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News Fighters — 149 episodes

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Shirt Happens: 2025 Year in Review

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The Chaser Report: Dylan on state leaders' killing season

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DAILY NEWS WRAP: 12 July 2025

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DAILY NEWS WRAP: 21 June 2025

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We're back with an election campaign recap!

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I made an album: an exclusive look at "Pizza for me, doctor?" by The Traveltens

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2024 Year in Review: The neverending enshittifcation of Australian Politics

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Best of News Fighters: Putin's phoney call-in show! (from 2021)

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Best of News Fighters: Boris Johnson becomes UK PM (from 2019)

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Best of News Fighters: Christopher Pyne fixes podcasting (from 2021)

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Best of News Fighters: The war on OneFour (from 2020)

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Best of News Fighters: R.I.P The Queen (from 2022)

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Best of 2022: Our Election Night Recap & Waiting for Gonski co-author Tom Greenwell.

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Best of 2022: Rishi Sunak, the first Billionaire UK PM*! (Also, we're moving!)

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2022 Year in Review: What a deluge!

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Bec Melrose on 2022: pony mayors, lion escapees, COVID cruises and Albo's DJ diplomacy.

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Albo meets Xi and our Victorian State Election Preview!

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The War in Ukraine is Great (for Business) & guest Tom Ballard on his new book, I Millennial.

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Jim Chalmers' Bread and Butter Budget (BYO Bread and Butter)

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There Goes Liz Truss

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PM Anthony Albanese's First 137 Days

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The Queen dies and "Operation: Revive The Monarchy" swings into action!

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Here comes Liz Truss! Also: Alexandra Smith on the downfall of Gladys Berejiklian.

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Scott Morrison: Master of Self Promotion

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ANNOUNCEMENT: We're coming back! (And the Delta outbreak one year on!)

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Putin foreshadowed the Ukraine invasion in 2021 (extended replay episode)

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What is Boris Johnson's ACTUAL future ambition? (from 2019)

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Who is Anthony Albanese? (from 2019)

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Election 2022 Rewind: The Decisive Debates

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Episode 100 - a "best of" the worst times.

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Election Night 2022: Scott Morrison runs out of miracles.

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Election 2022: Housing unaffordability wins out & Leigh Sales vs ScoMo Round 2

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Where is education this election? An interview with "Waiting for Gonski" co-author Tom Greenwell)

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Election 2022: The Final Leaders Debate (thank god!)

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Election 2022: Channel 9’s dodgy leaders debate recap

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Election 2022: Happy Lettuce Week!

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Election 2022: Albo in iso vs ScoMo the wanna-be autocrat

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News Fighters: The Book Club and Eliza Reilly on "Shielas: Bad Ass Women of Australian History"

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Election 2022: Sky News Debate recap - Mr Empathy strikes again!

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Election 2022: ScoMo’s crap re-election pitch & Albo’s bad week

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Leigh Sales vs Scott Morrison (Round 1!)

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2022 Budget Recap: Can you buy votes with cheap petrol?

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TV editors against Putin & the SA Election shows pandemic incumbency is dead.

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Hey look it’s time for our annual one-in-100-years floods again!

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Putin invades Ukraine

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Our Wet Hot Omicron Summer

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Free Patreon Bonus Episode (December 2021)

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Best of Stefan Pazur

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One Year of President Biden (with guest Chas Licciardello)

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Best of our 2SER radio segments from 2021

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ScoMo on vacay!

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2021: Year in Review

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Willkommen Chancellor Olaf!

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Hello Omicron, goodbye Liberal MPs! (and guest B.A. Johnston)

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Bec Melrose looks back on 2021

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The anti-vax, pro-carbon tax phony election campaign! (and guests Jackson Baly and Joel Zammit)

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Scott Morrison vs the world at COP26 & the G20. (also guest Sami Shah)

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ScoMo's net zero plan is a sham

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It’s Freedom Friday… and is Australia’s Delta Farce over finally? (also guest Alice Fraser)

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Why Gladys Berejiklian resigned and Dominic Perrottet should too

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NSW’s roadmap to vaccine passport chaos. Also: Joel Dullroy on the German election.

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Melbourne Earthquake & Canadian Election: Nothing Happened!

