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  • The Populist: Social contract | Episode 4

    October 4, 2026 · 1 hr 18 min

    One Nation was the first Australian political party with a website, and its online game today is recognised as some of the most effective in the business. The party specialises in shareable anti-immigration messaging – and in bypassing…

  • The Populist: Money nation | Episode 3

    September 27, 2026 · 1 hr 14 min

    One Nation receives millions in public funding, but former members have accused the party of leaving candidates out of pocket, ‘funny money deals’ and letting donations get ‘lost in the system’. When senior correspondent Sarah Martin…

  • The Populist: The favourite son | Episode 2

    September 20, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min

    Most Australians know the story of Pauline Hanson: the fish and chip shop, the maiden speech, the ‘please explain’. But Hanson’s top adviser James Ashby wields as much – if not more – power over One Nation as Hanson herself. When the party…

  • The Populist: Aeroplanes and bulldozers | Episode 1

    September 13, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min

    ‘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 Guardian’s senior correspondent Sarah Martin in February. We now know that’s not true. Over months…

  • The Populist: Pauline Hanson’s divided nation

    September 8, 2026 · 1 min

    Around the globe, rightwing politicians pushing nationalist and anti-immigration policies are on the rise. The Populist explores the growing appeal of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation – a party that has imported the modus operandi of the…

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  • Gina: A day in court – episode 8

    April 17, 2026 · 25 min

    In this bonus episode of the Walkley-nominated series about Australia’s richest person, Guardian Australia senior correspondent Sarah Martin and producer Joe Koning examine Wednesday’s landmark court ruling that ends a 15-year-court battle…

  • Broken trust: why police are failing to learn from their own mistakes

    November 17, 2025 · 49 min

    Ben Smee, Guardian Australia’s Queensland correspondent, has been reporting on the national crisis of domestic and family violence, as well as the culture and attitudes inside the Queensland police, for years. In the final episode of this…

  • Broken trust: how police failed Hannah Clarke and her children

    November 16, 2025 · 48 min

    Ben Smee, Guardian Australia’s Queensland correspondent, has been reporting on the national crisis of domestic and family violence, as well as the culture and attitudes inside the Queensland police, for years. In the first episode of this…

  • Introducing Broken Trust: a two-year investigation into the domestic and family violence crisis

    November 15, 2025 · 5 min

    Ben Smee, Guardian Australia’s Queensland correspondent, has been reporting on the national crisis of domestic and family violence, as well as the culture and attitudes of Queensland police, for years. In this special Full Story…

  • Gina: What does she want? – episode 7

    May 18, 2025 · 1 hr 14 min

    At 13 years old, a young Gina Rinehart read a book that would help shape her worldview – Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, which is having a moment around the world. The novel’s capitalist underpinnings promote the idea that people should strive…

  • Gina: Mythmaking – episode 6

    May 11, 2025 · 1 hr 14 min

    Gina Rinehart’s father, Lang Hancock, is well known as a pioneer of the iron ore industry in Australia but few realise Hancock started his mining career on a smaller scale and digging for a different substance – blue asbestos. Hancock and…

  • Gina: The DNA request – update episode

    May 4, 2025 · 18 min

    In the last episode, we covered historical claims made over the years that Lang Hancock, Gina’s father, had two unacknowledged daughters with separate Indigenous women. Since then, the daughter of Sella Robinson, one of the Indigenous…

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