Gone By Lunchtime: Hardcore lobbying and the emotional senior staffer

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The multifaceted, years-long story of Mike Smith’s climate court action, the parliamentary response, and hard-copy briefings from lobbyists that mysteriously vanished has officially reached “saga” mode.

In a new episode of the Spinoff politics podcast Gone By Lunchtime, Ben Thomas, Annabelle Lee-Mather and Toby Manhire dive into the mire and debate whether there are dots to join.

Elsewhere in this buffet episode, they finally complete their reading of the budget appendices and deliver their verdicts, assess the latest bout of entitleditis besieging our MPs, search valiantly for Labour Party policy, and revisit a busy weekend for Chris Penk in Singapore navigating “freerider” chat and radioactive conversations.

Plus: a celebration of the new king of Twitter, MP Joseph Mooney.