The Weekly with Charlie Pickering

- Season 2

(2016)

Topics: Ted Cruz Iowa caucus victory; Ignorance Awareness Week; Sports Corruption; Vaping (with Kitty Flanagan); Mitchell Pearce Australia Day scandal.

Topics: Cardinal Pell's absence from the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse; children refugees in Nauru; sexual inequality in movie merchandise and genderised toys; packaged lettuce.

Topics: Kristin Davis' appearance on Sunrise; Beyoncé's Super Bowl performance; political donations; stress amongst year twelve students.

Topics: Liberal Party senator Cory Bernardi opposes Safe Schools anti-bullying programme in schools; Labor leader Bill Shorten proposes negative gearing law reforms; body dysmorphia and use of dietary supplements; voluntary assisted dying (with Andrew Denton); ISIS name causes confusion and negative connotations; Donald Trump responds to Pope Francis's comment regarding building walls instead of bridges makes Trump Un-Christian; Sydney's early alcohol lockout laws.

Topics: Oscars (host Chris Rock's address regarding lack of diversity in nominations as well as Mad Max: Fury Road's six wins); Coalition senators oppose Safe Schools anti-bullying of LGBTIQ children programme in schools; marriage equality plebiscite; acts of terrorism (with Masha Gessen); shark attacks and shark culling; Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe celebrates his 92nd birthday (with Loyiso Gola).

Topics: Affair allegations between Peta Credlin and Tony Abbott in Niki Savva's book Road To Ruin: How Tony Abbott and Peta Credlin Destroyed Their Own Government; political preselection process; technology making parenting easier (with Kitty Flanagan).

Topics: Russia withdraws from Syria; ISIS leak; Shane Warne Foundation closure; phone dependence; flushable wipes (with Kitty Flanagan); referendum on changes to the Australian Constitution to give Aboriginals constitutional recognition (with Adam Briggs).

Topics: Brussels terrorist attacks; possible double dissolution election; 2016 World Happiness Report; television advertisement and product placement.

Topics: Egyptian man hijacks EgyptAir plane over domestic dispute with his wife; Australia's refusal to establish permanent maritime boundaries with East Timor has short-changed East Timor of royalties worth billions of dollars raised from oil and gas resources found in the Timor Sea; Football (with Kitty Flanagan); Ugandan journalist Elijah Turyagumanawe continues broadcasting as he and other journalists are arrested and detained by Ugandan police.

Topics: Panama papers; 2016 Gold Logie nominees; wrongful convictions; Australia discovered or invaded (with Adam Briggs); 2018 Commonwealth Games mascot.

Topics: 60 Minutes detainment in Beirut, Lebanon; data brokers; traffic congestion; the closure of Clive Palmer's Queensland Nickel the result of fund misuse.

Topics: Early election; Grant Hackett's assault of a man on an airplane; Johnny Depp and Amber Heard's court case for dog smuggling; concerns regarding the upcoming 2016 Rio Olympics; Donald Trump's presidential campaign.

Topics: Passing of Prince; Donald Trump's Presidential race; 60 Minutes crew's release from detainment and the aftermath; the Internet (with Kitty Flanagan).

Topics: 2016 Australian federal budget; 11 year old American boy Chris Gaither shoots an intruder; federal government funding cuts to CSIRO shifts focus from research for public good to commercial purposes; Special Correspondents (with Eric Bana); Climate change.

2016, the year of Brexit, Trump and the Budgie 9, has outstayed its welcome. The Weekly's Charlie Pickering, Kitty Flanagan and Tom Gleeson wrestle 2016 out of the party before it takes any more musical legends with it.