Sunday Extra - Separate Stories Podcast

Professor Helen Marshall is South Australia’s Australian of the Year and one of our most recognised vaccination researchers.

An educational kit is being offered to schools to teach children about drone safety and flying rules.

When Eric Turquin and his team were presented with a rare Old Masters painting, they had an instinct it was a lost Caravaggio. They were right  - but it would take five years for them to definitively prove it. Art expert Eric Turquin joins us to tell the tale, and how it put him and his team of specialists on the map.

Reporter Geoff Thompson followed several residents of Lismore as they tried to recover from February's monster flood in Northern NSW. But before they'd finished the clean-up, the waters started to rise again.

Somewhere between the very, very big physics and the very, very little physics is ... condensed matter physics. You might not have heard of it before, but it’s just as mindblowing – as today’s guest Elise Kenny will demonstrate.

The images of dead Ukrainian civilians, killed by Russian forces, is reminiscent of scenes in the 1930s when Soviet leader Joseph Stalin imposed a genocidal famine on Ukraine

Ahead of this election, we ask some big picture thinkers what ideas aren’t being talked about - but should be. Guests: Richard Denniss - Chief Economist, The Australia Institute Professor Marie Bismark - Centre of Health Policy, University of Melbourne Saul Griffith - Inventor, engineer and entrepreneur

Can you guess this week's mystery caller?

The Northern Territory’s Australian of the Year for 2022 has been the driving force behind the NT’s Aboriginal Justice Agreement.

Scientists have been asking for many decades how planets form and a new Jupiter-like gas giant spotted outside our solar system could provide the answers.

An almost unimaginable crime: two women accused of poisoning their own children at the same Sydney hospital. Both were charged and spent years separated from their families, but both say they were falsely accused. Reporter Hannah Ryan investigates whether the system has failed these families.

If you’re not something straightforward like a lawyer or a teacher or an electrician, there’s a question you hate getting at dinner parties – what do you do? And this week on Ockham’s Razor we're hearing from someone who particularly dreads this question. But Johanna Nalau's job – and what it means for our future – is an important one to get your head around.

We have all heard of long-COVID or the intense brain fog that is often a side effect of being struck down with the virus, but new research has found that even those who haven't tested positive may still be prone to 'pandemic brain'.

‘Our Natural Legacy’ is a program that aims to more than double the amount of private land protected for nature conservation and climate mitigation.

As the war continues in Ukraine, experts fear the psychological trauma could be a burden children carry for life.

As the tragic loss of life continues in Ukraine there is also the loss of cultural heritage, destroyed or damaged by Russia’s bombing campaign

Did you guess this week's mystery caller? It's setting off on its annual migration from northern Australia to our island neighbours... it's the Torresian Imperial-Pigeon.

Filmmaker and journalist Craig Leeson is Tasmania's Australian of the Year for 2022

As voters get ready to head to the polls, we speak to the former Official Secretary to the Governor-General, who was once responsible for announcing that the federal election was on.

A new nationwide 24-hour culturally safe support service, 13YARN, has been launched to help First Nations people in crisis.