# Conservative crisis Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/democracy-sausage-with-mark-kenny-877084/conservative-crisis Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/democracy-sausage-with-mark-kenny-877084/conservative-crisis.md Podcast: [Democracy Sausage with Mark Kenny](https://stenobird.com/podcast/democracy-sausage-with-mark-kenny-877084) Published: 2026-01-22T05:12:28+00:00 Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/democracy-sausage/episodes/conservative-crisis Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/acast/s/democracy-sausage/e/6971ace9a6c658f183679304/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/democracy-sausage-with-mark-kenny-877084/episodes/conservative-crisis Duration seconds: 2888 ## Resource How did the politicisation of a national tragedy backfire for Sussan Ley? Can the coalition survive? Who will reign supreme in the fight for the right? With an early return to federal parliament, political scientist, Dr Jill Sheppard joins Democracy Sausage to discuss the politicisation of a tragedy and the deep divisions within the federal coalition and conservative parties in Australia.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/democracy-sausage-with-mark-kenny-877084/episodes/conservative-crisis/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/democracy-sausage-with-mark-kenny-877084/conservative-crisis.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.