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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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0:16:29

Rethinking Australia's Security Strategy

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/07/12

Former Director of War Studies for the Australian Army, Albert Palazzo, shares his vision for a radical rethink of Australia's National Security strategy, that he has laid out in his new book The Big Fix. He proposes moving away from our dependency on sovereign powers like the US, futureproofing our military by investing in drones and unmanned vessels, and re-prioritising our defence priorities to focus less on the threat of China, and more on the potential security threats that

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0:01:13

Tweet of the week 6 July 2025

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/07/05

This week's mystery caller could be a beneficiary of unusually wet conditions on the east coast – the nectar-loving Regent Honeyeater.

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0:26:14

The Year that Made Me: Gill Hicks, 2005

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/07/05

Gill Hicks was the last survivor to be pulled from the wreckage of a bomb blast, when 4 bombs went off in a co-ordinated attack across London on July 7, 2005. Despite the permanent injuries she suffered, including the loss of both her legs, Gill chose not to let the bombings consume her with anger or a desire for retaliation. Instead she has spent the last 20 years dedicating her life to creating peace, diffusing extremism, advocating for survivors and celebrating life through

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0:13:49

What can we learn from an axolotl's special powers of...

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/07/05

Axolotls are the gold medallists when it comes to limb regeneration. Researchers from Northeastern University have discovered not only how an axolotl starts to regenerate a limb, but also how it knows just how much of the limb needs to be regenerated - whether it is just a finger or a whole arm. The research has implications for humans and our healing processes.Professor and Chair at the Department of Biology at Northeastern University

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0:16:33

Mr Squiggle: The Man from the Moon

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/07/05

Before Bluey, before B1 and B2, even before Play School, there was Mr Squiggle. The puppet man from the moon with a pencil for a nose was a fixture of kids television on the ABC for 40 years from 1959 and 1999 . And now Mr Squiggle is back - not on television, but in a new free exhibition at the National Museum of Australia.GUEST:Rebecca Hetherington Daughter of Norman Hetherington and former presenter of Mr Squiggle and Friends.Mr Squiggle and Friends: The Creative World of Norman

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0:12:29

Broken: Australia's university system crumbles

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/07/05

Australian university sector is in crisis, with headlines repeatedly warning of job cuts, declining enrolments and concerns over the cuts to face-to-face teaching. Professor Graeme Turner shares insights from his new book, Broken: Universities, Politics and the Public Good, tracing how and why our universities have reached this crisis and Australia needs to do to pull out the sector out of this tail spin. Guest: Professor Graeme Turner, Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies at the

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0:13:06

New CEO of Plan International - Reena Ghelani

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/07/05

Reena Ghelani has been working in humanitarian aid for over 25 years crossing the globe supporting communities in crisis. Born in Uganda, but raised in Melbourne, she has recently been appointed to lead international aid agency Plan International at a time of increasing need and decreasing support from governments around the globe, in particular America.Guest: Reena Ghelani, CEO of Plan International

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0:12:39

Mohamad Mahathir turns 100

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/07/05

On the 10th July, the former Prime Minister of Malaysia Mohamad Mahathir turns 100. He remains in excellent health and continues to work long days taking meetings and writing his blog. He navigated the birth of the new post-colonial nation of Malaysia for the better and the worse during his time as Prime Minister from 1981 - 2003. He then surprised the world by being re-elected Prime Minister in 2018, aged 92. Guest: James Chin, Professor of Asian Studies at the University of

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0:14:31

Ukraine withdraws from landmine treaty

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/07/05

More than ONE million lives have been lost on both sides of the war in Ukraine, since Russia’s invasion in February 2022.Throughout the conflict, Russia and Ukraine have used anti-personnel mines, a weapon of war that comes with a particularly awful legacy.Now Ukraine has announced it is to withdraw from the Ottawa Treaty, a 1999 agreement ratified by the UN banning the use of landmines.GUEST:Mary Wareham Deputy Director of the Crisis, Conflict and Arms Division at Human Rights

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0:13:14

What happened to the Wagner group?

