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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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Ben Smee, Guardian Australia’s Queensland correspondent, has been reporting on the national crisis of domestic and family violence, as well as the culture and attitudes inside the Queensland police, for years. In the final episode of this special Full Story investigation, Broken trust looks at how police are failing to learn from their own mistakes. Guardian Australia can reveal allegations from a former senior Queensland detective who has accused police of covering up their own failures in cases in which vulnerable women died after seeking police protection, and alleges she was ordered to ‘protect the organisation’s reputation at all costs’
Ben Smee, Guardian Australia’s Queensland correspondent, has been reporting on the national crisis of domestic and family violence, as well as the culture and attitudes inside the Queensland police, for years. In the first episode of this special Full Story investigation, Broken trust uncovers exclusive new evidence in the case of Hannah Clarke and her children. It looks at serious police failings in the lead-up to the murders that were overlooked by the coronial inquest and not investigated by homicide detectives
Ben Smee, Guardian Australia’s Queensland correspondent, has been reporting on the national crisis of domestic and family violence, as well as the culture and attitudes of Queensland police, for years. In this special Full Story investigation, Broken Trust can reveal exclusive new evidence in the case of Hannah Clarke and her children, a domestic and family violence homicide that made national headlines. The series looks at serious police failings in the lead-up to the murders that were overlooked by the coronial inquest and not investigated by homicide detectives
1Just when Donald Trump thought he could celebrate the end of the longest government shutdown in US history, the Democrats had a trick up their sleeve. They released another batch of emails, some from the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, who wrote that ‘of course he knew about the girls’, referring to Trump. This week, Jonathan Freedland speaks to the Guardian’s George Chidi about why the Epstein files will not go away and how the saga is likely to unfold over the next few weeks
The housing crisis is getting worse. Prices are going up at the fastest rate in almost four years and, as more Australians are being locked out of the market, many are struggling to pay the rent. The government knows the scale of this crisis but progress has been slow.Bridie Jabour talks to the head of newsroom, Mike Ticher, deputy editor Patrick Kennelly and the national news editor, Josephine Tovey, about whether the government has found the right solutions to fix the housing crisis
Who is pushing Trump to send the US navy to Venezuela? With Andrew Roth and Tom Phillips
It took nearly five hours, but Liberal MPs emerged from today’s party meeting with a decision on whether to drop net zero. And while leader Sussan Ley is holding off until tomorrow to announce the final outcome, senior Liberal sources say 28 speakers wanted to jettison the 2050 target entirely, 17 expressed a desire to retain it in some form, while four were on the fence. Chief political reporter Dan Jervis Bardy tells Nour Haydar what happened inside the meeting, what tomorrow’s outcome means for the future of the Coalition, and whether Sussan Ley’s leadership is on the line
Over the weekend, a neo-Nazi rally overtly targeting Jewish people took place in front of New South Wales parliament. Reporter Jordyn Beazley speaks to Reged Ahmad about why NSW police allowed the protest to take place and if it can be stopped from happening again
Complaints about the editing of a Donald Trump clip in a BBC documentary about the January 6 riots have led to the resignations of the broadcaster’s director general and the head of news
In a month’s time, the Albanese government’s under-16s social media ban will come into effect. But popular gaming platform Roblox, where children are exposed to inappropriate or violent content and grooming, is not covered under the ban. Senior correspondent Sarah Martin joins Nour Haydar to talk about her chilling experience posing as an eight-year-old girl on the popular online platform.
The Queensland health minister has issued a new order banning the prescription of puberty blockers for transgender patients, just hours after the state’s supreme court ruled the government’s first attempt was unlawful. It is now the only state to have banned gender-affirming care for transgender children. But parents say they are not backing away from the fight. Reged Ahmad speaks with Queensland correspondent Ben Smee and state reporter Andrew Messenger about whether Queensland’s ban on puberty blockers is ideologically driven You can support the Guardian at theguardian.com/fullstorysupport
What does the fall of El Fasher mean for the future of Sudan? Kaamil Ahmed reports
Speaking at Cop30 in Brazil, the British prime minister, Keir Starmer, said the ‘consensus is gone’ on tackling the climate crisis. An apt assessment, as this week Australia’s two major political parties have had starkly different commitments on climate action. The minister for climate change and energy, Chris Bowen, speaks to Guardian Australia’s political editor, Tom McIlroy, about Labor’s free solar power scheme for some homes and the Coalition’s continued infighting on emissions targets
Winning victory on the back of a campaign that preached a message of affordability, and never backing away from his principles, Zohran Mamdani will be the next mayor of New York City. His surprise win has been hailed as a path forward for Democrats around the US who are struggling to connect with the American people. Back in Australia, the Coalition continues to tear itself apart. The Liberals are poised to ditch their net zero pledge after conservative powerbrokers urged Sussan Ley to follow the Nationals in dumping the emissions reduction target. Bridie Jabour speaks with the editor, Lenore Taylor, deputy editor Patrick Keneally and the national news editor, Josephine Tovey, about what Australian political parties could learn from Zohran Mamdani
This time last year, no one had really heard of him. Now, Zohran Mamdani is the first Muslim, millennial and person of south Asian heritage to run America’s largest city. Jonathan Freedland speaks to Ed Pilkington about Mamdani’s historic win, his challenge to the president, and what the Democrats should take away from a successful night at the ballot box
There’s been no shortage of big businesses making headlines for the wrong reasons. But how much does a company crisis really cost those at the top? Senior reporter Henry Belot speaks to Nour Haydar about the enduring culture of paying big bonuses to company executives, despite community outrage over company conduct
Guardian Australia’s daily news podcast examines the US president’s moves to build a US$300m ballroom at the same time as a government shutdown leaves millions of poor Americans facing a possible freeze on their food stamps. The Guardian’s Washington bureau chief, David Smith, speaks to Reged Ahmad about how the construction project is revealing a stark wealth divide and whether the Democrats can seize the moment
Guardian US writer Adam Gabbatt and columnist Mehdi Hasan explore how Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani has come from nowhere to the brink of becoming mayor of New York City
Protests on an outback road in the Northern Territory have refocused attention on Pine Gap, the secretive US satellite base near Alice Springs. The protesters have tried to block workers from accessing the facility, which they claim is aiding Israel’s genocide in Gaza.Nour Haydar speaks with senior reporter Ben Doherty about the rising resistance to Pine Gap, and the questions the spy base raises about Australia’s complicity in alleged crimes abroad
Former UK prime minister Tony Blair gave hand-me-down shirts to his chief of staff Jonathan Powell, Jacinda Ardern’s chief of staff reveals the former New Zealand PM loves crime TV, and Arthur Sinodinos still can’t call John Howard by his first name. These are just some of the personal revelations to come out of a new book called The Right Hand: Conversations with Chiefs of Staff to the World’s Most Powerful People. Its author, Phoebe Saintilan-Stocks, speaks with Reged Ahmad about the influential and unelected powerbrokers who have had a front-row seat to history
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hamsandwich/Jorgensen..... ☠️☠️☠️☠️
Thanks, Barrie, for voicing what I feel strongly about, especially after seeing that 7:30 interview.
2 rich men with fragile egos... 🤷😂🌈🍆
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?
people smugglers used them to break the law
one of the guest said he works for housing...but doesn't know what Albanese looks like...couldn't recognise him? okay so...he works for a government department...yet doesn't know what the leader of the opposition looks like... that's either a lie...or pretty concerning...