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Politics Now — 362 episodes
Labor's 'narrow path' and 'stinky sausage'
Are Australians 'surrender monkeys' on AI?
Should Albanese’s dead mum be off-limits?
Kevin Rudd sounds alarm on Australia becoming 'complacent' | Insiders On Background
Is Pauline Hanson losing this culture war?
The PM's swing at the ABC
Are Labor's new laws censorship?
One Nation goes for super
The political fight over the tobacco wars | Insiders On Background
Sharks, climate change and George Michael
Voters sent Labor a message. Are they listening?
Will Albanese fix our feeds?
Will online safety be Albanese's legacy policy?
One Nation comes for Labor seats
How can Australia combat the 'explosion of sexual violence' amongst teens? | Insiders On Background
Did Albanese get 'rolled' by the states?
Fractious federation.. and farewell Dolly
Is Albanese WA's 'daddy'?
One Nation's migration mop-up
Could slashing the excise end the tobacco wars? | Insiders On Background
Could deepfakes threaten elections?
A big week of dealmaking
Albanese's art of the deal
Angus Taylor's bid for relevance
The politics of parochialism
'Existential period' for NDIS, as Albanese-Taylor inch toward deal | Insiders On Background
Albo-Trump talks and Farage’s bin face-off
Is One Nation the 'gayest' party?
Will the PM ride out 'melon-gate'?
Deals, barneys and melons
The podcast the PM regrets
As the US and China compete for AI dominance, where does Australia fit in? | Insiders On Background
A spicy text and an AI stoush
While the PM's away, the mice will play
Is Labor worried about immigration?
Will Albanese go further on gambling?
Labor feels the heat on gambling
Paul Kelly on the decade that broke the Liberal Party | Insiders On Background
Is Albanese's seat under threat?
Billionaires, donations and integrity
Victoria has a new premier. Can he save Labor?
Victorian Labor's leadership crisis
Is One Nation a bigger threat to Labor than the Coalition? | Insiders On Background
Tariffs, bingo cards and Albo's iron grip
Albanese's 'antidote' to One Nation
Should Labor adopt a 'manifesto'?
Taylor takes from Abbott playbook(let)
Annabel Crabb on Albanese's control
Pauline Hanson dominates attention economy
Regulating AI is like catching smoke, warns Christopher Pyne | Insiders On Background
One Nation leadership rumbles emerge
Labor's AI plan and Hanson's holiday
Albanese's AI roadmap
Is uncertainty the new normal?
Has One Nation support hit a ceiling?
Australia has a deficit dilemma, could means-testing wealth be the solution?
Modi, the Pacific and THAT podcast
The politics of an outage
PM rebukes 'provocative' missile test
A Pacific push and podcast blunder
After 250 years what is America celebrating this Independence Day?
Labor's political pickle on house prices
Labor cleans off the barnacles
The odds-on Labor's gambling reform
Should the Liberals 'rebrand'?
Crocodile Dundee enters the chat
'She doesn't give a rats about you': Amanda Vanstone on Pauline Hanson | Insiders On Background
Antony Green on the tests ahead for One Nation
Taylor fumbles and Labor locks in
Clean up on aisle Angus
What Albanese can learn from Starmer's fall
Pragmatic politics or dirty deals?
Is the government's tax reform turning into a "freak show"? | Insiders On Background
Budget backdowns, scrutiny and Gina's bulldozer
Annabel Crabb on a doozy of a week
Pauline Hanson goes mainstream
Is 'hyperbolic' politics reducing trust?
How Labor fights the polls for Pauline
Is Australia ready for the AI transformation? | Insiders on Background
Labor goes back to basics
Is the Prime Minister ready to 'cop it'?
Pocock sparks data centre debate
Labor's populism pushback
Lachlan Harris warns Labor's budget isolates voters amid One Nation rise | Insiders on Background
One Nation is surging. Why aren't the Greens?
Trump's tariffs and AUKUS awkwardness
Why Labor won't sink AUKUS
AUKUS goes off 'like a frog in a sock'
Could Pauline Hanson become PM?
