Best of 2023: The cocaine boom behind Sydney’s gang wars

Today, we're bringing you an episode from our archive. Over the last couple of months, Sydney’s streets have been plagued by murder after murder. They’re a byproduct of turf warfare, linked to the lucrative cocaine trade. We’ve seen this carnage before, in various parts of NSW. But we’re now in t…

Best of 2023: Roe v Wade shocked the world. What's happened since?

Today, we're bringing you an episode from our archive. For nearly 50 years, women in the United States were protected, by federal law, from having to carry an unwanted pregnancy. They gained this right, in 1973, thanks to the historic Supreme Court judgement in the Roe v Wade case.  This held unt…

Best of 2023: Was the woman dubbed “Australia’s worst female serial killer” wrongly convicted?

Today, we're bringing you an episode from our archive. Most Australians know the name Lindy Chamberlain. She’s famously the victim of what’s been called “the most notorious miscarriage of justice” in Australian legal history. She was wrongfully convicted of murdering her nine-week old daughter, Az…

Best of 2023: Stan Grant, the ABC, and Australia’s racism problem

Today, we're bringing you an episode from our archive. In May 2023, Stan Grant announced that he would be leaving the ABC and standing down as the host of its Q+A program. His decision, and the torrent of abuse that prompted it, has led to a reckoning about how responsible the media is for the rac…

Best of 2023: The trial of Malka Leifer

Today, we're bringing you an episode from our archive. A jury has found Malka Leifer guilty of rape and indecent assault, drawing a close to a trial that had been a decade in the making. The former principal of the ultra-orthodox Jewish school had been accused of sexually abusing former students …

Best of 2023: How millions of dollars in detention money went to Pacific politicians

Today, we're bringing you an episode from our archive. Australia's Home Affairs Department used vast sums of taxpayer money to fund suspect payments to powerful Pacific Island politicians, specifically to run offshore processing of asylum seekers on Nauru and Manus Island. A major investigation b…

Best of 2023: Why are thousands of students enrolled in college, but not studying?

Today, we're bringing you an episode from our archive. They stand largely empty, hiding in plain sight, their little-used classrooms scattered through office buildings in cities across the country. In the exploding foreign education industry, they call them ‘ghost colleges’. These colleges are su…

Best of 2023: Could an unexpected group of delegates set Julian Assange free?

Today, we're bringing you an episode from our archive. It’s been 17 years since Julian Assange created Wikileaks, the online publisher of classified documents that has changed politics forever. For eleven of those years, Assange has either been in hiding, or in prison. But why is Assangestill in …

Inside Politics: Interest rates, housing affordability and the economy - what can we expect in 2024?

It has been a busy year in Australian politics.  We voted no to the Voice to Parliament. Three state premiers resigned. The government legislated industrial relations changes and housing affordability measures.  But the throughline of the year, and the main concern of ordinary voters, was the sta…

'A live performance’: Higgins, Lehrmann and the internet trial

We have been bystanders to the saga of the Bruce Lehrmann and Brittany Higgins case for nearly three years now. If one thing has defined the devastating set of lawsuits, it’s been a lack of definitive answers about allegations that a rape occurred in the office of then-defence industry minister, L…