It should not be ignored that when the Prime Minister announced the appointment of Jenny Wilkinson as the first woman to lead the Treasury, Treasurer Jim Chalmers pointed out that under this government, women now lead the Treasury, Reserve Bank (Michele Bullock) and Productivity Commission (Danielle Wood), all for the first time. Chalmers could have also added into this mix Gina Cass-Gottlieb, as the current chair of the ACCC who began in March 2022…

“There is a powerful irony in Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s proposal to change the Constitution to enable the government, not the courts, to strip dual Australian citizens of their citizenship.”

Renown Australian journalist and author Geraldine Brooks has tried for four years to secure her adopted son, Bizu, an Australian citizenship. Bizu was adopted by Geraldine and her late husband Tony when they lived in the US. The complex case has raised the question of what it means to be an Australian citizen.

Guests: Geraldine Brooks, Bizu Brooks Horwitz, Professor Kim Rubenstein, University of Canberra.

There's some reporting out today in newscorp papers saying that one in three citizenship tests taken last year were failed. Out of one hundred and eighty three thousand tests, one hundred and twenty two thousand of them did not pass. Let's get the thoughts of Professor Kim Rubinstein from the University of Canberra Citizenship Law expert.

With the 47th Parliament now in its final sitting week of 2024, the government is aiming to amend the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 - laws core to Australian democracy, as they regulate House and Senate elections and call for members of Parliament to be "directly chosen by the people"…

The Australian Constitution, as described by the Parliamentary Education Office, is 'the birth certificate’ of our nation as it is today. It is what provides the basic rules for the government of Australia, and it lays out the fundamental laws of Australia that every State and Federal Parliament is bound to. 

Rod caught up with lawyer, academic, author and distinguished human rights advocate Professor Kim Rubenstein, to discuss what constitutes our constitution!

While job sharing is becoming more and more common in Australian workplaces, it's never happened for members of parliament. Bronwen Bock and Lucy Bradlow are campaigning to job-share the role of the federal member for Higgins, in Melbourne's east.

But not everyone is convinced it can work. Nas Campanella and Rhiannon Hobbins report.

Time travellers to the Scullin government era of 1930 may well feel that strands of oppositional opinion move not at all when they jump forward to meet some of the reaction to the Prime Minister's announcement of Samantha Mostyn AO as Australia's 28th governor general…

Independent ACT senator David Pocock has stood side by side with his former 2022 rival for the ACT senate spot, constitutional expert Kim Rubenstein, to state the "strong case" for better territory representation both in increased numbers and doubling the terms to six years.