Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast
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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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The Year that Made Me: Sandy Mackinnon, 1982
AJ 'Sandy' Mackinnon's 2002 bestseller The Unlikely Voyage of the Jack de Crow chronicled his adventures on the canals and river systems of England an...
Fighting for Country, Kin and Nation
Captain Reginald Saunders was the first Indigenous military officer in Australia. For the first time, his nephew James Saunders, shares a new and pers...
Puggle season is upon Australia's 'Enigmatic Echidnas'
As we come out of winter, love is giving way to puggle season.
A puggle is the name for a baby echidna, and it turns out there's a lot more to...
Why banks are moving billions in gold around the world
The Dutch central bank recently confirmed that 27 tonnes of gold were physically transferred from the US and Canada back to the Netherlands, and that...
A backyard astronomer from Broken Hill has contributed to a world-first space discovery
From a backyard in Broken Hill, a former mine worker has helped make a world first planetary discovery.
Trevor Barry has spent years tracking S...
What does it sound like when neutron stars collide?
Each year the Australian Institute of Physics presents the Marie Curie public lecture series.
In 2026 the lectures are being presented by Dr Kar...
The sinking of the Indus Treaty
As India refuses to back away from the abeyance on the Indus Treaty, what will become of the river systems that support the livelihoods, energy genera...
BRICS summit sees first Xi visit to India since 2019
The BRICS summit is taking place in New Delhi this weekend.
BRICS brings together eleven major emerging markets and developing countries: Brazil...
The Year that Made Me, Rosalie Ham, 2000
Author Rosalie Ham's debut novel The Dressmaker was a breakout hit. Inspired by real events in her family life, the 2000 novel, went onto become the 2...
What Samuel Beckett saw in Nazi Germany
Samuel Beckett's German Diaries have finally been published over 30 years after their posthumous discovery. They reveal a young writer, on a pre-war t...
Tenzin Choegyal's musical tribute to the Dalai Lama
Tibetan-Australian musician Tenzin Choegyal has performed around the world, from New York’s Carnegie Hall, to opening for the Dalai Lama’s during his...
Pioneering astronomer Nancy Grace Roman honoured in space
Nancy Grace Roman, broke boundaries as NASA's first chief astronomer. Now she is breaking a new boundary as the namesake for NASA's latest telescope w...
Extra Intrigue: CIA director's dash to Moscow and Xi and Trump prepare to meet
On the first Sunday of every month, Julian Morrow is joined by International Intrigue’s Jeremy Dicker to discuss one story in international politics t...
Eureka prize winner Helen Paterson on why a truthful witness can sound unreliable
Forensic Psychologist Helen Paterson has found that people who experience repeated abuse can remember very accurately what happened, but struggle to p...
Is the era of ultra fast-fashion over? Shein's stock market stumble
Shein transformed the fashion industry with a model built on extraordinarily cheap clothes and thousands of new styles released each week.
But...
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 M...
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 Se...
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, exp...
Lily 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 p...
Can 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...
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...
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...
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.<...