Australia Matters

By The Australia Institute

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Episode Date
Budget 2026: housing changes to slowly reverse decades of damage
May 14, 2026
Budget 2026: serious housing reforms but a missed opportunity to tax gas exports
May 13, 2026
The United States we thought we knew is gone
May 11, 2026
More pain coming as RBA hikes rates again
May 08, 2026
Is the national anti-corruption body failing?
May 07, 2026
Supreme Court guts voting rights as Iran war support hits new low
May 04, 2026
Inflation soars, but it's not as bad as it seems
Apr 30, 2026
Greens leader Larissa Waters on the housing crisis, gas exports & taxing the 1%
Apr 29, 2026
Correspondents' dinner attacked, MAGA confronts midterms
Apr 27, 2026
Ending Australia's great gas giveaway
Apr 23, 2026
David Pocock on getting a fair return for Australian gas
Apr 22, 2026
Trump is fighting for a worse deal with Iran
Apr 20, 2026
Trump chaos driving bleak economic outlook
Apr 16, 2026
US allies reassess as Trump undermines global security
Apr 15, 2026
Vance joyless as US-Iran negotiations fall apart
Apr 13, 2026
Will Trump send Australia into recession?
Apr 09, 2026
Yanis Varoufakis on misogyny, resistance and why everything could be different
Apr 08, 2026
It’s time to tax gas properly
Apr 02, 2026
Prices skyrocket but major fuel shortages "very unlikely"
Apr 01, 2026
The US has left itself with no good options in Iran
Mar 30, 2026
Fuel price gouging is…legal?!
Mar 26, 2026
How a gas export tax could transform Australia
Mar 25, 2026
Trump nixes Xi summit as Iran war escalates
Mar 23, 2026
Double pain for Australians as interest rate and oil price hikes bite
Mar 19, 2026
Australia’s fossil fuel subsidies are out of control
Mar 18, 2026
“No plan” and no end in sight for Trump’s “little excursion” in Iran
Mar 16, 2026
FFS: fossil fuel subsidies cost Australia $30,000 a minute
Mar 12, 2026
AUKUS drags Australia towards US-Israel war on Iran
Mar 11, 2026
Born to rule: Trump’s economy and the State of the Union
Mar 07, 2026
Future uncertain as US says war on Iran has ‘only just begun'
Mar 05, 2026
Gary Stevenson on wealth inequality and the rise of the far-right
Mar 03, 2026
The US and Israel attack Iran, foment chaos
Mar 02, 2026
Why the wealthiest don’t need another tax cut
Feb 26, 2026
“On the brink of extinction”: Niki Savva on the modern Liberal Party
Feb 25, 2026
The Mar-a-Lago model: how Trump is trying to dominate global governance
Feb 23, 2026
Real wages are down, but apparently inflation is all your fault
Feb 19, 2026
Joseph Stiglitz on super profits, capital gains and why corporate tax is good for democracy
Feb 18, 2026
The “president of peace” is helping revive the nuclear arms race
Feb 16, 2026
Are record property prices on the way (again)?
Feb 12, 2026
Australia’s climate crossroads
Feb 11, 2026
Democracy “dies in darkness” and Trump is trying to turn out the lights
Feb 09, 2026
How Australian high schools became the most expensive in the developed world
Feb 05, 2026
"They rushed this": why the Reserve Bank got it wrong by raising rates
Feb 04, 2026
Why MAGA is here to stay with Don Watson
Feb 02, 2026
BONUS EPISODE | Stephen Miller, the architect
Jan 30, 2026
BREAKING: Australia's housing market still cooked
Jan 29, 2026
How Australia can chart its own course in an uncertain world
Jan 28, 2026
“Living within a lie”: Carney’s eulogy to the international order
Jan 26, 2026
Does the government understand its own hate laws?
Jan 21, 2026
US extorts Europe in effort to acquire Greenland
Jan 19, 2026
"Chaotic cruelty": Trump administration escalating violence at home and abroad
Jan 15, 2026
Parliament returning early to debate new anti-hate & gun laws
Jan 14, 2026
US invades Venezuela, threatens Greenland while ICE wreaks havoc
Jan 09, 2026
What can be done to fix the PALM scheme? | PALMed Off, Episode 4
Jan 07, 2026
Is Australia failing its duty of care? | PALMed Off, Episode 3
Jan 07, 2026
Workers are people, not commodities | PALMed Off, Episode 2
Jan 07, 2026
Modern slavery in Australia? | PALMed Off, Episode 1
Jan 06, 2026
Summer Special | Did the US play a role in the Whitlam dismissal?
Dec 30, 2025
Our shared humanity
Dec 18, 2025
Look after yourselves and each other
Dec 17, 2025
It's a time for bravery
Dec 11, 2025
Will Canada follow Australia’s disastrous path on gas?
Dec 10, 2025
“Maximum lethality”: the US military under the Trump administration
Dec 09, 2025
Is this growth...good?!
Dec 04, 2025
Highway to hell? Reversing the decline of Australian music
Dec 03, 2025
The nuclear option
Dec 01, 2025
This inequality isn't inevitable
Nov 27, 2025
What have the scientists ever done for us?
Nov 26, 2025
Did the US play a role in the Whitlam dismissal?
Nov 24, 2025
The gas industry’s “huge con”
Nov 20, 2025
Mike Rann: how Albanese can leave a brave climate legacy
Nov 19, 2025
"Anti-achievement" Democrats let pressure off Trump
Nov 17, 2025
How bad policy created a housing crisis
Nov 13, 2025
Defending nature with Bob Brown
Nov 12, 2025
Democrats sweep to victory after shutdown becomes longest ever
Nov 10, 2025
Inflation beats employment by the length of the straight (sigh)
Nov 06, 2025
A broken university system is letting Australia down
Nov 05, 2025
"Everything is uncertain": Trump-Xi meeting leaves the world on edge
Nov 03, 2025
Reddit to the rescue: watchdog sues Microsoft after AI price-hike complaints
Oct 30, 2025
Mates’ rates and why Australia can’t have nice things
Oct 29, 2025
Trust Trump to be Trump
Oct 27, 2025
How gold became a memecoin
Oct 23, 2025
Albanese visits Trump as US democracy circles a golden drain
Oct 22, 2025
No peace without accountability: Sydney Peace Laureate Navi Pillay
Oct 19, 2025
Pots and kettles: Trump trades barbs with China over trade
Oct 16, 2025
Fixing Australia's "arse-backwards" environment laws
Oct 15, 2025
Trump’s shutdown power play
Oct 13, 2025
Housing affordability to get worse as big corporates do annual tax magic
Oct 09, 2025
Australia is a rich country that taxes like a poor one
Oct 08, 2025
Trump's plan no path to lasting peace
Oct 07, 2025
The housing market just got more cooked
Oct 02, 2025
Will Australia step up on the global stage?
Oct 01, 2025
Our mate Donald
Sep 29, 2025
How ScoMo stuffed the GST
Sep 25, 2025
Government still ignoring climate reality
Sep 24, 2025
MAGA deifies Kirk as Australia recognises Palestine
Sep 22, 2025
The biggest risk to Australia’s economy
Sep 18, 2025
AUKUS and Australian sovereignty with Doug Cameron
Sep 17, 2025
The mindless menace of violence
Sep 15, 2025
Robodebt and super tax: Rob the poor, feed the rich?
Sep 11, 2025