There’s an election looming and the Chaser are back. To celebrate, we revisit one of the most daring political satire stunts from 2007 when The Chaser team, including a fake Osama Bin Laden, were waved through high security during then US President George Bush’s visit for the APEC summit. There’s also an early Chaser episode of CNNN.

Going back to 1998, we remember how The Games satirised the bureaucracy of the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (SOCOG) and all of its political jostling and posturing.

In the eighties and nineties, The Gillies Report’s brand of political satire ruled, featuring Max Gillies’s high-class mimicry of politicians and Patrick Cook’s sharp scripts. Featured here is an episode from 1984.

Finally, we include a short animation from 1974 in which political cartoonist Peter Nicholson comments on then prime minister Gough Whitlam’s frequent overseas travel.