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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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0:14:15

Nepal's week of upheavel

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/09/13

A relative state of calm has returned to Kathmandu with the swearing in of Nepal's new interim Prime Minister, Sushila Karki. The new leader takes her place after a week of civil unrest that saw the burning of government buildings and the deaths of dozens of protester. Guest: Surendra Phuyal, Nepalese journalist based in Kathmandu.

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0:11:27

The foreign judges still presiding in Hong Kong courts

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/09/13

The Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation recently released a report calling on all foreign judges in the territory to resign.

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0:10:20

Hatching the mystery of why birds sing

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/09/13

Dr Grainne Cleary is a wildlife ecologist who is one of Australia's most enthusiastic bird lovers. But in writing her new book 'Why Birds Sing', she realised even the experts among us still have a lot to discover when it comes to the complex world of bird song. Guest: Dr Grainne Cleary, bird expert and author of Why Do Birds Sing.

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0:09:07

Cooking for Seamus

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/09/06

“Cooking for Seamus” is a TV cooking project funded by Screen Australia.The uniqueness of this show comes from the fact that Seamus, the judge of this cooking show, is an Angus bull with a rare palsy condition.

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0:28:11

The Year that Made Me: Peter Shmigel, 2022

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/09/06

Peter Shmigel's story began in New York City where he grew up steeped in the culture of his Ukrainian refugee parents. His life has since included stints as a Western Sydney builder, a member of an underground resistance group, CEO of one of Australia’s leading suicide prevention service, political advisor and now correspondent for the Kyiv Post newspaper.

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0:02:36

Croak of the Month - Sept 2025

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/09/06

It’s the Ornate Burrowing Frog! As their name implies, these frogs spend much of their life, particularly in dry times and during the day, buried underground. They emerge to call and breed, and are known to form huge choruses with other species after heavy rains. After they breed, you'll find foamy clumps of eggs left behind.Thanks to Dr Jodi Rowley and the Australian Museum Frog ID Project.

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0:11:22

The science of saving Antarctica

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/09/06

Antarctica is at the frontline of witnessing the effects of climate change and Dr Chen Zhao is one of the lead researchers mapping how the Antarctic ice-sheets are affected by global warming, and the potential consequences of this on rising sea-levels. The importance of her work has now been recognised by the Australian Institute of Policy and Science, who named her one of two 2025 Young Tall Poppys of the Year.Guest: Dr Chen Zhao, glaciologist and ice-sheet modeller with the

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0:15:00

Yeah-Nah: Can AI understand Aussie sarcasm?

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/09/06

Large language models (LLMs), like ChatGPT, are usually trained on Standard American English. But with all the dialects of English that exist outside of this - how do LLMs understand emotive language from non-American English speakers, especially when it comes to good old Aussie sarcasm.Guest: Aditya Joshi, Senior Lecturer in the School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of NSW.

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0:22:50

The history of the 'Like' button

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/09/06

People on the internet love to like, in fact clicks on 'Like' buttons "now add up to over 160 billion per day - roughly equivalent to every person on the planet, from toddler to great- grandparent, clicking a Like button 20 times daily on average”.

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0:13:25

When fatherhood is a calling

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/09/06

Dr. Arne Rubinstein has spent more than 30 years helping parents and teenagers through the complex transition into adulthood through his Rites of Passage Institute, which seeks to empower young adults and their communities through positive, healthy transitions focusing on personal growth and resilience. He has now been acknowledged for his work by The Fathering Project with the award for the 2025 Australian Father of the Year.Guest: Dr. Arne Rubinstein, CEO and Founder of the Rites

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0:17:14

FOI law to be strengthened, but for who?

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/09/06

This week Federal Attorney General Michelle Rowland introduced the Freedom of Information Amendment Bill to Federal Parliament. The Centre for Public Integrity says the bill continues "a worrying trend of prioritising government efficiency over transparency”.

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0:12:56

Winston the World War 2 diplomacy platypus

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/09/04

In 1943, Australian Attorney-General Doc Evatt sent UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill... a platypus. Why? For diplomacy, of course!When it inevitably perished two days before arriving in Liverpool, our guest, in the Journal of Environment and History, wrote “Winston’s death cannot have come as a terrible surprise: he was travelling in the middle of the war, constantly under threat by German U-boats.5 He was also a platypus.”.GUEST: Dr Harrison Croft, recently awarded a PHD from

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0:27:38

The Year That Made Me: 2018, Kate Marvel

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/08/30

Dr Kate Marvel was named by Time Magazine one of 15 Women Leading the Fight Against Climate Change in 2019. She was described as someone who “cuts through misinformation about climate change with storytelling”.She is a former cosmologist with a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Cambridge University. Her professional focus now is modelling climate change.

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0:01:44

Tweet of the Week: 31 August 2025

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/08/30

This week's mystery caller is found dry woodland across the south of Australia – the Yellow-plumed Honeyeater.

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0:12:37

A good dance battle is better than therapy

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/08/30

Brisbane is about getting ready for the dance battle of the year, when Brisbane Festival hosts the 7th year of the sequin-infested, hairspray-recommended, tongue-in-cheek dance competition -The Common People Dance Eisteddfod. Creator of the event, Neridah Waters, shares how the Eisteddfod started and why she welcomes Rock Eisteddfod Rejects from all over Brisbane into the Common People community. Guest: Neridah Waters, co-founder of the Common People Dance Project and director of

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0:13:59

What the sovereign citizen movement tell us about...

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/08/30

Experts say we’ve seen a mainstreaming of once-fringe conspiracy beliefs, fuelled in part by the pandemic and amplified by social media.So what do they tell us about Australian society?

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0:15:34

Unravelling the secrets of a Viking-Age treasure hoard

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/08/30

A hoard of treasure found in the lowlands of Scotland has re-written what historians know about the Viking-age in Britain. Containing silver and gold as well more usual items, from as far away as the West Asia, the highlights of the Galloway Hoard, and the story of their uncovering, are on display at the Museum of Melbourne.Guest: Adrian Maldonaldo, Researcher of the Galloway Hoard at the National Museum of Scotland.

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0:15:34

Unravelling the secrets of a Viking-Age treasure hoard

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/08/30

A hoard of treasure found in the lowlands of Scotland has re-written what historians know about the Viking-age in Britain. Containing silver and gold as well more usual items, from as far away as the West Asia, the highlights of the Galloway Hoard, and the story of their uncovering, are on display at the Museum of Melbourne.Guest: Adrian Maldonaldo, Researcher of the Galloway Hoard at the National Museum of Scotland.

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0:11:59

Kumanjayi Walker, Zachary Rolfe and the power of race...

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/08/30

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0:20:15

Smuggling USB drives into North Korea

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/08/30

Flash drives for Freedom is a long-running initiative by the Human Rights Foundation which has smuggled 140,000 donated USB drives, SD cards and micro SD cards into North Korea, filled with information, entertainment and educational content to counter regime propaganda.

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