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Follow The Money — 387 episodes

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Australian states aren’t going broke, but they are being ripped off

2

The Safeguard Mechanism is failing miserably

3

Australians overwhelmingly back abortion access, but the politics are getting more toxic

4

Jane Caro on the battle for public education

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5

Antoinette Lattouf on women who win

6

Online gambling “reshaping a whole generation” as government reforms fall well short

E
7

Victoria’s donations shambles puts rest of country “on notice”

8

Budget 2026: serious housing reforms but a missed opportunity to tax gas exports

9

Is the national anti-corruption body failing?

10

Big Gas' greed is killing Australian manufacturers

11

Tax the wealthiest to make Australia more productive

12

How political pragmatism is killing us with Richard Denniss

13

Australians march for Palestine as Trump shoots the messenger

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14

Australia's gun laws aren't as strong as you think

15

Australians aren’t afraid of power-sharing parliaments

16

“Out of patience”: it’s time to fix the housing crisis

E
17

Their fair share: the tax debate we need to have

18

A matter of preference

19

All the way with the USA?

E
20

Australia doesn't need AUKUS

21

Now is the time for brave reform

22

Profit vs priceless heritage: the fight to save Murujuga

23

Super hysterical: the ludicrous beat-up over superannuation tax changes

24

Failing the test: Australian universities in crisis

25

"Don’t waste it": Labor’s historic policy opportunity

26

A chance to be brave: understanding Australia's election result

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27

Could the polls be wrong?

E
28

Trump and the Australian election

29

The cruel housing hoax

30

Big gas is taking the piss

E
31

Home economics: housing, living standards and the federal election

32

Don't gut our environment laws

33

Fish out of water

34

Enemies of the state

35

The pros and cons of minority government with David Pocock and Tony Windsor

E
36

"A drowning memory": the Pacific Island communities fighting for their survival

37

DOGE days: Trump's war on the civil service

38

A soft landing? What the rate cut means for the Australian economy

39

Stop the steel

E
40

Hands off our elections

41

Flooding the zone

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42

"That's cooked": welcome to 2025

43

Killing for Country with David Marr | Summer Book Club

44

The work with Bri Lee | Summer Book Club

E
45

Bad cop with Lech Blaine | Summer Book Club

46

Highway to hell with Joëlle Gergis | Summer Book Club

47

Minority report with George Megalogenis | Summer Book Club

48

Fixing Australia's housing crisis with Alan Kohler

49

What's the point of Australia?

50

The major party stitch-up with Helen Haines

51

The uninsurables: how climate change is pricing people out of home insurance

52

Hitting our limits: the climate and COP29

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53

The AUKward truth about the US relationship

54

We can, in fact, have nice things

55

Secrecy is not security

56

The way we disagree

57

Super-powered nukes: Aussie funds and weapons of mass destruction

58

Are the Big Two too big? Reining in the supermarket giants

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59

Offsetting into oblivion with George Monbiot

60

Mining's big temper tantrum

61

Nothing in reserve: households "smashed" by rate hikes

62

Jumping at shadows with Mark Kenny

63

Can quality journalism survive in Australia?

64

Wealth of nations: how Australia’s prosperity is funnelled to the ultra-rich

65

The road to freedom with Joseph Stiglitz

66

New divides with Paul Bongiorno

67

How superannuation tax concessions help the rich get richer

68

Biden is out, Harris is in – what happens now in the US election?

E
69

Why no seat is 'safe' anymore

E
70

The fight to free Jimmy Lai

71

Introducing After America

72

Democracy (handle with care)

73

Don't listen to this podcast

74

Australia’s great gas giveaway

75

Is America heading towards disaster?

76

How Australia created a housing crisis (and what we can do to fix it)

E
77

The Fight to Free Assange

78

Jess Hill on the Domestic Violence Crisis

79

Budget 2024: what you need to know

80

The budget vs inflation

81

Australia’s state-sponsored greenwashing

82

The Knitting Nannas redefining the face of activism

83

Making freedom of information “sexy” with Rex Patrick

84

Not seeing the koalas for the carbon credits

85

Minority retort

86

The Coalition goes nuclear

87

The end of capitalism with Yanis Varoufakis

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88

Great expectations: will Australia walk the talk on climate change?

