L-R Tom McIlroy (Australian Financial Review), Karen Middleton (The Saturday Paper), Pablo Viñales (SBS World News)
It has been another environmentally wild summer, with 2023 being declared the hottest year on record by the Copernicus Climate Council, and the cost of living is biting hard. None of the 'pandemic premiers' are still in power (the ACT being the exception), and has the country moved on post-Voice referendum?
As the parliament gets ready to start again, what does Australia look like at the start of 2024?
And what about events outside our borders? Wars in Europe and the Middle East, presidential elections in the USA, the rise of AI, and the great global unifier (for two weeks at least) the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad to be held in Paris in July and August.
Join a panel of expert current affairs commentators to break down the year ahead.
Tom McIlroy is a political reporter with The Australian Financial Review, based at Parliament House. He covers federal politics, taxation, the arts and the Voice to Parliament, and is a regular commentator on national affairs. Tom has written for newspapers including The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Canberra Times.
Karen Middleton is chief political correspondent for The Saturday Paper and author of two books, An Unwinnable War: Australia in Afghanistan and Albanese: Telling it Straight. Karen has worked in the Canberra press gallery since 1989 and served as its president for four years. An experienced television, radio and newspaper commentator, she appears regularly on the ABC’s Insiders and Network Ten’s The Project.
Pablo Viñales is the Political Correspondent at SBS World News. Pablo has been working in the Parliamentary Press Gallery since 2019, covering federal elections, budgets and global summits. He has also reported for Dateline on SBS TV.
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