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Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast
Sunday Extra presents a lively mix of national and international affairs, analysis and investigation, as well as a lighter touch.
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Poetry between the written and spoken words
Arantza Garcia Ferrand reads her poem Dentist Appointment, commissioned by Red Room Poetry for Poetry Month and discusses the difference between the...
The Year that Made Me, Bharat Sundaresan, 2007
To describe someone as 'colourful' can sometimes be a euphemistic way of implying some kind of shady activity.
But when it comes to Bharat Sunda...
Pro Jank Footy: the video game love letter to our "absurd" footy culture
A South Australian indie video game company called Powerbomb Games released a new video game last week, which celebrates the “strangeness” of AFL. Pro...
Jane Hutcheon on uncovering family history secrets
August is Family History Month, and Jane Hutcheon is someone who intimately understands how to unravel the stories of our ancestors. After 25 years of...
“If you read me, weep”: Prophetic warnings of Europe's hunger stones
The emergence of 'hunger stones' — markers from centuries of drought — have emerged from dry riverbeds across Europe. Dominik Collet, professor of cli...
Clinical Trial of the Year
It has been a big week for awards ceremonies with both Logies and the AACTAs gongs being handed out.
The other ACTA, the Australian Clinical Tri...
Kazakhstan elects representatives to brand new parliament
In July, Kazakhstan formally farewelled its bicameral parliament with a new 145-member unicameral parliament, the Kurultai.
On Sunday Kazakhs g...
Taiwan’s mega defence budget signals determination to head off China threat
This week Taiwan set out the 2027 defence spending proposal, which would increase military spending by 18 percent.
However, the government of La...
Tweet of the week, 16 August 2026
This week's melodious woodland songster migrates in Spring to Australia's southeast – the Olive-backed Oriole
The Year that Made Me: Anika Molesworth, 2006
As the Millennium Drought gripped south-eastern Australia, young farmer Anika Molesworth watched her family's farm near Broken Hill struggle through t...
Hazel de Berg and the birth of oral history in Australia
The Memory Tapes is a new podcast from the National Library of Australia that showcases their oral history collection.
It features some incredib...
Hard as Park: inside the hardcore world of para ice hockey
Hard is Puck is a new documentary screening at the Melbourne Film Festival. It follows The Garden Island Pirates, WA's only para ice hockey team and t...
From ancient Rome to Nazi Germany, the remarkable history of the census
In the wake of Australia's latest Census, data scientist and census historian Andrew Whitby reflects on the enduring power of counting populations, dr...
Iceland votes on whether on un-freeze EU membership talks
Icelanders are preparing to vote in a referendum on whether to re-start long-frozen accession talks with the European Union.
The vote on August...
Could a New UN Tax Deal Raise $500 Billion a Year?
Delegates from across the globe have just wrapped up a 10-day session in New York, discussing a proposed UN tax framework that supporters describe as...
Viet Nam sees its diaspora as a 'strategic asset', but many Australians distrust its communist leaders
This week the Vietnamese leader Tô Lâm wrapped up a 6-day visit to Australia, during which the two countries agreed to deepen their Comprehensive Stra...
The Year that Made Me: Colin Barnett, 1985
Colin Barnett describes himself as an ‘accidental politician’, who went on to have a long and successful career in Western Australian state politics.<...
The Sacrifice of Farinelli examines the life of superstar castrato
The Sacrifice of Farinelli is a new theatre work based on the life of opera's first superstar, the castrato singer known as Farinelli.
The cast...
Tony Jones' new film asks if we can live without animal testing
A comment from Peter Singer set ex-Q&A host and seven-time Walkley Award winner Tony Jones on a journey exploring the sentience of non-human animals,...
The Fatal Island - Paul Toohey
Timor Leste, one of the world’s youngest nations continues to develop economically and is emerging as a member of ASEAN.
But in 2008, the 6 year...
Borderline confusing: enclaves and exclaves of the world
The influx of 72,000 people into the tiny Spanish territory of Ceuta put the global spotlight on the curious phenomenon of enclaves.
A close ins...
Can AI scribes ease the burden on doctors without compromising care?
As doctors reach a breaking point balancing patient care with an escalating administrative burden, AI scribes are emerging as a lifeline. But amid the...
Vale Bill Oddie: funny man, bird man
British comedian and broadcaster Bill Oddie has died at the age of 85. Although best remembered to ABC audiences as part of 1970s comedy trio The Good...
The Year That Made Me: Mohammed Massoud Morsi, 1967
Mohammed Massoud Morsi is an Egyptian-Danish-Australian author, journalist and photographer who spent almost two decades working as a freelance journa...
The Sydney mum who's traditional cooking has gone viral
Fatimah Omran is a Sydney mum who’s built a massive following on social media - over quarter of a million followers on TikTok for example - all on the...
Parramatta: A Dictionary of Place and Memory
When author Yumna Kassab decided to write about her home suburb of Parramatta, she did so in an unconventional way: through a dictionary. But Parramat...
Populate or Perish: 81 years since Australia's postwar immigration drive
On August 2 1945, Australia’s first Immigration Minister Arthur Calwell gave a speech in parliament that The Museum of Australian Democracy described...
The insidious power of cults
Why do people join groups based around coercion and control, including people who we think should know better?
At the Festival of Dangerous Idea...
Indonesia's economic downslide
Indonesia's Rupiah has been losing value over the last two years, after decades of steady growth. This week's resignation of the Bank Indonesia Govern...
Wanted: one diplomat with infinite patience; UN chief selection gets underway
The contest for the top job at the UN is well under way, this week the first straw polls were held at the Security Council in New York.
The resu...
Tweet of the week, 26 July 2026
This week's small but colourful caller searches the tropical rainforest of Cape York Peninsula for seeds and fruit – the Red-cheeked Parrot.
The Year that Made Me: Craig Johnston, 1988
On The Year That Made Me, former Liverpool football star Craig Johnston reflects on an extraordinary life that extends far beyond his success on the p...
The tome that ignited a witch hunt hysteria
The Malleus Maleficarum, or The Hammer of Witches, was a 15th century manual that was directly responsible for the trials and executions thousands of...
Who was Linda Goodman, America's forgotten astrology queen?
Astrology's place in popular culture can be traced back to Linda Goodman, whose 1968 book Sun Signs was the first astrology book to make it onto the N...
The Light on the Hill: 135 years of Australian Labor Party history
When the Australian Labor Party turned 100 in 1991, one of ways the centenary was marked was the publication of a commissioned history by Ross McMulli...
India's Cockroach Janta Party claims victory as minister resigns
The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) is not a registered political party but its name is a parody of, and a reference to the Chief Judge of India’s Supreme...
The Year that Made Me: Alice Pung, 2006
Alice Pung is the daughter of ethnic Chinese Cambodian migrants who fled the killing fields of the Khmer Rouge for Melbourne in the 1980s. She wrote a...
From Mussolini to Beyoncé: Mary Beard talks Classics
'Rock star' classicist Mary Beard is back in the spotlight with a new book, Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old.' Reflecting on half a century spen...
Mapping the global fungi network
Scientists have drawn up the first complete global map of the hidden fungal super-highway that runs beneath our feet. These mycorrhizal networks stret...