Across the Aisle

About Across the Aisle

Join former senior-ranking politicians David Feeney and Scott Ryan as they share their insights and observations from different sides of Australian politics. David, Scott and their guests will regale you with their views, opinions and perspectives on the campaign trails leading up to the 2025 Australian Federal Election – across the aisle.

Publisher

University of Canberra with David Feeney and Scott Ryan

Category

government

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

10 Apr 2025

Latest episode

7 May 2025

Latest episodes

5 of 5 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   7 May 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Episode 5: The Great and Not-So-Great Results

   This episode of "Across the Aisle" analyzes the mixed outcomes of recent events, offering listeners a balanced perspective.

2. 

   30 Apr 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Episode 4: The Final Sprint to Election Day

   Peter Lewis of Essential Media joins hosts David and Scott to analyze Australian leadership debates, polling data, and campaign strategies as the election approaches, offering insights into the final sprint.

3. 

   23 Apr 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Episode 3: A Run Through of Election 2025’s ‘At Risk’ Seats

   Hosts David and Scott analyze the major political parties' election promises, debates, and key battleground seats as early voting gets underway.

4. 

   16 Apr 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Episode 2: Being ‘Strong’ is a Two-Sided Coin

   In this week’s episode David and Scott talk work from home u-turns, the Trumpification of election campaigns, Medicare, housing and taxation. What do the major party campaigns offer the ordinary Australian? And could polling stations be tumbleweeds on 3 May?

5. 

   10 Apr 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Episode 1: Looking Back and Looking Forward

   In this week’s inaugural episode David and Scott share their views on the current global political scene and how it could impact Australian political party agendas, what we can expect in the coming weeks on the campaign trails, and some insightful anecdotes on their time in Parliament - across the aisle.

Inside a recent episode

Episode 5: The Great and Not-So-Great Results

Published 7 May 2025 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Here, the coalition really demonstrated some policy courage taking this on at all. And while Christopher Pine has written the story about how it was a mechanism for fixing the internal concerns of the coalition around coal and climate change, whether that's true or not, taking on the nuclear question was a significant courage. […]

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Spotify

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 40 / 100

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Quality

67

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

32

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