Insiders

2020 has been a year none of us will ever forget. As the political year ends, David Speers and the panel reflect on the events of the past seven days and the year, as well as the Matt Price Moment.

David Speers interviews shadow foreign minister Penny Wong. Mike Bowers talks pictures with Guardian Australia's Amy Remeikis. On the panel are ABC RN Drive's Patricia Karvelas, David Crowe from the Age and Sydney Morning Herald and the Australian Financial Review's Phil Coorey. They discuss the deteriorating Australia-China relationship following a tweet from China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs which included a doctored image of an Australian soldier. Plus good news on the economic front as Australia's technical recession ends and the UK begins to roll-out a coronavirus COVID-19 vaccine.

David Speers interviews trade and finance minister Simon Birmingham. Mike Bowers talks pictures with Mad as Hell's Tosh Greenslade. On the panel are the Herald Sun's James Campbell, Katharine Murphy from Guardian Australia and 6PR's Gareth Parker to discuss the reopening of state borders, the release of Kylie Moore-Gilbert from an Iranian prison, the cancellation of a convicted terrorist's citizenship plus Paul Brereton's Afghanistan war crimes report.