Shirt Happens: 2025 Year in Review

About this episode

The episode reviews the absurd and predictable events in Australian news and politics from 2025.

News Fighters is back with our annual wrap of everything absurd and predictable in Australian news, politics, and media. From stinky flowers to manufactured shirt controversies, from mushroom murders to Momdani and fake peace prizes, from ICE raids to algal blooms, from criminal heists to hijacker takedowns, and from net zero abandonment to election campaign backflips—2025 is a year of division and crime we can’t wait to forget. Also Stefan Pazur looks at the year in showbiz, movies, TV and music. News Fighters is a comedic look at Australian news, media and political hypocrisy from TV comedy editor & producer Dylan Behan (currently on hiatus). Listen to episodes in your podcast app at http://podfollow.com/newsfighters Buy me a coffee: http://ko-fi.com/newsfighters Watch on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/newsfighters Follow News Fighters on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/newsfighterspod/ Follow on Threads: https://www.threads.net/newsfighterspod Follow on X: http://twitter.com/NewsfightersPod Follow Dylan on X: http://twitter.com/dylabolical Hate social media? Sign up for our free newsletter: http://newsfighters.com Buy merch…

People in this episode

Host: Dylan Behan

Topics covered

• Australian news
• politics
• media
• comedy
• entertainment

Keywords

• stinky flowers
• manufactured shirt controversies
• mushroom murders
• fake peace prizes
• ICE raids
• algal blooms
• criminal heists
• hijacker takedowns
• net zero abandonment
• election campaign backflips

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