A Royal Commission too far? Power, pressure and the politics of Bondi
In this holiday episode, we cut through the noise surrounding calls for a Royal Commission into the Bondi attack and ask whether the process is truly about accountability or has become a vehicle for p...
8 Jan 12min
The Long-Read Essay: How Labor governs
After its emphatic 2025 election victory, the Albanese Labor government entered the year with overwhelming parliamentary dominance and a clear mandate to govern boldly. On paper, it was a government w...
2 Jan 17min
The Long-Read Essay: Albanese On Trial
This long-read audio essay examines the vilification of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese after the Bondi Beach memorial, and how national mourning was turned into a partisan spectacle. It explores how ...
26 Dec 202522min
The Long-Read Essay: Democracy, Power and Australia at the Crossroads
2025 was the year the comforting myths finally fell away. In this long-read essay, we trace how democratic institutions – globally and in Australia – proved far more fragile than many assumed, as misi...
19 Dec 202510min
The Review of 2025 Part 4: AUKUS, cancel culture and how Labor governs
Australia enters 2026 facing deep strategic uncertainty: AUKUS costs have blown out to $1.3 billion with little clarity about what Australia is actually buying, while fear-driven national-security pol...
12 Dec 202538min
The Review of 2025 Part 3: All the way with the US forever
As the United States slides into institutional decay under Donald Trump’s return to the White House – with sweeping tariffs on global trade, mass deportations, rolled-back civil rights and an increasi...
11 Dec 202510min
The Review of 2025 Part 2: A big Labor win, Liberal collapse and silencing Palestine
In our continuing review of the 2025 year in Australian federal politics, we discuss the federal election held in May, analysing one of the worst campaigns by a major political party in modern history...
5 Dec 202545min
The Review of 2025 Part 1: Culture wars, Treaty and the collapse of the politics of fear
To commence our review of the 2025 year in Australian federal politics, this bonus episode examines the continuing culture wars, the Australia Day and Invasion Day debate, and a federal election that ...
4 Dec 202514min