89

Robodebt, repeated? How government is failing the nation on climate

90

The Push to Stop Pork Barrelling

91

Tasmanian Election Announced

92

The Right to Disconnect

93

The Great Gas Rort: Fixing the Petroleum Resources Rent Tax

94

Stage 3 Tax Cuts reform: "The biggest and most honest piece of tax reform in decades"

95

Brace yourselves... US Election 2024

96

The War On Waste with Craig Reucassel | Summer Series

97

Heat: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet with Jeff Goodell | Summer Series

98

Global Financial Crisis 15 Years On: What Have We Learned? with Wayne Swan| Summer Series

99

Ending Native Forest Logging with Bob Brown | Summer Series

100

Truth on Trial: War Crimes and Whistleblowers | Summer Series

101

Isabella Weber: The Economics and Politics of Seller’s Inflation | Summer Series

102

Profits v Wages, what's driving inflation? - Rerun | Summer Series

103

The Great Divide: Australia’s Housing Mess and How to Fix It | Summer Series

104

Politics in the Pub: End of Year Wrap | Summer Series

105

Big Petrostate Energy

106

'Thylacine of the Sea' vs. the Salmon Industry

107

Clive Palmer of...Singapore?

108

International Charm Offensive

109

Introducing Dollars & Sense with Greg Jericho

110

How to Investigate Research Misconduct

111

The Pain is the Point...Again

112

The Whistleblower Project | Politics in the Pub

113

The Lies Have It

114

What is the Voice to Parliament? | with Pat Anderson AO

115

Is Consultant a 'Profession?'

116

The Special (Economic) Relationship: Australia and the US

117

There are still climate refugees in Lismore [Politics in the Pub]

118

Who should pay the cost of Climate Change? [Climate of the Nation 2023]

119

Dead in the Water

120

An Eventful Trip to Fiji

121

The Environmental Fight you probably haven't heard of

122

What Transition?

123

A Trojan Horse for Fossil Fuels

124

Ending the ‘Jobs for Mates’ Culture with Dr Sophie Scamps [Webinar]

125

The Shell Game Behind Carbon Credits with Nick Feik [Webinar]

126

The 'Tassie Tiger of the Sea' is on the brink

127

Climate Change and the Pacific: Regional Climate Diplomacy Forum 2023 [webinar]

128

Why it's hard to beat sitting MPs in elections

129

Australia's Olympic Moment on Greenwashing

130

Nordic Talks: Breaking the ice ceiling: Gender equality in Iceland and Australia [Webinar]

131

Nordic Talks: The Role of First Nations Communities in the Clean Energy Transition [Webinar]

132

Nordic Talks: Pedalling Health – Healthy and sustainable cities in Denmark and Australia [Webinar]

133

Nordic Talks: The Value of a Free Press [Webinar]

134

Nordic Talks: A plus or F minus? Educational Equity in Finland and Australia [Webinar]

135

Thomas Mayo & Kerry O'Brien on the Voice to Parliament Handbook

136

Profits v Wages, what's driving inflation?

137

Modi, the Quad, and the latest on AUKUS

138

PwC Scandal Reveals Problem with Consulting Firms

139

Bread and Surpluses: What you need to know about the Budget [Webinar]

140

Funding our own Destruction

141

The Housing Crisis

142

The Great Gas Rip-off

143

The economy's still growing, so why does it feel like you're falling behind?

144

Aston By-election Explained

145

Safeguard Mechanism: Everything You Need to Know

146

Final Warning

147

"The Worst Deal in All History"

148

Super Expensive, Super Unfair

149

Interest Rates are Sky-High, Who's to Blame?

150

What is Climate Integrity?

