19. An obvious thing happened in Victoria

Victoria went to the polls for the second time this year, returning the Andrews government with an increased majority, and the slow motion collapse of the Liberal party continues. Steve …

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 …

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, …

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 …