Across the Aisle

Episode 5: The Great and Not-So-Great Results

University of Canberra with David Feeney and Scott Ryan — Wed, 07 May 2025 06:20:51 +0000

Episode 4: The Final Sprint to Election Day

University of Canberra with David Feeney and Scott Ryan — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 03:23:24 +0000

Are Australia’s leadership debates tackling the real issues? In this week’s episode David and Scott discuss the leadership debates, the distraction of ‘gotcha’ questions, the price of eggs, pre-polling records, and they consider how the major parties can tackle these final days leading into Election weekend. They were joined by former journalist and strategic communications specialist, Peter Lewis of Essential Media for a deeper dive into polling, campaign strategies and if they have been boring or uneventful.

Episode 3: A Run Through of Election 2025s ‘At Risk’ Seats

University of Canberra with David Feeney and Scott Ryan — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 06:40:43 +0000

With early voting underway, join David and Scott as they dissect the major political parties’ key election promises, debates, and hits and misses this election. Wait till the end for their run through of the key battleground seats.

Episode 2: Being ‘Strong’ is a Two-Sided Coin

University of Canberra with David Feeney and Scott Ryan — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 05:36:31 +0000

In this week’s episode David and Scott talk work from home u-turns, the Trumpification of election campaigns, Medicare, housing and taxation. What do the major party campaigns offer the ordinary Australian? And could polling stations be tumbleweeds on 3 May?

Episode 1: Looking Back and Looking Forward

University of Canberra with David Feeney and Scott Ryan — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 02:49:03 +0000

In this week’s inaugural episode David and Scott share their views on the current global political scene and how it could impact Australian political party agendas, what we can expect in the coming weeks on the campaign trails, and some insightful anecdotes on their time in Parliament - across the aisle.