Podcasts

Rupert: The Last Mogul Special Series
Rupert: The last mogul
A podcast series about the life and legacy of the media’s most powerful man, Rupert Murdoch.
Part 1
October 25, 2023
Trailer: Rupert: The last mogul
Coming November 1: A podcast series about the life and legacy of the media’s most powerful man, Rupert Murdoch
Part 2
November 1, 2023
Two blasted young reds
A young Rupert inherits a small newspaper in 1950s Adelaide.
Part 3
November 8, 2023
The kingmaker and his king
Rupert's struggle to step out of his father’s shadow drives him to launch the first national broadsheet.
Part 4
November 14, 2023
My dear Prime Minister
Rupert will pull off his most daring piece of business, and arguably the most cruel.
Part 5
November 22, 2023
Attack, attack, attack
As Rupert makes his home in America, Paddy takes a closer look at two of his most consequential relationships.
Part 6
November 29, 2023
Next in line
Paddy investigates the fraught relationship between Rupert and his two potential heirs.
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7am
7am is a daily news podcast brought to you by the publishers of The Saturday Paper and The Monthly.
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7am
November 29, 2023
Is Australia’s regime of secrecy over?
Chief political correspondent for The Saturday Paper Karen Middleton, on Australia’s secrecy laws and whether the government’s overhaul will go far enough.
7am
November 28, 2023
What does the Israel-Hamas ceasefire really mean?
Contributor to The Saturday Paper and Middle East correspondent for The Economist Gregg Carlstrom, on the ceasefire, how long it could hold and what will happen when the war continues.
7am
November 27, 2023
Lachlan Murdoch’s first big move
Host of Schwartz Media podcast Rupert: The Last Mogul and contributor to The Saturday Paper, Paddy Manning, on what’s in store for the next era of the Murdoch empire.
7am
November 24, 2023
How Australia is taking advantage of one nation’s climate crisis
National correspondent for The Saturday Paper Mike Seccombe, on the agreement between Australia and Tuvalu.
7am
November 23, 2023
The ceasefire and the Israel–Hamas war protests
Chief political correspondent for The Saturday Paper Karen Middleton, on the protests, the parliament and the challenges facing Foreign Minister Penny Wong.
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Read This
A weekly show about the books we love and the stories behind them. Hear the best writers from Australia and around the world talk about their lives and their work.
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Read This
November 23, 2023
Gabrielle Zevin Wants to Talk About Failure
Michael sits down with author Gabrielle Zevin for a wide-ranging discussion about collaboration, creativity, ambition and failure in her new book, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow.
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November 16, 2023
The Cause and Effect of Richard Flanagan
Michael heads to Tasmania to speak with Richard at his home in Hobart about his latest and most personal novel, Question 7.
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November 9, 2023
Rebecca Makkai Is on the Case
Michael sits down with best-selling author Rebecca Makkai to discuss her latest novel, the perils of true crime, and why being surprised when reading a book is so much more satisfying than a jump scare in a movie.
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November 2, 2023
Charlotte Wood Thinks Restraint Is Underrated
Michael sits down with author Charlotte Wood to discuss her new book, Stone Yard Devotional, and she shares the psychic catastrophe that informed its final form.
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October 26, 2023
It’s Trent Frickin’ Dalton
This week, Michael sits down with Trent to discuss this new work, where his boundless enthusiasm comes from, and much more.
7am Special Series
Inside Robodebt with Rick Morton
As the Robo-debt Royal Commission revealed its findings, award-winning journalist Rick Morton investigated how our own government turned an illegal scheme against Australians – and how it became one of the greatest scandals in Australian history.
Part 1
July 10, 2023
Inside Robo-debt: The Shorten interview
We speak with the minister who will have to implement many of the recommendations and pursue many of the findings in this royal commission – Bill Shorten – about what this report means, and if the machinery of government can truly be fixed.
Part 2
July 11, 2023
Inside Robo-debt: The Whistleblower
We speak to Centrelink worker-turned-whistleblower Colleen Taylor about what really happened when robo-debt was first rolled out.
Part 3
July 12, 2023
Inside Robo-debt: The Social Engineering of Shame
We speak to one of them, senior lecturer in administrative law at La Trobe University, Darren O'Donovan, about how people outside the system built the very first working model of how public service embraced robo-debt.
Part 4
July 13, 2023
Inside Robo-debt: The Minister’s Adviser
We speak to one of the people whose job was to create this alternate reality: Rachelle Miller, the former media adviser to human services minister Alan Tudge.
Part 5
July 14, 2023
Inside Robo-debt: The Mother
One woman, Jenny Miller, never gave up on finding the truth about what happened to her son.
7am Special Series
Everybody Knows
A five-part investigative series examining the rise and fall of the MeToo movement in Australia, and what it will take for things to finally change. Hosted by Ruby Jones, the presenter of Australia's most popular daily news podcast, 7am.
Part 1
September 1, 2021
Everybody Knows: The company
Ruby asks why Me Too stories are still so hard to tell in Australia - and why there is so much fear about speaking out and naming names.
Part 2
September 8, 2021
Episode two: Five days in November
In episode two of Everybody Knows, Ruby Jones goes back to the beginning of MeToo in Australia in 2017. Why did the movement seem to run out of momentum here so quickly?
Part 3
September 14, 2021
Episode three: A broken system
In this episode, Ruby Jones speaks to some of the best known lawyers on either side of the Me Too movement in order to help her investigation.
7am Special Series
Climate change will kill you
In this new series, journalist Paddy Manning investigates the link between climate change and human health, and tells the stories of those who have become some of the first casualties of the climate crisis.
Part 1
January 5, 2021
Climate change will kill you, part one: heat
From bushfires and heat, to floods, and the increasing severity of disease, Australians are already feeling the impacts of a warming planet.
Part 2
January 12, 2021
Climate change will kill you, part two: flood
In 2011 the Queensland town of Grantham was inundated with rain, causing flash flooding. It had a devastating impact on the town’s residents. But events like this are predicted to become more common.
Part 3
January 19, 2021
Climate change will kill you, part three: sickness
From thunderstorm asthma to the increasing prevalence of infectious disease, a warming planet is already making us more sick.
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