'The MAGA base is splintering': Might Iran break Trump?

Only six days since the United States and Israel began bombing Iran, the destruction is mounting. More than 800 people have been killed, including Iranian schoolchildren and American service members.  What will it take to stop this war? And what might compel Donald Trump to end it, if he can?  To…

Regrets? There are none. David Littleproud on Coalition split and what Nats do next

In this bonus episode of Inside Politics, we’re joined by the Nationals leader David Littleproud. He’s a man under pressure – commentators, Liberal MPs and some of his own colleagues blamed January’s split on the 49-year-old from Chinchilla in regional Queensland. Today, chief political corresponde…

Abuse claims against Trump in the missing Epstein files: will it bring him down?

Only days before US President Donald Trump declared war on Iran, another Epstein files bombshell dropped — this one, relating to allegations against the American president. An investigation revealed that the Department of Justice withheld more than 50 pages of FBI interviews and notes from convers…

US-Iran war: Iran’s government has been ‘decapitated’. What now?

US President Donald Trump's act of war on Iran at the weekend seemed inevitable but nevertheless shocking. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and civilians died when joint American and Israeli strikes rained down on the country, beginning on Saturday. Trump says it’s time for the Iranian people to rise up and…

The energy vampires next door: Life next to an AI mega-factory

If leading figures of the AI boom, like OpenAI chief Sam Altman, have their way, much of the world (or better yet, space) will be covered in data centres. But what about the havoc their construction is wreaking on our neighbourhoods? Today, investigative reporter Clay Lucas, on the Australians liv…

Tim Wilson accused the treasurer of pouring fuel on the inflation flames – is he right?

This week we had some not-so-great inflation figures and also reports that there'll be another interest rate rise right before the government hands down its federal budget in May. Newly-minted shadow treasurer Tim Wilson, aka the "energiser bunny", accused TreasurerJim Chalmers of pouring fuel on …

What Ukraine’s four-year resistance against Russia teaches us about survival

The Pentagon once said that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could succeed in three days. So, as the war rages on, more than four years later, what else have world leaders got wrong? For one thing, what a nation’s most important source of power is. Today international and political editor Peter Hartc…

Inside Dr Jamal Rifi's mission to bring 'ISIS brides' and children home

Jamal Rifi is the Sydney doctor at the centre of a controversial mission to repatriate the so-called ISIS brides – 34 Australian women and children who are living in a camp in Syria. He also wants to bring back a young man who was taken to Syria as a boy who is now in an adult men’s prison.  The …

Kidnapped, body found: The case of Sydney grandfather Chris Baghsarian

A scream in the night, glass smashing, and dogs barking - these were the first signs that something terrible had happened in a suburban Sydney street. Since then, police have revealed this was a highly unusual case of mistaken identity that resulted in the kidnapping of an innocent 85-year-old gra…

What it will take for police to charge Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor

When Andrew Mountbatten-Windsorwas taken into police custody on his 66th birthday last week, it was the first time in nearly 400 years a British royal had been arrested. So what will the former Prince Andrew’s fate be? Today, Europe correspondent David Crowe on what it means for the monarchy that…