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About the Podcast
The Professor and The Hack is a frank, relatable and always entertaining discussion about the state of politics and current affairs from two of the most experienced and trusted sources in Australia.
Network 10's resident experts, National Affairs Editor Hugh Riminton (The Hack) and Network Political Editor Peter Van Onselen (The Professor) are second to none when it comes to politics.
They leave no stone unturned as they deep dive into what is happening in Australian politics and get to the bottom of what is really going on, always with their distinctive style, insights and a touch of humour.
Hugh Riminton
The Hack
Peter Van Onselen
The Professor
2nd Feb 2023
Episode 143: Anticipating The Agenda
It’s been a busy summer
25th Jan 2023
Episode 142: No Simple Solution
Look at the problem you're trying to fix
19th Jan 2023
Episode 141: In With The New
Vale Jim Molan
19th Dec 2022
Episode 140: A Christmas Cracker!
May your days be merry and bright
8th Dec 2022
Episode 139: Do You Hear What I Hear?
Feeling festive?
2nd Dec 2022
Episode 138: Ask No Questions …
It’s all in the detail
17th Nov 2022
Episode 136: G20/20 Vision
Keeping an eye on global politics
10th Nov 2022
Episode 135: A Window On The World
Always check the quality of the thread
3rd Nov 2022
Episode 134: The Dragon That Must Be Slayed
Time for some inflation deflation
27th Oct 2022
Episode 133: The Budget Special
The results are in
19th Oct 2022
Episode 132: Shooting The Pre-Budget Breeze
Who’d be a politician?
30th Sep 2022
Episode 131: Once More Unto The Breach
Reasons to maintain the rage
15th Sep 2022
Episode 130: The World Mourns
Changing of the guard
7th Sep 2022
Episode 129: Up, Up And Away
How’s your mortgage looking?
2nd Sep 2022
Episode 128: A Change Of Pace
The politics of policy
22nd Aug 2022
Episode 127: Jobs For The Boy
How many hats?
3rd Aug 2022
Episode 126: Checking The Balances
Up, up and away
29th Jul 2022
Episode 125: Hello Again
Action stations
3rd Jun 2022
Episode 124: Take Your Seats Please
A changing climate
27th May 2022
Episode 123: Looking Ahead
Some big decisions ahead
24th May 2022
Episode 122: Australia Has Decided
What happens now?
19th May 2022
Episode 121: Prediction Time!
Place your bets please
16th May 2022
Episode 120: The End Is In Sight
Galloping to the finish line
12th May 2022
Episode 119: Run To The Line
Nine days to go
5th May 2022
Episode 118: Disillusion and disinterest abound
Still waiting for lift off
28th Apr 2022
Episode 117: Waiting For The Rubber To Hit The Road
Halfway there, but are we any closer?
20th Apr 2022
Episode 116: Scare Tactics
The games have begun
7th Apr 2022
Episode 115: Food For Thought
Pull up a chair
31st Mar 2022
Episode 114: Back with a vengeance and a budget bonanza
Taxing times
28th Jan 2022
Episode 113: Swings And Roundabouts
What pandemic?
13th Jan 2022
Episode 112: For These Are Testing Times
Some New Year speculation
14th Jan 2022
Episode 111: Deck The Great Hall
A Christmas cracker of an ep
14th Jan 2022
Episode 110: What the Omicron Is Going On?
Did the wolves kill off the cuddly bears?
14th Jan 2022
Episode 109: Words Matter
Think before you speak
14th Jan 2022
Episode 108: Hold The Phone
Let’s talk about text, baby
14th Jan 2022
Episode 107: Net Zero
Is all this climate talk getting heated?
5th Oct 2021
Episode 106: Normal Or Something Close To It
The new normal
14th Jan 2022
Episode 105: Le Grand Sulk
Up periscope
14th Jan 2022
Episode 104: Public Policy 101
Bubbling away as usual
25th Aug 2021
Episode 103: A Wicked Problem
We've got a few of them
14th Jan 2022
Episode 102: The Way Things Are
On the road to where, exactly?
