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The Populist: The social contract | Episode 4 – Full Story podcast 4 Oct 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…

Black Box: The Chatbots | Life Raft | Ep 4 3 Oct 2026 · 44 min More than a billion people are suddenly talking to AI chatbots designed to connect with us. We are sharing with them our deepest secrets, trusting them with our wellbeing and acti…

Back to Back Barries: Can the Greens beat Labor? 2 Oct 2026 · 33 min Barrie Cassidy and Sean Kelly (filling in for Tony Barry) discuss the Greens leadership change this week. Senator David Shoebridge defeated two women to take out the top job in a…

Greens’ David Shoebridge on his plan to beat One Nation and replace Labor 1 Oct 2026 · 34 min With a sharp, aggressive strategy, the Australian Greens’ newly elected leader vows to take on corporate power and bring a ‘red-hot fight’ to coal and gas approvals. But following…

Mid-air panic as pilot attacked on Israel-bound flight 1 Oct 2026 · 9 min A commercial flight travelling from Dubai to Israel was forced to make an emergency landing after an apparent brawl between its pilots. The flight was in Jordanian airspace when i…

Why working parents are set up to fail 30 Sept 2026 · 24 min Georgie Dent’s National Press Club address recently went viral after laying bare the compounding pressures on modern families. Between soaring costs of living, rigid workplace exp…

Inside the trial of former police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon 29 Sept 2026 · 15 min More than two years after Jesse Baird and Luke Davies were killed in a Sydney home, former police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon has gone on trial in the supreme court. Lamarre-Condo…

From fuel wars to AI: the forces driving the RBA rate decision 28 Sept 2026 · 18 min With inflation proving stubborn and global economic pressures mounting, Australians are bracing for another potential interest rate rise. Could pushing the cash rate to its highes…

The Populist: Money nation | Episode 3 27 Sept 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…

Back to Back Barries: Should the media boycott One Nation? 25 Sept 2026 · 33 min Barrie Cassidy and Sean Kelly (filling in for Tony Barry) look at the prime minister’s week in the US against the backdrop of Donald Trump’s ban of three news organisations from t…

Rogue AI hacks government system in world first 25 Sept 2026 · 13 min A government database has been hacked for the first time by a rogue OpenAI agent, which infiltrated part of the Australian healthcare scheme in June. OpenAI became aware of the ha…

Alan Jones on trial: An unexpected change in the prosecution's case | Week 8 24 Sept 2026 · 23 min As the criminal trial of Alan Jones continues, prosecutors unexpectedly drop a charge against the former broadcaster while witnesses take the stand to address allegations surround…

Xi Jinping meets Trump: who holds the cards? 24 Sept 2026 · 30 min AI, Iran and Taiwan – there will be no shortage of topics when the two most powerful men in the world meet in Washington. But what do they both want? Jonathan Czin explains

What Albanese has to lose from his US trip 23 Sept 2026 · 19 min Anthony Albanese is in New York campaigning for Australia to snag a seat on the UN security council for 2029. So how much power would a two-year seat actually give Australia to ma…

Decoding America: Trump’s war on the media 23 Sept 2026 · 33 min In this episode of Guardian Australia’s weekly US politics podcast, co-hosts Reged Ahmad and Jonathan Yerushalmy dive into what’s driving Donald Trump’s ban on journalists from CN…

Jim Chalmers on how Australia’s economy can survive in an uncertain world 22 Sept 2026 · 27 min On Monday, Jim Chalmers released Treasury’s economic forecast for the next 40 years in the Albanese government’s second intergenerational report. The outlook predicts major challe…

The Houthis’ shock advance and what it means for the world 22 Sept 2026 · 23 min The Houthis now control the Bab al-Mandab strait. But where is it and why does it matter? Patrick Wintour explains

What an AI deal could mean for Australian culture 21 Sept 2026 · 19 min The Albanese government is considering giving AI companies unrestricted access to Australian content. The sweeping copyright reforms could give AI companies – such as Anthropic an…

The Populist: The favourite son | Episode 2 – Full Story podcast 20 Sept 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…

Black Box: The Chatbots | Happy Accident | Ep 3 19 Sept 2026 · 47 min Why are AI chatbots pulling so many people down a rabbit hole? Our answer starts with the world’s first-ever chatbot, the strange effect it had on people and the ‘time bomb’ that…

Back to Back Barries: Labor’s migration dilemma 18 Sept 2026 · 36 min Barrie Cassidy and Jessie McCrone, a former adviser to the former Victorian premier Daniel Andrews and now managing partner for FMRS Advisory, examine the migration reforms as ann…

Tony Burke on Labor’s immigration shake-up 18 Sept 2026 · 19 min Home affairs minister Tony Burke delivered a speech at the National Press Club on Thursday, announcing immigration reforms to achieve Labor’s forecasts for net overseas migration.…

Alan Jones on Trial: A prominent athlete takes the stand | Week 7 17 Sept 2026 · 19 min For the first time, seven weeks into the criminal trial of Alan Jones, a complainant came face-to-face with his alleged offender in the courtroom. The former athlete, known as com…

How Ed Sheeran’s ‘apolitical’ stance is causing his biggest crisis 17 Sept 2026 · 12 min All four supporting acts for the upcoming dates of Ed Sheeran’s tour have withdrawn in solidarity with fellow opener Macklemore. The American rapper was removed from Sheeran’s tou…

The 'apex predator' of fires choking south-east Asia 16 Sept 2026 · 18 min Indonesia is in the middle of a climate emergency, experiencing what Nasa calls the ‘apex predator’ of wildfires. It’s burning an area three times the size of Singapore and chokin…

Decoding America: Why won't Donald Trump regulate AI? 16 Sept 2026 · 31 min In this episode of Guardian Australia’s weekly US politics podcast, co-hosts Jonathan Yerushalmy and Reged Ahmad look at whether there is any appetite across the political spectru…

Is Andrew Hastie launching a Coalition fightback against One Nation? 15 Sept 2026 · 18 min As One Nation squeezes the Liberal vote, Andrew Hastie’s clash with Pauline Hanson over a video calling him a traitor has exposed deep faultlines across Australia’s political righ…

AI isn’t going to end humanity ... right? 15 Sept 2026 · 27 min A series of figures in the tech world have been warning about – and even resigning over – the existential threat posed by artificial intelligence. How worried should we be? Today…

How Icac turned into the ‘best show in town’ – Full Story podcast 14 Sept 2026 · 21 min This Independent Commission Against Corruption has spent eight weeks investigating allegations of Liberal party branch stacking and illegal donations in New South Wales, with hear…

The Populist: Aeroplanes and bulldozers | Episode 1 13 Sept 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 Ma…