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Dec 10, 2021 • 46min
The year in politics with the Guardian’s Canberra bureau
Katharine Murphy and Guardian Australia’s team of political reporters answer your most burning political questions. What lies ahead for Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese in an election year? What would a federal integrity commission look like? Will Australia go to war against China? The team also share some of their highs and lows from the year in politics

Dec 3, 2021 • 38min
Peter Lewis on polling in the lead-up to an election year
Katharine Murphy speaks to the executive director of Essential about how Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese are polling post-Covid lockdowns and the sexual harassment allegations in Parliament House

Nov 26, 2021 • 38min
Jim Chalmers on Labor’s plan for Australia’s economy
Katharine Murphy speaks to the federal shadow treasurer about the ALP’s economic and climate policy ahead of an election year

Nov 19, 2021 • 45min
China’s acting ambassador to Australia on Taiwan, diplomacy and a damaged relationship
Guardian Australia’s foreign affairs and defence correspondent Daniel Hurst speaks to China’s acting ambassador to Australia, Wang Xining, on the future of the relationship between the two countries China’s infamous list of grievances with Australia ‘should be longer than 14 points’, top diplomat says

Nov 1, 2021 • 17min
Australia navigates the relationship with France, Aukus and the G20
At the G20 in Rome in the wake of the controversial Aukus deal in which Australia opted to buy nuclear submarines from the US and UK and ditch the $90bn existing deal with France – Katharine Murphy speaks with the political editor of the Australian Financial Review, Phil Coorey and the chief political correspondent of the SMH and the Age, David Crowe about the growing tensions with France and what this could mean for Australia in the international arena

Oct 29, 2021 • 34min
A plan for net zero that’s worse than nothing?
This week Scott Morrison finally released what he said was a plan to reach net zero emissions by 2050. But is it? In the final episode of Guardian Australia’s special investigative series before the Cop26 summit in Glasgow, editor Lenore Taylor, political editor Katharine Murphy, climate and environment editor Adam Morton and reporter Graham Readfearn discuss the implications of ‘the Australian way’ plan and what it means for the global talks

Oct 22, 2021 • 36min
Helen Haines on the need for a federal anti-corruption commission
Katharine Murphy speaks to the independent Indi MP Helen Haines about her plan to reintroduce a federal integrity commission bill to the lower house next week and why a commonwealth anti-corruption watchdog is vital for democracy

Oct 15, 2021 • 41min
Australia’s climate indecision continues as Scott Morrison heads to Glasgow
Katharine Murphy speaks to Guardian Australia’s climate and environment editor Adam Morton about the Coalition’s approach to net zero emissions and the global push for greater action on global heating

Oct 8, 2021 • 38min
This week in politics with the Guardian’s Canberra bureau
Katharine Murphy and Guardian Australia’s team of political reporters answer your most burning political questions. Will Scott Morrison attend the Cop26 summit, is a federal election looming, and is a federal anti-corruption body on the horizon?

Oct 1, 2021 • 36min
Matt Kean on climate change, the Coalition and the economic case for net zero
Katharine Murphy speaks to New South Wales energy minister Matt Kean about the state’s plan to cut emissions in half by 2030 – a move that has added pressure on the Morrison government to act on climate change Matt Kean urges moderates to push party harder on net zero


