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Behind the Lines

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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
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Episodes

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 campaign trail – whether you’re a politician or a journalist. The threesome also chew over the first hours of this year’s campaign, and discuss Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten’s strengths and weaknesses

May 09, 201633 min

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 Murphy discuss what it’s like being locked in a room trying to extract the real meaning from the budget papers in the short space of time before they become public

May 03, 201614 min

Behind the lines podcast: what kind of PM would Shorten make? What will he die in a ditch for?

This week’s podcast is a special live recording (heavily edited) of Guardian Australia’s first Quarter Time event in Melbourne. Podcast regular Bridie Jabour is joined on stage by Guardian Australia’s deputy political editor, Katharine Murphy, as well as the editor of the Saturday Paper, Erik Jensen, and the comedian Lawrence Leung. The panel talk about politics – and look ahead to the election

Apr 11, 201626 min

How personal stories are shaping the debate on marriage equality - Behind the Lines

At Guardian Australia’s Why Knot? event, campaigners told how the battle for marriage equality can be won if gay and straight supporters alike go out and spread the word about their own experience. Bridie Jabour and Miles Martignoni look back at some of the most moving speeches from Benjamin Law, Ally Hocking Howe, Kristina Keneally and Rodney Croome, and ask what role religious faith will play in the debate

Apr 05, 201623 min

Why do children in remote Indigenous communities need open heart surgery?

In rural and remote Indigenous communities throughout Australia, and particularly in the Northern Territory, it is not uncommon to see children as young as seven carrying the long scars of open-heart surgery running vertically down their chest. Melissa Davey describes what she saw on a trip to the Tiwi Islands and what needs to be done to stop children from needing the invasive operation • ‘I’m too young to die’: the disease forcing Indigenous children to have open heart surgery

Mar 25, 201613 min

David Marr on George Pell: He is not a man to put abused children above the church

In this special edition of our podcast, David Marr gives his views on the cardinal’s four days of testimony to the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse. What was missing from these 16 hours of evidence from a ‘prince of the church’? Human warmth, for a start, Marr tells podcast regular Bridie Jabour

Mar 03, 201620 min

Behind the Lines podcast: in the NT, can you really tell if someone has air-con just by looking at them?

While personal attacks and silly antics dominate politics in the Northern Territory, there are also serious issues at play in the region, which is home to some of Australia’s most remote communities. Guardian Australia’s Darwin correspondent, Helen Davidson, talks about the challenges and privilege of reporting from places like Arnhem Land, where the local Indigenous culture is still extremely strong

Feb 25, 201623 min

Behind the Lines podcast: the day our opinion editor was groped by a stranger at dinner

Bridie Jabour talks to Guardian Australia’s opinion editor Gabrielle Jackson and senior editor Lucy Clark about covering feminism and sexism for the Guardian. They examine why the opinion desk gets so few pitches from female writers, discuss the way in which the media often treat feminist issues like minority causes ... and talk about the night Gabrielle was assaulted by a drunk man while out for dinner – and what happened next

Feb 12, 201628 min

Behind the Lines podcast: a hoax and a trial

In the first of a new series on the stories behind the news, Elle Hunt recounts the day she spent chasing an internet hoax that fooled major media organisations and Bridie Jabour examines Australia’s first FGM trial

Jan 28, 201634 min
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