The Karl Stefanovic Show

Kieran Cook grows grain near Tara on Queensland’s Western Downs, and he flies out there too, low and fast. The 110-metre wind monitoring towers that have gone up near local airstrips are so thin he says they’ve come up right under him. He calls them widow makers. Firebombers load up on his strip during fire season, and crop dusters and council choppers all work at tower height. Kieran says the tow...

Interest rates, inflation and house prices in plain English. Three of AMP's economists answer your cost of living questions. Five rate rises this year. Prices up 4.3%. Thousands of you sent in questions, and I put them to AMP's Dr Shane Oliver, Diana Mousina and My Bui, the economists behind social media account Econosights. Who's to blame, where house prices go next, and what you can...

Kogan.com founder Ruslan Kogan says Australia needs a circuit breaker. He warns David Jones won't be the last big name to fall, and says nobody in business is excited about the future right now. With families tightening their belts, his own business is doing well, and he says he feels bad about it. His fix: a tax system that rewards people who build and employ, two old rules gone for every new...

Barclay Nettlefold bought the whole sport in the middle of COVID. He's not a car guy, and he's never driven one. Now he wants to take Supercars to Singapore, Malaysia and the Middle East, the way the NRL took rugby league to Las Vegas. Karl sits down with the owner of Supercars to talk about:Toyota, and the next car maker coming to the gridThe decision to drop Neil Crompton from the commen...

Cost of living and interest rates: Interest rates are at their highest since 2008. Economist Saul Eslake on who’s carrying the inflation burden — what it even means —  and a fairer way to fight it. Only about a third of households have a mortgage, but they’re doing most of the heavy lifting on inflation. Saul explains why prices won’t budge, how much government spending is adding to the problem, a...

Interest rates at an 18-year high, and the cost of living keeps climbing. For a lot of Australians, this one’s hurting. Families. Small business owners. Farmers. You’re doing it tough, and I see you. The government isn’t riding to the rescue, and neither is the Reserve Bank. So it’s on us. We’ve come through droughts, floods and fires by looking after each other. We’ll get through this the same wa...

Alexander Downer talks inflation, government spending and your mortgage, recorded before the Melbourne Cup Day rate call. The former Liberal leader and Australia’s longest-serving foreign minister has seen it all. The highs and lows. So what does he prescribe for the future based on the past? Interest rates have gone up four times this year, to 4.60 per cent. Inflation hit 4.3 per cent in the year...

The tradie behind Thunder From Down Under, Vegas' longest-running male revue, on Western Sydney, the Gold Coast and going all in with it all off. Billy Cross grew up in housing commission in Sydney's west and left home at 16 on his L's. He did a bricklaying apprenticeship, got the ticket and never laid a brick. Then a Gold Coast nightclub asked him to take his shirt off. He couldn'...

Immigration is the hottest issue in Australia. But there’s a layer most people never see, and it’s bringing you dinner. Sydney restaurateur Mario Libertini has spent 46 years in hospitality. He runs two busy restaurants. The customers are there. The staff aren’t. He hasn’t found an apprentice in five years, and he says the only workers he can get come from overseas. Karl and Mario get into why you...

Neville and Gladys retired to cattle country near Jandowae, Queensland, for peace, cattle and a view of the Bunya Mountains. Then some of the tallest wind turbines in Australia went up next door. “I’m not against wind farms,” Neville says. “But you don’t want to be looking at them all the time.” Karl heads out west to the Wambo Wind Farm to ask who decides where turbines go, and who lives with the...

He was a Brisbane mechanic who mortgaged the house for a race car he built in his garage, then crashed it on live TV. Australia loved him so much it paid for him to go again. Dick Johnson is a dying breed. A bloke who fixed his own car, paid his own way, and became one of the most loved sporting figures this country has produced. At 81, he’s still at it. His team won Bathurst this month. In 1980,...

Insurance went up again? Shocker. An ex-insider says call their bluff. Luke Dugdell spent a decade policing insurers from the inside. Now he takes them on for a living. And shares some take-home hacks you can use today. His words: “they’ll charge you every dollar they can.”Ever called your insurer and watched the price drop? Tell us by how much.#insurancepremiums #karlstefanovic #costofliving

They lived at home until they got married. Before 40, they’d built more than $1 billion in assets. Karl Stefanovic sits down with self-made Sydney property developers Charbel Hazzouri and Anthony El-Hazouri, second-generation Australians whose fathers arrived from Lebanon with nothing. Karl visits the cousins at the new harbourside headquarters of Revelop, the property group they started in 2008 w...

Academy Award-nominated producer Lawrence Bender joins Karl Stefanovic for a revealing conversation about Hollywood, filmmaking and the extraordinary stories behind some of the biggest movies of the past four decades. Bender takes Karl behind the scenes of his career, from meeting Quentin Tarantino and bringing Reservoir Dogs to life to the making of Pulp Fiction , Good Will Hunting , Inglourious...

Dr Nick Norwitz MD PhD joins Karl for a fascinating conversation spanning cholesterol, statins, GLP-1s, peptides and the rapidly changing science of human health. Norwitz reveals how his LDL cholesterol reached an extraordinary 574 after adopting a ketogenic diet – despite previously having normal cholesterol – and why he decided to spend seven years without treating it. He then underwent an advan...

British journalist and commentator Jonathan Sacerdoti joins Karl Stefanovic to discuss Britain’s immigration crisis, integration, free speech and the changing face of the West. Sacerdoti warns that Britain may have changed in a way that is ‘irreversible’, arguing that successive governments have allowed large numbers of people into the country while failing to demand enough integration. He also qu...

AI safety expert Dr Roman Yampolskiy joins Karl Stefanovic for a confronting conversation about the future of artificial intelligence – and what happens if we create a form of intelligence that humans can no longer control. Yampolskiy warns that uncontrolled superintelligence could pose an extinction-level threat, arguing that current experiments show AI systems can lie, cheat, blackmail, bribe, h...

Former SASR operator Andrew ‘Chalky’ White spent almost three decades serving on the frontline in some of the world's most dangerous conflicts. In this exclusive In Conversation , Andrew speaks publicly about the battle that changed his life forever – the death of Jason Brown on Black Friday in Afghanistan, the devastating toll on Australia's veterans, and why he believes many former soldi...

So many questions were left unanswered after our first interview. So we had to get Pete Evans back on The Karl Stefanovic Show. From fluoride and tap water to creatine, carnivore diets, ‘healthy’ superfoods and sunlight, Pete takes Karl through his unconventional approach to food, health and wellbeing, challenging some of the assumptions we take for granted. Pete explains why he believes fluoride...

From a working-class upbringing in Melbourne to becoming one of Australia’s most recognisable young entrepreneurs, Adrian Portelli joins Karl to reveal the extraordinary story behind his rise to success.  Portelli opens up about the years he spent struggling in Los Angeles, sleeping in cars, working as an Uber driver and eventually returning to Australia to start again from scratch. He explains ho...

What if scientists could actually turn back the biological clock? On this episode of In Conversation, Karl Stefanovic sits down with Dr Buck Parker, MD, FACS – a board-certified trauma and acute care surgeon and digital creator – to unpack one of the most extraordinary developments in modern medicine: the possibility of reprogramming ageing cells. Dr Parker explains how scientists have discovered...

Labor is under fire – and Hollie Hughes and Gerard Rennick aren't holding back. This week on The Panel, Karl Stefanovic is joined by former Liberal MP Hollie Hughes and Gerard Rennick for a fiery discussion about the Albanese Government, Jim Chalmers, the gun buyback, superannuation, energy and the growing political divide. Hollie Hughes takes aim at Treasurer Jim Chalmers over his fundraising...

Tonight on Karl Weekly, Dave Hughes explains why he’s hit the campaign trail with the Victorian Liberals – and why he says he’s had enough of Labor’s taxes, government waste and corruption. Hughesy reveals what pushed him to become more politically outspoken, why he believes Australians are ‘over it’, and why he thinks Victoria desperately needs a change of government. He also takes aim at the Com...

Dr Aseem Malhotra joins Karl for a wide-ranging conversation about vaccines, COVID, Big Pharma, medical research and the growing crisis of trust in the health system. Malhotra discusses Donald Trump and RFK Jr’s approach to childhood vaccinations, why he believes every medical intervention should come with genuine informed consent, and why he says doctors need to be more transparent about the risk...

The Fabian Society has influenced political thinking for more than 140 years – but how much influence does it really have over Australia? Karl speaks with Topher Field about the origins of Fabianism, its strategy of gradual political change and the controversial idea of ‘permeation’, influencing institutions and government from within rather than seeking power directly. Topher argues the Fabian ap...