Saturday Extra - Full program podcast

After Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney's loss in the Wyoming primary to a Trump-endorsed candidate we discuss the future of the GOP, her possible run for President, and what this all means for the Democrats. 

Liz Chaney and the Republican Party, steps toward increasing electric vehicles in Australia and the outgoing NSW Minister for Customer Services Victor Dominello, reflects on digital reform. 

The economics to growing up - A new academic analysis of 21 billion Facebook friendships sheds like on class and social mobility

Analysis of the week's events, with a special focus on business and foreign affairs

Serious teacher shortage – Schools are at breaking point unable to find enough teachers. Classes are having to be merged, and teachers are being lured out of retirement to plug holes. The crisis is across public, catholic, and independent schools and has hit cities immune from previous shortages. AITSL chief executive Mark Grant

and a history of the Country Women's Association

Sri Lankan military ‘whatever it takes’ - with the Sri Lankan president fleeing to the Maldives the Prime Minister has ordered the military to contains protestors. Dr Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu, Executive Director, Centre for Policy Alternative Sri Lanka 

Wellness in schools:  The Victorian government has committed $200 million to place well being leaders in the state's primary schools by 2026.  But what exactly is wellbeing?  How do you define it - and even more importantly how is it attained? Dr Annie Gowing, University of Melbourne and  Helen Aguiar is the principal of Perth College, an Anglican school for girls

How to argue well: Bo Seo is a two-time world champion debater and a former coach of the Australian national debating team and the Harvard College Debating Union. His new book “Good Arguments: How debate teaches us to listen and be heard” is published by Penguin.  Bo Seo discusses how to argue well, if at all, in an increasingly polarised world

and what happens when Fox News watchers switch over to CNN?