The Front

A new Attorney-General, Plibersek demoted, Dreyfus and Husic to the backbench: the thinking behind Anthony Albanese’s reshuffle - and who’ll be new Liberal leader?  Find out more about The Front podcast here. You can read about this story and more on The Australian's website or on The Australian’s app. This episode of The Front is presented and produced by Claire Harvey and edited by Tiffany Dimmack. Our team includes Kristen Amiet, Lia Tsamoglou, Joshua Burton, Stephanie Coombes and Jasper Leak, who also composed our music. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

China is cracking down on religious freedom and Pope Leo XIV faces a raging controversy about a deal his predecessor signed with Xi Xinping’s Communist Party. Today - how the China situation helped Leo defeat other contenders, and the dilemma he faces now.  Find out more about The Front podcast here. You can read about this story and more on The Australian's website or on The Australian’s app. This episode of The Front is presented and produced by Claire Harvey and edited by Jasper Leak, who also composed our theme. Our team also includes regular producer Kristen Amiet, Lia Tsamoglou, Tiffany Dimmack, Joshua Burton and Stephanie Coombes.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The nicest man in journalism and literature is Trent Dalton, our colleague here at The Australian and global bestselling author of Boy Swallows Universe. But he harbours a secret guilt, which he’s exploring in a new book, Gravity Let Me Go. Today, Trent Dalton and literary editor Caroline Overington in conversation.  Find out more about The Front podcast here. You can read about this story and more on The Australian's website or on The Australian’s app. This episode of The Front is presented by Claire Harvey, produced and edited by Jasper Leak who also composed our theme.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The 1974 murder of ‘Shotgun Johnny’ Regan has never been solved. Now, his family wants answers. That’s where The Australian’s new cold case investigation The Gangster’s Ghost comes in. Find out more about The Front podcast here. You can read about this story and more on The Australian's website or on The Australian’s app. This episode of The Front is presented by Claire Harvey, produced by Kristen Amiet and edited by Tiffany Dimmack. Our team includes Lia Tsamoglou, Joshua Burton, Stephanie Coombes and Jasper Leak, who also composed our music.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As missiles, artillery fire and claims of terrorism fly between India and Pakistan over the disputed territory of Kashmir, we ask Foreign Editor Greg Sheridan: will this be just another skirmish, or a full-on war?  Find out more about The Front podcast here. You can read about this story and more on The Australian's website or on The Australian’s app. This episode of The Front is presented and produced by Claire Harvey and edited by Jasper Leak. Our team includes Kristen Amiet, Lia Tsamoglou, Tiffany Dimmack, Joshua Burton and Stephanie Coombes. Our original music is by Jasper Leak.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The only survivor of a deadly mushroom lunch has told a jury after eating allegedly poisoned beef Wellington, he led a prayer for his niece, who is pleading not guilty to three counts of murder and one of attempted murder. Today - the first eyewitness account from a lunch that killed three people.  Find out more about The Front podcast here. You can read about this story and more on The Australian's website or on The Australian’s app. This episode of The Front is presented and produced by Claire Harvey and edited by Tiffany Dimmack. Our team includes Kristen Amiet, Lia Tsamoglou, Tiffany Dimmack, Joshua Burton, Stephanie Coombes and Jasper Leak, who also composed our music. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Greens are bragging they’ll host the balance of power. But how well did the Greens really do at this election - and could Labor and the Liberals team up to freeze them out altogether?  Find out more about The Front podcast here. You can read about this story and more on The Australian's website or on The Australian’s app. This episode of The Front is presented and produced by Claire Harvey and edited by Jasper Leak, who also composed our theme. Our team includes Kristen Amiet, Lia Tsamoglou, Tiffany Dimmack, Joshua Burton and Stephanie Coombes.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Medicare, energy, tax, workplace change and reconciliation: Federal Labor celebrates an historic victory and the devastated Liberals look for a new leader - and a new identity.  Find out more about The Front podcast here. You can read about this story and more on The Australian's website or on The Australian’s app. This episode of The Front is presented and produced by Claire Harvey, produced by and edited by Tiffany Dimmack. Our team includes Kristen Amiet, Lia Tsamoglou, Joshua Burton, Stephanie Coombes and Jasper Leak, who also composed our music. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As the annual controversy swirls around the finalists for the Archibald Prize, we look at an artwork that didn’t make the cut: a moving portrait of a remarkable Australian: Jewish leader Alex Ryvchin, who came here as a penniless Soviet refugee.  Find out more about The Front podcast here. You can read about this story and more on The Australian's website or on The Australian’s app. This episode of The Front is written and presented by Claire Harvey and produced and edited by Jasper Leak who also composed our theme.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Emotional testimony by Crown witness Simon Patterson in the murder trial of his wife Erin, who has pleaded not guilty to deliberately poisoning elderly relatives with death cap mushrooms.  Find out more about The Front podcast here. You can read about this story and more on The Australian's website or on The Australian’s app. This episode of The Front is presented and produced by Claire Harvey and edited by Jasper Leak. Our team includes Kristen Amiet, Lia Tsamoglou, Tiffany Dimmack, Joshua Burton and Stephanie Coombes. Our original music is by Jasper Leak.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.