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Political advertisements are becoming more targeted in the online age, but their ability to persuade voters can still vary. Senior reporter Tory Shepherd joins Jane Lee to discuss the various political ads of the 2022 federal election campaign

In a special episode the Guardian Australia politics team answers listeners’ questions on the election campaign, including minor party preferences and how they will effect the outcome, why wages rises are controversial but tax cuts are not, and the blurring of lines between government grants and election promises

After the final leaders’ debate, Katharine Murphy joins Jane Lee to reflect on the unique challenges of campaigning to a disillusioned and weary electorate in the middle of a pandemic

Vladimir Putin’s Victory Day speech revealed a man facing one of the biggest decisions of his presidency: to escalate or de-escalate the war in Ukraine. Andrew Roth reports

The PM calls the opposition leader a ‘loose unit’ for supporting a rise in the minimum wage. Anthony Albanese responds that Scott Morrison is ‘loose with the truth’. Paul Karp talks to Jane Lee about what this all means for wages and the campaign

In Queensland, a big swing away from the Labor party in 2019 was a decisive factor in their defeat. However the political landscape in some seats has shifted, largely due to the rise of minor parties, a series of climate disasters, and an evolving view on the future of coal in key rural seats.Guardian Australia’s Queensland correspondent Ben Smee talks to voters in metropolitan and regional areas about what will decide their vote, and speaks to Laura Murphy-Oates about how an unpredictable climate of change in the state could affect the election

Today the leaders promised to spend big on Melbourne and Sydney transport, while Alan Tudge answered tough questions on the federal election campaign trail. And Daniel Hurst talks to Jane Lee about why the government has gone quiet on Australian Defence Force reforms designed to prevent unlawful killings

With house prices and rents continuing to soar across Australia, the major parties are talking up their respective homebuying policies on the campaign trail, but will these policies actually fix Australia’s housing affordability crisis? Laura Murphy-Oates speaks to economics reporter Peter Hannam and Prof Hal Pawson about the housing policies of Labor, the Coalition and the Greens, and what impact they would have on housing affordability

The fifth week of the campaign kicked off with the second debate between Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese. Katharine Murphy tells Jane Lee that beyond the noisy clashes, there were strategies designed to capture as many prepoll voters as possible

A leaked draft opinion lays out the supreme court’s plans to overturn Roe v Wade. It is something abortion activists have long feared – and will have lasting repercussions for all Americans, reports Jessica Glenza