Australian Politics

This week, Guardian Australia’s politics team Paul Karp, Amy Remeikis, Josh Butler and Daniel Hurst sit down to answer your questions. Is the rate of jobseeker too low? What is next for the Coalition? And how influential is Sky News, anyway?

Chief political correspondent Paul Karp is joined by Essential Media’s Peter Lewis to analyse the latest Guardian Essential poll. Together they discuss majority support for the Indigenous voice to parliament and Peter Dutton’s championing of the no campaign, as well as the appetite for changes to privacy laws and public opinion of the government and opposition

Chief political correspondent Paul Karp and political reporter Josh Butler are joined by the Berowra MP and former shadow cabinet minister Julian Leeser, where they discuss the referendum on the Indigenous voice to parliament, his resignation this week from the shadow cabinet and the future direction of the Liberal party

Chief political correspondent Paul Karp is joined by Liberal senator James Paterson, the shadow minister for cybersecurity and countering foreign interference to discuss Aukus, the continued fallout from the Aston byelection, and the dangers of TikTok

Chief political correspondent, Paul Karp, is joined by Essential Media’s Peter Lewis to analyse the latest Guardian Essential poll. They discuss climate policy and emissions caps, cost of living, protocol for deciding to go to war and the prime minister’s approval rating

Chief political correspondent Paul Karp is joined by the Greens’ housing spokesperson Max Chandler-Mather to discuss the housing crisis, Labor’s climate policy and the Indigenous voice to parliament

Chief political correspondent Paul Karp is joined by Labor MP Peter Khalil who is chair of the parliamentary joint committee on intelligence and security. They discuss the 20th anniversary of the Iraq war, the Aukus deal, Julian Assange and politically motivated violent extremism Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast

Chief political correspondent, Paul Karp, is joined by Essential Media’s Peter Lewis to analyse the latest Guardian Essential poll. Together, they discuss public opinion on the Aukus nuclear submarines and whether the deal will remain part of the national discussion; the dip in support for the voice to parliament and the upcoming NSW State election Guardian Essential poll: Perrottet the preferred NSW premier but both parties’ election policies fail to excite Selling the Aukus deal to the public presents clear challenges for the Labor government

This week new details on the Aukus defence partnership were finally announced, including that the government is planning to spend up to $368bn on nuclear powered submarines. Deputy prime minister and defence minister Richard Marles speaks with foreign affairs and defence correspondent Daniel Hurst. Marles argues the agreement with the UK and US won’t affect the stabilisation of our relationship with China and that Australia’s sovereignty will not be compromised by a reliance on US defence capabilities Aukus submarine deal will be ‘too big to fail’, Richard Marles says Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast

Political editor Katharine Murphy speaks to economics writers Shane Wright and Greg Jericho about inflation and whether the reserve bank is doing its best to curb it, any prospects of a recession and the upcoming budget