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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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0:20:13

The Year that Made Me: Steve Williams, 1999

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/04/19

For 12 years Steve Williams had a front row seat to one of world sports biggest attractions, as caddie to golfing superstar Tiger Woods. During their time working together, starting in 1999, Woods was year in year out the best golfer in the world, destined it seemed to become the greatest ever. But it was not to be, just when it looked like Tiger would lay claim to being the GOAT, it all fell apart – and his partnership with his caddie came to an abrupt end. GUEST: Steve

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0:18:18

The marvellous Melocco mosaics

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/04/19

Peter Melocco arrived in Australia in 1908 with a flair for drawing and the skills to create beautiful mosaics that were the speciality of the region of Fruili in Italy where he was born. Soon he and his brothers were running a successful business that created the most beautiful mosaics for public buildings, businesses and in private homes. There are many still on view. Guest: Zeny Edwards, author of Painting with Stone: The story of the Melocco Brothers

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0:13:26

Can you name 20 Australian women who shaped history?

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/04/19

Frustrated by the lack of womens stories she saw in history books, Rita Sargeant delved into the past of our nationals capital and begun researching the huge contributions women like Pauline Fanning made to Australia. Discovering a trove of inaccessible stories, Rita started a walking tour guide business which quickly became so popular that she was offered a book deal to take the tours national, leading to 'the most chaotic road trip ever.'

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0:25:55

50 years on: Damned Whores and Gods Police

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/04/19

It’s fifty years since it was published, but the themes and issues it explores are maybe more relevant now than ever. Damned Whores and Gods Police was a totemic book, that investigated the ways in which Australia had stereotyped women. They were either virtuous mothers, or they were bad girls – scorned and rejected for not conforming to what society expected of them. It was, and remains, a seminal text, an interrogation of Australian society. GUEST: Dr Anne Summers Author, editor,

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0:16:52

A brief history of Australia's closest election results

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/04/19

Australia's very first parliament was a minority government with parties differentiated by their stance on tariffs. The election in 1940 was very close and during that parliament there were three Prime Ministers and a change of party ruling the country. Just two of the outcomes of Australia's history of close elections.Guest: Campbell Rhodes, Copyright and Research Coordinator at the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House

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0:11:17

Who won the week on the campaign trail?

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/04/19

This week the campaign had another leaders debate with the focus on both parties' housing policies. Will either of their policies address the real housing crisis facing the country, both for renters and first home buyers? Guest: Shane Wright, senior economics correspondent for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.

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0:26:17

The Year that Made Me: Dr Elizabeth Green, 1988

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/04/12

Inspiring individuals talk about a pivotal moment in their personal histories. This week, Dr Elizabeth Green on her adventures with the Royal Flying Doctor Service in remote parts of Western Australia in the late 1980's.

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0:01:28

Tweet of the week 13 April 2025

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/04/12

In the last of our 'Bass Strait Highway' mini-series, the Tweet of the Week was the Orange Bellied ParrotCongratulations to , XXXX who recognised one of our rarest birds. It's only a little bigger than a Budgie... And it's a beautiful emerald green on the back, which fades to yellow on the front and eventually to orange on the belly.It's a lovely little parrot, but it's at great risk of extinction - not least of which due to degradation of its winter feeding grounds.In 2015, the

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0:17:44

Japanese playwright Inoue Hisashi's Australian...

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/04/12

It is 15 years since Japanese playwright Inoue Hisashi died, but his plays and novels are still hugely popular in Japan. This year one of his most famous plays will be performed in Sydney for the second time after its debut 2 years ago. Roger Pulvers was a friend of his for about 40 years and brought him to Australia for 6 months back in 1976. Guest: Roger Pulvers, film maker, author and translatorThe Face of Jizo is showing at the Seymour Centre later this year.

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0:21:30

Should the coca leaf be an illegal drug?

