18. The Year of Two Budgets
Budget nerds got a second Christmas this year, with the Albanese government fulfilling their election promise of holding another budget if they were elected. National Vice Presidents Elana Mitchell and …
17. The King of Australia
The Queen is dead. Long live the King of Australia. It felt like the world came to a stop for a number of days with the passing of her majesty …
16. Jobs, Summits, and Tax Cuts
National Vice Presidents Elana Mitchell and Steve Baty take a look at the Albanese Government’s jobs summit, the Stage 3 tax cuts (and the government’s weird determination to die on …
15. Scott Morrison’s Secret Government
The revelations that Scott Morrison had himself appointed as minister to five other portfolios without telling the incumbent ministers or the Australian public, and the ramifications of this trashing of …
14. Post election round up with Leonie Green
And we’re back! We had an inadvertent hiatus after the election due to various illnesses and commitments getting in the way, but Elana and Steve are back in the podcast …
13. Meet Our Candidates
Meet our lead Senate candidates for Victoria and South Australia (and the ones for Western Australia and New South Wales, but they’ll be pretty familiar!), as they discuss our Accountability, …
12. The Senate – What is it good for? (Absolutely everything)
On the eve of an election, Steve and Elana find themselves with questions about the Senate, and how it works. Luckily, former Senator and National President Lyn Allison is on …
11. Budget nerds ASSEMBLE!
Young Democrat Rhiannon Kernot joins us to conduct an autopsy on the final budget of the 46th Parliament of Australia. It’s a budget that’s political, short term, and not really …
10. Smart Enough to Love SCIENCE!
Greg Wah, science communicator extraordinaire and co-host of the immortal-in-podcast-years Smart Enough to Know Better podcast joined Elana and Steve to yell at them about science, why it’s awesome and …
9. Refugees: Towards A Politics of Responsibility
Aaand we’re back! We didn’t mean to drop one episode about the bin fire of 2021 and then have a hiatus for a few weeks, but Steve and Elana got …