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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Australian journalist Murray Hunter is a free man again
Last October, we covered the story of Australian writer and resident of Thailand Murray Hunter, who was arrested in Thailand for articles he had writt...
Why Myanmar removed its representative from Timor-Leste
Last week we spoke with Christopher Gunness from the Myanmar Accountability Project about the universal jurisdiction legal case that Timor-Leste has o...
The Year that Made Me: Julie Inman Grant, 1995
The e-Safety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant on growing up in a single parent household, her connection to Ted Bundy, rejecting an offer from the CIA a...
Cooking the first mushrooms sent to space
In August 2024, astrophysicists from Swinburne University sent vials full of the mycelium of edible mushrooms to the International Space Station.
How one DMT trip could treat depression
A fascinating new study observing the effects of the psychedelic drug DMT - or dimethyltryptamine - on people who have already tried two other forms o...
Hillary McPhee on other people’s words - again
The legendary publisher and one half of McPhee Gribble has re-published her memoir Other People's Words with a new afterword.
The UK chemical research facility that identified Navalny poison
The testing that identified the poison that killed Russian dissident Alexei Navalny was carried out at Porton Down, a British government chemical defe...
Ian Bremmer's Puppet Regime
Geopolitical analyst and president of the Eurasia group, Ian Bremmer has a new avenue for explaining the big news in international politics: Muppets-s...
Winston Peters proposes referendum on Maori seats
A political debate has erupted in New Zealand over whether or not to retain special Maori electorates in the New Zealand parliament.
From foreign correspondent to Uber driver
Steven Scherer has written about his unexpected journey from career high to just trying to make ends meet and provide for his family in a touching ess...
Tweet of the week, 15 February 2026
This week's tweeter has a soft, high-pitched call, and can be found around dense undergrowth in forest, scrub, heath and along creeklines. It's the Re...
The Year that Made Me: Marianne Jauncey, 1998
Dr Marianne Jauncey works with people many in society dismiss as “lost causes” — drug users in Kings Cross, in inner-city Sydney. But far from acting...
Rivers Flow: Reflections on the songs of Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners are advised that the following program contains names of people who have died.
“It seems certain...
The return of The Muppet Show!
In what is perhaps the biggest news in TV comedy of the year - maybe in forty years - earlier this month, a brand new episode of The Muppet Show was r...
Household Names: Breville
In this episode of Household Names we delve into the history of Breville, a company that many of us are familiar with because of their iconic jaffle m...
The dilemma of de-extinction
A scientific breakthrough by Colossal Bioscience has seen the 'resurrection' of the dire wolf, a megafauna-hunting wolf species that died out around 1...
The cybersecurity expert taking Services Australia to court
Queensland software developer Fraser Tweedale made a Freedom of Information request for the MyGov Code Generator app's code so he could review it, but...
Timor Leste takes on Myanmar crimes against humanity
Timor Leste has appointed prosecutors to investigate crimes against humanity committed by the Myanmar military junta against members of the Chin ethni...
The missing edition of OZ Magazine
In the 1960s independent magazine OZ became a cause célèbre when its editors were charged, in the UK and Australia, with obscenity.
Edition 4 of...
The Year that Made Me: Abraham Kuol, 2010
Abraham Kuol spent the first seven years of his life in Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya. His family came to Australia as refugees, and this year he is Vi...
The Aussie Magna Carta
The Magna Carta is one of the world's most famous documents, and Australia has it's own copy from 1297. Libby Melzer recently completed a 10 year proj...
The uncanny rituals of Opera for the Dead
Straight from Sydney Festival to Melbourne's Art House, Opera for the Dead is a striking contemporary Chinese cyber-opera that blurs ritual, music and...
Household names: Mary Penfold
Mary Penfold was the driving force behind Penfolds wines, which grew from a small vineyard outside Adelaide in the 1850s to the wine-producing powerho...
Ulanbaatar, another capital on the move
The number of countries planning to relocate their capital cities now also includes Mongolia, where building works are underway on a new capital.
Does 'good character' still belong in sentencing?
'Good character' as a mitigating factor of sentencing is poised to be abolished in NSW courts. The proposed new bill in NSW parliament relies on the r...
Bangladesh's first post-Hasina election
17 months after the revolution that ended the 15 year rule of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Awami League, Bangladesh goes to a general election...
How water cremations work
Have you ever heard of water cremation? It sounds like a misnomer but it is an increasingly popular way of cremating the dead, which its proponents ch...
Tweet of the week, 1 February 2026
This week's mystery caller is a common, aerobatic predator of small insects – the Welcome Swallow.
The Year that Made Me: John Birmingham, 1989
John Birmingham is perhaps best known for his documentation of the "horror and madness" of Australian share-house living in his 1994 book He Died With...
Searching for the real da Vinci code: Leonardo's DNA
A group of researchers have been (gently) scouring works of art and objects connected to the great Renaissance painter and inventor Leonardo da Vinci...
Stolen Man on Stolen Land
Tyree Barnette arrived in Australia in 2012 with rose-coloured glasses for the laid-back, multicultural, egalitarian nation. But he soon found that be...
Mr Bunning, the man behind Australia’s hardware heavyweight
You know the jingle but do you know the story of the family behind Australia's iconic hardware retailer and sausage sizzle fundraiser?
Will reformist secure victory in Thailand's election
Thailand will be heading into a snap general election on February 8. Will the reformist party leading the polls make it first across the finish line?...
The minefield of choosing Iraq's new Prime Minister
Amid escalating tension between the US and Iran, how does Iraq navigate the election of a new Prime Minister that will satisfy both sides?
Guest...
Tech giants on trial for social media addiction
The trial is likely to see CEOs including Meta's Mark Zuckerberg take the witness stand to testify about what they knew of the potential dangers of th...
A very stinky search for rare flies
Summer is the season for flies, and while some species may be an annoyance, flies also perform an import role in natural ecosystems.
Tweet of the week, 25 January 2026
This week's mystery caller is common, widespread and definitely not a Magpie! – it's the Magpie-Lark.
The Year that Made Me: L-FRESH The Lion, 2006
L-FRESH The Lion is one of the luminaries of the vibrant cultural scene of Sydney’s western suburbs. Hip-hop artist, music producer, and creative dire...
How to understand big numbers
When we think about the universe, how to we conceptualise numbers so large they are beyond our imagination? Mathematician Ian Le shares the mysteries...
Nedd Brockmann: The mulleted ultramarathon runner for charity
One of the people in the running — literally and figuratively — for this year's Young Australian of the Year award is Nedd Brockmann.
In 2022, N...