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The quiet force behind Labor’s landslide
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/podcast/the-quiet-force-behind-labors-landslide
Published: May 15, 2025 19:14
When Labor insiders are asked who was responsible for their thumping election victory, one name keeps coming up: Paul Erickson. Even though Erickon likes to keep a low profile, Anthony Albanese made a point of thanking him in his victory speech on election…
Kevin Wilson Is Wonderfully Weird
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/podcast/kevin-wilson-wonderfully-weird
Published: May 14, 2025 19:35
Kevin Wilson writes weird books about weird people — in the best possible way. In 2019’s Nothing to See Here, two children have a condition that means they spontaneously combust. In Now Is Not the Time to Panic, two lonely young artists wreak havoc on…
Can Sussan Ley rebuild the Coalition?
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/podcast/can-sussan-ley-rebuild-the-coalition
Published: May 14, 2025 18:28
Three years ago this month, Sussan Ley stood beside Peter Dutton as his deputy, the newly installed pair projecting confidence about the contest ahead. Ley backed Dutton enthusiastically. But now, in 2025, she faces the public as the Coalition’s new leader…
‘Factional assassins’ and Albanese’s new ministry
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/podcast/factional-assassins-and-albaneses-new-ministry
Published: May 13, 2025 19:32
When Anthony Albanese’s new ministry was sworn in this week, it was overshadowed by the axing of Ed Husic and Mark Dreyfus. Husic in particular didn’t go quietly, calling Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles a “factional assassin”. After a landslide…
Julia Banks on what it’s like to be a woman in the Liberal party
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/podcast/julia-banks-what-its-be-woman-the-liberal-party
Published: May 12, 2025 19:42
Today, the Liberal party will elect a new leader. Whoever is chosen will have to figure out how to attract women back to the party – both candidates and voters. But Julia Banks thinks that ship has sailed and it’s time for a new coalition. Today, the…
The Greens ‘stunning’ election defeat
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/podcast/the-greens-stunning-election-defeat
Published: May 11, 2025 19:00
Just before 4.30pm last Wednesday, Antony Green called it for the ABC: Greens leader Adam Bandt had lost his seat. Fifteen years after Bandt won the inner-urban seat of Melbourne from the ALP, Labor has taken it back – along with two of the Greens’ other…
Anthony Albanese’s next big test
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/podcast/anthony-albaneses-next-big-test
Published: May 8, 2025 19:23
A week ago, most pundits were predicting a hung parliament as the likely outcome of Australia’s federal election. Instead, Labor has secured one of its largest majorities in recent decades – eclipsing even Bob Hawke’s first-term result. Anthony Albanese…
What’s On Jessica Stanley’s Bookshelves?
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/podcast/whats-jessica-stanleys-bookshelves
Published: May 7, 2025 19:55
London-based Australian author Jessica Stanley’s second novel, Consider Yourself Kissed, opens with all the beats of a classic romantic comedy – a meet-cute, a grand gesture, instant attraction – but what follows is a book about the next bit, the day to…
How ASIO’s pursuit of people smugglers really works
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/podcast/how-asios-pursuit-people-smugglers-really-works
Published: May 7, 2025 18:11
After the invasion of Afghanistan, Ali Jafari fled the Taliban regime and was resettled as a refugee in Australia. But then, while visiting Pakistan, his permanent residency was suddenly cancelled. Now, 12 years later, he’s still stranded – separated from…
Firebombs and gang wars: The bloody fallout of Australia’s tobacco crackdown
Published: May 6, 2025 19:26
In January, Katie Tangey was killed in a Melbourne house fire believed to be part of the ongoing “tobacco wars”. Police say she was an innocent victim and the arsonists got the wrong address. The tobacco wars are driven by rival gangs fighting over a black…