One Nation is surging. Why aren't the Greens?
6/5/202625 min
PK is still making her way through a rewatch of The West Wing — and she and Fran have some big thoughts about the idealistic vision of politics the series presents.
But after some very important TV chat, they get stuck into some brilliant listener questions, including:
Does the parliamentary attendance record of politicians matter? Why haven't the Greens capitalised on the populist wave like One Nation has? And how do the texting arrangements between political journalists and politicians actually work?
Patricia Karvelas and Fran Kelly answer your clever queries on this Question Time edition of The Party Room.
Listen to Thursday's The Party Room ep here
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Send a short voice recording to PK and Fran for Question Time at thepartyroom@abc.net.au
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:00
[upbeat music] ABC Listen. Podcasts, radio, news, music and more [crickets chirping] At a rural picnic spot in the dark, a young man suddenly disappears You could nearly say an alien took him away because he's just vanished When more clues from that night surface, something doesn't sit right It's nonsense.
Speaker 30:20
You've got where the stuff is. It's been scattered I'm Rob Bergin.
Speaker 20:24
Join me as I investigate what became of Jack in the new season of Unravel. Is it a murder? Is it someone just gone missing?
Fran Kelly· Host0:30
Do you know where my son is?
Speaker 20:32
Search for the Unravel podcast on ABC Listen or wherever you get your podcasts.
Speaker 50:36
[upbeat music] Today, the Australian people have voted for Australian values.
Speaker 30:45
[cheering] The choice is simple for the Liberal Party, change or die.
Speaker 20:51
We need to have more Australian everything. We need to manifest a hyper Australian.
Speaker 10:55
We've always been about the planet, but we've gotta make sure that people have their daily needs met.
Speaker 61:00
People are starting to see that there is actually a different way of doing politics.
Patricia Karvelas· Host1:03
Hello and welcome to The Party Room. I'm Patricia Karvelas, and I'm joining you from Ngunnawal country in Parliament House, Canberra.
Fran Kelly· Host1:11
And I'm Fran Kelly on the Gadigal land of the Eora Nation in Sydney. And it's question time, PK. We've got questions, but before we start, PK, I've got a question for you, and I was reminded to ask you about this because the other day on the Radio National Hour, I interviewed Emilio Estevez, who is the son of Martin Sheen.
Patricia Karvelas· Host1:28
Mm.
Fran Kelly· Host1:29
And I've gotta