Father of Inland Rail says 'this thing is on and unstoppable' | Insiders on Background
Budget bills, 'wedgies' and a teal party
Political wedges and a welfare shake-up
Albanese stares down tax push back
A new 'teal' party?
Tech sector warns tax could "double" under CGT changes | Insiders on Background
We answer your smart budget questions
Bad budgets 'linger'. Will this one?
Tim Wilson's 'call to arms' for Liberals
A 'vibe check' on capital gains tax
Is the post-budget bounce dead?
How will negative gearing and CGT changes shift the property market? | Insiders
Taylor swings big on tax. Will it pay-off?
Battle of the budgets begins
Did Labor's 'reform budget' deliver?
Will Labor's budget 'pull up the ladder'?
Where One Nation will target next
Farrer by-election: The issues that will determine who wins | Insiders
Will the budget annoy 'rich boomers'?
Did we invent podcasting?
It's all about 'sovereign capability'
Should politicians be 'radically honest'?
Australia-Japan: friends with benefits?
How productivity can save the Australian economy | Insiders
Jim Chalmers is running up that inflation hill
Pauline's 'sexy' plane and big money politics
Did Sylvester Stallone snub Canberra?
The Trump 'ick factor' in Australia
John Bolton: One of Trump's 'problems is he doesn't know what he wants' | Insiders
Casey Briggs answers your election questions
Albanese swings big on NDIS reforms
The political price of NDIS savings
The gas tax squeeze
Is Trump taking the shine off One Nation?
‘We can't do without them’: Kim Beazley on support for the US alliance slipping | Insiders On Background
A world full of predators
It's all a bit 'grim' for Jim
Taylor tries to 'out-One Nation' on immigration
Will Albanese's 'petro-diplomacy' work?
Israel 'assumed' Iran would not disrupt the global supply chains | Insiders On Background
The populist elephant in the room
Threats, a ceasefire and strained alliances
Can you deliver reform during a crisis?
Labor's gambling reforms - tinker or triumph?
Did Albo's address meet the moment?
Is Albanese the 'man with a plan'?
Carrots, sticks and a gas profits tax
Albanese reads the room with cheaper fuel
Reform or handout? That is the question for the Government ahead of the budget
Capping off a 'binfire' political week
Progressive patriotism v sovereignty
All fetta! Australia-EU trade deal inked
Which political party is listening to Australians?
Demand for fuel has gone up, but when will petrol prices come back down?
Why Pauline is the 'main character' in the SA election
Hastie takes on a 'petulant' Trump
How one swing voter decided the rate hike
Was Labor slow to act on fuel fears?
Dennis Richardson: Intelligence findings into Bondi terror attack 'cannot wait'
Is One Nation capturing young voters?
A big week of resignations
Welcome to Matt Canavan’s ‘hyper-Australia’
Is Australia 'participating' in the Middle East war?
Will Farrer be One Nation's 'holy grail'?
Should Aus join Canada's middle power fightback? | Insiders On Background
Why petrol prices are 'kryptonite' for governments
The review Liberals tried to bury
The new world disorder
Why Albanese backed Trump's Iran attack
Can tax reform fix Australia's housing crisis? | Insiders On Background
PM 'mops up' as Ley officially exits
A ‘difficult’ week for the PM
Albanese's 'troubling' bomb scare
Why is Albanese ruling out a republic referendum?
Is Albanese playing 'mind games' in Farrer?
Women and children in Syrian camp "will end up in Australia" | Insiders On Background
Why is Albanese taking a hard line on 'ISIS brides'?
Is Taylor's frontbench battle ready?
By-election booby traps | LIVE SHOW
The radical realignment of the right
How will Taylor bring the Liberals back from the brink? | Insiders On Background
Taylor triumphs, Ley resigns. What next?
It's on! Taylor v Ley spill
Taylor set to strike... but how?
Big personalities, protests and polling
Coalition frenemies promise to unite
What is Thriving Kids? | Insiders On Background
A week of parliamentary drama
Should we expect bold budget ideas?
Is a rate rise the government's fault?
Has Albanese got his mojo back?
Is Labor tackling gendered violence?
Why timing is everything in politics
Spills, inflation and One Nation - oh my!
Is a rate hike now imminent?
