The shows, which have run under various titles, provide commentary on Australian federal election and has been produced since 2001 for ABC TV.

In 2004 and 2007 they produced The Chaser Decides which won the Logie Award for "Most Outstanding Comedy Program" for the 2004 series.

The presenters (panelists) were Charles Firth, Julian Morrow, Chris Taylor, Craig Reucassel, Chas Licciardello and Dominic Knight.

The show was titled The Chaser Decides and ran at the timeslot of 9:00 pm Thursday from 24 September 2004 to 14 October 2004.

The shows context was supposedly part of news program Lateline with the Chaser team being there to warm up the crowd for Tony Jones or Leigh Sales.

This was changed for the final episode when the show preceded At the Movies, so that set design was used with guest appearances by hosts David Stratton and Margaret Pomeranz.

[19] When Kevin Rudd announced the change of election date from 14 to 7 September, the first episode was brought forward one week to 14 August.

[2] New cast members that joined the series included Zoe Norton Lodge, Ben Jenkins, Kirsten Drysdale, Alex Lee, Scott Abbot, Mark Sutton and Hannah Reilly.

Every week, the team present the award to a politician "for the greatest act of political suicide during an election campaign".

For the 2004 and 2007 series, a newsbar - similar to the one that would appear in CNNNN - would scroll across the bottom of the screen, with humorous news items.