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/06/28

Two years ago, the head of Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin ordered 25,000 of his troops to march towards Moscow. 24 hours later they were ordered to stand down. Two months later Prighozhin, his deputy and 10 other died when his private plane exploded over Russia. This month Wagner announced they were leaving Mali, so what has happened to the organisation since the death of Prigozhin?Guest John Lechner, author of Death is our Business: Russian Mercenaries and the New Era of Private

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0:31:25

The Year that Made Me: Christopher Thé, 2019

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/06/28

When a friend asked pastry chef Christopher Thé to make them a wedding cake and to "go wild" he didn't realise that in a few years his strawberry watermelon cake would become the most instagrammed cake in the world. Christopher was the founder of Black Star Pastry - a cafe in inner city Sydney - and also the creative genius behind the strawberry watermelon cake that would attract tourists from around the globe to his cafe's front door. Guest: Christopher Thé, founder of Black Star

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0:11:45

The hazlenut spread dispute that angered France's...

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/06/28

Last European summer, a hazelnut spread from Algeria took France by storm. The sweet white spread called El Mordjene became the darling of tik-tok influencers and was soon in short supply across the country with prices skyrocketing. Now the product has been banned from sale across the EU causing a diplomatic rift between Algeria and it former colonial power, France.Guest: Lauren Collins, Paris correspondent for the New YorkerHow a hazelnut spread became a sticking point in

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0:11:49

Tattoo Stories

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/06/28

From sailors, to bikies, to hipsters – the history of the tattoo industry in Australia can be traced back to the convict era.What began as something of a dark art, is now the domain of baristas, influencers and suburban mums and dads.This is the story of how tattoos, once tested on skin with handmade guns, eventually found their way onto reality TV and the social mainstream.GUEST:Rhys Gordon Tattoo Artist at Little Tokyo and tattoo historian

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0:01:23

Croak of the Month - June 2025

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/06/28

It’s the Moaning Tree Frog! Heleioporus eyrei has an unmistakable call, but the frog itself is nearly indistinguishable from related species in South West Australia, several of which occur in the same place. This frog species appears to be able to persist in suburbia, and calls from backyards near the centre of Perth.Winner: Thanks to the team at the Australian Museum's Frog Id project run by Dr Jodi Rowley

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0:14:20

Reframing the history of Zambian women

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/06/28

Objects that tell the lost history of women's stories in Zambia are at the heart of a new exhibition Frame, part of the virtual Women's History Museum of Zambia.Guest: Samba Yonga, co-founder of the Women's History Museum of Zambia

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0:27:08

The Iphone turns 18

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/06/28

Launched amid much fanfare back in 2007, Apple's iconic Iphone changed the way we communicated, listened to music and searched the web.But 18 years on how much can the company reinvent its signature product, which has had no less than 15 versions of its all in one handset.And how can Apple navigate the dual challenges of AI and Donald Trump?GUEST:Brian Merchant Technology Journalist and author of The One Device: The Secret History of the Iphone

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0:16:51

Is the US-Australia alliance at a crossroad?

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/06/28

Australia's longstanding ties to the United States, have rarely been tested.But some uncertainty has crept into the strategic and diplomatic framework that's underpinned our decades long relationship with Washington.Tensions between the US and China, and a push for Australia to spend more on defence is a causing something of rethink on what's often described as our 'special relationship' with the United States.GUEST:Peter Tesch Former Australian Ambassador to Russia and Germany

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0:02:00

Tweet of the Week 22 June 2025

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/06/21

This week's mystery caller is common in inland towns, scrub and woodland – the Yellow-throated Miner.

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0:27:12

The Year that Made Me: Rodney Croome (1994)

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/06/21

Rodney Croome was among a group of people arrested at Hobart’s Salamanca Market back in 1988, for defying a ban on a stall, set up to collect signatures on a petition calling for homosexuality to be decriminalised in Tasmania.It was the start of a civil disobedience campaign that would lead all the way to the United Nations, and ultimately to Tasmania reforming its punitive laws in respect to homosexuality.GUEST:Rodney Croome Tasmanian gay law reform activist, and a founder of

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0:14:57

Is your smartphone a parasite?

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/06/21

Are we in a parasitic relationship with our smart phones? A new article in the Australiasian Journal of Philosophy suggests that rather than being a helpful extension of our working mind, our endless doom-scrolling and the mining of our data by phone apps, makes our phones much closer to a parasite than a helpful tool.GUEST: Rachael L. Brown, Director of the Centre for Philosophy of the Sciences and Associate Professor of Philosophy, Australian National University

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