Across the Aisle

Join former senior-ranking politicians David Feeney and Scott Ryan as they share their insights and observations from different sides of Australian politics.

David, Scott and their guests will regale you with their views, opinions and perspectives on the campaign trails leading up to the 2025 Australian Federal Election – across the aisle.

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

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    In this episode David and Scott get to the heart of this year’s Federal election campaigns. The good, the bad and the ugly. (Recorded Monday May 5, 2025)

    One could not have anticipated the historically conclusive outcome for Labor nor the catastrophic result for the Liberals. It was not anticipated nor expected at the start of 2025. What did Labor do well, and where did it go wrong for the Liberals? David and Scott unpack the aftermath of the past weekend, Labor’s newfound authority across the Senate and the challenge for the Liberals with limited seats across Australia’s capital cities. Describing the Liberals campaign as a slow-moving, low-energy Tsunami and a comparatively disciplined and sharply focused campaign from Labor. Across the aisle just got a little more interesting.

  • Episode 4: The Final Sprint to Election Day

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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.