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  • The expensive expenses of Anika Wells

    The expensive expenses of Anika Wells
    Dec 10 2025
    The communications and sport minister, Anika Wells, should be flying high this week spruiking Australia’s world-first social media ban – instead she is defending her use of travel entitlements. Political editor Tom McIlroy joins Reged Ahmad to discuss whether this latest controversy will see a change to politicians’ perks
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    20 min
  • 'No playbook for this': the eSafety commissioner on her world-first social media ban

    'No playbook for this': the eSafety commissioner on her world-first social media ban
    Dec 9 2025
    Today more than a million teenagers will wake up to find they have been locked out of social media sites such as Instagram and TikTok as Australia’s world-first social media ban for under-16s comes into force. Technology reporter Josh Taylor speaks to Julie Inman Grant about how she plans to enforce the move, why it could fail and how taking on the tech giants has come at a personal cost
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    18 min
  • Ashes Weekly: Starc shines for Australia as England slump again

    Ashes Weekly: Starc shines for Australia as England slump again
    Dec 9 2025
    Max Rushden is joined by Geoff Lemon, Ali Martin and James Wallace to discuss another humbling defeat for England as Australia took full control of the series in Brisbane, with Mitchell Starc starring with both bat and ball
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    45 min
  • Who is behind Australia’s new rightwing political group?

    Who is behind Australia’s new rightwing political group?
    Dec 8 2025
    At an anti-immigration rally in Sydney late last month, pamphlets for a new populist political venture were being handed out to the crowd bearing the name and the colours of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party. So who is behind the group calling themselves Reform Australia, and what does its digital footprint reveal? Nour Haydar speaks with investigations reporter Ariel Bogle and political reporter Sarah Basford Canales on the rightwing group seeking to recruit at rallies
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    20 min
  • Where is four-year-old Gus Lamont?

    Where is four-year-old Gus Lamont?
    Dec 7 2025
    Gus Lamont went missing in the Australian outback on 27 September. Despite one of the largest and most intensive searches for a missing person in South Australia, no trace has been found of the four-year-old. Senior reporter Tory Shepherd speaks to Reged Ahmad about how the child has seemingly vanished and left only questions about what could have happened
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    17 min
  • “This is war”: is Trump about to invade Venezuela?

    “This is war”: is Trump about to invade Venezuela?
    Dec 6 2025
    Donald Trump has in recent months turned his attention to ousting Venezuela’s leader, Nicolás Maduro. But the US president and his secretary of war, Pete Hegseth, are under scrutiny over military strikes on suspected drug boats from Venezuela in the Caribbean Sea. This week, Jonathan Freedland speaks to the Guardian’s Tom Phillips about why people are accusing Trump of war crimes
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    29 min
  • Back to Back Barries: why gen z and millennials will decide the Coalition’s fate

    Back to Back Barries: why gen z and millennials will decide the Coalition’s fate
    Dec 5 2025
    Barrie Cassidy and Tony Barry are back and there’s a lot that’s happened since they last sat down together. In this week’s episode they examine the Liberals’ abandonment of net zero emissions, whether Barnaby Joyce could help or hinder support for One Nation and why the Liberal party needs to start courting young people if it is to survive
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    29 min
  • Newsroom edition: the dangers of automated governance

    Newsroom edition: the dangers of automated governance
    Dec 4 2025
    A Guardian exclusive this week revealed the national disability insurance scheme is set to be dramatically overhauled, with participants’ plans now being assessed by a computer and human oversight dramatically reduced. Advocates have called it a “nightmare scenario for disabled people”. Bridie Jabour speaks with editor Lenore Taylor, head of newsroom Mike Ticher, and deputy editor Patrick Kennelly about what happens when you take the human out of human services, and if the government has learned any lessons from robodebt
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    20 min