Episodes

  • The Sunday Shot - Ep2

    The Sunday Shot - Ep2
    Feb 22 2025
    The Shot Podcast

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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • The Sunday Shot - Ep1

    The Sunday Shot - Ep1
    Feb 16 2025
    The Shot Podcast

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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • Straight Outta Queensland

    Straight Outta Queensland
    Jan 31 2025
    Ronni returns to the podcast for the first time in 2025, joining Jo and guest Lech Blaine. Lech draws on research from last year’s Quarterly Essay on Peter Dutton Bad Cop to analyse Dutton’s Trumpian takes before the gang discuss Lech's riveting, rollicking family memoir Australian Gospel.

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    47 mins
  • Happy New Election Year

    Happy New Election Year
    Jan 24 2025
    Jo and Dave crank their brains back into gear for the first podcast of 2025. They are joined by Thomas Mayo to discuss the challenges of post-Referendum Australia, the Nazification of MAGA and tiptoe through the annual January 26 Culture War. And they launch The Sunday Shot, the progressive alternative to Insiders coming in February.

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    38 mins
  • Farewell to All That

    Farewell to All That
    Dec 20 2024
    Jo, Dave and Ronni ruminate on the good and mostly bad moments of 2024 and look forward to 2025, which brings a Federal Election but the release of Ronni’s debut novel, Gunnawah. Set in Riverina in 1974 as the Whitlam years are transforming Australia, Jo and Dave quiz Ronni on the inspiration behind the book and the complicated dangerous local politics of the time.

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    42 mins
  • "A Carefully Constructed Charade"

    "A Carefully Constructed Charade"
    Dec 13 2024
    Jo and Dave talk with Chair of Private Media, publisher of Crikey and author of The Men Who Killed the News Eric Beecher on the future of journalism, the fallout for the Murdochs of the Nevada “Project Harmony” decision and whether Rupert is an horrific narcissistic psychopath with the power of immortality.

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    38 mins
  • Hanging the Parliament

    Hanging the Parliament
    Dec 6 2024

    Jo and Ronni get enjoyably down in the weeds with George Megalogenis to discuss all matters electoral: the Albanese Government’s prospects for a second term, Dutton’s efforts to thwart them and the disruption of our political duopoly as outlined in George’s new Quarterly Essay, Minority Report: The New Shape of Australian Politics.




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    46 mins
  • Democracy in Peril

    Democracy in Peril
    Nov 22 2024
    Jo and Dave talk to Zack Beauchamp, senior political writer at Vox and author of The Reactionary Spirit: How America’s Most Insidious Political Tradition Swept the World about the fragility of democracy and the autocratic agenda to destroy it from within.

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    45 mins