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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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Tweet of the week - 9 November, 2025
This week's mystery caller is a colourful inhabitant of windswept coastal habitats – the Rock Parrot.
How to manage rubble in a warzone
After a disaster, before reconstruction can begin, survivors invariably face a huge and often toxic problem: debris and in particular rubble. Mobile C...
The lost art of daydreaming
In an age of distraction we are losing a surprisingly important skill - daydreaming.
According to Professor Hannes Leroy, productive daydreamin...
PM's Prize for Science winner Lidia Morawska clears the air
The winner of the Prime Minister's Prize for Science this year was Distinguished Professor Lidia Morawska from the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sc...
"Often colourful, and sometimes controversial", remembering Graham Richardson
“A giant of the Labor Party and a remarkable Australian” - that’s how Prime Minister Anthony Albanese remembered former ALP powerbroker and federal Ca...
The Dismissal: how history judges the judges' role
On 9 November 1975, Australia’s Governor General, Sir John Kerr, rang the Chief Justice of the High Court, Sir Garfield Barwick, and asked him for a m...
Croak of the Month - November, 2025
This month it's the Shoemaker Frog.
It’s one of the many frog species that gets its common name from the sound of its call - with the call remi...
Mythbusters' Kari Byron on creating STEM's next gen
Kari Byron's time as a co-host on Mythbusters formed the core of her passion for science, but in the years since then she has turned that passion into...
Absurdist history in Netflix's mockumentary 1670
A new mockumentary from Netflix, 1670, looks back on the absurdities of an obscure era of history - the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth, which lasted f...
'Sunlight on Demand': science fiction fantasy or the next big thing?
It's being marketed as Sunlight On-Demand. American startup Reflect Orbital is proposing a 2026 launch date for it's test satellite, which will a carr...
A spy network for the Pacific
The Five Eyes alliance involving Australia, the UK, US, Canada and New Zealand is an enduring and sophisticated intelligence-sharing agreement that ha...
Post election violence erupts in Tanzania
Parliamentary elections were held in Tanzania this week, but with the leaders of the two major opposition parties in jail or disqualified from running...
The Year that Made Me: Omar El Akkad, 2001
Omar El Akaad was at college in 2001 when the opportunity to become a writer opened up before him. Over the following decades this path would lead him...
Tweet of the week - Buff Breasted Paradise Kingfisher
This week's mystery caller is a colourful summer migrant to Far North Queensland – the Buff-breasted Paradise-Kingfisher.
You, Me and That Chair
This is the poem You, Me And That Chair by Johannes Winata, read by Trivita Tiffany Winataputri. The poem was the inspiration for the short film of th...
Can short films bring Australia and Indonesia closer?
It is the 10th year of the ReelOzInd! short film festival which is open to filmmakers from both Australia and Indonesia. The finalists are shown in bo...
Tim Hatton on 30 years of migration policy
Anti-immigration protests have become a regular fixture of the Australian news cycle. In the UK, CNN reported that anti-immigration rallies in London...
Kenya farewells political giant Raila Odinga
Raila Odinga 'a towering figure in Kenyan politics' died on 15 October 2025, aged 80. A former Prime Minister, and son of Kenya’s first Vice-President...
The Peacemaker: a grandson remembers U Thant
Thirteen years after U Thant left his position as a school teacher in a small village in Burma, he found himself appointed as Secretary General of the...
All the Cool Girls Get Fired
Getting fired isn't normally something to celebrate, but Laura Brown, along with co-author Kristine O'Neill have created a part-memoir, part-manifesto...
No justice after 50 years for Balibo 5
50 years after the murder of the Balibo 5 and 18 years after a coronial inquest confirmed the Australian journalists were deliberately shot by Indones...
The influence of AI on cybercrime
Theresa Payton made history as the first female Chief Information Officer in the White House, where she steered digital transformation strategy and he...
'The most dangerous man in the White House'
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller is the architect of a suite of Donald Trump's hardline border policies, from the so-called “Muslim ba...
What does poetry and comedy in Singapore sound like?
Stephanie Dogfoot is a comedian, poet and lawyer based in Singapore. They have been performing since 2008 and has established open mic nights for poet...
The Year that Made Me: Stephen Mayne, 2000
From his early news on the business desk at a number of newspapers to a stint behind the scenes in Victorian state politics to the founding of the onl...
Could more medical equipment be re-used?
If you have ever had a medical procedure in a hospital, you might have noticed that much of the medical equipment that you came into contact with went...
Why Tony Blair might end up "Governor of Gaza"
Since resigning as UK Prime Minister in 2007, Tony Blair has maintained an active interest in the Middle East through his think tank The Tony Blair In...
Taking care of wombats
Josh Neille took home his first animal to care for when he was eight years old. Now he is a registered wildlife carer in Gippsland VIctoria where he,...
Out of the Madhouse
Dr Margaret Leggatt and Sandy Jeffs are the authors of Out of the Madhouse: From Asylums to Mental Health Reform – Who Cares?
The book focuses...
Anti-Zionism on trial
University of Sydney academics Dr Nick Riemer and Professor John Keane will be facing the Federal Court on Monday 13th October after university collea...
Medical teams prepare to receive Israeli hostages
While the physical condition of the 20 living hostages is unknown, it is anticipated that the 2 years spent in captivity has had an extreme impact on...
Fun and games: a history of Australian childhood
Historian Dr. Emily Gallagher believes that the playtime of a generation is as much a reflection of a cultural history of a time and a place as it is...
Australian academic and commentator arrested in Thailand
Murray Hunter is a retired academic and author who writes a substack column on Southeast Asian politics, with an emphasis on Malaysia where he lived a...
The Year that Made Me: Geraldine Cox, 1993
Geraldine Cox started her long career with DFAT with a posting to Cambodia in the 1970s. In 1993 she was working for a bank when she went back to Camb...
Syria is holding its first elections since the fall of Assad, how will it work?
Syria will mark a major milestone today when it holds its first election since the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime late last year.
Tyson Yunkaporta - Snake Talk
Snakes and serpents appear in the stories of cultures all over the world. What can these tales tell us about the world today?
Politics, nationalism and the return of looted artefacts
Cultural institutions that find their collections contain artefacts have been stolen or obtained illegally are reckoning with how to return important...
Croak of the Month - 5 October 2025
This week's croak is the Easter Sign Bearing Froglet.
Can consensus be achieved in space?
Steven Freeland is the Chair of the UNCOPUOS Working Group on the Legal Aspect of Space Resources Activity which means that he tries to get 110 countr...
Australians cutting down on sugar
The latest ABS data shows the amount of sugar in the food and drinks we consume has reduced significantly since 1995.