Could 'freelancers' decide the Liberals' future?
Is Sussan Ley's leadership 'toast'?
Libs, Nats, One Nation and the fight for the right
The Coalition is 'done'. Are Ley and Littleproud too?
Are the Nationals testing Sussan Ley?
Will hate speech laws split the Coalition?
Parliament returns - but it's not 'politics as usual'
Labor accountability and negative gearing caution
Will Ley rejecting hate speech laws backfire?
Kerrynne Liddle doesn't believe in one-size-fits-all
Why Kevin Rudd resigned as US Ambassador
Is Albanese's year off to a bumpy start?
Why the PM announced a royal commission
Gambling ban, the glass cliff and Dutton’s ‘disappearance'
Larissa Waters is a shameless optimist
Why 2026 will be a 'pollster's picnic'
Josh Burns on how you create change
A political year in review
Tim Wilson on what makes a good society
Why immigration is back on the agenda
A 'not perfect' PM acts on Bondi
The hard questions about Bondi begin
John Howard's warning to Anthony Albanese
Will the Bondi shooting lead to gun reform?
Are politician perks a 'pisstake'?
Why the housing crisis is such a 'wicked problem'
Will Anika Wells keep her job?
Barnaby makes One Nation flirtation official
Tackling racism 'not a priority' for Govt, says Race Discrimination Commissioner
Will Labor muscle-up on gambling reforms?
Social media ban looms. Are we ready?
Is the 'jobs for mates' era over?
Albanese and the low-key 'royal wedding'
Economic Report Card | Insiders On Background
Barnaby to defect and enviro laws to pass
Is Labor the better economic manager?
High steaks for Pauline and Barnaby
Net zero gains for Sussan Ley
Why miners want a deal done on new environment laws | Insiders On Background
Did the PM get his ideal COP outcome?
Labor’s COP out on science
Another leader bites the dust
Sussan Ley is 'fighting for her political life'
The long road to treaty | Insiders On Background
Sussan Ley killed net zero. Will it save her?
Why the Libs ditched net zero
Liberals face net zero D-Day
Annabel Crabb on our 'unusual' democracy
Do leaders need political conviction?
The Whitlam dismissal | Insiders On Background
Does the Coalition respect Sussan Ley?
Can Sussan Ley survive the summer?
A rate 'bump in the road' for Labor
Are the Coalition about to split (again)?
Can Labor reform Australia's environment laws? | Insiders On Background
Did Sussan Ley overreach on 'shirtgate'?
Antony Green on the rise of One Nation
Is Labor ‘taking the piss’ on integrity?
Is this Labor's biggest test yet?
What does Trump really think about China? | Insiders On Background
How Albanese won Trump over
What Trump's China message means for Australia
Albanese heads home with a Trump card
Is Barnaby the new Pauline Hanson?
What will happen when Albanese meets Trump? | Insiders On Background
Is 'fear' behind Labor's super-sized backdown?
Channelling Farage or chasing Teals?
Why support for One Nation is rising
Did Albo hand Chalmers an 'excrement sandwich'?
Optus' communication breakdown | Insiders On Background
Leaky Liberals and Optus email blunders
Is this an episode of Utopia?
Did Labor ignore triple zero 'red flags'?
Peter Dutton enters the chat
🚨What Hastie quitting means for Sussan Ley
Will Palestinians support Trump's peace plan? | Insiders on Background
Is Australia more than a middle power?
Is Labor putting out the housing fire or fanning the flames?
Trump has a plan for peace. Will it work?
Albanese and Starmer stare down populism
Alastair Campbell on Trump: "What the f is he talking about?" | Insiders On Background
Albanese and the brave new world order
Albanese and Trump lock in a date
Has Sussan Ley gone 'rogue' on Palestine?
Australia splits with US to recognise Palestine
Matt Kean urging opposition to back govt's 2035 emissions target || Insiders: On Background
Labor unveils 2035 climate targets. What next?
Did Trump just confirm a meeting with Albo?
Will Ley survive the climate wars?
Will Labor's climate target be ambitious?
What should Australia's 2035 climate target be?
Is Sussan Ley's leadership in trouble?