151

The Pain is the Plan

152

How to Not Waste $300 Billion

153

Offsetting Us Up To Fail: The myths of ‘nature markets’ explained [Webinar]

154

Pulling the Climate trigger: Environment Laws Fit for a Crisis [Webinar]

155

August in Kabul with Andrew Quilty [Webinar]

156

Regional Climate Diplomacy Forum 2022 [Webinar]

157

Uluru Statement from the Heart: Sydney Peace Prize winner [Webinar]

158

The Integrity Election [Webinar]

159

Lone Wolf: Albanese and the New Politics with Katharine Murphy [Webinar]

160

Joseph Stiglitz: The Role of Government in the Modern Economy [Webinar]

161

End of Year Wrap-Up! 2022

162

Shining a Light on Cronyism

163

Go Home On Time Today!

164

Three's Company: What is multi-employer bargaining?

165

Climate policies the Government could deliver at COP27

166

October Budget Wrap

167

It's a No-Brainer!

168

Where's the middle (income)?

169

Regional Climate Diplomacy Forum 2022 [Webinar]

170

A NACC for Integrity

171

The Case for Dumping the Stage 3 Tax Cuts

172

Safeguarding the ability to increase emissions

173

What happened at the Job Summit?

174

The Woke Agenda

175

Us versus Them

176

A Dumping Ground for Inefficient Cars

177

Uluru Statement from the Heart: Sydney Peace Prize winner [webinar]

178

The First Fortnight of the 47th Parliament

179

What's really driving inflation?

180

Follow the Money LIVE!

181

Joseph E. Stiglitz: The Role of Government in the Modern Economy [Webinar]

182

26 Years Later

183

Draconian Anti-protest Laws

184

A Gas-Led Catastrophe

185

The Integrity Election [webinar]

186

What comes next in the Senate? with David Pocock [webinar]

187

Phasing out Fossil Fuels with Adam Bandt [webinar]

188

What just happened? Unpacking the transformative 2022 federal election

189

The explosion of political appointments to the AAT

190

An Australian COP29

191

How do Nordic countries make housing affordable?

192

Aged Care: A System of Neglect

193

Democracy Agenda for the 47th Parliament

194

Unpacking the 2022 Federal Budget

195

Are fossil fuel subsidies ending or accelerating?

196

Admiral Chris Barrie on how Australia should respond to increasing disasters [webinar]

197

Dodgy carbon credits and dirty hydrogen

198

A budget for buying votes or backing workers? [webinar]

199

Who pays for the cost of climate change?

200

How to fix Australia's mental health care system - with Ian Hickie

201

No Enemies, No Friends with Allan Behm [webinar]

202

'Adaptation saves lives, delay means death'

203

The Big Switch with Saul Griffith [webinar]

204

What's going to be in the Budget?

205

BIG - The Role of the State in the Modern Economy with Richard Denniss

206

Australia could be a sustainable Electric Vehicle Manufacturing Powerhouse

207

Summer series - Raising the Age: Getting children out of prison

208

Summer Series - Ensuring Accountability with Senator Kristina Keneally [webinar series]

209

Summer Series - Australia's growing wages crisis with Sally McManus [webinar]

210

Summer Series - Keeping the Bastards Honest with Senator Rex Patrick [webinar series]

211

Summer Series - The Long Covid-19 Economic Crisis with Richard Denniss [webinar]

212

Summer Series - Feeling the Heat with Marian Wilkinson, Richard Denniss and Allan Behm [webinar]

213

Summer Series - Climate Change and the Pacific with the Hon Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa Prime Minister of Samoa [webinar]

214

Summer Series - State of the Climate with Chris Bowen [webinar]

215

Summer Series - Rewiring Australia with Saul Griffith and Lily D'Ambrosio MP [webinar]

216

Summer Series - Coal, Climate Change & Conservatives with Malcolm Turnbull [webinar]

217

Summer Series - Protecting Australian content in the age of Netflix [webinar]

218

Summer Series - Understanding Consent with Chanel Contos [webinar]

219

Summer Series - Pandemic Leadership with Chief Minister Andrew Barr [webinar]

220

The biggest attack on the Australian charity sector you have never heard of

221

Is your Super Fund invested in nuclear weapons?

222

My Year of Living Vulnerably with Rick Morton [webinar series]

223

Skewed: How grants with ministerial discretion are biased towards Coalition seats

224

The Role of the Senate in our Democracy [webinar series]

225

Glasgow Wrap-up and what comes next for Australian climate policy

226

'The worst bit of modelling I've ever seen' -- unpacking the federal govenrment's net zero modelling

227

Glasgow Part 2 and Australia's fossil fuel fraud

228

Will Australia wreck Glasgow?

