On this episode of Democracy Sausage, Nicholas Biddle and Intifar Chowdhury join Mark Kenny to discuss what was important to Australian voters at the recent federal election.
On this Democracy Sausage podcast, Mark Kenny and Marija Taflaga are joined at the hotplate by Katherine Murphy of The Guardian for a fresh serve of analysis of Australia’s policy and politics.
This week we tackle declining trust in the media, find out WhatsApp with India’s elections, and wonder how many AFP raids it would take to get Australians out on the streets, Hong Kong-style.
How do we do democracy in a time when voters’ relationships with political parties are increasingly strained? And could a citizens’ assembly fix Brexit better than Boris?
The government and opposition have both announced their Cabinet line-ups, but who will prevail in the individual match-ups of ‘the last profession of amateurs’? (more…)
Should we shake up the way polls are reported? What to make of the Government’s newly-minted cabinet? Will the Coalition be able to deliver constitutional change for Indigenous communities? And is the ‘shy Tory’ nothing more than an online myth?
The votes have been cast and we have a winner, but why didn’t the polls see it coming? This week on Democracy Sausage Mark and the panel pick over a Queensland backlash, the presidentialisation of politics, and whether Labor misjudged the mood of the electorate. (more…)
