Inside Politics
Hosted by Jacqueline Maley and Paul Sakkal and Stephanie Peatling · The Age and Sydney Morning Herald
4.4from 17 ratings
- 155
- Episodes
- 143
- Transcribed
- 17
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
About Inside Politics
Cut through the noise of federal politics with news, views and expert analysis from the newsrooms of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age with host Jacqueline Maley and chief political correspondent Paul Sakkal.
- Publisher
- The Age and Sydney Morning Herald
- Category
- news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 14 Mar 2024
- Latest episode
- 5 Nov 2026
Latest episodes
143 of 155 episodes have a transcript.
5 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
A health check on Australia's democracy exposes deep divides
29 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Is the PM at risk of "Albo derangement syndrome"?
25 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Bonus episode: ‘I should make more time for my colleagues’: Chalmers on party tensions
Inside a recent episode
A health check on Australia's democracy exposes deep divides
Published 5 Nov 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] The first is the good news. So confidence in democratic institutions remains very strong. So 76% of Australians agree democracy is preferable to any other system of government and 73% trust the Australian Electoral Commission, which is a bit of a point of pride, I think, for a lot of Australians. […]
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- Susan Close
- Jim Chalmers
- Waleed Aly
- Shane Wright
- Abul Rizvi
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- 4.4 / 5
- 17 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 61 / 100
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- 84
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 93
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Who hosts Inside Politics?
Jacqueline Maley and Paul Sakkal and Stephanie Peatling host the show. Published by The Age and Sydney Morning Herald.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes weekly, based on its RSS feed.
Does Inside Politics take guests?
Yes. Guests have been identified in episode analyses.
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