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Guardian Australia's daily news podcast. Every weekday, join Guardian journalists for a deeper understanding of the news in Australia and beyond. You can support The Guardian at theguardian.com/fullstorysupport
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Tony Barry and Barrie Cassidy examine the divisive political debate over the future of the 34 Australian women and children languishing in a Syrian detention camp. They also discuss why capital gains tax is becoming a real pressure point for Labor, Anthony Albanese’s careful words for One Nation voters and why there’s a proliferation of polls
As British MPs vote to release the documents relating to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s appointment as trade envoy, Helen Pidd speaks to Andrew Lownie, author of Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York, about the former prince’s antics in the role and whether this scandal will be the monarchy’s last
This week, journalist William Christou made the long journey to al-Roj camp in north-eastern Syria where 2,000 families are detained – including 23 children and 11 women from Australia with links to IS. These Australian citizens attempted to leave the camp last week with the hopes of making it to their homeland, but were forced to turn back. They are now at the centre of a political storm. In this exclusive, you will hear from the Australian children stuck in Syria. Christou speaks to Nour Haydar about how he met the children, the conditions they live in and why they want to come home
A DJ turned soldier explains how life has changed for Ukraine’s men while Tracy McVeigh and Shaun Walker report on the impact of the conflict and what could happen next
Britain is now debating removing Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor from the royal line of succession after the former prince was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office in relation to the Epstein files. He denies all wrongdoing. In the US, however, ‘the Epstein class’ has faced little legal or political reckoning. The Guardian’s Washington DC bureau chief, David Smith, speaks to Reged Ahmad about how Mountbatten-Windsor’s UK arrest highlights a lack of action in the US on the Epstein files
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is taking Coles to the federal court testing allegations the supermarket breached the law by offering “illusory” discounts on many everyday products. Coles denies any wrongdoing. One week into the court battle, business editor Jonathan Barrett tells Reged Ahmad what we’ve learned about how discounts are set and whether the outcome could bring prices down
Every Sunday, we’ll bring you some of the Guardian’s best stories from the week. Stories we loved, that made us feel happy, sad, or just made us think, read by the people who wrote them. Writer and critic Fiona Wright has often joked with her friends that, in order for them to own homes, they’d have to wait until their parents die. But is there a truth to this dark joke?
1Tony Barry and Barrie Cassidy examine new polling that shows the upcoming South Australian election could deliver a nightmare result for the Liberal party and the first test for the reported surge to One Nation. The Barries also examine Angus Taylor’s new-look shadow frontbench and the fiery political debate around returning IS families.
In his first comments after the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, Anthony Albanese says that the ex-prince has had an extraordinary fall from grace. And while the prime minister is a firm republican, this disgrace will not prompt another referendum. Speaking with Guardian Australia’s political editor Tom McIlroy, the PM hits back at Pauline Hanson’s comments about Muslim Australians. He also discusses what would happen if the 34 Australian wives and children of Islamic State fighters stuck in Syria made their back to Australia
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office by police investigating his dealings with Jeffrey Epstein. Six unmarked police cars carrying plainclothes officers arrived at the Sandringham estate while the former prince was celebrating his 66th birthday on Thursday. Officers searched the Norfolk property as well as Mountbatten-Windsor’s former home at the Royal Lodge in Great Windsor Park. Lucy Hough speaks to the Guardian journalist David Pegg
For many Australians, the only chance they will have at owning a home will come in the form of tragedy. House prices have become so expensive that Australians are increasingly relying not just on the bank of mum and dad, but on the inheritance that comes with their death to get a foot on the housing ladder. Over the next 20 years, it’s expected $5.4tn will be passed down from baby boomers to their beneficiaries. But experts warn that this great intergenerational wealth transfer presents one of the biggest challenges the country has faced in decades. Reged Ahmad speaks with deputy features editor Celina Ribeiro about how the age of inheritance is threatening economic equality, faith in the ‘fair go’, and even in democracy itself
A group of 34 Australian women and children have been forced to return to a detention camp after attempting to flee Syria for their homeland. Reged Ahmad speaks to senior reporter and former foreign correspondent Ben Doherty about the fierce debate over their repatriation and what it means to be an Australian citizen
Extreme heat is already the most common cause of weather-related hospitalisations in Australia and with heatwaves intensifying, our climate and environment correspondent Graham Readfearn put his body to the test in an experiment. In a climate chamber at the University of Sydney, he walked on a treadmill while temperature conditions were constantly adjusted, adding direct sunlight and higher humidity. Graham joins Nour Haydar to talk about how extreme heat affects us, our cognitive functions and our chances of survival
Barack Obama has caused a frenzy after saying he thinks aliens are real during a podcast interview. The former US president was forced to release a statement clarifying he had not seen any evidence of extraterrestrials. There is a long-running conspiracy theory claiming the US government is hiding extraterrestrials at Area 51, a highly classified air force site in Nevada. Lucy Hough speaks to the host of the Guardian’s Science Weekly podcast, Madeleine Finlay
As Australians watch Donald Trump continue to crack down on immigrants, a private prison company used by ICE in the US is now running detention centres in Australia. In the US, the company faces allegations of ‘gross negligence’, and in Australia, staff inside the detention centres have highlighted safety concerns, including a rise in sexual assaults. Reged Ahmad talks to chief investigations correspondent Christopher Knaus and investigations reporter Ariel Bogle about the growing scrutiny over the Albanese government’s decision to put the company in charge of Australia’s detention regime