PM condemns Israel's Qatar strike
Battle of the bribes in the Pacific
Are the Liberals in a civil war?
Bob Carr on China’s military might || Insiders: On Background
Quiet Nauru deals, loud immigration protests
Is the government taxing information?
Can Labor fix home support for older Australians?
The government condemns anti-immigration rallies
How should governments respond to the 'sovereign citizen' movement? || Insiders: On Background
Canberra, Iran and a curious photo op
Is the government doing enough on sovereign citizens?
Iran 'orchestrated' attacks on Australian soil
A housing pitch and a net zero brawl
Are working-age Australians being ripped off by the tax system? || Insiders: On Background
Sizzle or fizzle? The verdict on the Roundtable
Netanyahu lashes out and Tony Burke fires back
Tension in a tit-for-tat visa cancellation
Putting productivity on the Reform Roundtable
Let AI boost productivity and growth, business leaders urge against 'over-regulation' || Insiders: On Background
Whose economic summit is it anyway?
What the PM thinks about a four day work week
A win for Labor as the RBA cuts rates
Australia will recognise Palestine
How do we keep big tech in line? || Insiders: On Background
A reform roundtable looms as a bridge march reverberates
Jim Chalmers' newest economic friend is AI
We might be watching Albanese's 'big moment'
Younger voters put negative gearing back on the agenda
'Solutions are known, but rarely acted upon': Why are governments failing to Close the Gap? || Insiders: On Background
'Not if, but when' we recognise Palestine
The UK draws a line on Palestine
How do we react to another Trump tariff bombshell?
Albanese sharpens criticism of the Israeli government
How do we fix the childcare sector? || Insiders: On Background
Why this speech made the PM tear up
How did Sussan Ley perform in her first Question Time?
Pomp, ceremony and political division
The 'stark' gender split in parliament
What does the PM's trip to China mean for Taiwan? | Insiders On Background
Laura Tingle on the PM, Trump and Xi
What the PM did and didn't say to President Xi Jinping
Does Labor have a chance to be ambitious about housing?
Will the PM find a friend in China?
Charm Offensive: China and US relations | Insiders On Background
'Racism' in the NT police. Will the government push for change?
Will Trump's tariffs make medicine more expensive?
Why the RBA held rates
Is Australia's multicultural project in trouble?
Linda Burney: Yoorrook Commission lays "very fine blueprint for the way forward"
Our childcare system is facing a 'reckoning'
What Labor needs to do about child safety
Can Albo fix our 'messy' gas market?
Why Albo is under pressure to meet Trump
Kylie Moore-Gilbert on the situation in the Middle East | Insiders On Background
Inside the psyche of 'daddy' Trump
Sussan Ley's 'I'm not Dutton' speech
Has Trump stopped Iran developing a nuclear weapon?
Australia backs Trump in Israel-Iran war
What's tax reform got to do with productivity? | Insiders on Background
Why Australia is shifting its language on Israel-Iran
Why the PM chasing Trump could look 'desperate'
Did Trump 'snub' Albanese?
Will Albo get a Trump deal at any cost?
What Israel's strike on Iran means for Australia
Tariff triumph or trouble? | Insiders On Background
Is Trump using AUKUS as a 'Trojan horse'?
Why Australia sanctioned Israeli Ministers
Why AI means reform in Albo's second term
Will beef be on the menu when Albanese meets Trump?
Is Australia drone-ready? | Insiders on Background
Albo's Trump-sized headache
Can Albo get a tariff deal with Trump?
Why Dorinda Cox left the Greens for Labor
PM stares down US defence spending demand
Quantum Leap | Insiders On Background
Laura Tingle on when politics is at its best
Coalition's shadow cabinet shakeup
What Albo learnt from Scomo's Hawaii moment
How do the Liberals rebuild?
The Nationals are 'holding a gun to the Liberal Party’s head', says Malcolm Turnbull | Insiders: On Background
Are the Coalition getting back together?
Why the Coalition breakup is 'weird'
Why the Nats broke up with the Libs
The PM heads to Rome
Another round of climate wars? "Oh God no!" | Insiders On Background
Three leadership contests in one week