WTF Super Saturday?!?!!? This is the audio of our live Twitter show ‘Super Sunday Brunch’ wrapping up everything that happened across the five by-elections and how the polls/pundits got it so wrong! Featuring an IV with Labor senator Doug Camer

Episode 44: No Then Yes Then No Again

Jun 27th, 2018 50m 6s

Bill Shorten makes a captain’s call. Anthony Albanese makes a speech. IS IT ON in the Labor Party? Probably not tbh but it’s always fun to speculate!Alice chats to workplace minister Craig Laundy and Labor frontbencher Ed Husic on the live show

Episode 43: Malcolm Turnbull Loves Sport

Jun 20th, 2018 48m 32s

Got a problem streaming the World Cup (that has nothing to do with the NBN because that is totally working just fine ok thanks for asking)? Malcolm Turnbull will fix it! Or make a phone call complaining about it to the Optus CEO. Good luck to M

Episode 42: Cash Wednesday

May 30th, 2018 50m 10s

Michaelia Cash has been reissued with a subpoena for the AWU’s court challenge against the raids on their offices last October. What does it mean (nothing really, we don’t have a court date). ALSO we finally get to the truth of the infamous WHI

Episode 41: $7 Bunnings Suits

May 23rd, 2018 47m 11s

Here’s one we (partially) recorded earlier! Nick’s filling in for Lane while she’s on holidays.It’s episode two of our Twitter show #BFOzPol LIVE from the BuzzFeed bunker in Parliament House, on a sitting week Wednesday at 11am. Labor senator K

Episode 40: Malcolm's Marine Biologists

May 1st, 2018 5m 12s

A quick update from Alice about a super exciting project happening on 09 May, the morning after Scott Morrison’s not-Christmas-in-May Budget. #BFOzPol

Episode 39: 29 Not Out

Mar 29th, 2018 35m 58s

Privyet! Malcolm Turnbull has lost his 29th Newspoll in a row, but somehow the Australian cricket team's had a worse week. Also, foreign minister Julie Bishop booted two Russians, who may or may not be spies, out of the country. We’ll let the R

Episode 38: Dead To Me

Mar 23rd, 2018 30m 34s

Alice faces off against minister Michaelia Cash at a press conference in Parliament House. It only lasted a minute, but was pretty lit. Also, Peter Dutton says the “crazy lefties” at the ABC are dead to him over their reporting about farmers in

Episode 37: Blinded By The White(board)

Mar 2nd, 2018 32m 50s

Michaelia Cash literally hid behind a whiteboard after threatening to publicly name all the young women in Bill Shorten’s office that she’s heard ~rumours~ about. Yes, that really happened. We’ll explain why. Also we have the latest update on t

Episode 36: BARNA-BYE

Feb 24th, 2018 31m 51s

Former Kiwi Barnaby Joyce has finally resigned as deputy prime minister and leader of the Nationals… but who will succeed him? Can you even name another Nat? And does Joyce know how to use a tea towel? We also discuss Mathias Cormann’s time in

Episode 35: It’s Keneally Over

Dec 15th, 2017 57m 1s

In the final podcast for 2017, Alice and Lane take a look back on the highs and lows of the year in Australian politics. We rope in two #auspol experts – Rob Harris (Herald Sun) and Michael Koziol (Sydney Morning Herald) – to name their 2017 p

Episode 34: Let’s Get Married ❤️💛💚💙💜

Dec 8th, 2017 47m 19s

Australian parliament made history this week by legalising same-sex marriage. Join Alice and Lane as they rudely interrupt people literally toasting with champagne at the official after party in Canberra. We chat to Liberal MP Tim Wilson about

Episode 33: Malcolm’s Bankflip

Dec 1st, 2017 56m 45s

What a week in Canberra! Malcolm Turnbull backflips and announces a banking royal commission, but is happy to let everybody else take the credit. What does this U-turn, and Labor’s likely Queensland election victory, mean for his leadership? Al

Episode 32: It’s My Parli And I’ll Sit If I Want To

Nov 24th, 2017 56m 21s

Parliament is CANCELLED!!! Well, kind of. Malcolm Turnbull called a stop work for the House of Representatives – while the Senate debates same-sex marriage. The race is tightening in Bennelong, after BuzzFeed News uncovered an old video of John

Episode 31: YES 🌈

Nov 17th, 2017 1h 15m

Alice and Lane take you inside the celebrations and negotiations of an historic week in Australia, where 61.6% of the country voted YES to legalising same-sex marriage. We’re joined by three of the politicians who have been at the forefront of

Episode 30: It's Bennelong Time

Nov 10th, 2017 53m 32s

Will it be game, set and match for potential Brit John Alexander? The PM’s jumped the Sharkie as the list of possible dual citizens grows … can we officially call this a crisis? We chat to Greens leader Richard Di Natale who reckons the Turnbul

Episode 29: Yer a Briton, Parry!

Nov 3rd, 2017 1h 3m

Alice and Lane have all the receipts on the latest politician to fall foul of Section 44, dual British-Australian Liberal senator from Tasmania, Stephen Parry, plus the details on the others in the Citizenship 7: Where are they now? Who is repl

Episode 28: Cash Didn’t Check

Oct 27th, 2017 1h 1m

This week Alice was a serious thorn in the government’s side with a wild story about Michaelia Cash and the AFP raids being leaked to the media. She also spoke to former prime minister Kevin Rudd about his new book, which is 100% absolutely not

Episode 27: Jacinda And Winston And NZ Oh My!

Oct 20th, 2017 1h 17m

This week Lane and Alice are bowled over by news from New Zealand: Jacinda Ardern of “Jacindamania” fame will be the next prime minister! Lane talks to “yes” campaign leader Tiernan Brady about what he thinks the REAL slippery slope is and doub

Episode 26: Low Road To The High Court

Oct 13th, 2017 55m 35s

Lane and Alice have the full wrap on what’s happened with the High Court citizenship mess, and whether Jacinda Ardern’s ginger cake will help win her the NZ election (yes we are still waiting). We also meet the first female Victorian Greens lea

Episode 25: Shorten Raps, Xenophon Wraps

Oct 6th, 2017 58m 5s

Alice and Lane are shook by Nick Xenophon’s announcement that he’s quitting federal politics. US academic David Smith joins us to explain why Americans continue to love guns in the wake of another mass shooting in Las Vegas. Also Bill Shorten r

Episode 24: Exit Through The Thrift Shop

Sep 29th, 2017 57m 52s

Alice is horrified to discover Lane is going to the NRL football grand final to investigate who this Macklemore character is, and why he is getting involved in the postal survey. Also, we find out if life as we know it will be over if Australia

Episode 23: Jacindamania

Sep 21st, 2017 59m 56s

Kia ora! Alice and Lane chat to the woman behind the ‘Jacindamania youthquake’ — the new leader of New Zealand’s Labour party, 37-year-old Jacinda Ardern — ahead of NZ’s national election. We get some frank advice from National education minist

Episode 22: Stay On Message

Sep 15th, 2017 58m 30s

Lane goes head-to-head with Australian Christian Lobby boss and spokesperson for the “no” camp Lyle Shelton. Is Australia really homophobic? And should people be able to refuse service to gay couples? Oh! And Olivia Newton John came to parliame

Episode 21: Less Tweets More Meets

Sep 8th, 2017 55m 1s

Alice and Lane are triple-parked with guests this week! Greens senator Janet Rice reacts to the High Court decision against her legal challenge to the same-sex marriage postal survey, and Labor senator Murray Watt thinks the government is ignor