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In their penultimate episode for the year, Barrie Cassidy and Tony Barry unpack an eventful week at the UN and look at how Australia is dealing with a new reality with the United States. They also discuss Andrew Hastie pulling the Liberal party to the right and why politicians need to court social media influencers if they want to increase their vote

Anthony Albanese was at the United Nations this week, taking to the stage to call for unity in times of global conflict. But the headlines were dominated by Donald Trump, whose words told a much different story. At times, the lies and mistruths came so fast it was difficult for journalists to keep up. So how do journalists cover disinformation when it spreads to Australia so rapidly? Bridie Jabour talks to the editor, Lenore Taylor, and the national news editor, Josephine Tovey, about the globalisation of misinformation and why facts are more important than ever

The race discrimination commissioner, Giri Sivaraman, speaks to Nour Haydar about the recent spate of anti-immigration rallies, how he is ‘attacked all the time’ for calling out racism, and why some politicians don’t want to talk about the issue

On Thursday, Optus users across four states attempted to call for help – but they couldn’t get through. The 13-hour outage has been linked to three deaths and met with outrage. RMIT telecommunications expert Mark Gregory speaks to Reged Ahmad about what went so terribly wrong that day, and why it’s time for urgent reform to ensure it never happens again

On Monday, standing outside the UN headquarters in the US, Anthony Albanese announced Australia’s formal recognition of Palestine as a sovereign and independent state. Guardian Australia’s political editor Tom McIlroy speaks to Nour Haydar from New York on why the prime minister chose this moment to make the landmark decision and whether the move will deepen the divide between Australia and the US on the war in Gaza

Netball is the highest-participation sport for women and girls in Australia, but with only a handful of spots available in the Super Netball – the world’s best professional league – it’s a hard-fought battle at the top. Netball and football commentator Georgia Rajic tells Reged Ahmad how the rise of other viable sporting careers such as AFLW is causing some netballers to look elsewhere for opportunities rather than spending years waiting on the sidelines

The Albanese government has put a number on its climate ambition: a target of a 62-70% emissions cut compared to 2005 levels. It comes after the release of the national climate risk assessment, which described a disastrous future for Australians on a warming planet. In this bonus episode of the Australian Politics podcast, climate and environment editor Adam Morton speaks to the chair of the Climate Change Authority, Matt Kean, on the advice that informed the government’s long-awaited emissions reduction target for 2035 Read more: What is a climate target, and how does Australia’s new one for 2035 stack up against other countries? Albanese’s Oprah-style emissions target aims to please almost everyone but risks falling short on climate action How vulnerable are Australia’s cities to extreme heat? Explore our maps

Barrie Cassidy and Tony Barry examine the politics of climate policy after Anthony Albanese revealed Australia’s 2035 emissions target. They also discuss the prime minister’s failure to secure a defence treaty in Papua New Guinea, Donald Trump’s clash with an ABC journalist and why recent polling shows some voters are moving to the right.

This week Anthony Albanese left the comforts of his high approval rating at home to land in the Pacific, hoping to sign historic defence agreements with Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu. But he has returned to Australia empty-handed, with the influence of China looming large over negotiations. The prime minister now heads to the US where a high-stakes meeting with Donald Trump poses its own challenges. Bridie Jabour talks to deputy editor Gabrielle Jackson, head of newsroom Mike Ticher and political editor Tom Mcllroy about the tricky diplomatic tightrope the PM is walking

In 2016, Australian mother Sally Faulkner made global headlines after a botched attempt at retrieving her children from her ex-husband in Lebanon. Now, after a decade of separation, documents released to the Guardian by a US court show she’s been reunited with her children. Nour Haydar speaks to Michael Safi, the presenter of Guardian Investigates, about this extraordinary case and how Faulkner returned to Queensland with her children