Episódios

  • AI and the productivity challenge with Andrew Leigh

    AI and the productivity challenge with Andrew Leigh
    Oct 17 2025
    This week, the Albanese government has been criticised for a tactical backdown on its plan to wind back tax concessions on superannuation balances worth more than $3m. But the assistant minister for productivity, competition, charities and treasury, Andrew Leigh, argues that this change in approach has maintained fairness in the super system. The MP for Fenner also talks to political editor Tom McIlroy about the challenge of AI for lawmakers, why competition policy is key to productivity growth and his early morning training for an upcoming ultramarathon
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    22 minutos
  • The human cost of a broken aged care system with Penny Allman-Payne

    The human cost of a broken aged care system with Penny Allman-Payne
    Oct 10 2025
    As Labor’s new aged care system gets set to begin on 1 November, Greens senator Penny Allman-Payne speaks about her father’s recent move into residential aged care and the personal stories she has heard as chair of a Greens-led inquiry into the sector. She speaks with Guardian Australia’s political editor, Tom McIlroy, about how she has seen lives put at risk by a for-profit system, and why she thinks the government is not doing enough for those waiting for a home care package
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    24 minutos
  • Clare O’Neil on Labor’s scheme for first home buyers

    Clare O’Neil on Labor’s scheme for first home buyers
    Oct 3 2025
    This week, Labor expanded Australia’s first home guarantee to allow more buyers access to a mortgage with a reduced deposit of 5%. But the plan has many critics. Guardian Australia political editor, Tom McIlroy, speaks to the federal minister for housing and homelessness, Clare O’Neil, about why she thinks the government is pulling on the correct levers to address the housing crisis
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    27 minutos
  • Guardian Essential Report: Albanese’s pragmatism during messy times

    Guardian Essential Report: Albanese’s pragmatism during messy times
    Oct 2 2025
    Political reporter Dan Jervis-Bardy speaks to executive director of Essential Media Peter Lewis about Australian voters’ views on the government’s climate action ambition and the immigration debate. Lewis also explains why he thinks The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a perfect analogue of the prime minister’s approach to politics in the midst of global instability
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    22 minutos
  • Amanda Rishworth on the future of work and AI

    Amanda Rishworth on the future of work and AI
    Sep 26 2025
    Political reporter Josh Butler speaks to Amanda Rishworth, the minister for employment and workplace relations, about the Albanese government’s upcoming reform agenda for workers. They also discuss the latest figures on enterprise agreements and why she thinks AI is more likely to ‘augment’ rather than displace workers in the near future
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    29 minutos
  • Matt Kean on Australia’s future in a climate crisis

    Matt Kean on Australia’s future in a climate crisis
    Sep 19 2025
    The Albanese government has now put a number on its climate ambition: a target of a 62-70% emissions cut by 2035 compared to 2005 levels. It comes after the release of the national climate risk assessment, which described a disastrous future for Australians on a warming planet. In this bonus episode of the Australian Politics podcast, climate and environment editor Adam Morton speaks to the chair of the Climate Change Authority, Matt Kean, on the advice that informed the government’s long-awaited emissions reduction target for 2035
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    33 minutos
  • David Pocock on the 2035 climate targets and political will

    David Pocock on the 2035 climate targets and political will
    Sep 19 2025
    In a defining week for climate action, the Albanese government has unveiled a commitment to cut emissions between 62% and 70% on 2005 levels by 2035. But vocal climate advocate Senator David Pocock says a minimum of 75% is needed to ‘do our bit’. Political editor Tom McIlroy speaks to the ACT independent about his pessimism about political leadership on climate ambition – despite the government’s own warnings against a lack of action. He also discusses his criticism of ANU leadership, Labor’s declining political will on gambling reform and why he thinks Canberra is one of Australia’s best-kept secrets
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    29 minutos
  • Jane Hume on rebuilding trust in the Liberal party

    Jane Hume on rebuilding trust in the Liberal party
    Sep 11 2025
    The fallout in the Liberal party over Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s inflammatory comments about Indian migrants has now culminated in her sacking from the shadow ministry by Sussan Ley. In the lead-up to this decision by the opposition leader, Victorian senator Jane Hume described it as a situation that ‘escalated well out of control’. Hume speaks to chief political correspondent Tom McIlroy about the need for her party to rebuild the trust of mainstream Australia – and why she thinks this was eroded during the election campaign
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    29 minutos