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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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Tweet of the week 1 June 2025

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/05/31

Can you guess this week's tweeter?

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0:29:10

The Year that Made Me: Peter Klinken, 1982 - 1983

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/05/31

After accidentally blowing up the family hills hoist as a kid, Professor Peter Klinken AC realised he loved science. He's went on to become a leading medical scientist, highly regarded for advancing the understanding of genes involved in leukaemia, cancer and anaemia. He's been Western Australia's Chief Scientist for more than a decade but it was outside the labs, in the WA surf, that he had a 'vision of death'.

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0:15:51

A sea change from London to 'Jurassic Park'

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2025/05/31

In 2013 Kelly Green swapped her busy life as a flight attendant to move to Tristan Da Cuhna - part of a volcanic archipelago in the South Atlanic Ocean and the most remote inhabited island in the world. It’s only possible to get to by ship from South Africa a few times a year. Despite the isolation, Kelly Green says it was a love story, island life, and the wildlife which has made the tiny isle her forever home.

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0:16:41

Archaeological evidence of the women in Ancient Greek...

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/05/31

Who decides which people and stories get preserved in our history books? It's a question historian Emily Hauser has been grappling with after spending most of her life learning about Ancient Greece. Her latest book – Mythica – looks at the historical and archaeological evidence for the women in Ancient Greece’s mythos who have often been the background characters in stories that were written ostensibly by men.

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0:16:04

Amy Wang on her new movie Slanted

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/05/31

Just how far could a Chinese-American teenager go to become prom queen? Writer, director and producer Amy Wang tries to answer this question in her new film Slanted that has its Australian debut at the Sydney Film Festival. Guest: Amy Wang, writer, director and producer of Slanted

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0:18:13

The Karl Popper Memorial Lecture

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/05/31

How much should intolerance be tolerated?And how should we decide what sort of intolerances are tolerable?They’re just some of the questions that one of the leading philosophers of the 20th century, Sir Karl Popper turned his hugely influential mind to. The 2025 Sir Karl Popper Memorial Lecture is being given on Monday 2 June, and an Australian philosopher is presenting it. GUEST:Peter Godfrey-Smith Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney

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0:16:14

Stolen Generations redress in WA

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/05/31

In this Reconciliation Week the government of Western Australia announced a redress scheme for survivors of the Stolen Generations. More children were taking in Western Australia than any other jurisdiction and advocates have been calling for reparations for decades. The families of deceased members say the scheme should be available posthumously.

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0:17:25

South Korean Presidential election testing democracy

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/05/31

After a turbulent six months in South Korea which has seen martial law declared and a President impeached and put on trial for insurrection, the country is now holding a snap election to choose their new President. How has their democracy held up under the stress?Guest: Kyung Moon Hwang, Korea Foundation Professor at the Australian National University

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0:01:42

Tweet of the week

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/05/24

Can you guess this week's tweeter?

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0:28:29

The Year that Made Me: Suzanne Chick (1991) and Gina...

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/05/24

When Suzanne Chick sent a request for her birth certificate to find out who her birth mother was, she was just hoping for a name. When her birth mother turned out to be the famous writer Charmian Clift, she not only found new family and friends, but a whole new complex sense of identity. Suzanne's oldest daughter Gina found comfort in finding out that like her, Charmian had a personality that was larger than life and a compulsion for adventure. Gina Chick was the first winner of

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0:16:02

Does our electoral system need fixing?

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2025/05/24

The 2025 federal election will go down in history as a second term Labor landslide?But has the result also shown up some flaws in our system of voting, specifically the role of preferences in determining who wins each seat?GUEST:Ben Raue election analyst and publisher of the Tally Room website and podcast.https://www.tallyroom.com.au/

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0:11:58

20 years of The Monthly

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/05/24

In an era where media is moving rapidly online, some print publications are managing to not only survive but thrive.The Monthly magazine is celebrating its 20th year.We look back at some of the highlights and look forward to what's still come, in a time where traditional media continues to fracture.GUEST: Michael Williams Editor The Monthly

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0:11:38

Tanzania's opposition leader on trial for treason

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/05/24

Tundu Lissu, the leader of the opposition in Tanzania was arrested last month and has been barred from running in this years election race. Now that his trial for treason is underway, activists from Kenya have been arrested and deported with a warning from President Samia Suluhu Hassan that they were not welcome in Tanzania.Guest: Oryem Nyeko Senior Researcher, Africa Division, Human Rights Watch

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0:19:37

Navi Pillay - Sydney Peace Prize winner

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/05/24

Navi Pillay has been awarded the Sydney Peace Prize for 2025, following in the footsteps of Arundhati Roi, Julian Burnside and Mary Robinson. She is a former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and has spent a lifetime advocating for for accountability and responsibility in the face of crimes against humanity.Guest: Navi Pillay, winner of the Sydney Peace Prize

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0:22:46

Reconciliation week

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/05/24

It was the biggest political demonstration in Australian history, when a quarter of a million people marched across the Sydney Harbour Bridge in support of reconciliation back in 2000.This week marks 25 years since that momentous day, and reflections on the march will be a key feature of Reconciliation Week which starts tomorrow.It’s also the second Reconciliation Week since the 2023 referendum on an Indigenous Voice, which also put forward constitutional recognition of Indigenous

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0:28:44

The Year that Made Me: Erna Walraven, 1983

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/05/17

When newly qualified zookeeper Erna Walraven started work at Taronga Zoo in 1983, it was a dream come true. Some of her male co-workers were not so welcoming of a female zookeeper. So Erna started studying the female animals in her care to try and work out how they managed domineering males in the pack, and she realised that the females were not as passive as she had she had been lead to believe.Guest: Erna Walraven, retired Senior Curator, Taronga Zoo and author of Hear Me Roar

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0:12:38

Melanie Cheng: The library that made me

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/05/17

Melanie Cheng was seven when her family moved from Australia to Hong Kong. So finding her favourite authors in the Hong Kong City Hall library made the adjustment so much easier. Melanie is speaking at the Sydney Writers Festival about her significant library along side other authors including Markus Zusak and James Bradley.Guest: Melanie Cheng, author of several books including her latest The Burrow. She is appearing at the Sydney Writers Festival in several sessions including

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0:10:50

How a volunteer-led newspaper in regional NSW has...

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/05/17

The Glen Innes Examiner closed just two issues short of 150 years of service. It's the latest in a series of more than 200 regional and community newspaper closures over the last decade. Financial instability is one of the foremost problems.But not for the new volunteer-led Glen Innes News! With a strong community focus, and support from residents, it broke even in just two weeks.Guest: David Lewis, President of Glen Innes News.

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0:13:04

The explosive source of gold

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/05/17

There is a finite amount of gold and other heavy metals on earth because they were formed before earth came to existence in its current form. New research shows that gold may be formed from magnetar flares as well as the merging of neutron stars. Guest: Anirudh Patel, doctoral student in astrophysics at Columbia University and lead author on a new paper on magnetars published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

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0:19:41

What paramedic Sally Gould has learnt from her 15...

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/05/17

Sally Gould has been working as a paramedic for 15 years. Over that time she has has dealt with all sorts of emergencies and plenty of time wasters too. She loves her job and while it can be very stressful, there is a lot of laughter too, and she has developed a very healthy attitude to death. Guest: Sally Gould, paramedic and author of Frog: The Secret Diary of a Paramedic (Simon and Schuster)

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