With this week’s announcement of the government’s Audit Commission members and terms of reference, Tony Abbott is starting to get his Rudd-like list of inquiries and reviews on the go. The beginning is…
What’s on the agenda in our final pre-election podcast?
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Welcome to the fifth of The Conversation’s Election 2013 podcasts. Each week The Conversation will be sitting down with Australia’s top political minds to discuss all things election as we gear up for…
Smile, it’s time for our fourth election podcast - a special edition straight from Queensland.
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Welcome to the fourth of The Conversation’s Election 2013 podcasts. Each week The Conversation will be sitting down with Australia’s top political minds to discuss all things election as we gear up for…
Pass the mic Kevin, it’s time for our special Sydney podcast.
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Welcome to the third of The Conversation’s Election 2013 podcasts. Each week The Conversation will be sitting down with Australia’s top political minds to discuss all things election as we gear up for…
Tony Abbott’s campaign ‘gaffes’ are on the agenda in the second of our election podcasts.
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Welcome to the second of The Conversation’s Election 2013 podcasts. Each week The Conversation will be sitting down with Australia’s top political minds to discuss all things election as we gear up for…
The election campaign for Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott has begun. Tune into our weekly podcasts for the best analysis of the week’s events.
Welcome to the first of The Conversation’s Election 2013 podcasts. Each week The Conversation will be sitting down with Australia’s top political minds to discuss all things election as we gear up for…
In this week’s The Conversation/ SBS News podcast we: examine the EU’s decision to drop the arms embargo on the Syrian opposition look at the growing evidence supporting an upright position for women giving…
In this week’s The Conversation/ SBS News podcast we: talk 457 visas and Australia’s “invisible” group of workers made up of backpackers and international students have a chuckle, via neuroscience, at…
In this week’s The Conversation/ SBS News podcast we: discuss controversial Tanzanian government plans to exclude Maasai tribespeople from some traditional pastoral lands in the name of wildlife conservation…
In this week’s The Conversation/ SBS News podcast our experts: discuss federal Labor’s plans to fund schools examine a spike in racism on public transport, or at least media coverage of such incidents…
Welcome to our new podcast series, which we’re delighted to have co-produced with SBS. In this episode, Eva Cox discusses the feminist legacy, or otherwise, of Margaret Thatcher; Suelette Dreyfus discusses…
Obama gets four more years in office.
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The race to the White House is over, and Barack Obama has won. Every week for two months, we’ve been talking to Australia’s top US experts on the ins and outs of the 2012 US presidential campaign as part…
Streets are covered by debris caused by Hurricane Sandy in New Jersey. How will it affect the presidential race?
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Welcome to part nine of our Race to the White House podcast series. Each week we’ll be talking to Australia’s top US experts on the ins and outs of the 2012 US presidential campaign. This week, we ask…
President Barack Obama casts his vote in Chicago.
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Welcome to part eight of our Race to the White House podcast series. Each week we’ll be talking to Australia’s top US experts on the ins and outs of the 2012 US presidential campaign. And as election day…
Obama gets his game on for the second presidential debate.
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Welcome to part seven of our Race to the White House podcast series. Each week we’ll be talking to Australia’s top US experts on the ins and outs of the 2012 US presidential campaign. This week, we discuss…
Welcome to part six of our Race to the White House podcast series. Each week we’ll be talking to Australia’s top US experts on the ins and outs of the 2012 US presidential campaign. This week, we take…
The challenger and defender: the first US presidential debate has changed the game for Romney and Obama.
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Welcome to part five of our Race to the White House podcast series. Each week we’ll be talking to Australia’s top US experts on the ins and outs of the 2012 US presidential campaign. This week, Romney…
President Barack Obama address the United Nations General Assembly this week.
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Welcome to part four of our Race to the White House podcast series. Each week we’ll be talking to Australia’s top US experts on the ins and outs of the 2012 US presidential campaign. This week, Binoy Kampmark…
It’s been a tough week for Mitt Romney. Can he turn it around?
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Welcome to part three of our Race to the White House pod cast series. Each week we’ll be talking to Australia’s top US experts on the ins and outs of the 2012 US presidential campaign. This week, Tim Verhoeven…
Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hilary Clinton arrive at a press conference for the death of the US Ambassador to Libya.
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Welcome to part two of our Race to the White House podcast series. Each week we’ll be talking to Australia’s top US experts on the ins and outs of the 2012 US presidential campaign. This week, Dennis Altman…
Professor in U.S. Politics and U.S. Foreign Relations at the United States Studies Centre and in the Discipline of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney