Sydney Writers Festival: Livestream and Local - Barrie Cassidy and Friends

Relive all the thrills and spills of the year in Australian politics with veteran journo Barrie Cassidy and his hand-picked squad of the country's sharpest pundits.

From the supermarket wars and cost of living crisis to the hottest year on record and unexpected (or expected) resignations, it's all up for dissection as they take the pulse of the nation. Barrie shares the stage with political journalists Bridget Brennan, Amy Remeikis, Niki Savva and Laura Tingle.

About the journalists:

Barrie Cassidy (pictured)

Barrie Cassidy is one of Australia's most experienced political correspondents and analysts. He was the creator of Insiders on the ABC, a program he hosted for 18 years.

Bridget Brennan

Bridget Brennan is newsreader and co-host of News Breakfast. She was previously the ABC's Indigenous Affairs Editor, Europe Correspondent in London and the National Indigenous Affairs Correspondent. She's covered Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities for more than a decade and is a Dja Dja Wurrung and Yorta Yorta woman.

Amy Remeikis

Amy Remeikis is a political reporter with Guardian Australia and regular contributor to Insiders, The Drum, The Project and ABC Radio. Her book, On Reckoning, covers how uncomfortable Australia is in dealing with sexual abuse and the fallout from the government's failure to act.

Niki Savva

Niki Savva is an author and columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. She is a regular panellist on ABC's Insiders. She has written four books, beginning with So Greek. Her other three books, chronicling the coups and chaos which beset the Liberal Government – The Road to Ruin, which was awarded Non-fiction Book of the Year by the Australian Book Industry Awards, Plots and Prayers and Bulldozed – have all been best sellers.

Laura Tingle

Laura Tingle has reported on Australian politics for more than 40 years. She joined the ABC in 2018 as Chief Political Correspondent for 7.30 after a long career in print, notably for The Australian Financial Review. She has written four Quarterly Essays and a book about the recession of the early 1990s and she has won two Walkley Awards. Laura is President of the National Press Club of Australia