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Cut Through — 73 episodes

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2026 federal budget: does anyone care about broken promises?

2

Farrer by-election: A One Nation vs independent showdown

3

Grace Tame: The NDIS overhaul is a missed opportunity

4

Is “free speech” an Australian value?

5

Why experts suspect insider trading in the White House

6

Australia’s gambling ad ban is here

7

Left-Right politics in Australia is dead

8

Do we actually need to panic about fuel?

9

Rick Morton unpacks the NACC robodebt report

10

Does power always corrupt in Australian politics?

11

An Iranian perspective on the US-Israel attack

12

A political primer on the South Australia election

13

Meet Big Brother: Palantir’s Australian expansion

14

What Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s visit tells us about “social cohesion”

15

Australia in the Epstein files

16

BONUS: Are we too mean to One Nation supporters?

17

How seriously should we be taking One Nation?

18

Australia’s National AI Plan: What you need to know

19

Parliamentary year in review: who won big, and what comes next

20

AUKUS: Another ball in Australia’s US-China juggling act

21

Stop talking about the Coalition on climate

22

Win like Mamdani: Lessons from Zohran’s game changing victory

23

The biggest political scandal in Australian history: The Whitlam Dismissal, 50 years on

24

The Fraser Manifesto: A former prime minister's plan to replace the Liberal party

25

Australian Parliament Sports Club saga: what counts as lobbying?

26

This is officially* Australia’s worst company

27

Blair, Ellison, Zuckerberg, Trump… and Albo? Big tech owns politics now

28

The 1950s “Red Scare” is back, baby!

29

How politicians take a “trust me, bro” approach to transparency

30

Here’s to Lachlan Murdoch — the winner of Succession IRL

31

How journalists got played by neo-Nazis this week

32

No-one knows how the teen social media ban will work

33

The beautiful, useless ideas of Jim Chalmers’ Economic Roundtable

34

Australia wants it both ways on Palestine statehood

35

Why Australian media needs to be obsessive about power

36

Bonus episode: How the Coalition split affects you

37

Bonus episode: Did Advance sway the election?

38

Labor’s truly unique majority

39

Week Five: One Nation’s resurgence will change Australian politics

40

Week Four: Three battleground seats you need to watch

41

Week Three: Housing policy in the worst election ever

42

Week Two: Is the minority government ‘dream’ dead?

43

Week One: Tariffs, trade wars, and Trump

44

Welcome to the 2025 Electioncast!

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Day 42: The 2022 Federal Election with Kishor Napier-Raman, Amber Schultz, Bernard Keane and Charlie Lewis

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Day 40: The fierce battle in the campaign's final days with Bernard Keane

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Day 39: Labor's costs and the Prime Minister's lies

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Day 38: What is Anthony Albanese's final pitch to become Prime Minister?

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Day 37: How much are the parties paying Facebook to win your vote? with Cam Wilson

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Day 36: How has Scott Morrison dudded young Australians? with Bernard Keane

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Day 33: What's the mood in NSW's toss up seats? with Amber Schultz

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Day 32: Did Scott Morrison or Anthony Albanese win the last debate? with Charlie Lewis

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Day 31: Will Clive Palmer derail this election? with Kishor Napier-Raman

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Day 30: How can journalism save itself? with David Hardaker

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Day 29: What the debate and polls tell us about Scott Morrison vs. Anthony Albanese

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Day 26: How is Scott Morrison exploiting political polarisation? with Bernard Keane

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Day 25: Will Craig Kelly win back his seat? with Amber Schultz

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Day 24: Who won the treasurers debate? with Kishor Napier-Raman

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Day 23: What does the rate rise mean for the election? with Bernard Keane

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Day 22: What was the vibe of Labor's campaign launch? with Charlie Lewis

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Day 19: Could WA turn the election? with Charlie Lewis

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Day 18: What will be the impact of a mid-campaign rate rise? with Bernard Keane

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How are human traffickers preying on Ukrainian refugees? with Amber Schultz

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Day 16: What do the polls say about the election campaign so far? with Kishor Napier-Raman

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Day 12: Will the Solomon Island-China bungle be the defining issue of the 2022 election?

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Day 11: What did we learn from last night's debate? with Charlie Lewis

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Day 10: What will be the scare campaign for the 2022 federal election? With Kishor Napier-Raman

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Day 9: How long can Morrison stand by anti-trans candidate Katherine Deves? with Cameron Wilson

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Day 4: Is this the end of "gotcha!" questions?

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Day 3: The pollies and the press with Bernard Keane

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Day 2: What Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese are doing to win your vote online

72

Day 1: The opening pitches, gaffes and polls that set the scene for the federal election campaign

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Welcome to Crikey's Electioncast!