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Australian Politics

Australian Politics

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 Guardian Australia's political team examine what’s happening in Australian politics and why it matters to you© 2026 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. Politics & Government
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  • Guardian Essential report: Australians don’t want the war on Iran – Australian politics podcast

    Guardian Essential report: Australians don’t want the war on Iran – Australian politics podcast
    Mar 26 2026
    After Australia became one of the first countries to back the US’s war on Iran, this month’s poll shows voters are questioning Canberra’s relationship with the US and an increasingly unpredictable Donald Trump. Political reporter Josh Butler and Essential Media executive director Peter Lewis discuss why Australians want the government to broaden our diplomatic relationships and if voters are blaming the government for being dragged along on Trump’s latest alarming intervention
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    28 mins
  • Andrew Hastie on Trump’s 'overconfident' Iran war and resurrecting the Liberals

    Andrew Hastie on Trump’s 'overconfident' Iran war and resurrecting the Liberals
    Mar 26 2026
    This week, as fallout from the US-Israel war on Iran continues, a fuel crisis lashed Australian hip pockets harder than ever before. All while the Liberal party faces its own existential reckoning: voters moving moving further right towards One Nation. Political editor Tom McIlroy speaks to the shadow minister for industry and sovereign capability, Andrew Hastie, about Australia’s response to the global fuel shock, why he thinks we need to re-industrialise and his vision for the Liberal party’s response to One Nation
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    29 mins
  • How the war on Iran is disrupting Australia’s national security and politics

    How the war on Iran is disrupting Australia’s national security and politics
    Mar 20 2026
    With the US and Israel’s war on Iran continuing to send waves of disruption around the world, Guardian Australia political editor Tom McIlroy speaks to two guests about the impact of the conflict on Australia. Jennifer Parker, a defence and national security expert who has served three times in the Middle East with the Australian navy, talks about the US strategy for the conflict and what the chokepoint in the strait of Hormuz means for Australia’s economic and defence stability. Phillip Coorey, the political editor of the Australian Financial Review, discusses the political challenge for Labor – as Jim Chalmers responds to this week’s rate hike by the Reserve Bank, while also managing predictions of economic shocks caused by the war
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    39 mins
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