Behind the Lines
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Behind the Lines
Come behind the scenes at the Guardian Australia newsroom. We talk to our journalists about the stories they’ve written and how they came to write them. If there are particular articles you’d like us to discuss, please do get in touch
Recent Episodes
49 episodes
Introducing Breathless: The Death of David Dungay Jnr
Indigenous man David Dungay Jr died in Sydney’s Long Bay jail after a disagreement about a packet of biscuits. Our new podcast explores the questions...
How did we start Guardian Australia? Behind the lines podcast
In 2012 Katharine Viner’s editor, Alan Rusbridger, took her aside and proposed starting a branch of the Guardian in Australia. A few months later she...
Tim Winton on men, boys and writing 'with my heart in my mouth' – Behind the Lines podcast
In a speech recorded in March at The School of Life in Melbourne, the Australian author explains how writing The Shepherd’s Hut got him thinking about...
Introducing Common Ground – Behind the Lines podcast
Gabrielle Jackson introduces you to our latest Guardian Australia podcast: Common Ground. Lenore Taylor and Rebecca Huntley bring four very different...
Brigid Delaney on wellness: yoga, colonics and 'the commodification of spirituality' – Behind the Lines podcast
The Guardian columnist Brigid Delaney talks with Gabrielle Jackson and Bonnie Malkin about the highs and lows of the years she spent researching her n...
Sexual assault and Australian universities: how big is the problem? – Behind the Lines podcast
‘This is not a feminist issue. This is a public health issue,’ says Amy Ziering on the prevalence of sexual assault on university campuses in the USA....
'Trump can't stop progress on climate change' – Behind the Lines podcast
With action in countries around the world and on the ground at a state level in the US, is Donald Trump’s position on climate change irrelevant? Marti...
Black Lives Matter: 'We're trying to re-imagine humanity' – Behind the Lines podcast
Calla Wahlquist talks to Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of Black Lives Matter and Aboriginal activist Latoya Rule, whose brother Wayne Morrison died in...
Katharine Viner and Lenore Taylor: Does the truth matter? - Behind The Lines Podcast
The ABC’s Mark Colvin joins Guardian’s editor-in-chief Katharine Viner and Guardian Australia’s editor Lenore Taylor to discuss the changing face of j...
Thomas Frank: Donald Trump is right but a hypocrite – Behind the Lines podcast
When the US president talked about ‘the forgotten men and women of our country, people who work hard but no longer have a voice’ he connected with vot...
How 'alt-right' ideology leaked into mainstream Australian politics – Behind the Lines podcast
Guardian columnist Jason Wilson explores the rise of the ‘alt-right’. In conversation with Bridie Jabour and Gabrielle Jackson he describes how Richar...
The lighter side of 2016 – Behind the Lines podcast
We look at the biggest news stories of 2016 that were ‘not really news’. From Harambe’s rise to meme stardom to Pokémon Go and Taylor Swift, Guardian...
Ms Dhu: how an Aboriginal death in custody unfolded – Behind the Lines podcast
Calla Wahlquist explores the timeline of Ms Dhu’s detainment and how she was misdiagnosed. We also hear from Ms Dhu’s grandmother and uncle on the imp...
What is your teenager doing online? – Behind the lines podcast
We talk to teenagers about what they were doing on the internet in their formative years and how their parents trying to protect them led to them usin...
'We need a moratorium on all coalmines': Naomi Klein in conversation – Behind the Lines podcast
On a Sydney Peace Prize panel moderated by Guardian Australia editor Lenore Taylor, the author Naomi Klein, anti-Carmichael coalmine campaigner Murraw...
'All they see is your race, because that is what's written on your body' | Christina Ho
It’s impossible to talk about rising pressure in education without addressing the elephant in the room, that is, the prevalence of children of Asian b...
Pauline Hanson voters speak: 'I'm utterly disappointed in the way our country is run' – Behind the Lines podcast
There has been plenty of speculation about why One Nation supporters voted the way they did in the 2016 federal election. Bridie Jabour asks the voter...
David Marr at Fodi: can we solve the asylum seeker crisis? – Behind the Lines podcast
Could a simple change to the law make a difference for asylum seekers in Australia? Or do we need to stop acting as though there are ‘good’ and ‘bad’...
How Guardian Australia broke the Nauru files story – Behind the Lines podcast
What’s it like combing through thousands of reports of abuse? Bridie Jabour talks to Paul Farrell, Helen Davidson and Nick Evershed about the investig...
Dr Munjed Al Muderis' journey to Australia – Behind the Lines podcast
Dr Munjed Al Muderis lived very comfortably in Iraq but what led him to leave as a traitor? Today he is an inspiring doctor who specialises in craftin...
