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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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- Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast
What were you doing at 11? Anderson Taylor runs his own museum
At just 11 years old, Anderson Taylor is already the curator of his own natural history museum. Anderson opened the Cambridge Natural History Museum in…
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Muppets in the museum
In ongoing Sunday Extra puppet news, the largest ever exhibition of the Jim Henson Company's works will be opening at the Queensland Art Gallery in…
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Why Danny Estrin is driven by 'Precious Metal'
Voyager frontman and Eurovision alumnus Danny Estrin has another great love: cars. He hosts the new SBS documentary series, Precious Metal, exploring the…
Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcastLily Shearer on evoking Country
In this year's Rex Cramphorn Memorial Lecture, Murrawarri theatre-maker and Moogahlin Performing Arts Artistic Director Lily Shearer reflects on the power of…
Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcastCan AI improve our democracy?
As AI begins to transform how decisions are made, democracy expert Beth Noveck asks whether we can use AI to make institutions more responsive, deepen citizen…
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Japan will soon test missiles in Australia, here's why
Japan's Defence Minister, Shinjiro Koizumi made a visit to Canberra on August 18 to discuss enhancing Australia's defence relationship with Japan with his…
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Syria's new economic and security landscape
This week saw major shifts in Syria's economic and security situation, which have combined to relieve some of the constraints on the government led by Ahmed…
Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcastPoetry 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 written…
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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 Sundaresen it is a…
Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcastPro 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 Jank…
Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcastJane 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 work as…
Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast“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 climate…
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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 Trials Alliance…
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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 go to the polls…
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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 Lai Ching-te has…
Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcastTweet of the week, 16 August 2026
This week's melodious woodland songster migrates in Spring to Australia's southeast – the Olive-backed Oriole
Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcastThe 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 the…
Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcastHazel 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 incredible gems. Like…
Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcastHard as Puck: 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 their…
Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcastFrom 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, drawing on…
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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 29 is seen as a…
Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcastCould 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 a…
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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 Strategic…
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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.He was…
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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 castrati, singers…
Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcastTony 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…
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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-old nation was…
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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 inspection of the…
Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcastCan 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 rapid…
Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcastIs Tibet in danger of cultural extinction?
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Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcastVale 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 Goodies, Bill…
Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcastThe 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 journalist and…
Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcastThe 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 strength…
Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcastParramatta: 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 Parramatta: A…
Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcastPopulate 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 in an…
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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 Ideas later this…
Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcastIndonesia'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 Governor has…
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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 results show that…
Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcastTweet 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.
Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcastThe 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 pitch…
Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcastThe 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 women…
Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcastWho 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 New York…
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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 McMullin: “The…
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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 Court…
Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcastThe 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 about the…
Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcastFrom 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 spent…
Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcastMapping 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 stretch an…
Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcastAngertainment: Ed Coper on why we are stuck in a rage loop
In his new book, Angertainment, Ed Coper explores how online rage has grown into a cultural force offline, shaping politics, identity and influence. Coper…
Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcastApes and humans have been sharing a laugh for 15 million years
Laughing might seem uniquely human, but our closest relatives in the animal kingdom do it too. A groundbreaking new study has now compared the laughter of…
Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcastThe arrest of rapper Mehdi El Youbi: Morocco cracks down on critical voices
The Moroccan rapper and filmmaker Mehdi El Youbi was arrested in Casablanca on Monday 13 July. Activists say El Youbi's arrest coincides with Moroccan…
Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcastJohn Safran on Race Around the World in the digital age
Six Australian filmmakers are currently on the adventure of a lifetime, tasked with making 10 short films, in 10 different countries, across 100 days.The ABC's…
Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcastThe Year that Made Me: S. Shakthidharan, 2008
S. Shakthidharan, aka Shakthi, is a Western Sydney playwright, author and film-maker with Sri Lankan heritage and Tamil ancestry. He exploded onto the…
Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcastChris Cody’s jazz travels from Mountain to Sea
Chris Cody is an internationally renowned jazz pianist and composer. He has recorded 14 albums, played with the likes of Herb Geller and Rhoda Scott and…
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Chris Cody’s jazz travels from Mountain to Sea
Chris Cody is an internationally renowned jazz pianist and composer. He has recorded 14 albums, played with the likes of Herb Geller and Rhoda Scott and…
Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcastCoffee under threat of extinction: is this the bitter end?
Are we about to run out of coffee? Nearly all the 10 million tonnes of coffee beans consumed worldwide come from two plant species: arabica and robusta. Both…
Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcastHarnessing the therapeutic power of horses
The natural beauty of Western Australia's Kimberley region hides a shocking truth: the youth suicide rate in this remote part of the country is among the…
Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcastAlbania's Flamingo Revolution can't be ignored
For more than a month, thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of Tirana, in the largest anti-government demonstrations since the collapse of…
Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcastThe Year That Made Me: Jessica Mauboy, 2006
Singer-songwriter Jessica Mauboy is our special guest on the Year That Made Me this NAIDOC week. She covers her early life growing up in Darwin in an…
Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcastWho you gonna call (if aliens call first)?
What do we do if aliens reach out? Since 1989 scientists have maintained a set of protocols that would guide the world upon the discovery of signs of…