The Alchemy of Leadership
What did John Howard understand about survival and self-correction that his six successors never quite grasped? Why do so many of our prime...
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Democracy Sausage with Mark Kenny
Mark Kenny takes a weekly look at politics and public affairs with expert analysis and discussion from researchers at The Australian National University and beyond. See acast.com/privacy for...
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20 of 409 episodesForty Years On
What are the five forces reshaping Australia's economy and society over the next four decades? What it will take to keep Australians' faith...
New game, new rules
Is too much political capital being put into meaningless foreign policy platitudes rather than defining what modern Australian security look...
Whose Side Are You On?
Is Australia's looming digital duty of care about censorship, as its critics claim, or about handing control back to the people whose attent...
Three Shocks
For the first time since federation Australia's population is made up of a majority of migrants and their children, changing the electoral m...
Hostile complexity
Why has David Farley's and Pauline Hanson's immigration number not matched up — and does it even matter to One Nation's supporters? What do...
Insiders and Outsiders
Twenty-five years ago, Insiders went to air for the first time – the morning after the Aston by-election, before smartphones, before social...
You win some, you lose more
Why has the government fallen so far short of the Murphy Report's recommendations despite around 80 per cent of Australians wanting gambling...
Job (Un)Ready
Is a policy that students, staff and vice-chancellors all agree has failed still standing because no one in government wants to spend the po...
Command, Control and Conformity
How did a Prime Minister sitting on one of Labor's largest-ever majorities turn his national conference into a masterclass in silence — and...
The Cohesion Question
Why has social cohesion — a concept researchers still can't agree how to measure — become one of the most contested ideas in Australian poli...
Antidote to the far right
Is the collapse in trust of Australia's institutions, the retreat of unionism from everyday working life, and the alliances forged in Victor...
Angertainment
Is social media now a more powerful force reshaping Australian democracy than any politician, party, or policy? Why has Pauline Hanson spent...
Two Teals, One Ticket
Have Zali Steggall and Allegra Spender just become the party they always swore they weren't? Can a "free vote" constitution and no party roo...
Broken Britain and the Burnham Moment
How did a Prime Minister who won one of the largest parliamentary majorities in British history find himself gone within two years — and wha...
Race for the base
How long will the honeymoon last for One Nation? Can Pauline Hanson create a robust political party to be competitive at the next election?...
Contest for the populist vote
Does the experience in the US, Germany, and Brazil reflect the Australian experience? How have institutional structures insulated centrist p...
China in the world
Can Australia manage the tensions between our strategic relationship with China and the alliance with the United States? Does membership of...
A Democracy Sausage for the Teacher
Have young voters lost faith in the major political parties and politics in general? Did the recent federal budget go far enough in addressi...
Budget, Smudge-it: truth, details and the aspiration wars
Will the budget changes reconnect young and disaffected Australians to the benefits of the economy? Is Angus Taylor’s vision likely to arres...