Kristina Keneally: what has Malcolm Turnbull got himself into? - Behind the Lines podcast
He’s still going to be prime minister, but Malcolm Turnbull did not get the election result he wanted. So how can he recapture political momentum? Kri...
Lenore Taylor and Katharine Murphy on a 'strange, upside-down' election – Behind the Lines podcast
Join an all-star cast of Guardian contributors as we unpack how election night went. Lenore Taylor, Katharine Murphy and Gabrielle Chan discuss what t...
Gay Alcorn in Indi: voices from a divided electorate – Behind the Lines podcast
Gay Alcorn travels to the Victorian seat of Indi, which independent Cathy McGowan won from Liberal party MP Sophie Mirabella in 2013. Can McGowan repe...
Attack ads: do they actually work? – Behind the Lines podcast
Kristina Keneally joins Gabrielle Jackson and Miles Martignoni to discuss election ads and slogans, what you should be doing in the last week of the c...
Is spending billions more on education a price worth paying? – Behind the Lines podcast
Lucy Clark joins Gabrielle Jackson and Kristina Keneally to discuss the education policies on offer at this election, why the Gonski funding plan now...
How to show 'the stench of death' on the Great Barrier Reef – Behind the Lines podcast
Michael Slezak, Guardian Australia’s environment reporter, joins Gabrielle Jackson, Nick Evershed and Lucy Clark to talk about how we revealed the ful...
Van Badham: don't fall for the same old neoliberal election ads – Behind the Lines podcast
Van Badham joins Gabrielle Jackson and Miles Martignoni to discuss inequality in Australia and what the economic policies being presented this electio...
David Marr: Shorten would be a good Victorian premier, but would he make a good PM?
David Marr joins Behind the Lines podcast regulars Bridie Jabour and Michael Safi to discuss the the election campaign so far. Is the Labor leader doi...
Kristina Keneally: the truth about election tax cut promises – Behind the Lines podcast
Kristina Keneally joins Gabrielle Jackson and Miles Martignoni to discuss the election campaign at the halfway stage, including the claim that Labor o...
Richard Ackland: 'Where is George Brandis?' – Behind the Lines podcast
Why has the attorney general been absent from the campaign trail ? Richard Ackland joins Bridie Jabour to discuss this and why Australia’s legal aid f...
Kristina Keneally on why the leaders' debate doesn't matter – Behind the Lines podcast
Kristina Keneally joins Bridie Jabour and Gabrielle Jackson to discuss the latest face-off between Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten, the protests aga...
David Marr on the one thing that's stopping the Coalition from ruling forever – Behind the Lines podcast
David Marr, Bridie Jabour and Michael Safi discuss the ‘elephant poo’ the Coalition has been cleaning up since Peter Dutton’s remarks on refugees, and...
NBN raids: how independent are the federal police? – Behind the Lines podcast with Kristina Keneally
Kristina Keneally joins Bridie Jabour and Gabrielle Jackson to discuss the Australian federal police raids over alleged NBN leaks, what they mean for...
David Marr asks: could Bill Shorten win? And why is everyone so scared of the Greens?
On this weeks’ Behind the Lines podcast David Marr talks to Bridie Jabour and Michael Safi about the Labor leader’s chances, Malcolm Turnbull’s weakne...
Women in politics in a world ruled by middle-aged white men – Behind the Lines podcast
Kristina Keneally, Bridie Jabour and Gabrielle Jackson discuss gender imbalances in Australian politics, vocal fry, quotas and why having more women i...
How to understand the numbers flying around election 2016 - Behind the Lines Podcast
Guardian Australia’s data and interactives editor Nick Evershed tells us what you can read into polls – and what you can safely ignore. Plus he discus...
How is everyone going to survive an eight-week election campaign? – Behind the Lines podcast
Former New South Wales premier Kristina Keneally joins Guardian staffers Bridie Jabour and Gabrielle Jackson to discuss the truth about life on the ca...
Why journalists are locked up for the budget - Behind the Lines podcast
As Scott Morrison delivers the 2016 federal budget, laying the ground for the Coalition’s election campaign strategy, Lenore Taylor and Katharine Murp...
'Superannuation is a giant rip-off' and other election pitches - Behind the Lines podcast
At a special live event Bridie Jabour and her panel discuss what would happen without superannuation, whether a banking inquiry is justified and just...
Paul Farrell on the 'surprising and disturbing' police investigation of his work – Behind the Lines podcast
Guardian reporter Paul Farrell speaks to Bridie Jabour about what it feels like when you find out the Australian Federal Police asked to access your m...