Behind the Lines - The Guardian Australia

Come behind the scenes at the Guardian Australia newsroom. We talk to our journalists about the stories they’ve written and how they came to write them. If there are particular articles you’d like us to discuss,  please do get in touch

  • 20 minutes 45 seconds
    Introducing Breathless: The Death of David Dungay Jnr
    Indigenous man David Dungay Jr died in Sydney’s Long Bay jail after a disagreement about a packet of biscuits. Our new podcast explores the questions his death raises about the use of medical restraint and tranquillisers Listen to Breathless, episode 2: Brothers Listen to Breathless, episode 3: Life Inside
    27 July 2018, 5:32 am
  • 20 minutes 47 seconds
    How did we start Guardian Australia? Behind the lines podcast
    In 2012 Katharine Viner’s editor, Alan Rusbridger, took her aside and proposed starting a branch of the Guardian in Australia. A few months later she met the people who would become her first local journalists: Lenore Taylor and Katharine Murphy. In this special podcast Taylor talks to Viner – now the Guardian’s global editor-in-chief – and the founding chief executive of Guardian Australia, Ian McClelland, about the first five years of Guardian Australia
    25 May 2018, 12:09 am
  • 1 hour 11 minutes
    Tim Winton on men, boys and writing 'with my heart in my mouth' – Behind the Lines podcast
    In a speech recorded in March at The School of Life in Melbourne, the Australian author explains how writing The Shepherd’s Hut got him thinking about the boys that get left behind • Tim Winton on how toxic masculinity is shackling men to misogyny
    9 April 2018, 2:15 am
  • 21 minutes 45 seconds
    Introducing Common Ground – Behind the Lines podcast
    Gabrielle Jackson introduces you to our latest Guardian Australia podcast: Common Ground. Lenore Taylor and Rebecca Huntley bring four very different Australians together to find out where their views come from
    1 November 2017, 4:31 am
  • 18 minutes 32 seconds
    Brigid Delaney on wellness: yoga, colonics and 'the commodification of spirituality' – Behind the Lines podcast
    The Guardian columnist Brigid Delaney talks with Gabrielle Jackson and Bonnie Malkin about the highs and lows of the years she spent researching her new book Wellmania. Delaney talks about how retreats and yoga have worked for her … but bird-poo facials not so much. She says she has become alert to the ‘savage and savvy business people’ in a ‘multitrillion-dollar industry’ but recommends the value that being quiet and disconnected from the phone can bring. ‘It’s definitely made me more aware of the way I live’ • Read an extract from Wellmania
    24 July 2017, 11:46 pm
  • 54 minutes 25 seconds
    Sexual assault and Australian universities: how big is the problem? – Behind the Lines podcast
    ‘This is not a feminist issue. This is a public health issue,’ says Amy Ziering on the prevalence of sexual assault on university campuses in the USA. She was speaking on a panel to discuss her 2015 documentary, The Hunting Ground, which will air on ABC2 this week. But is any of the film relevant to Australia? A panel including Karen Willis, Allison Henry, Mariam Mohammad, Anna Hush, Katie Thorburn and Gabrielle Jackson talk through the issues
    21 June 2017, 6:35 am
  • 35 minutes 42 seconds
    'Trump can't stop progress on climate change' – Behind the Lines podcast
    With action in countries around the world and on the ground at a state level in the US, is Donald Trump’s position on climate change irrelevant? Martijn Wilder, from Baker & McKenzie and Greg Bourne previously the regional president for BP Australia and the CEO of WWF Australia join Guardian Australia editor Lenore Taylor to discuss the future of the energy market. Has the market already leapfrogged political debate?
    1 June 2017, 6:58 am
  • 30 minutes 29 seconds
    Black Lives Matter: 'We're trying to re-imagine humanity' – Behind the Lines podcast
    Calla Wahlquist talks to Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of Black Lives Matter and Aboriginal activist Latoya Rule, whose brother Wayne Morrison died in custody in South Australia last year. As the Sydney peace prize is awarded to the Black Lives Matters movement, Cullors discusses the formation and philosophy of the movement while Rule explains how the group has influenced campaigns for Indigenous justice in Australia
    22 May 2017, 8:41 pm
  • 1 hour 9 minutes
    Katharine Viner and Lenore Taylor: Does the truth matter? - Behind The Lines Podcast
    The ABC’s Mark Colvin joins Guardian’s editor-in-chief Katharine Viner and Guardian Australia’s editor Lenore Taylor to discuss the changing face of journalism. They examine Donald Trump’s presidency and the difficulty the media has in holding him to account, as well as the rise of social media networks that provide mass audiences to media organisations while taking increasingly large amounts of advertising revenue. What will the future of the Guardian and journalism be?
    18 March 2017, 3:03 am
  • 32 minutes 6 seconds
    Thomas Frank: Donald Trump is right but a hypocrite – Behind the Lines podcast
    When the US president talked about ‘the forgotten men and women of our country, people who work hard but no longer have a voice’ he connected with voters. After his winning pitch to the working class have the Democrats lost their relevance? And did Barack Obama miss the chance to create true change?
    17 March 2017, 12:34 am
  • 19 minutes 50 seconds
    How 'alt-right' ideology leaked into mainstream Australian politics – Behind the Lines podcast
    Guardian columnist Jason Wilson explores the rise of the ‘alt-right’. In conversation with Bridie Jabour and Gabrielle Jackson he describes how Richard Spencer coined the term to represent a ‘big tent’ for dissident rightwing thinkers. Wilson argues that the line between the far-right and mainstream conservatives has since become blurred in Australia
    2 March 2017, 12:54 am
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