E
229

Talk isn't cheap

230

Climate of the Nation 2021

231

The AUKUS pact and China

232

Junk Carbon Credits

233

The importance of the crossbench with Senator Jacqui Lambie [webinar series]

234

AUKUS and the nuclear submarine debacle

235

An Avoidable Catastrophe: Pandemic Job Losses in Higher Education

236

Fracked: Gas in the Northern Territory

237

Test, Trace, Isolate and Quarantine

238

The Wealth Explosion

239

Reset with Professor Ross Garnaut [webinar series]

240

Black Witness with Amy McQuire [webinar series]

241

The Fall of Afghanistan

242

Code Red for Humanity: the sixth IPCC report

243

Not all taxes are created equal

244

Send in the troops

245

What the bloody hell is a CBAM?

246

The perceived threat of China

247

Going to hell in a handbasket

248

The wrong call

249

The giant gap in our federal integrity systems

250

The Ute-led Recovery

251

When is a cabinet not a cabinet?

252

The OTHER budget

253

Unpacking the federal budget 2021

254

What costs Australians almost $20,000 every minute?

255

Under pressure

256

Why we should pause approvals of new coal mines

257

The security of the national electricity grid

258

What women want

259

Electric Dreams

260

The gender pay gulf

261

The crisis in aged care and why we need to talk about revenue

262

The Facebook News Blackout and the News Media Bargaining Code

263

Google and the use and abuse of economic modelling

264

The rise of right wing extremism [webinar series]

265

Summer special: Friends, Allies and Enemies with Karen Middleton & Jonathan Pearlman

266

Summer special: How Childcare Reforms Could Help Power the Economic Recovery with Jay Weatherill and Kate Carnell

267

Summer special: The crisis in Aged Care with Ged Kearney

268

Summer special: What we learned about Australia from Wikileaks with Jennifer Robinson and Peter Cronau

269

Summer special: Climate of the Nation with Matt Kean

270

Summer special: The End of Certainty with Katharine Murphy

271

Summer special: The High Road with Laura Tingle

272

An unprecedented year: reflecting on 2020 with Richard Denniss

273

Why tax electric vehicles but not heavy trucks? Politics

274

The myth of Australia's gas supply shortage

275

The US Election result and what it means for Australia

276

Digital Giants, Market Power and Media Diversity

277

What can we learn from the ACT election?

278

The Most Secretive Budget Ever

279

What you need to know about the federal budget

E
280

Tax avoidance and why we can't have nice things

281

Weapons of gas destruction

282

Why bringing income tax cuts forward is a bad idea during Australia's first recession in 30 years

283

A Plan for Planet A

284

East Timor, Oil and Secret Prosecutions

285

Effective diplomacy and getting Australia's relationship with China back on track

286

Electrifying our Roads - Norway's Way

287

How Neoliberalism is Spreading Covid-19

288

Our 100th episode

289

The View From ICU

290

Backfire part 2: why a "gas fired recovery" would increase emissions and energy costs and squander Australia's COVID-19 recovery spending

291

Why TAFE is critical to economic recovery

292

United in a Global Crisis with UN Chief Economist Elliott Harris

293

Backfire part 1: why a "gas fired recovery" would increase emissions and energy costs and squander Australia's COVID-19 recovery spending

294

Julia Gillard on the pandemic, mental health and beyond

295

ANZUS and Australia's security

296

The war on populism and the fight for democracy with Thomas Frank

E
297

Winning a Fair Share: Rebuilding Australia's Manufacturing Base | Paul Bastian & Jim Stanford

