Roll out the red carpet and prepare to get fancy, it’s that time of year again - we present the third edition of the very serious and highly revered Annual Democracy Sausage Awards.
This week, Andrew Hughes and Marija Taflaga talk to John Hewson about politicians listening to feedback from public servants, increasing Newstart payments, and Australia’s incomplete asylum seeker policy.
As a society, what kind of controls do we want in place to tackle hate speech on social media? And what should we be doing to help lift people out of poverty? (more…)
Do Australians need to know which church a politician belongs to? And are religious values reflected in policy choices? (more…)
What can you read into the body language of the world’s politicians when they press the flesh? Is the G20 anything more than a support group for embattled and unloved leaders? And was Putin right that liberalism is dead?
On this week’s Democracy Sausage the panel tackle a paradox of politics, new alliances in Parliament, Scott Morrison at the G20, and Trump’s historic handshake at the Korean DMZ. (more…)
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.
