Insiders (Australian TV program)

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Insiders
File:Insiders (ABC).jpg
Insiders title card
Genre Politics, analysis
Presented by David Speers (2020–present)
Barrie Cassidy (2001–2019)
Country of origin Australia
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 23
Production
Executive producer(s) Samuel Clark
Production location(s) ABC Canberra
Running time 60 minutes
Release
Original network ABC
ABC News (2010–present)
Picture format PAL
HDTV 1080i
Audio format Dolby Digital 5.1
Original release 15 July 2001 (2001-07-15) –
present
External links
[{{#property:P856}} Website]

Insiders is an Australian news and talk television program produced by ABC News, and hosted by David Speers.

History

The program debuted on 15 July 2001, hosted by Barrie Cassidy until June 2019. Similar to the Sunday morning talk shows in the United States, Insiders analyses and discusses Australian politics with the use of a panel of political journalists and columnists and interviews with prominent politicians and commentators.

Broadcast on ABC on Sunday mornings at 9am, the program also features many regular commentators from various Australian media outlets and think tanks. The show is part of the ABC's Sunday morning line-up, commencing with Insiders, followed by Offsiders, a sports program initiated[1] and formerly hosted by Cassidy, and now hosted by Kelli Underwood.

Fran Kelly hosted the show while Barrie Cassidy was on long service leave, and Chris Uhlmann, prior to his move to the Nine Network, also hosted the show in Cassidy's absence.

In March 2019, Cassidy announced he would be leaving Insiders after the 2019 Australian election and after eighteen years in the hosting chair.[2] His last show was on 9 June 2019; regular fill-in presenters Fran Kelly and Annabel Crabb alternated hosting duties until the end of the year

In June 2019, David Speers was announced as Cassidy's replacement from 2020.[3]

In June 2020, the program received criticism for having an all-white panel discussing the Black Lives Matter movement.[4] An investigation by Junkee discovered that there seemingly had never been a person of colour on the panel in the show's history.[5] Consequently, ABC journalist Bridget Brennan accepted an invitation to be on the following week's program, seemingly becoming the first non-white person to ever appear on the Insiders panel.[6] Addressing the criticism, Speers admitted the previous week's edition of Insiders lacked an important perspective and that the program needed to do better in having more diverse insights into political debate.[6]

In May 2023, it was announced that the show would relocate from ABC's Melbourne studio to Canberra later in 2023.[7] The first episode broadcast live from Canberra was broadcast on 9 July 2023.[8]

Format

As a Sunday morning talk show, the original format of the program usually started with Cassidy discussing the political issues of the week, followed by an interview with a current Australian political figure, usually an Australian politician. Each week in the studio, Cassidy discusses current political issues with a panel of three commentators/journalists of varying political perspectives.

The 2007 series included small changes to the format of the show: re-ordering the segments, commencing the program with the political interview, followed by "Your Shout". Paul Kelly's discussion (this segment was discontinued in 2010) was then used as a starting point for the panel discussion. "Talking Pictures" continued to provide a break point within the panel discussions, with the show concluding with its customary sign-off where Cassidy asked the three panel members for their "final observation and predictions".

In 2011, the usual program format began with a brief monologue from Cassidy followed by a brief video summary of the major events of the preceding week. Cassidy then reviewed the Sunday papers with the studio panel before moving on to the studio guest. If the guest is present in the studio the interview is introduced by a short video clip relating to the first interview question. The interview usually lasts until midway through the hour and is followed by a video clip which concentrates on events surrounding a major news topic of the week. This was followed by a panel discussion between Cassidy and his studio guests. Cassidy introduced "Talking Pictures" towards the end of the hour, which is followed by more studio discussion. The show usually wound up with Cassidy introducing amusing or otherwise interesting media clips followed by an observation or prediction from each panel member before Cassidy ended the show with a final media clip or two.

