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Cut Through

Crikey

Cut Through is Crikey’s spin-free analysis of Australian news, politics and power. Each week we break down the biggest news stories, stripping away the noise to bring you the information that really matters. Join us every Friday to get your talking points delivered the Crikey way.

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90 episodes

  1. Can One Nation clean up in Victoria? Antony Green gives his verdict 36:59
  2. Why liberalism is worth saving 36:57
  3. A new Green stone in Albo's Shoe(Bridge) 37:44
  4. Is the ‘Nerd Reich’ gaslighting Australia on data centres? 36:22
  5. Behind the scenes of Barnaby's neo-Nazi run-in, NACC emails and Mamamia blowback 43:58
  6. Revisiting Paul Keating’s legacy: Australian foreign policy and national identity 37:42
  7. “Mum Slop”: A deep dive into the dark intersection of AI and women’s health 32:29
  8. AUKUS public inquiry Q&A with Peter Garrett and Rex Patrick 1:01:01
  9. Secret numbers of the teen social ban and WA’s One Nation vs Labor showdown 32:12
  10. Shady or smart? Labor and the Coalition’s backroom deals on gambling ads and the NDIS 36:02
  11. Why the Australian media sensationalises men’s violence 29:42
  12. What does good migration policy look like in Australia? 38:57
  13. NACC emails exposed, Tony Abbott’s strange mistake and Peter Malinauskas’ News Corp bestie 28:44
  14. Australia’s university sector is in tatters. Why? 33:03
  15. Bernard Keane Q&A: Big Build corruption, AI policy, and will Australia introduce a wealth tax? 36:39
  16. Karl Stefanovic and the death of the TV star 33:36
  17. Teal, Orange, Green: Who’s holding Labor to account? 34:57
  18. 2026 federal budget: does anyone care about broken promises? 36:36
  19. Farrer by-election: A One Nation vs independent showdown 28:39
  20. Grace Tame: The NDIS overhaul is a missed opportunity 27:41
  21. Is “free speech” an Australian value? 37:45
  22. Why experts suspect insider trading in the White House 29:12
  23. Australia’s gambling ad ban is here 34:08
  24. Left-Right politics in Australia is dead 49:28
  25. Do we actually need to panic about fuel? 32:58
  26. Rick Morton unpacks the NACC robodebt report 36:19
  27. Does power always corrupt in Australian politics? 33:02
  28. An Iranian perspective on the US-Israel attack 26:27
  29. A political primer on the South Australia election 27:32
  30. Meet Big Brother: Palantir’s Australian expansion 34:09
  31. What Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s visit tells us about “social cohesion” 32:38
  32. Australia in the Epstein files 28:50
  33. BONUS: Are we too mean to One Nation supporters? 29:22
  34. How seriously should we be taking One Nation? 36:04
  35. Australia’s National AI Plan: What you need to know 29:34
  36. Parliamentary year in review: who won big, and what comes next 39:39
  37. AUKUS: Another ball in Australia’s US-China juggling act 36:05
  38. Stop talking about the Coalition on climate 35:08
  39. Win like Mamdani: Lessons from Zohran’s game changing victory 41:33
  40. The biggest political scandal in Australian history: The Whitlam Dismissal, 50 years on 36:41
  41. The Fraser Manifesto: A former prime minister's plan to replace the Liberal party 36:29
  42. Australian Parliament Sports Club saga: what counts as lobbying? 24:29
  43. This is officially* Australia’s worst company 31:42
  44. Blair, Ellison, Zuckerberg, Trump… and Albo? Big tech owns politics now 21:59
  45. The 1950s “Red Scare” is back, baby! 31:53
  46. How politicians take a “trust me, bro” approach to transparency 30:41
  47. Here’s to Lachlan Murdoch — the winner of Succession IRL 20:16
  48. How journalists got played by neo-Nazis this week 29:43
  49. No-one knows how the teen social media ban will work 43:32
  50. The beautiful, useless ideas of Jim Chalmers’ Economic Roundtable 31:40