Curtin’s Cast
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Curtin's Cast Ep 76 - Is the Left losing the Working Class? (Jack…
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Welcome to Curtin’s Cast, the John Curtin Research Centre’s podcast of politics, ideas and culture brought to you by JCRC Executive Director Nick Dyrenfurth and Redbridge’s Kos Samaras. Each fortnight we will bring you the freshest and most challenging conversations from the world of Australian and global politics, culture, and ideas every week with leading political leaders, activists, and thinkers.
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- Curtin's Cast Ep 76 - Is the Left losing the Working Class? (Jack Peacock, Focaldata UK) · 35 min · Episódio 76Britain's Labour Party won a landslide in 2024. So why did it struggle so badly and recently replace Keir Starmer with Andy Burnham? And is Australia's Labor Party heading for…
- Curtin's Cast Ep 75 - Josh Frydenberg on antisemitism, the Liberal Party and a possible return · 46 min · Episódio 74In his just released, best-selling memoir A Grateful Son, Josh Frydenberg reflects on family, Jewish life and a career at the centre of Australian politics. On episode 75 of…
- Curtin's Cast Ep 74 - Political Violence and the Outrage Economy · 36 min · Episódio 75Has political hate become a business model? And is Australia importing the toxic political culture of the United States? In a special one-on-one edition of Curtin’s Cast, John…
- Curtin's Cast Ep 73 - 13 October 2026 - George Megalogenis on Australia's 3 Great Shocks · 47 min · Episódio 73Three Shocks: The Australia Politics Hasn’t Caught Up With One of Australia's finest political journalists and authors, "demography whisperer" George Megalogenis, joins Nick…
- Curtin’s Cast Ep 72 - 7 October 2026 - Labor Slumps, One Nation Leads: What Is Really Happening to Australian Politics? · 32 min · Episódio 72Labor has hit record-low favourability ratings as One Nation again tops the primary vote in the latest RedBridge/Accent poll. Nick Dyrenfurth and Kos Samaras unpack what the…
- Curtin's Cast Episode 71 - 30 September 2026 - Viren Naidu on India's Gen Z 'Cockroach' Party · 37 min · Episódio 71India’s Gen Z Revolt: Meet the Cockroach Janta Party India’s young people are increasingly questioning whether education, hard work and competitive exams will deliver the secure…
- Curtin's Cast Episode 70 - 23 September 2026 - Emma Dawson (Chifley Research Centre) · 32 min · Episódio 70Can Labor Hold Back the Orange Tide? Emma Dawson and Kos Samaras talk Vic and NSW elections, Gen Z and Australia’s AI Future With Nick away, Kos is joined by Curtin’s Cast…
- Curtin's Cast Episode 69 - 16 September 2026 - NZ in Revolt with Neale Jones (former chief of staff to Jacinda Ardern) · 43 min · Episódio 69NZ in Revolt: Leadership Chaos, Fragmentation and the Election Ahead Nick Dyrenfurth and Kos Samaras are joined by Neale Jones, Managing Director of Capital and former chief of…
- Curtin's Cast Episode 68 - 9 September 2026 - Freddie Hayward (New Statesman) on America's 'Summer of Socialism' and 9/11 25 years on · 49 min · Episódio 68Freddie Hayward on America’s ‘Summer of Socialism’ and 9/11, 25 Years On Something unusual is stirring inside America’s Democratic Party. Across the northern summer, young…
- Curtin's Cast Episode 67 - 2 September 2026 - What's Roiling Generation X? · 32 min · Episódio 67They’re the generation politics forgot — and they may now be among the angriest in Australia. Nick Dyrenfurth and Kos Samaras go deep on the latest RedBridge/AFR generational…
- Curtin's Cast Episode 66 - 24 August 2026 - Melongate, Victoria's New Premier and One Nation's peak? · 35 min · Episódio 66Nick Dyrenfurth and Kos Samaras go deep on the two latest RedBridge/AFR polls and what they reveal about the extraordinary reshaping of Australian politics: One Nation’s surge…
- Curtin’s Cast Episode 65 - 12 August 2026 - Ross McMullin: The Light on the Hill · 43 min · Episódio 65This week on Curtin’s Cast, Nick Dyrenfurth is joined by award-winning historian Ross McMullin, author of the definitive history of the Australian Labor Party, The Light on the…
- Curtin's Cast Episode 64 - 5 August 2026 - Paul Kelly (The Australian): The Twilight of Exceptionalism · 57 min · Episódio 64This week on Curtin's Cast, Nick Dyrenfurth and Kos Samaras are joined by one of Australia's foremost political journalists and historians, Paul Kelly, Paul Kelly…
- Curtin's Cast Episode 63 - 27 July 2026 - Victorian Leadership Special · 32 min · Episódio 63🚨 WE'RE BACK! Curtin's Cast returns – EARLY RELEASE 🎙️ Victoria's election campaign has just been blown wide open. In a dramatic day of escalating political tension, Deputy…
- Curtin's Cast Episode 62 - 24 June 2026 - Anna Goldsworthy – The God We Made · 44 min · Episódio 62Nick Dyrenfurth and Kos Samaras are joined by acclaimed author, pianist and incoming ANAM Artistic Director Anna Goldsworthy to discuss her new Quarterly Essay, The God We Made…
- Curtin’s Cast Episode 61 – 15 June 2026 - One Nation's Victorian Threat · 35 min · Episódio 61Could the 2026 Victorian election mark the beginning of the end of Australia's century-old two-party system? One Nation is now leading or tied in most national polls. Leadership…
- Curtin’s Cast Episode 60 - 10 June 2026 - Ed Coper – Angertainment: How Social Media Outrage Ruined Everything · 45 min · Episódio 60This week on Curtin’s Cast, Nick Dyrenfurth sits down with political strategist and campaigner Ed Coper, author of the new book Angertainment: How Social Media Outrage Ruined…
- Curtin's Cast Episode 59 - 3 June 2026 - Prime Minister Pauline Hanson? · 35 min · Episódio 59One Nation is now Australia's most popular political party. Pauline Hanson is Australia's most popular political leader. And new RedBridge–Accent MRP modelling suggests the…
- Curtin’s Cast Episode 58 - 27 May 2026 - The Alchemy of Leadership with Professor Paul Strangio · 53 min · Episódio 58No Kos this week — but Nick Dyrenfurth is joined by one of Australia’s leading public intellectuals and scholars of political leadership, Professor Paul Strangio, to unpack one…
- Curtin’s Cast Episode 57 – 20 May 2026 - Budget Wars, Chasing Pauline & the End of Howard’s Australia · 38 min · Episódio 57Is Australian politics finally exiting the dead zone of managerialism and re-entering an era of genuine ideological conflict? In Episode 57 of Curtin’s Cast, Nick Dyrenfurth and…
