The Sarah Hanson-Young Podcast

In this week’s episode, Sarah says that while One Nation's Malcom Roberts says he’s in two minds about whether LGBTIQA+ Australians are equal - she wonders if he even has one mind. These kinds of comments are not mistakes, this is the worldview of One Nation. All too often, the media dismisses these comments as just another kooky MP from the fringes of Pauline Hanson’s political party - but it’s time we acknowledge it for what it is. One Nation is a party built on hatred and othering and they need to be called out for it. ...

In this week’s episode, Sarah says men have an entitlement problem and it’s time other men call it out. After a horror week of allegations of sexual assault against Sydney Swans AFL players and private school boys, Sarah asks where are the newspaper columns, podcasts and social media posts by men calling out this behaviour and driving the cultural change so desperately needed to end men’s violence against women. Sarah calls for real men to step up, call it out, if this men’s entitlement problem is going to stop.

Sarah’s special guest this week...

In this week’s episode, Sarah says she’s sick to death of hearing about the melons. In the midst of a crisis of men’s violence against women, lack of funding of domestic violence services, and every other crisis Australians are facing right now - all the Coalition and the media could focus on last week was the Prime Minister’s melon debacle. 

Sarah’s special guest this week is Andrew Denton, broadcaster, producer, comedian - now Logies Hall of Famer - and Australia’s most well-known advocate for Voluntary Assisted Dying. As founding director of ‘Go Gentle Austr...

In this week’s episode, Sarah reveals how the Australian Government isn’t even providing peanuts to East Timor’s children, leaving them malnourished and their growth stunted. Sarah explains that on a recent trip to the very close but very poor neighbouring country, she saw firsthand the kids’ extreme hunger and how much of a vital lifeline literal peanuts are to their health and future. Once you hear this SHY Report, you will be moved to action. Email and phone Australia’s Foreign Minister: foreign.minister@dfat.gov.au (02) 6277 7500  and your local MP: https://www.aph.gov.au/Senators_an...

In this week’s episode, Sarah says the predatory inducements used by the gambling industry makes them groomers. She is in the midst of a parliamentary inquiry into the government’s gambling ad ban bill where people with lived experience have told devastating stories of these very companies buying problem gamblers escorts, hotel rooms and drugs to get them gambling more money for longer. The parliament must work together to ban gambling ads, and also ban these dangerous and harmful inducements. 

Sarah’s special guest this week is Abby Martin, an investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker from the US...

When protecting rivers is deemed ‘too political' for a billboard, but fossil fuel advertising is A-okay, you’ve got to wonder where they get the nerve. And then you've got to call it out. This week Sarah dissects a glaring example of the double standards that powerful vested interests can create.

Sarah’s special guest this week is NSW Independent MP Alex Greenwich. Sarah and Alex have a conversation about what it looks like to walk the talk when it comes to making politics a force for good - at a time when it feels like fake politic...

In this week’s episode, Sarah says it’s time to tackle the rise of Pauline Hanson head on, for her to be properly scrutinised and understand she is far from the victim but rather a strategic political player who is legitimising far right narratives, using culture war tactics, and associating with individuals who trade in racism, conspiracy theories and division.     

Sarah’s special guest this week is Craig Foster, former Socceroos captain and now a recognised broadcaster, social justice advocate and human rights campaigner. They have an inspiring conversation and challenge the notion that sport and politics...

In this episode, Sarah breaks down why we should all care about the mass Telstra outage even if we weren’t directly affected, why it’s political, and the case for a new legal obligation on telecommunications companies that requires them to deliver a reliable service.

Sarah then sits down for a conversation with Edward Santow, a former Australian Human Rights Commissioner and current Director of Policy & Governance at the Human Technology Institute where he leads a number of initiatives to promote human-centred artificial intelligence. Sarah and Ed cut through the tech spin with the facts about AI...

In this week’s episode, Sarah exposes what’s really going on with the Government’s gambling reforms, a secret tax break for gambling companies, and how voices across the parliament united to ensure the legislation gets proper scrutiny.

Sarah then sits down for a conversation with special guest former Greens Leader Adam Bandt, to talk about life after politics, taking power back, and how we can make working together for change fun. 

Sarah and Adam worked together in the Australian Parliament for more than a decade, fighting together for people and the planet. These days Ad...

In this first episode, Sarah shares her thoughts on the rise of One Nation and Pauline Hanson’s laundry list of the things she doesn’t like about Australia. 

She then sits down for a conversation with special guest Antoinette Latouf and the tables are turned, the politician is interviewing the journalist. Together they chat about the media, pushing for change and fighting for democracy at a time others are trying to destroy it. 

At a time of low trust and ever-increasing rage and division, Sarah Hanson-Young is stepping forward to offer something different: proof that politics can be a force for good. Not one to be shy, Hanson-Young will also use this new platform to drop truth bombs and call out the bullshit. 

Politics is looking pretty broken right now and some people want us to believe it can't be fixed - but I think it can and should be a force for good.