Punters Politics

Last week, independent MP Helen Haines was the victim of a horrific attack outside her electorate office. Within hours, the online outrage machine had started, which raises a question: is Australian politics five to 10 years away from becoming the worst of America? Konrad is joined by Chas Licciardello, co-host of ABC’s Planet America, to ask how much of that is already here.

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This week, we’re joined by Alison Reeve from the Grattan Institute to ask who actually owns Australia’s gas and why we’re told taxing it is too complicated. We get into the petroleum resource rent tax, the export contracts Albo keeps pointing to, and the options on the table, from royalties to a super profits tax. And is now the right time to change it?

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This week, we’re joined by Chris Kohler, to break down the legal-ish scams companies use to take more of your money, from surveillance pricing to loyalty programs. We also get into housing: the CGT and negative gearing changes, and what a generation of millennials have been left with.

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I sat down with Ads Morris from the Redriven YouTube channel to talk about the cars we drive, and the political decisions behind them. From why our cars keep getting bigger, to the cars we can't buy here, to why so many new cars seem built not to last. I called it a car-spiracy. You decide if I'm wrong.

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This week, we dig into the Gold Coast mayor still running the council that approves his own property developments, a taxpayer-funded Mar-a-Lago trip that lined up suspiciously well with a $1.5 billion Trump Tower deal, and expense rorting that cost him a $2,000 fine. We score Albo's poker face against a journalist's "gotcha" question at a UN event, and launch a new segment, Married at First Bill, putting the government's new gas reservation policy through a red flag test to see if it's the real deal or a total catfish.

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This week, we bring in two experts to actually break down the Duty of Care bill. "Angertainment" author Ed Coper explains how algorithms exploit human psychology to manipulate us, and lawyer James Glissan, who's actually read the bill, walks through what it really says, what's overblown, and where the genuine problems are.

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This week, we break down Labor's invite-only $560 million grant scheme, and why one lucky golf club ended up $6 million richer. We also dig into the government's new "duty of care" bill for big tech, why it's being called censorship online, and what Meta has actually been caught doing over the years.

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This week, we lay out a series of "coincidences" involving Gina Rinehart's stock portfolio, Donald Trump's trading habits, and a war that broke out right in the middle of it all, and let you draw your own conclusions. We also break down the real numbers behind your pay rises since 2021, and why, despite what your payslip says, inflation and corporate profits have quietly cancelled most of them out. Plus a Lobbyist update on where our punter-funded lobbyist turned up this week, and the results of last week's gambling ads poll.

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This week, we break down Labor's shock loss of the safe seat of Secret Harbour to One Nation, and work out who actually deserves the blame. We crack the case on News Corp's viral "rents to rise 30%" headline and what they conveniently left out of the report it came from. We also get into the ACCC blocking Coles from opening a second Kalgoorlie supermarket, right as Coles posts a $1.25 billion profit. Plus, a fact-check on Tanya Plibersek's superannuation claims, and our first Punters Politics award for a politician who crossed the floor.

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This week, we look into WA Labor's Secret Harbour candidate and her past as a Woodside lobbyist, score Angus Taylor's latest attempt to scare punters about national debt, and give a Lobbyist update on our push to get inside Parliament House.

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