The Counterpoint website describes its intention as introducing subjects and speakers that supposedly challenge widely held assumptions while allegedly exposing some new and seldom heard commentators.
[citation needed] Counterpoint has also embraced and featured some of the firebrands and attack dogs of the British arm of the contemporary "conservative" movement, most notably including numerous cadres and associates of the Living Marxism (LM) Network (particularly Frank Furidi and Brendan O'Neill, as well as Claire Fox, etc.)
Counterpoint has been active in promoting various shades of climate change denial and skepticism throughout its full run, along with pushing the denialist's discredited theories and talking points, most particularly in the years during the tenure of Duffy and Comrie-Thomson.
This has included criticisms and attacks on the scientific consensus on global warming, with the show regularly featuring guests who adopted this stance, along with other varied positions on the climate change denial spectrum, including: Bob Carter, Ian Castles, Ray Evans, William Kininmonth, Jennifer Marohasy, David Henderson, Patrick J. Michaels, Bjørn Lomborg, Vincent Gray, and Garth Paltridge.
On 30 August 2023, Vanstone conducted a pre-recorded interview with the noted indigenous STEM education advocate and Kamilaroi man, Adjunct Associate Professor Corey Tutt OAM.
In addition, a significantly large number of the earlier shows, from the first one in May 2004 onwards, were published with online transcripts that often continue to be accessible via archived older versions of the Counterpoint website.