immigration spokesperson, about Labor’s controversial deportation bill
  • Peter Dutton and Anthony Albanese during question time in the House of Representatives

    Essential Report: underwhelmed by democracy and overwhelmed by the news – Australian politics podcast

    Guardian Australia chief political correspondent Paul Karp talks to Peter Lewis from Essential Media about voters’ views on the institutions and guardrails that are the basis for Australian democracy
  • The assistant minister for competition, Andrew Leigh, says transparency about supermarket costs will lead to better competition and lower prices.

    Andrew Leigh on how competition reform can make our lives better – Australian politics podcast

    Labor plans to reform grocery prices as the Greens’ push for greater powers for the ACCC to address the supermarket duopoly
  • Exterior view of Australian Parliament House in Canberra

    Karen Middleton on the state of Australian politics – Full Story podcast

    Guardian Australia’s new political editor, Karen Middleton, tells Nour Haydar how she got hooked on politics
  • Economist and Greece’s former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis at the National Press Club in Canberra

    Yanis Varoufakis on technofeudalism and the ‘new cold war’ – Australian politics podcast

    Economist Yanis Varoufakis speaks to chief political correspondent Paul Karp about the fiefdoms of tech firms and heightening geopolitical tensions
  • Ex-president Donald Trump speaking

    Essential report: will a Trump win upset Aukus? – Australian politics podcast

    Guardian Australia chief political correspondent Paul Karp talks to Peter Lewis from Essential Media about voters’ views on global issues
  • Australia's social services minister Amanda Rishworth speaks in parliament

    Amanda Rishworth on closing the gender retirement gap – Australian politics podcast

    Paul Karp talks to the social services minister about Labor’s plan to pay superannuation on publicly funded paid parental leave
  • Australian Security Intelligence Organisation ASIO Director General Mike Burgess poses for a portrait ahead of his annual threat assessment speech at ASIO headquarters in Canberra

    Mike Burgess on the former Australian politician recruited by foreign spies – Australian Politics podcast

    Daniel Hurst, Guardian Australia’s foreign affairs and defence correspondent, speaks to Mike Burgess, the head of Australia’s domestic intelligence agency Asio
  • Prime minister Anthony Albanese walks past Australian opposition leader Peter Dutton

    Essential Report: are voters warming to Peter Dutton? – Australian politics podcast

    Chief political correspondent Paul Karp talks to Peter Lewis about voters’ changing perceptions of Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton
  • Defence Industry minister Sen Pat Conroy is escorted around HMAS Sydney DDG in Sydney, Tuesday, February 20, 2024.

    Pat Conroy on Labor’s ‘enhanced lethality’ revamp of Australia’s warships – Australian Politics podcast

    Daniel Hurst, Guardian Australia’s foreign affairs and defence correspondent, speaks to minister for defence industry Pat Conroy about the revamp of Australia’s warships
  • Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather speaks to the media in the press gallery at Parliament House in Canberra

    Max Chandler-Mather on why house prices need to go down – Australian Politics podcast

    The Greens housing spokesperson on the changes he thinks need to be made to property investment and rental laws
  • Prime minister Anthony Albanese talking in parliament

    Essential report: are voters up for cracking down on negative gearing? – Australian Politics podcast

    Chief political correspondent Paul Karp talks to Peter Lewis from Essential Media on the voter responses to Labor’s changes to the stage-three tax cuts
  • Liberal senator Jane Hume in Parliament House, Canberra

    Jane Hume on why the Coalition supported Labor’s changes to tax cuts – Australian politics podcast

    Chief political correspondent Paul Karp talks to shadow finance minister Jane Hume about why the Coalition won’t stand in the way of Anthony Albanese’s revamped stage-three tax cuts
  • Treasurer Jim Chalmers at a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra

    Jim Chalmers on why a politically contentious change to stage-three tax cuts is worth it – Australian Politics podcast

    Chief political correspondent Paul Karp talks to the treasurer, Jim Chalmers, about the thinking behind the changes to the stage-three tax cuts
  • Prime minister Anthony Albanese at the National Press Club in Canberra, Thursday, January 25, 2024

    Essential Report: Will Labor’s tax changes set them up for success? – Australian politics podcast

    Chief political correspondent Paul Karp talks to Peter Lewis from Essential Media on the groups most supportive of tax cuts for low- and middle-income earners
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