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The Populist: Aeroplanes and bulldozers | Episode 1
‘If you’re trying to say I’m being funded by Gina Rinehart, the answer is no.’ That’s what the One Nation leader, Pauline Hanson, told the G...
Preview – The Populist: Pauline Hanson’s divided nation – podcast
Around the globe, rightwing politicians pushing nationalist and anti-immigration policies are on the rise. The Populist explores the growing...
Black Box: The Chatbots | 14 days | Ep 2
Virginia man Jon Ganz was rebuilding his life after spending more than two decades in prison for a horrific crime. Last year, he got a promp...
Back to Back Barries: Andrew Hastie v Pauline Hanson
Barrie Cassidy and Sean Kelly (filling in for Tony Barry this week) go straight to Liberal frontbencher Andrew Hastie’s stoush with Pauline...
Alan Jones on Trial: Fierce loyalty, fiery texts and a parade of witnesses | Week 6
After a slow start to the week, the criminal trial of Alan Jones accelerated with a swift succession of witnesses taking the stand. Through...
Greg Jericho on One Nation’s superannuation ‘sugar hit’
One Nation’s proposal to allow people to access 3% of their super contributions for three years is touted as a lifeline for lower-income ear...
Decoding America: How Trump is powering the global right
In this episode of Guardian Australia’s weekly US politics podcast, co-hosts Reged Ahmad and Jonathan Yerushalmy look across the water to Ge...
Why the tobacco tax is lighting up Australian politics
Rates of smoking in Australia are the lowest they’ve ever been, but at the same time, the illicit trade has never been bigger. It’s estimate...
How much control should we have over the algorithm?
As the federal government prepares to introduce digital duty of care laws, social media users could soon be given the option to turn off the...
Could the US drag us unwillingly into war?
Dotted like an outline around parts of Australia’s coast are military bases – the majority of which the US has control of or access to. Now...
Black Box: The Chatbots | Spirals | Ep 1
Across the world, hundreds of people have come to believe they have made extraordinary scientific discoveries with AI chatbots such as ChatG...
Back to Back Barries: The forces that can stop One Nation’s rise
Barrie Cassidy and George Megalogenis (filling in for Tony this week) examine George’s new book, Three Shocks: Who We are Becoming in the 21...
Alan Jones on trial: Radio rivalry and rabbit holes | Week 5 – Full Story podcast
As talkback titan Ray Hadley took the witness box in Alan Jones’s indecent assault and sexual touching trial, the court heard accounts of a...
What’s behind the dangerous rise of sexual choking?
The death of a 16-year-old in Sydney’s northern beaches from a suspected act of sexual strangulation has put a spotlight on the dangerous tr...
Tupac’s murder: solved at last?
Thirty years after Tupac Shakur’s death, a man has been found guilty of killing the hip-hop legend. Helen Pidd talks to William Shaw and Jes...
One week on in Nepal
Nearly a week after a catastrophic glacier collapse struck the Nepal-China border, the death toll continues to rise as emergency teams searc...
What One Nation’s latest victory means for the major parties
One Nation has claimed victory in the Western Australian seat of Secret Harbour, delivering a massive blow to a safe Labor stronghold. With...
The American painting that sparked an Australian culture war
When Jackson Pollock painted Blue Poles, his masterpiece of American abstract expressionism, little did he know it would become one of Austr...
Back to Back Barries: How is One Nation influencing Labor’s migration policy?
Tony Barry and Sean Kelly, sitting in for Barrie Cassidy, examine the politics of immigration and asylum after contradictory policy statemen...