In this early episode of Inside Politics, we come to you soon after Opposition Leader Peter Dutton gave his budget reply speech on Thursday night, with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese all but certain to call an election on Friday morning.
Did Dutton's speech, which moved to intensify the contest over household budgets, one-up the government's budget earlier in the week?
Inside Politics host Jacqueline Maley dissects all the news with chief political correspondent David Crowe and senior economics correspondent Shane Wright.

Is it really time to panic about petrol supply?
21:07

Why the timeline of the Iranian women’s football team defection makes some people liars
27:20

The politics of war, and why Peter Dutton was so upset over leaked Liberal Party review
26:06