Sunday 9 November
Andrew Bragg - Shadow Housing Minister
David Speers discusses the week in politics with Patricia Karvelas, John Kehoe and Jason Koutsoukis including the Liberals ponder climate policy after the Nationals drop net zero, Sussan Ley’s leadership and interest rates.
Was mentioned towards the end of today’s program that executive producer Sam Clark has been promoted to the role of managing editor for national news.
On the episode of Insiders broadcast on 9 November 2025, an image of Senator Jane Hume holding up a front page of a newspaper was featured in the programs opening montage. The original front page, which was not include in the montage, featured an image of the Prime Minister Anthony Albanese alongside the headline “Life will be cheaper under me.”
In an attempt to be satirical, the image was changed so that a photograph of three of Senator Hume’s Coalition colleagues was superimposed onto the newspapers front page. The change was made in the edit process to accompany a line of voice over which stated that the Coalition had “made itself the story again.” Insiders acknowledges that, while the montage was attempting to be humorous, changing the image in this way was misleading and inaccurate and has apologised to Senator Hume. All versions of the program have since been re-edited to remove the altered image.
Sunday 16 November
Penny Wong - Foreign Minister
David Speers discusses the week in politics with Jennifer Hewett, James Massola and Jane Norman including the Liberal Party scrap net zero target, COP30, the visit by Nauru’s President plus the security treaty with Indonesia.
Final Insiders episode of the year is 7 December.
Edit: ABC Showcase announced returning with a new season in 2026.
23 November
Sarah Hanson-Young - Greens Senator
David Speers discusses the week in politics with Niki Savva, Tom Crowley and Mark Kenny including pressure on Opposition Leaders as we enter the parliamentary ‘killing season’, plus COP, G20, CSIRO cuts and hospital funding.
30 November
David Littleproud - Nationals Leader
David Speers discusses the final sitting week with Karen Middleton, Paul Sakkal and Claudia Long including the Greens deal to pass environment laws, Barnaby quits the Nationals, Pauline Hanson’s censure, energy and inflation.
Guest will be Prime Minister Anthony Albanese
Synopsis for the 2025 finale
David Speers interviews PM Anthony Albanese plus Phil Coorey, Samantha Maiden and Jacob Greber discuss the teen social media ban, defence overhaul, hospital funding, energy rebates, AI, immigration and the year ahead.
Chris Bendall joining the ABC to become Executive Producer of Insiders.
First program for 2026 will be on Sunday the 1st of February.
The season premiere has been brought forward to tomorrow (January 25).
David Speers features on Sunday Life magazine inside The Sun-Herald and Sunday Age today, discussing his family and wife Liz. He also mentions that some of his toughest interviews have been with former PM Julia Gillard and foreign minister Penny Wong.
Can they actually fix the lighting in the first shot? Looks ghastly.
Feels like the show looked much better coming from Melbourne’s set TBH.
Sunday 1 February
Ted O’Brien - Shadow Treasurer and Deputy Leader of The Opposition
David Speers and the panel Waleed Aly, Clare Armstrong and Phil Coorey discuss the week including leadership uncertainty in the Liberal and National parties; inflation, interest rates and the budget; plus social cohesion.
Sunday 8 February
Jim Chalmers - Treasurer
David Speers and the panel Karen Middleton, Paul Sakkal and John Kehoe discuss the week in parliament, efforts to reunite the Coalition, the RBA hike interest rates, Capital Gains tax reform, housing policy and budget repair.
More data revealed last week as part of a tranche of senate estimates questions on notice shows the ABC is, believe it or not, actually pretty even-handed when it comes to booking political guests for flagship political sofa-show Insiders.
Its own stable of journalists took the cake with a grand total of 50 appearances across the 2025 calendar year, led by seven appearances from Jacob Greber, formerly of the AFR. Journalists from across Nine television and mastheads The Age, Sydney Morning Herald and AFR followed on 43, while News Corp’s mastheads tallied 21.
But it was a News Corp journalist, news.com.au’s award-winning political editor Samantha Maiden, who topped the pile with 11 appearances across the year. Maiden was followed by the AFR’s political editor Phillip Coorey, this masthead’s Paul Sakkal and former Guardian political editor and now independent journalist Karen Middleton.
Sunday 15 February
Liberal MPs and Senators meet on Friday to vote on a spill motion with Angus Taylor challenging Sussan Ley for the party leadership. David Speers discusses the week with Jennifer Hewett, Jacob Greber and Natassia Chrysanthos.
Guest this week is new Liberal deputy leader Jane Hume
