Lucy Clark joins Gabrielle Jackson and Kristina Keneally to discuss the education policies on offer at this election, why the Gonski funding plan now divides the major parties, and how that debate means some critical questions are being ignored

Michael Slezak, Guardian Australia’s environment reporter, joins Gabrielle Jackson, Nick Evershed and Lucy Clark to talk about how we revealed the full story of coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef for our ‘Reef on the brink’, series and why the fate of the reef should be centre stage during the Australian election

Van Badham joins Gabrielle Jackson and Miles Martignoni to discuss inequality in Australia and what the economic policies being presented this election cycle might mean for everyday Australians • Is Australia egalitarian? Ask the worker sacked for using a Post-it note • It’s time Australians looked more closely at our privileged ruling class

David Marr joins Behind the Lines podcast regulars Bridie Jabour and Michael Safi to discuss the the election campaign so far. Is the Labor leader doing well, or is the bar just set very low? Is there even a bar anymore?

Kristina Keneally joins Gabrielle Jackson and Miles Martignoni to discuss the election campaign at the halfway stage, including the claim that Labor once supported corporate tax cuts, Scott Morrison’s aggressive language in a press conference, why Malcolm Turnbull’s father is the focus of a new campaign ad and why a double dissolution may work well for independents

Why has the attorney general been absent from the campaign trail ? Richard Ackland joins Bridie Jabour to discuss this and why Australia’s legal aid funding is so low that it’s actually costing taxpayers more

Kristina Keneally joins Bridie Jabour and Gabrielle Jackson to discuss the latest face-off between Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten, the protests against Mike Baird and the coverage of Amber Heard’s domestic violence case against Johnny Depp

David Marr, Bridie Jabour and Michael Safi discuss the ‘elephant poo’ the Coalition has been cleaning up since Peter Dutton’s remarks on refugees, and what the marriage equality debate says about parliament

Kristina Keneally joins Bridie Jabour and Gabrielle Jackson to discuss the Australian federal police raids over alleged NBN leaks, what they mean for the election campaign, whistleblower protection, freedom of press, and why an independent agency like the AFP is still strongly tied to the government

On this weeks’ Behind the Lines podcast David Marr talks to Bridie Jabour and Michael Safi about the Labor leader’s chances, Malcolm Turnbull’s weaknesses and how this election is shaping up as a repeat of 2013

Kristina Keneally, Bridie Jabour and Gabrielle Jackson discuss gender imbalances in Australian politics, vocal fry, quotas and why having more women in any organisation is better for everyone, male and female

Guardian Australia’s data and interactives editor Nick Evershed tells us what you can read into polls – and what you can safely ignore. Plus he discusses the state of data journalism across the world – and how robots are starting to write the news

Former New South Wales premier Kristina Keneally joins Guardian staffers Bridie Jabour and Gabrielle Jackson to discuss the truth about life on the campaign trail – whether you’re a politician or a journalist. The threesome also chew over the first hours of this year’s campaign, and discuss Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten’s strengths and weaknesses

As Scott Morrison delivers the 2016 federal budget, laying the ground for the Coalition’s election campaign strategy, Lenore Taylor and Katharine Murphy discuss what it’s like being locked in a room trying to extract the real meaning from the budget papers in the short space of time before they become public

At a special live event Bridie Jabour and her panel discuss what would happen without superannuation, whether a banking inquiry is justified and just what Clive Palmer’s re-election pitch might sound like

Guardian reporter Paul Farrell speaks to Bridie Jabour about what it feels like when you find out the Australian Federal Police asked to access your metadata

This week’s podcast is a special live recording (heavily edited) of Guardian Australia’s first Quarter Time event in Melbourne. Podcast regular Bridie Jabour is joined on stage by Guardian Australia’s deputy political editor, Katharine Murphy, as well as the editor of the Saturday Paper, Erik Jensen, and the comedian Lawrence Leung. The panel talk about politics – and look ahead to the election

At Guardian Australia’s Why Knot? event, campaigners told how the battle for marriage equality can be won if gay and straight supporters alike go out and spread the word about their own experience. Bridie Jabour and Miles Martignoni look back at some of the most moving speeches from Benjamin Law, Ally Hocking Howe, Kristina Keneally and Rodney Croome, and ask what role religious faith will play in the debate

Guardian Australia’s Gay Alcorn and Melissa Davey discuss Victoria’s royal commission into family violence, due to report this week after a year gathering evidence. The state government has vowed to adopt every recommendation and the report is expected to be influential across Australia.

In rural and remote Indigenous communities throughout Australia, and particularly in the Northern Territory, it is not uncommon to see children as young as seven carrying the long scars of open-heart surgery running vertically down their chest. Melissa Davey describes what she saw on a trip to the Tiwi Islands and what needs to be done to stop children from needing the invasive operation • ‘I’m too young to die’: the disease forcing Indigenous children to have open heart surgery

In this special edition of our podcast, David Marr gives his views on the cardinal’s four days of testimony to the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse. What was missing from these 16 hours of evidence from a ‘prince of the church’? Human warmth, for a start, Marr tells podcast regular Bridie Jabour

While personal attacks and silly antics dominate politics in the Northern Territory, there are also serious issues at play in the region, which is home to some of Australia’s most remote communities. Guardian Australia’s Darwin correspondent, Helen Davidson, talks about the challenges and privilege of reporting from places like Arnhem Land, where the local Indigenous culture is still extremely strong

Bridie Jabour talks to Guardian Australia’s opinion editor Gabrielle Jackson and senior editor Lucy Clark about covering feminism and sexism for the Guardian. They examine why the opinion desk gets so few pitches from female writers, discuss the way in which the media often treat feminist issues like minority causes ... and talk about the night Gabrielle was assaulted by a drunk man while out for dinner – and what happened next

In the first of a new series on the stories behind the news, Elle Hunt recounts the day she spent chasing an internet hoax that fooled major media organisations and Bridie Jabour examines Australia’s first FGM trial

Join Bridie Jabour as she goes behind the scenes at Guardian Australia to discuss the making of a news story. This week we preview the series with Michael Safi on his reporting of the Parramatta shooting