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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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0:14:47

Indonesia celebrates 80 years of independence

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/08/16

On 17 August 1945, Indonesian nationalist leaders Soekarno and Mohammad Hatta declared Indonesia’s independence, formally ending 350 years of Dutch colonial rule in the midst of occupation by Japanese forces.

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0:20:21

The Year that Made Me: Bret McKenzie, 1999

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/08/09

Bret McKenzie is part of the world-conquering New Zealand comedy duo Flight of the Conchords. And if that wasn't enough, his song written for the Muppets - Man or Muppet - won both a Grammy and and Academy award. This month he releases his second solo album Freak Out City … which follows his 2022 debut Songs Without Jokes. Guest: Bret McKenzie, Songwriter and performer

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0:01:29

Tweet of the week 10 August 2025

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2025/08/09

This week's mystery caller skulks in dense cover near mudflats and marshes all over mainland Australia – the colourful Buff-banded Rail.

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0:10:41

How global polarisation is effecting the Anglican church

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/08/09

The Right Reverend Susan Bell is the 12th Bishop of Niagara in Canada and is in Australia to give the Barry Marshall Memorial Lecture at the University of Melbourne's Trinity College. She will be talking about what we can learn about managing polarisation from the 17th century priest and poet George Herbert.Guest: The Right Reverend Susan Bell, 12th Bishop of Niagara

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0:17:33

Everything you never wanted to know about the bagpipes

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/08/09

While the bagpipes are the national instrument of Scotland, how global is their history? The first written account of someone playing the bagpipes was Nero in the first century - was he playing them while Rome burned? How do you explain the absence of she-pipers in their history? And who were the pipers responsible for the first case of Scottish Nationalist terrorism in the 1940s.Guest: Richard Maclauchlan. author of The Bagpipes: A Cultural History (Hurst)

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0:11:55

Should the SRY test be used to determine gender in...

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/08/09

Women competing at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo in September will have to undergo an SRY gene test before competing. But the professor that discovered the relevant gene has concerns that thew policy is misguided.Guest: Professor Andrew Sinclair, Deputy Director of the Murdoch Children's Research Institute and Professorial Fellow, translational GenomicsArticle in The Conversation: World Athletics' mandatory genetic test for women athletes is misguided. I should know -

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0:15:02

Who is responsible for eradicating modern slavery?

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/08/09

Australian Uyghurs are taking Kmart to court, in a bid to determine whether Kmart engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct around the use of forced labour of Uyghers by some of its clothing suppliers in China. This court action comes just weeks after eight young men from Mali, forced into slavery as children by cocoa farms in the Ivory Coast, had their class action suit dismissed against major chocolate manufacturers, including Mars and Nestle.Guest: Fiona David, CEO and Founder

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0:25:07

Kenneth Roth reflects on a career fighting for human...

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/08/09

For almost twenty years under the leadership of Kenneth Roth, Human Rights Watch carried out investigations in 100 countries to uncover and expose human rights abuses.From the genocide in Rwanda in the mid 1990s, through to China’s abuses against the Uighurs and Russia’s war in Ukraine, Human Rights Watch has been at the frontline of efforts to call out and, where possible, bring an end to the actions of authoritarian regimes.GUEST:Kenneth Roth Lawyer and human rights advocate and

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0:01:25

Croak of the Month - 3 August 2025

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/08/02

Can you guess this week's tweeter?

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0:23:48

The Year that Made Me: John Simpson (2024)

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2025/08/02

How personal tragedy drove John Simpson to establish a foundation that aims to better connect urban and rural Australia. GUEST: John Simpson AM Deputy Chancellor Monash University

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0:17:50

Everyday objects that changed our lives

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/08/02

The socks that fell up not down, Stackhats and the kitchen knives that were always sharp.Those are just a few examples from what is a quintessential list of Australian made products, designs and campaigns that have been brought together in a new book called What A Ripper - 60 Everyday Objects That Shaped Australia. GUEST:Tim Ross Author, broadcaster, architecture enthusiast and design nerd.

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0:17:12

The challenges of getting a degree when you are blind

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/08/02

Santiago Velasquez Hurtado has just graduated with a degree in electrical engineering at QUT and he is only the second blind person in the southern hemisphere to do so. He is also developing technologies to solve accessibility issues in transport, navigation, business, education and employment. What problems did he have to solve in completing a degree while vision impaired.Guest: Santiago Velasquez Hurtado

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0:22:36

Marie Curie lectures to focus on quantum physics

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/08/02

2025 is UNESCO's International Year of Quantum Science and Technology and so the annual Marie Curie lecture series is being given by two women who have already made their mark in the world of quantum physics in spintronics and quantum computing. While Marie Curie was usually the only woman in a room of physicists, these two physicists report that the percentage of women in their field remains stubbornly low.Guests: Dr Danielle Holmes, Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer at UNSW

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0:11:11

Is Australia losing the war on smoking?

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/08/02

The sale of illicit tobacco in Australia is flagrant. The state blames the federal government for raising the tobacco excise so much that it forced the market underground.

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0:11:11

Is Australia losing the war on smoking?

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/08/02

The sale of illicit tobacco in Australia is rampant, with high tobacco prices fuelling demand for cheaper cigarettes.More than a decade after Australia introduced world first plain packaging for tobacco, is Australia losing the war on smoking?GUEST:Becky Freeman Professor of Public Health at the University of Sydney

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0:12:29

Celebrating the 25th Garma Festival

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2025/08/02

The 25th Garma Festival is a much bigger event than the first Yolgnu community meeting back in 1999. It has now become a huge event, with arts and culture, dancing and discussion with Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians from across the country meeting together at the Gulkula Ceremonial Grounds. This year Yothu Yindi - who performed at the first Garma Festival will be performing again and the Prime Minister will also be in attendance.Guest: Denise Bowden, CEO of the Yothu

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0:13:24

Remember the children of Hiroshima in new peace memorial

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/08/02

Hiroshima and Nagasaki will mark the 80th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb this August. Among the hundreds of thousands who died in the bombings were over 38,000 children. The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) has created an online Children's Peace Memorial, which brings to life the stories of more than 400 of the children who died in the hours, days, weeks and years after the bombings. ICAN hopes that connecting us with their stories will

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0:01:03

Tweet of the week 27 July 2025

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/07/26

This week's tweeter is the Brown Falcon.It's a medium-sized bird of prey, measuring about 40- to 50-centimetres. And, like its close relatives, females tend to be larger than males.If you see it perched on a fence post, you might notice its distinctive, dark "tear-drop" stripe running down from the eye.It hunts creatures such as small mammals, birds, lizards, snakes and insects across Australia and New Guinea.

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0:26:35

The Year that Made Me: Peter de Waal, 1957

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/07/26

Peter de Waal arrived in Australia in 1957 from the Netherlands as a young man uncertain about his sexuality. Within ten years he had found his life partner Peter Bonsall Boone known as Bon and together they joined the first gay activist movement CAMP and remained campaigners for a better life for the gay community for the rest of their lives. From appearing on television for the first male to male kiss, attending the first mardi gras, they even campaigned for marriage equality

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0:12:43

Open House Melbourne

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/07/26

There’s a city wide Open House in Melbourne this weekend.Churches, banks, numerous private houses and public buildings - even an Egyptian style mausoleum - have thrown open their doors for the event “Open House Melbourne” run by the independent not-for-profit also called Open House Melbourne.GUEST:Tania Davidge Executive Director of Open House Melbourne.

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