The program's editor, Huw Parkinson, has produced dozens of video mashups compositing the faces of political figures onto films and other pop culture footage.[9] Parkinson's videos won him a Walkley Award for multimedia storytelling in 2015.[10]

Regular segments

Your Shout

The Your Shout segment (which was dropped in 2010) gave a member or group of members of the public a chance to air a grievance or present opinions about topical political issues that concerned them, in a short, pre-recorded segment shown during the program. It appears that the program attempted to ensure that the members of the public selected from week to week represented a broad range of political opinion and were spread across different parts in Australia.

Talking Pictures

Presented by Mike Bowers, the Talking Pictures segment analyses political cartoons and photographs featured in the nation's newspapers, magazines and news websites from the previous week. Regularly appearing cartoonists and photographers have included Warren Brown, Bill Leak, Geoff Pryor, Bruce Petty, Alan Moir, Peter Nicholson, Mark Knight, Jon Kudelka, Matt Golding, Paul Batey, Cathy Wilcox, Sean Leahy, Fiona Katauskas and Alex Ellinghausen.

Poll of Polls

Presented by Andrew Catsaras, the Poll of Polls segment aggregated and reviewed political polling from the previous month. This segment commenced in February 2012, appearing during the last week of each month in 2012, moving to the first week of each month in 2013.

The Curve

Presented by Casey Briggs[11], The Curve[12] started in 2020 during the Covid–19 pandemic providing weekly analysis and information graphics of infection and hospitalisation rates. The segment has evolved into other subject areas including electoral polling analysis called The Crunch.

Commentators and Panellists

Regular Panellists

Commentator Background
Clare Armstrong[13] National Political Editor; Daily Telegraph, Herald Sun, Adelaide Advertiser, Courier Mail
James Campbell National Weekend Political Editor, Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Herald Sun and the Sunday Mail
Annabel Crabb Political journalist, ABC
David Crowe Chief Political Editor for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald
Phil Coorey Political Editor, The Australian Financial Review
Rafael Epstein Presenter, ABC Radio Melbourne
Jennifer Hewett[14] National Affairs columnist, The Australian Financial Review
Patricia Karvelas Presenter, ABC Radio National Breakfast
Fran Kelly Journalist
Mark Kenny Senior Fellow at the Australian Studies Institute at the Australian National University
Samantha Maiden Political Editor, news.com.au
George Megalogenis Author/columnist for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald
Karen Middleton Chief Political Correspondent, The Saturday Paper
Katharine Murphy[15] Political Editor, The Guardian Australia
Andrew Probyn Former Political Editor, ABC News
Amy Remeikis[16] Political reporter, The Guardian Australia
Mark Riley Political Editor, Seven News
Niki Savva Author, political columnist and former Liberal staffer
Tory Shepherd Journalist, The Guardian Australia
Annika Smethurst State Political Editor, The Age
Michael Stutchbury Editor-in-Chief, The Australian Financial Review
Lenore Taylor Editor, The Guardian Australia
Laura Tingle Chief Political Correspondent, ABC and 7.30 program
Virginia Trioli Presenter on ABC Radio Melbourne, former co-host of News Breakfast and former ABC Radio Sydney presenter
Peter van Onselen Contributing Editor, The Australian newspaper and Professor at Griffith University
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Former Panellists

Commentator Background
Piers Akerman Columnist, Sydney's Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Denis Atkins former National Affairs Editor, The Courier-Mail
Andrew Bolt Host of The Bolt Report on Sky News Live, Herald Sun columnist and blogger
Tim Blair Opinion Editor, Sydney's Daily Telegraph
Malcolm Farr The Guardian Australia
Gerard Henderson Executive Director, Sydney Institute[18]
David Marr[19] Journalist, The Guardian Australia
Glenn Milne Political journalist, The Australian and News Corp Sunday publications (sacked as a panelist)
Matt Price Sketch writer, The Australian (deceased)
Brian Toohey Columnist with The Australian Financial Review[20]

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External links

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