Has the tide finally turned on One Nation's 'crude and cruel' political cartoons?
When One Nation’s political cartoon Please Explain first launched in 2021, the general consensus – even from the left side of the political...
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High inflation and interest rates: can Labor escape the blame?
With the Reserve Bank poised to increase interest rates today, voters are increasingly pointing the finger at government spending rather tha...
The coming legal battle against Albanese’s social media ban
The first major legal challenge against Australia’s under-16s social media ban is set to heard in the high court on Tuesday – 11 months on f...
Back to Back Barries: Is inflation driving Chalmers and Albanese apart?
Barrie Cassidy and Tony Barry discuss how the diving economy will impact Anthony Albanese’s – and Jim Chalmers’ – approval ratings. If the r...
Covert recordings and alleged confessions: an update on the murder trial of Beau Lamarre-Condon
As the New South Wales supreme court trial of former police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon reaches its sixth week, the jury has heard covert re...
Alastair Campbell on Trump, political violence and why populist politics doesn’t work
It’s election season: the US midterms are just days away and Israel, Brazil and Serbia have all had consequential elections this week. Alast...
Obama v Trump
In this episode of Guardian Australia’s US politics podcast, co-hosts Reged Ahmad and Jonathan Yerushalmy talk about Barack Obama’s war of w...
Neck and neck in the 2026 New Zealand election
As consequential elections around the world make global headlines, another election closer to home is flying under the radar. New Zealand’s...
Will Australia ever get Snowy Hydro 2.0?
Back in 2017 the then prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, announced an ambitious expansion of Australia’s towering public infrastructure proje...
Israel votes: Netanyahu’s future on the line
Israeli citizens are about to vote in what’s being seen as elections that are almost existential when it comes to the future identity of the...
Do politicians lack the courage to turn the temperature down?
Tony Barry and George Megalogenis (filling in for Barrie) examine the response to the horrific alleged attack on independent MP Helen Haines...
Alan Jones on Trial: Alleged victim’s mother “trusted” Jones | Week 11
The mother of the youngest complainant wept on the stand after being presented with a note written by her son alleging ‘something happened’...
Can Japan’s firebrand PM survive a second year in power?
One year ago, Sanae Takaichi became Japan’s first female prime minister, taking over a party in crisis. Since then, she’s defied the doubter...
Katie Zacharia and Trump’s women problem
In this episode of Guardian Australia’s US politics podcast, co-hosts Jonathan Yerushalmy and Reged Ahmad look at how Katie Zacharia broke t...
Why terrorism laws stopped Sally Rooney selling books in the UK
The bestselling author says her novels will no longer be supplied to British bookshops due to fears of prosecution. Zoe Williams and Haroon...
What the Helen Haines tragedy means for Australian democracy
Helen Haines, the independent federal MP for the Victorian seat of Indi, is in a critical condition and has lost a leg after an alleged atta...
The allegations against the Greens’ Jordon Steele-John
The Greens senator for Western Australia, Jordon Steele-John, has blamed ‘nasty political games’ for the timing of allegations of misconduct...
NAZA: the film the Israeli government does not want you to see
Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor on their new film interviewing Israeli military insiders on the vast, AI-assisted systems their sources say ar...
Black Box: The Chatbots | What I Saw at the Double Six Ranch | Ep 6
From his remote property in rural Texas, the millionaire businessman Michael Samadi is plotting a new kind of civil rights movement – for th...
Back to Back Barries: Why Josh Frydenberg isn’t the Liberals’ saviour
Tony Barry and Niki Savva (filling in for Barrie Cassidy) examine the ‘festival of Josh’ that played out in the media this week as the forme...