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Katharine Murphy and Guardian Australia's political team examine what’s happening in Australian politics and why it matters to you.
Before his trip to Papua New Guinea for Anzac Day commemorations, the minister for veterans’ affairs and defence personnel, Matt Keogh, spea...
Nearly 15 years after Julia Gillard introduced the national disability insurance scheme, the Albanese government announced the most signific...
What’s the line in the sand for Albanese to rethink the multibillion-dollar Aukus agreement? Why won’t the government implement sanctions on...
Journalist, author and farmer Gabrielle Chan speaks to Guardian Australia political editor Tom McIlroy about the experiences of rural and re...
The minister for energy and climate change, Chris Bowen, tells Guardian Australia’s political editor, Tom McIlroy, that despite shortages at...
After Australia became one of the first countries to back the US’s war on Iran, this month’s poll shows voters are questioning Canberra’s re...
This week, as fallout from the US-Israel war on Iran continues, the fuel crisis hit Australian hip pockets harder than ever before. Meanwhil...
With the US and Israel’s war on Iran continuing to send waves of disruption around the world, Guardian Australia political editor Tom McIlro...
Political editor Tom McIlroy speaks to new shadow minister for the digital economy, science, innovation and cybersecurity Aaron Violi, who w...
The economist, author and politician Yanis Varoufakis speaks to political editor Tom McIlroy about his blunt assessment about the ability of...
Hardline exchanges over the 34 Australian women and children stuck in Syria have continued this week, with the opposition saying the group s...
Since October, the Guardian Essential poll has been following the rise in support for One Nation but this month’s results might also ring al...
Reserve Bank of Australia deputy governor Andrew Hauser speaks to economics editor Patrick Commins and business and economics reporter Luca...
In his first comments after the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, Anthony Albanese says that the ex-prince has had an extraordinary fall...
Protesters around Australia, including Nick McKim and other Greens colleagues, gathered to express opposition to the visit of the Israeli pr...
After the Reserve Bank’s first rate hike in more than two years, Guardian Australia’s political editor, Tom McIlroy, speaks to the economics...
The messy fallout of the Coalition’s breakup continues this week with Sussan Ley and David Littleproud attempting to weather criticisms of t...
In the first Guardian Essential poll after the Bondi terror attack, both Anthony Albanese and Sussan Ley have fallen in their approval ratin...
In an eventful start to parliament for 2026, MPs came together with condolences for the victims of the Bondi terror attack and passed hurrie...
In our final episode for 2025, political editor Tom McIlroy speaks with Melissa Clarke from ABC RN Breakfast and Michael Read from the Austr...
After the furore over Pauline Hanson’s burqa stunt and Barnaby Joyce’s defection to One Nation, the latest Guardian Essential Poll shows a s...
This week Labor committed additional military support for Ukraine in its war against Russia as part of a Nato-led initiative. The government...
Ever since she was elected opposition leader, Sussan Ley has faced strong criticisms from within her party and across the parliament. Some c...
Just over half of voters say that climate change is happening and is caused by human activity, according to the latest Guardian Essential po...
Author and columnist Sean Kelly says despite Labor’s overwhelming majority and an opposition largely consumed by its own infighting, there a...
In conversation with political editor Tom McIlroy, deputy leader of the Greens Mehreen Faruqi says a neo-Nazi rally in front of NSW parliame...
It’s been six months since the May election, which brought new personalities to Parliament House – along with an even larger majority for th...
Speaking at Cop30 in Brazil, the British prime minister, Keir Starmer, said the ‘consensus is gone’ on tackling the climate crisis. It’s an...
From cyberattacks to disinformation campaigns, hybrid warfare is reshaping global security. Visiting the European Centre of Excellence for C...
Anthony Albanese might have had his rock star moment upon his return from the US, but the latest Guardian Essential poll shows voters are un...
In the aftermath of former frontbencher Andrew Hastie’s fighting words, opposition leader Sussan Ley continues to struggle with persistent i...
This week, the Albanese government has been criticised for a tactical backdown on its plan to wind back tax concessions on superannuation ba...
As Labor’s new aged care system gets set to begin on 1 November, Greens senator Penny Allman-Payne speaks about her father’s recent move int...
This week, Labor expanded Australia’s first home guarantee to allow more buyers access to a mortgage with a reduced deposit of 5%. But the p...
Political reporter Dan Jervis-Bardy speaks to executive director of Essential Media Peter Lewis about Australian voters’ views on the govern...
Political reporter Josh Butler speaks to Amanda Rishworth, the minister for employment and workplace relations, about the Albanese governmen...
The Albanese government has now put a number on its climate ambition: a target of a 62-70% emissions cut by 2035 compared to 2005 levels. It...
In a defining week for climate action, the Albanese government has unveiled a commitment to cut emissions between 62% and 70% on 2005 levels...
The fallout in the Liberal party over Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s inflammatory comments about Indian migrants has now culminated in her sacki...
While many Australians are feeling relieved about the end of a cold winter, the minister for emergency management and regional development i...
Fresh off the government’s reform roundtable and an address to the press club on skilling Australia’s future, the minister for skills and tr...
Why do most Australians back recognising a Palestinian state, yet nearly half dismiss it as merely symbolic? The executive director of Essen...
Fresh from the government’s economic roundtable, the independent Wentworth MP Allegra Spender is optimistic about the future of tax reform i...
British-Australian doctor Mohammed Mustafa has seen first-hand the horrors occurring daily in Gaza from his time working in hospitals across...
Two weeks out from Labor’s economic roundtable, the Coalition’s shadow minister for productivity, housing and homelessness, Andrew Bragg, jo...
Tanya Plibersek, one of Labor’s most recognisable political figures and the minister for social services, joins us as the government faces b...
As Anthony Albanese readies his second‑term reform agenda, Guardian Australia’s Josh Butler speaks with Essential Media’s Peter Lewis about...
As parliament resumes, the focus shifts to how the major parties plan to reset. Chief political correspondent Tom McIlroy speaks to Liberal...
Treasurer Jim Chalmers tells Guardian Australia chief political correspondent Tom McIlroy one of his key measures of success in the future i...
Tom McIlroy speaks to independent MP Helen Haines to talk through her ambitious agenda for the new parliamentary term, her sharp disappointm...