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Coalition’s 'race to the bottom on migration' and former immigration official answers your questions
October 8, 2026 · 38 minIt’s been a year since Liberal MP Andrew Hastie quit Sussan Ley’s frontbench to speak his mind on migration. His decision fractured the Coalition and Ley’s ambition to woo back multicultural communities with a more moderate stance. How…
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Interest rates and Labor's spending, and the Greens look to Mamdani
October 1, 2026 · 31 minAnthony Albanese is back from the United Nations in New York to a slump in his approval rating and more economic pain. On Tuesday, the Reserve Bank raised interest rates to a 15-year-high due to continued inflation pressure. So what's…
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Guardrails or ‘world leader’: How Anthony Albanese responds to OpenAI’s hack
September 24, 2026 · 23 minToday we’re going international to talk about Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s trip to New York for the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly. It’s been an eventful few days for the PM who has, among other things, spoken…
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Migration plan revealed: Who comes, who leaves and what it all means
September 17, 2026 · 18 minToday we’re hot off the press, to use an old newsroom cliche, to talk about the federal government’s new plan for migration. Immigration Minister Tony Burke gave a speech to the National Press Club in Canberra on Thursday where he…
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Superannuation and the One Nation press conference that had everyone watching
September 10, 2026 · 23 minThis week we’re joining the dots between two different stories: the fight over superannuation, and the colourful past of One Nation’s leader in Victoria, Warren Pickering. On Monday, Pauline Hanson told voters her party would allow…
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What One Nation’s WA win means, and Hanson’s incitement claim
September 3, 2026 · 26 minIn this week’s episode, we dissect Labor’s brutal loss to One Nation in a supposedly safe seat in Western Australia. Does this byelection really signify, as victor Luke Herdegen put it, that no MP is safe from the “orange tsunami”? One…
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The magical mystery tour of immigration numbers, and the new One Nation voter profile
August 27, 2026 · 24 minThis week we reported on some interesting polling that grappled with what makes One Nation voters tick, and one issue stood out. There’s also been an argy-bargy in the party this week over immigration numbers, the net result of which…
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Tony Wright on the best and worst prime ministers, and the courage needed now
August 20, 2026 · 38 minToday we have something special and a little bit different because Tony Wright, one of the stalwarts of Australian political writing, is stepping back from daily newsroom duties after 50 years in journalism. For about 30 of these years…