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/04/12

The World health Organisation is conducting a critical review into whether the coca plant should be decriminalised. Coca leaves have been used by the indigenous populations of the Andes for medicinal, nutritional and spiritual purposes for thousands of years. Can the leaves be separated legally from their processed form - cocaine?Guest: Wade Davis, Professor of Anthropology, University of British Colombia and author of the article The Secret History of Coca in Rolling Stone

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0:14:06

Volatile sharemarket causing super stress

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/04/12

The share market has been on a ride wild, with each day bringing headlines of record-breaking gains or declines, depending on whatever it was Donald Trump said next.But beyond the headlines there was some genuine cause for concern, particularly here in Australia - a nation that relies so heavily on the stock market to fund the income of its retirees.Infact, superannuation is the basis for about 75 percent of all retirement income, with the rest being mostly derived from government

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0:15:17

How to run a federal election

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/04/12

As our pollies continue the mad dash to election day, the people in charge of conducting the vote are quietly going about the business of making sure all is in readiness come May 3rd.The Australian Electoral Commission will be running thousands of voting booths across 151 electorates, as well as handling millions of postal votes.But the AEC does a whole lot more than that.It also acts as a fact checker for online political commentary and makes sure that social media influencers

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0:15:50

Are we heading to another hung parliament?

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/04/12

Journalist Rachel Withers has been talking to all the cross benchers over the last few months to get a feel for what they would want to achieve in a possible hung parliament. But as the polls swing towards a possible Labor majority, could they be rendered powerless.Guest: Rachel Withers, columnist with Crikey

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0:28:26

The Year that Made Me: Tasma Walton, 1997

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/04/05

In 1997, actor Tasma Walton won the Logie for Best New Talent for her work on the hugely popular show Blue Heelers. But behind the scenes it was also the year that her grandmother spent a month with her in and around her flat in St Kilda telling her the stories of her ancestor Nannertgarrook and her people from Boonwurrung Country. Now she has written these stories down in her new book of historical fiction, I am Nannertgarrook.Guest: Tasma Walton, actor and author of I am

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0:14:27

Mindful Museums

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/04/05

The Manchester Art Gallery has a dedicated space where visitors are presented with just three paintings all set within a quiet room designed for slower contemplation. The space is called Room to Breathe and it was created to help visitors slow down and focus on the art, which can have benefits for mental health.Guest: Louise Thompson, museum consultant and the brains behind Room to Breathe at Manchester Art Gallery

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0:24:22

Inside a UK deportation centre

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/04/05

Oxford University Criminology Professor Mary Bosworth is the first and only academic to get research access inside the UK’s immigration deportation facilities. What she found was a stressed and unqualified workforce and a system immune to failure.Guest: Mary Bosworth, Professor of Criminology at Oxford University

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0:13:36

Thousands rally for former Philippines PM Duterte...

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/04/05

The former Prime Minister of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte, has marked his eightieth birthday in detention at the International Crimal Court, as he waits to find out if charges against him for crimes against humanity will go to trial. Duterte was arrested by police on March 11 after a years long investigation by the ICC over his leadership of a brutal crack down on drug crime between 2011 to 2016.

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0:16:13

The history of hi-vis

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/04/05

It’s federal election season, and that means lots of politicians wearing hi-vis at media events on the hustings. Hi-vis fluoro vests and other items are, first and foremost, safety gear which is why they’ve become a mandatory for workplace health and safety reasons in all sorts of workplaces.But hi-vis has also evolved into something more than that - it’s a cultural phenomenon.GUEST:Dr Jesse Adams Stein School of Design at the University of Technology Sydney, and part of a

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0:01:20

Tweet of the week 6th April 2025

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/04/05

Can you guess this week's tweeter?This week your Bass Strait migrant tweeter is the Striated Pardalote.

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0:12:13

What Andrew Wilkie learnt from working with the...

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/04/05

Andrew Wilkie was very disappointed that his whistleblower legislation did not go through before the end of the current parliament. He is hoping whoever has control of the house after the upcoming election will revisit the Bill. He also reflects on what he learnt from his experience working with the minority government under Prime Minister GIllard.Guest: Andrew Wilkie, Independent Member for Clark in Tasmania

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