15th Jul 2021
Episode 101: Expectation Management
The spectre of recession and the new normal
9th Jul 2021
Episode 100: Living with the Virus
Vaccine Rollout, Sydney Lockdown and Listener Questions
22nd Jun 2021
Episode 99: The Killing Season
It's that time again
18th Jun 2021
Episode 98: Acting PM
Step right up Mr. McCormack
11th Jun 2021
Episode 97: War Games
and painful segways
4th Jun 2021
Episode 96: Bad Weather Bias
It's easier to say it's going to rain
2nd Jun 2021
Episode 95: Tragic Irony
Lockdown's back
2nd Jun 2021
Episode 94: Shake The Mess Around
or don't
14th May 2021
Episode 93: A Budget Week Special
The wrap up
4th May 2021
Episode 92: Get Stuffed Sentiment
If you're on your way back from India
30th Apr 2021
Episode 91: Taiwan Looms
What's to come?
6th Apr 2021
Episode 90: The Ex-PM and The Hack
Malcolm Turnbull
24th Mar 2021
Episode 89: Floods and Scandal
Or scandals and floods
9th Mar 2021
Episode 87: The AOTY and The Hack
Special guest Grace Tame
24th Feb 2021
Episode 86: Do You Never Rest?
and other matters in domestic politics
16th Feb 2021
Episode 85: Stunned Silence
*crickets*
16th Feb 2021
Episode 84: A Debate We Had To Have
well, now we're having it
2nd Feb 2021
Episode 83: Back At It
Like we were never gone
25th Jan 2021
Episode 82: A Cry for Survival
with Professor Simon Jackman
13th Jan 2021
Episode 81: We Should Have Seen It Coming
We kind of did
11th Dec 2020
Episode 80: Year in Review
we made it!
2nd Dec 2020
Episode 79: The Fringe of Western Society
Our relations with China
23rd Nov 2020
Episode 78: We're All in This Together
Just a couple of regular blokes
18th Nov 2020
Episode 77: Deep Isolation
Maybe we'll never see him again
8th Nov 2020
Episode 76: A New President
Goodbye 45, hello 46!
28th Oct 2020
Episode 75: An Unusual Four Years
The big day approaches
2nd Dec 2020
Episode 74: Armed to the Teeth
Live from the states
16th Oct 2020
Episode 73: Mr. Riminton Goes to Washington
Hugh does his best Jimmy Stewart impression
7th Oct 2020
Episode 72: Budget Wrap Up
It's a numbers show
24th Sep 2020
Episode 71: It's A Gas Gas Gas!
Almost like the climate is changing
2nd Dec 2020
Episode 70: The Biblical Age of Demise
Is that a boat?
2nd Dec 2020
Episode 69: The Gold Standard
It's complicated
2nd Sep 2020
Episode 68: It's Spring
It's sprung
26th Aug 2020
Episode 67: Armed Neutrality
Aged care extravaganza
20th Aug 2020
Episode 66: Sand in the cogs
and much more
2nd Dec 2020
Episode 65: Kicking A Fiscal Can
So much debt
2nd Dec 2020
Episode 64: A Cliff Or A Steady Downward Spiral?
It's a fall of some sort
5th Aug 2020
Episode 63: Partisan By Nature
*cough cough*
27th Jul 2020
Episode 62: Back Once Again
It felt like weeks
8th Jul 2020
Holiday
We're off this week
29th Jun 2020
Episode 61: A Map Of Shanghai And A compass
All it takes to be a spy
19th Jun 2020
Episode 60: Higher Education
If you can afford it
16th Jun 2020
Episode 59: The Hack And The Branch Stacker
Plus another election prediction
11th Jun 2020
Episode 58: There's No Place Like Childcare
We aren't in Kansas anymore
4th Jun 2020
Episode 57: The Good Old Days
First home owners and The United States
1st Jun 2020
Episode 56: America Burns
A crumbling super power?
29th May 2020
Episode 55: The Frog And The Scorpion
That old fable
25th May 2020
Episode 54: 60 Billion Dollars!
Sometimes you just find it
21st May 2020
Episode 53: We're Getting Old
In podcast terms
19th May 2020
Episode 52: Coming Out The Other Side
If we can
13th May 2020
Episode 51: Back In Black
Budget wise that is
4th May 2020
Episode 50: Still No Albo
Jacinda Ardern instead
27th Apr 2020
Episode 49: Anything Can Fall
And it probably will
24th Apr 2020
Episode 48: Where Do They Get Off?
Money episode.
20th Apr 2020
Episode 47: Are Things Getting Better?
We hope they are
17th Apr 2020
Episode 46: Confession Is Good For The Soul
But bad for the reputation
15th Apr 2020
Episode 45: Children And Corona
A very different Easter