This week Barrie Cassidy and Tony Barry go back to the future to look at the machinations of an election campaign and how history has given us an insight into what to expect in 2025 – and what lessons Anthony Albanese can learn from Bob Hawke.

Bridie Jabour talks with the editor-in-chief, Lenore Taylor, the head of newsroom, Mike Ticher, and the national news editor, Josephine Tovey, about the gender pay gap, and why life for women and men is still not equal

Lifestyle editor and author of All Women Want Alyx Gorman explains to Reged Ahmad why too many cisgendered women are having mediocre sex – and what can be done to fix it

Washington DC bureau chief David Smith tells Nour Haydar why the withholding of US military support is a ‘devastating blow’ to Ukraine and what it means for a changing international order

Nour Haydar tells Reged Ahmad how the abandonment of artist Khaled Sabsabi unfolded and why the abrupt move has left many wondering if Australia is heading down a slippery slope of censoring art

Madeleine Finlay hears from science editor Ian Sample and Nobel prize winner Prof Harold Varmus about how the US president has delayed projects and cast the future of research funding and jobs into doubt

This week in episode two of Guardian Australia’s new politics podcast, Tony Barry and Barrie Cassidy examine the events that disrupt election campaigns

Bridie Jabour talks with editor-in-chief of the Guardian Katharine Viner about the increasing threat to press freedom

The Guardian’s correspondent in Taipei, Helen Davidson, tells Nour Haydar what we know so far about the US president’s stance on Taiwan – and what’s at stake

On the day the 14 sect members are due to be sentenced, Queensland state reporter Andrew Messenger tells Reged Ahmad about why insulin was withheld from the eight-year-old type 1 diabetic

Reged Ahmad speaks to Jo Nemeth about how she has lived and worked without money for 10 years, and how it all started as a response to her fears about overconsumption

Jonathan Freedland speaks to veteran US diplomat Kurt Volker and the Guardian’s US live news editor Chris Michael about Trump’s efforts to bring Putin back into the fold

Guardian Australia’s new weekly political podcast featuring Barrie Cassidy and Tony Barry will decipher the strategy behind the spin. This week they discuss whether a minority government will be good or bad for the country

Bridie Jabour talks with editor-in-chief Lenore Taylor and head of newsroom Mike Ticher about how to report on attacks without further inflaming tensions

With the strong possibility of a hung parliament at the next election, political reporter Dan Jervis-Bardy speaks to Nour Haydar about how the prime minister and Peter Dutton are both eyeing the crossbench

Reged Ahmad speaks to former judge and now chair of the Centre for Public Integrity Anthony Whealy on what we know about those who donate to political campaigns and whether the new laws could lock out independents

As she prepares to farewell Guardian Australia, Indigenous affairs editor Lorena Allam talks to Reged Ahmad about why there’s a leadership vacuum when it comes to First Nations policy

The chief economist at the Australia Institute and Guardian columnist tells Nour Haydar why he thinks the RBA has only one choice

Guardian Australia’s media correspondent Amanda Meade and reporter Kate Lyons speak to Reged Ahmad about the dramatic key moments of an unlawful termination case that has revealed the inner workings of the national broadcaster

Bridie Jabour talks with the editor-in-chief, Lenore Taylor, and deputy editor Patrick Keneally about how Albanese and world leaders are managing Trump 2.0