Finance minister Katy Gallagher on her 'most challenging' budget
The criticisms of Tuesday’s federal budget have already started. Labor is facing allegations of broken promises over changes to negative gea...
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20 of 300 episodesMichelle Milthorpe on fighting One Nation in Farrer
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 an...
Annastacia Palaszczuk on resilience
When Annastacia Palaszczuk led a Labor opposition to win government in the 2015 Queensland election, she was labelled an ‘accidental premier...
Guardian Essential poll: Pauline Hanson has another breakthrough
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 p...
The minister for veterans' affairs on Anzac Day, Ben Roberts-Smith and increased defence spending
Before his trip to Papua New Guinea for Anzac Day commemorations, the minister for veterans’ affairs and defence personnel, Matt Keogh, spea...
Disability minister Mark Butler on the 'necessary' cuts to an NDIS under pressure
Nearly 15 years after Julia Gillard introduced the national disability insurance scheme, the Albanese government announced the most signific...
Ask me anything: the future of Aukus, sanctions on Israel and more ACT senators
What’s the line in the sand for Albanese to rethink the multibillion-dollar Aukus agreement? Why won’t the government implement sanctions on...
Gabrielle Chan on farmers managing fuel and fertiliser shortages during a war
Journalist, author and farmer Gabrielle Chan speaks to Guardian Australia political editor Tom McIlroy about the experiences of rural and re...
Energy minister Chris Bowen on the impact of the fuel crisis
The minister for energy and climate change, Chris Bowen, tells Guardian Australia’s political editor, Tom McIlroy, that despite shortages at...
Guardian Essential report: Australians don’t want the war on Iran – Australian politics podcast
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...
Andrew Hastie on Trump’s 'overconfident' Iran war and resurrecting the Liberals
This week, as fallout from the US-Israel war on Iran continues, the fuel crisis hit Australian hip pockets harder than ever before. Meanwhil...
How the war on Iran is disrupting Australia’s national security and politics
With the US and Israel’s war on Iran continuing to send waves of disruption around the world, Guardian Australia political editor Tom McIlro...
The social responsibility of tech with new shadow minister Aaron Violi
Political editor Tom McIlroy speaks to new shadow minister for the digital economy, science, innovation and cybersecurity Aaron Violi, who w...
Yanis Varoufakis on Donald Trump, global conflicts and the AI revolution
The economist, author and politician Yanis Varoufakis speaks to political editor Tom McIlroy about his blunt assessment about the ability of...
The Coalition’s view on the IS families stuck in Syria, with Jonno Duniam
Hardline exchanges over the 34 Australian women and children stuck in Syria have continued this week, with the opposition saying the group s...
Guardian Essential report: One Nation woos progressive voters
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...
Why does the RBA only have one blunt tool? We ask the deputy governor
Reserve Bank of Australia deputy governor Andrew Hauser speaks to economics editor Patrick Commins and business and economics reporter Luca...
Albanese on ex-prince Andrew, Pauline Hanson and Islamic state families
In his first comments after the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, Anthony Albanese says that the ex-prince has had an extraordinary fall...
The Greens’ Nick McKim says inviting Isaac Herzog to Australia was 'deliberately inflammatory'
Protesters around Australia, including Nick McKim and other Greens colleagues, gathered to express opposition to the visit of the Israeli pr...
Is the politics of an RBA rate rise too ‘basic’?
After the Reserve Bank’s first rate hike in more than two years, Guardian Australia’s political editor, Tom McIlroy, speaks to the economics...