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AUKUS Submarines and Parachuting Labor Candidates (also guest Craig Reucassel)

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Pub and haircut day is coming! (with guest Deputy Lord Mayor of Sydney, Jess Scully)

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ICYMI: Delta Defeats Australia (A Bonus Compilation Episode)

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It’s Pyne Time Time: Christopher Pyne attempts to fix podcasts (and guest Mark Humphries)

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Afghanistan falls and Delta prevails

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Goodbye Covid Zero (also Dom Knight from The Chaser)

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NSW’s Delta Farce Continues (& Tokyo Sporting Event update with Stefan)

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How NSW stuffed everything up with the Delta Outbreak

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Putin will take your calls! (& guest Andrew Levins)

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ICYMI: Australia's Vaccine Sh*tshow

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Sydney's Delta Blow

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Australia's Lockdown Winter Blunderland

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Sydney’s lockdown background & Greg Jericho on the Aussie economic recovery

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Our National Buffoon's European Vacation

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Expelled China Correspondent Michael Smith on the Australia/China Relationship

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NSW Labor Implodes & Melbourne Lockdown #4

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Australia's Vaccine Hesitancy. And Southeast Asia goes into lockdown (with guest Rishi Budhrani)

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The 2021 Budget Spendathon Spectacular

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Happy Beef Week! (Also: India Flight Ban, Tasmania Election & Bec Melrose on Biden's first 100 days)

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Scott Morrison's Hydrogen Dream. Also: Dr Monica Barratt on Psychedelics and Mental Health.

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Canada’s Covid Catastrophe (with guest Jonathan Goldsbie)

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The History of Australia’s Vaccine Debacle

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ICYMI: A Year of COVID-19: What Australia got right and wrong! Also Guest: Tom Ballard

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Scott Morrison’s Minor Ministerial Reshuffle. Also: Bec Melrose on the Suez blockage!

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The 2021 NSW Floods and ScoMo's women failure

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What the WA election means for Australian politics.

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Why does China hate Australia?

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The Future of Work in Australia

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The vaccines are here! (Also: Wyatt Nixon-Lloyd previews the W.A. State Election)

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A Year of COVID-19: What Australia got right and wrong! Also: Bec Melrose.

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January 26 Culture Wars Roundup. Also: Dan Ilic from A Rational Fear!

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Biden inauguration recap & guest Tom Walker

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Trump’s Legacy with Chas Licciardello. Also: Michael McCormack's bad week.

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Brisbane lockdown and the Victoria lockout. Also special guest: Tom Ballard.

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2020: The Year in Wacky Clips

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EPISODE 50: A "Best Of" Clips Show!

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Why Joe Biden didn’t win over Trump voters.

100

The "Cushion the Blow" Budget

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The aged care and stranded Aussies blame games

102

I can’t believe it’s not paid pandemic leave!

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The Whack-a-Mole strategy & mini-budget roundup

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Melbourne’s lockdown blame game & the battle for bushfire ravaged Eden-Monaro

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Does Donald Trump want a civil war?

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Back to life, back to stupidity!

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Behind The Wacky Clips & a new pilot episode!

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Bon Voyage Plague Ship & Return of the Malc

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Australia’s hypocritical, half-arsed and xenophobic pandemic response

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Hello Socialism, Goodbye Civil Liberties!

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Keep calm and go to work but also stay at home!

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How to deal (and not deal) with the Coronavirus Pandemic

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Hey Hey It's the Coronavirus Pandemic!

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The looming recession that coronavirus had to give us!

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Pandemic or not Pandemic? WHO knows! Also: Behind Bernie’s winning ground game!

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Albo’s new (old) climate policy increases Turnbull’s tweet emissions… and ANZ apologises.

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BONUS EPISODE: Margaret Court and Adam Bandt seize centre court

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The war on ONEFOUR & should Aussie hip hop be illegal?

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2019 Year in Review & ScoMo gets lei'd into over Hawaiian holiday

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UK Election Brextacular with guest John Rogers

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Where there's smoke, there's blaming!

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Could Australia save Justin Trudeau?

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BONUS EPISODE: Pilot Week Outtakes

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Well done Angus on Insiders with host Dan Ilic and special guest Josh Szeps.

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Mr ScoMo goes to Washington & kids climate strike hosted by Mark Humphries

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The week in Gladyses with Jake Stone and Chris Taylor

127

Pauline Hanson’s inquiry inquiry and Gladys under siege! With special guest host Greta Lee Jackson.

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Scott Morrison declares war on GetUp.

129

Hong Kong protests, blaming violent movies and Greta Lee Jackson stops by!

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Boris Johnson: the first Australian British Prime Minister?

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Everybody loves tax cuts!

132

AFP raids the ABC & Who is Albo?

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Wha happened? How Labor lost the unlosable election.

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Liberal launch promises & Bill Shorten: Human of the People

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ScoMo vs ScoMo at the Final Leaders Debate

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Sky News Leaders Debate: Space Invader vs Flubble-o-Bill

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The battle for Warringah’s rich old retired men

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Seven's Leaders Debate: "John" Shorten vs Digger

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Barnaby's spirited interview with Patricia Karvelas

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Election 2019: the race that bores a nation!

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2019 Federal Budget Extravaganza!

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Barnaby's NSW election night meltdown

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NSW State Election Campaign Roundup

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Egg Boy, Fraser Anning and the Australian media's addiction to ring-wing racists

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ScoMo’s internationally famous women's day speech

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Pyne & Ciobo jump ship

147

The Coalition's New Climate Inaction Policy

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Julie Bishop's winning strategy: Quit!

149

Mathias Cormann's Singapore holiday giveaway!