Sunday Extra - Separate Stories Podcast

Health advocates are calling on the new Albanese Government to appoint a Minister of Loneliness.

Can you guess this week's mystery caller?

Pat O’Shane was the first female Aboriginal teacher in Queensland, the first woman and Aboriginal person to be the head of a Government department and the first Aboriginal Magistrate in Australia

Flacco & The Sandman, the singular characters that were stars of the 1990s and early 2000s comedy scene, have reunited for a show in Bathurst.

As the war in Ukraine continues, so do war crimes trials. Already trials have been conducted - and concluded - by Ukraine and by the Russian-backed breakaway republic of Donetsk. c

Thousands of Australians are finding they still feel ill several months after contracting coronavirus. They're experiencing a new and little understood condition called long COVID. As Geoff Thompson discovered, the demand for medical treatment is now overwhelming.

Chile and Colombia have both elected leftist leaders recently after decades of right and centre-right governments. It's part of a political shift in a number of Latin American countries that's being dubbed the 'pink tide'. So what's driving it?

Don't you love tipping your head back on a clear, dark night, and seeing those silvery stars twinkling above you? We know in our brains that they're giant balls of burning gas, even though they look like fairy dust scattered across the sky. And the reason we know this is because of the science of astronomy. This week we're hearing from an astronomer about the incredible discoveries her field has managed to uncover, and what the next generation of radio astronomy might achieve… right here in Australia.

Being solitary is a cause for celebration for the so-called Hermettes, a secret group of women who prefer to be left alone.

Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky will make a virtual address at this week's G7 and NATO summits.

The Roundtable this week looks at three different scenarios regarding refugees. Why have asylum seeker boats restarted to Australia? Where are the world’s most neglected displacement crises? And why Tik Tok has become a source of reliable information for people fleeing their countries.

Can you guess this week's mystery caller?

Abbas Nazari was 7 years old when his family boarded a crowded fishing boat in 2001, bound for Australia, that became the focal point of the Tampa Affair.

Nostalgia, niche whatever you want to call it vinyl records are making more of a comeback. 

John Anderson wants to raise the standard of public debate in Australia and says there needs to be an honest discussion about climate science and the transition from fossil fuels.

Precious artefacts looted from Cambodia and Thailand made their way into prominent collections here in Australia, and around the world. In the second and final episode of his investigation, Mario Christodoulou investigates why it’s taking so long for these precious works to be returned to their rightful home.

PaykanArtCar has won the Human Rights Foundation's 2022 Václav Havel International Prize for Creative Dissent

You probably have a favourite colour, flower, or song. But do you have a favourite parasite? Shokoofeh Shamsi does - although she studies parasites for a living, so maybe that makes a bit more sense. The bad news for the rest of us who don't spend a lot of time thinking about this stuff? Her favourite parasites live in many Australians' favourite food.

A small beetle may be the solution to an invasive aquatic weed threatening the future of a lake in Cameroon and the communities that live from it.

With overfishing at critical levels, the World Trade Organisation is targeting the billions of dollars’ worth of subsidies that China and EU countries pay to enhance their fishing fleets