298

Let it rip

299

Unpacking the Mini-Budget: What you need to know

300

Unpacking JobSeeker

301

Treaty & Sovereignty

302

How to make electricity bills cheaper

303

Big Little Political Lies

304

Navigating the Australia-China relationship with Jane Golley

305

A bargain at twice the price

306

The success of the Aboriginal-led health response to the pandemic

307

The Reconstruction - building back better with Richard Denniss

308

HomeBuilder and jobs for the boys

309

War is not a metaphor with Allan Gyngell

310

The Deficit Myth with Stephanie Kelton

311

The case for red tape

312

Safeguarding Democracy with Helen Haines

313

The pink collar recession

314

Protecting workers as the Economy Re-Opens with Sally McManus

315

Why a public sector wage freeze would cost jobs

316

Renewing Australia with a Green New Deal with Adam Bandt

317

Black holes and Keynesians

318

The role of climate action in rebuilding after the pandemic with Zali Steggall

319

The Australian Government response to the pandemic with Greg Hunt

320

The other global crisis: climate change

321

The International Pandemic Response with Helen Clark

322

Why 'snap back' is a fantasy

323

A renewably powered manufacturing sector with Ross Garnaut

324

The view from the Gallery - Politics in the (virtual) Pub

325

The public health response with Professor Peter Doherty

326

Working From Home: tracky dacks and keystroke surveillance

327

Inequality in a Pandemic with Professor Joseph Stiglitz Nobel Laureate economist

328

After the Crisis with Jim Chalmers

E
329

What does a good economic recovery package look like?

330

Covid-19: Media in crisis

331

Covid-19 and rethinking national security

332

The role of artists and the arts in rescuing the economy

333

What is your life really worth?

334

The complete reshaping of Australia's economy with Wayne Swan

335

No trust without scrutiny - the case for an Epidemic Response Committee

336

Unpacking the Jobkeeper wage subsidy scheme

337

What the hell is happening to the economy?

338

The People vs Tech

339

See What You Made Me Do With Jess Hill

340

Climate And The Pacific With Former President Anote Tong

341

What's Going On With The Murray Darling Basin

342

How Good Is The Economy?

343

Mass Confusion About The New Senate Voting System

344

The Wages Crisis

345

Unpacking The 2019 Federal Budget

346

What The Hell Is Dividend Imputation?

347

Dead Right With Richard Denniss

348

Wrong Way Book Launch With Doug Cameron

349

10 Year Anniversary Of The Stimulus Package With Wayne Swan Tanya Plibersek And Jim Chalmers

350

Bob Brown And Clare Rewcastle Brown, Environmentalist Of The Year

351

Professor Joseph Stiglitz Winner Of Sydney Peace Prize 2018

352

Yes, Yes, Yes With Alex Greenwich MP, Dr Shirleen Robinson & Senator Sarah Hanson Young

353

2018 Political Wrap With Amy Remeikis Rob Harris Annika Smethurst And Bevan Shields

354

Big Sticks, Batteries And Bills

355

Will Australia Meet Its Paris Commitment?

356

Could The Global Financial Crisis Happen Again?

357

Climate Of The Nation With Dr John Hewson

358

What's Wrong With Politics & How To Fix It

359

Dead Right - How Neoliberalism Ate Itself And What Comes Next

360

2018 Budget Wrap

361

Pocket Money: 14 Reasons Why The Case For A Company Tax Cut Has Collapsed

362

Gas And Coal Watch

363

Curing Affluenza - How To Buy Less Stuff And Save The World

364

I'm Here For An Argument - Why Bipartisanship On Security Makes Australia Less Safe

365

The Global Financial Crisis Ten Years On

366

Grandfathering The Australian Dream

367

Why A Bank Levy Is A Great Idea

368

Pocket Money: Budget 2017

369

A House A House A Kingdom For A House

370

Unpacking The Energy Debate

371

Conservatives And Climate Change With Bob Inglis

372

SUMMER SPECIAL Sam Dastyari

373

SUMMER SPECIAL President Tong

374

SUMMER SPECIAL Econobabble

375

SUMMER SPECIAL 2016 Political Wrap

376

Pocket Money: The Adani Coal Mine

377

What Does The ABCC Have To Do With House Prices?

378

Nuclear Dumps

379

Economic Models

380

Interest Rates

381

No New Coal Mines

382

The Pea & Thimble Trick

383

Cui Bono

384

Econobabble

385

Double Negative

386

Super Duper

387

Mining Boom-tish