A recent survey has painted a damning picture of the bullying and abuse some of Australia’s coaches, referees and club officials face each week on the field – and parents are responsible for almost half of it. Sports reporter Jack Snape tells Reged Ahmad about the impact of poor parental behaviour on grassroots sport
Every Sunday, we’ll bring you some of the Guardian’s best stories from the week. Stories we loved, that made us feel happy, sad, or just made us think, read out by the people who wrote them. This weekend, unsettled by how angry our world has become, journalist and author Brigid Delaney explores what we can do to break the contagion of rage we’re seeing in our everyday lives
The Barries are back, and Angus Taylor has won the Liberal leadership battle against Sussan Ley. Speaking on Friday afternoon, the new leader said he did not seek to be ‘One Nation lite’ but he would ‘shut the door’ on people who don’t share ‘Australian values’. But the spill wasn’t the only story in Australian politics this week. Barrie Cassidy and Tony Barry unpack the challenge ahead for Taylor, the rise of One Nation and the visit of Israeli president Isaac Herzog
Angus Taylor has been elected the Liberal party’s new leader, ousting Sussan Ley in a party room ballot 34 votes to 17. Speaking shortly after the vote, Ley said she would quit parliament within weeks in a bid to provide clear air for Taylor’s leadership. In his first speech as opposition leader Taylor pointed to a greater focus on immigration policy, saying: “If someone doesn’t subscribe to our core beliefs, the door must be shut.” Political editor Tom McIlroy speaks to Nour Haydar about how it all went down and Taylor’s striking shift in tone on immigration
Protesters around Australia, including Nick McKim and other Greens colleagues, gathered to express opposition to the visit of the Israeli president, Isaac Herzog, this week. The Greens senator tells our political editor, Tom McIlroy, that the confronting scenes of police aggression towards protesters in Sydney were a ‘massive overreach’. McKim is the Greens spokesperson for economic justice and treasury, and is now leading a parliamentary inquiry into the 50% capital gains tax discount. Labor has not ruled out possible changes to the generous tax breaks for investors before the May budget. The Tasmanian senator argues that, with Greens support, the government can ‘marry up the politics and the policy’ to meaningfully addressing the housing crisis
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The biggest right winged media whinge fest ive ever seen. Pretty sad they haven't worked out even if the entire front bench quit politics tomorrow. Labor would still have the majority and thus balance of power. Its a pity the Liberals still haven't figured out why that happened either...still they are more interested in throwing 💩 at a wall to see what sticks than trying to lead Australia to any real prosperity...
Who in 2026 is taking advice from randoms on the internet over a medical professional...?
Excellent!!
hamsandwich/Jorgensen..... ☠️☠️☠️☠️
Thanks, Barrie, for voicing what I feel strongly about, especially after seeing that 7:30 interview.
You guys are right about choosing not to have politicians on your show. There's plenty of those already. It's your conversation that I listen for.
Please learn to say "nu-cle- ar" and NOT "nu-cu-la" if you're a journalist.
To compare the ABC to newscorp is laughable and you both know this. They unconditional endorse all LNP federal candidates 95% of the time and their coverage is appallingly biased. Blind Freddy can see this...
I live in Haymarket and have never paid to see a GP...
she's amazing.
our local member gets flown into and out of town by the RAAF at each end of parliamentary sessions. It's only a 4 hour drive to Canberra.
so great to hear Bo Spearims' voice on this. He is an amazing young man and a deadly educator and activist.
Quite a biad episode; a bit disappointing.
thank you for writing and talking about this. I have always wondered with the only way to diagnose endo is through invasive surgery, then how many are undiagnosed. There are also so many barriers to getting diagnosed and for me it took over 25 years to get a diagnosis. I remember crying with relief that I had Severe Endo, I finally an answer. But having Severe Endo comes with a cost to personal wellbeing. A diagnosis only provides an idea of what is wrong. I can only hope that future generations of women also have an answer on how to treat the disease.
I have no sympathy for CEO's who are proffering millions off destruction of our homes, but their homes are "sacred." The earth isn't dying. it's being murdered and thebmurderers have names and addresses, get a new job, and get out of the way of change Woodside.
How the state correspondent or LNP comes officer could make a comment about NSW Labor being synonymous with corruption after the 12 years of NSW LNP, the constant changing of leaders due to corruption inquiries, is really amazing. Even the failure to poit out that Perrottet was never elected by the people of NSW to be premier as he alluded to in his own speech. I know legacy media can be precious, but listen to that pod back and tell me it didn't sound like two Menzian styled LNP voters and I'll show you a person who cannot identify underlying bias. Honestly I was taken aback when the male voice was identified as the Guardian state political correspondent and not a former LNP communications director. Just wow
I hope Tate is put in jail for a very long time, bankrupted, & discredited his kind of toxic opinions, views & violence are the very reason we have laws to keep society safe from people like him who have no morals, ethics, conscience, scruples or humanity his type of dissociative disorder in a world full of social media access should be cause to act & bring criminal charges society MUST shut down men promoting toxic masculinity
i live in geraldton on a dissabillity pension and cannot access bulk billing of any kind, the poor people in this town go without primary health care, until.the conditions become so dire we end up in the hospital emergency department. it's totally fucked and I have given up on treatment and my health is deteriorated considerably.
Stupid comment was made over letting the water go and keeping Warragamba Dam water level at 60% earlier. The rivers didn't have such a capacity for almost two years.
closed borders lock downs vaccinations and still so many deaths how does that compare with Sweden?