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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 - 9 November, 2025

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/11/08

This week's mystery caller is a colourful inhabitant of windswept coastal habitats – the Rock Parrot.

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0:13:12

How to manage rubble in a warzone

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/11/08

After a disaster, before reconstruction can begin, survivors invariably face a huge and often toxic problem: debris and in particular rubble. Mobile Crisis Construction is an Australian charity that has developed technology that uses rubble to quickly produce new building materials to repair damaged buildings.

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0:12:31

The lost art of daydreaming

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/11/08

In an age of distraction we are losing a surprisingly important skill - daydreaming. According to Professor Hannes Leroy, productive daydreaming is not only essential for innovation, but for problem-solving everyday issues and when we don't make space for it, we are losing the ability to find resolutions and solutions in our lives. Guest: Hannes Leroy, Director of the Erasmus Centre for Leadership, at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University.

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0:16:54

PM's Prize for Science winner Lidia Morawska clears...

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/11/08

The winner of the Prime Minister's Prize for Science this year was Distinguished Professor Lidia Morawska from the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at QUT. Lidia has done pioneering research into the air we breathe to safeguard public health and our environment, inlcuding during the COVID 19 pandemic. Now she wants to mandate air quality indoors.Guest: Distinguished Professor Lidia Morawska, QUT and Director of the International Laboratory of Air Quality and Health

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0:10:00

"Often colourful, and sometimes controversial",...

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/11/08

“A giant of the Labor Party and a remarkable Australian” - that’s how Prime Minister Anthony Albanese remembered former ALP powerbroker and federal Cabinet Minister Graham Richardson, who died at the age of 76.

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0:14:21

The Dismissal: how history judges the judges' role

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/11/08

On 9 November 1975, Australia’s Governor General, Sir John Kerr, rang the Chief Justice of the High Court, Sir Garfield Barwick, and asked him for a meeting to discuss his intention to dismiss Prime Minister Gough Whitlam.

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0:00:37

Croak of the Month - November, 2025

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/11/01

This month it's the Shoemaker Frog. It’s one of the many frog species that gets its common name from the sound of its call - with the call reminiscent of a shoe-maker tapping nails into the sole of a shoe!Thanks to the team at the Australian Museum's Frog Id project run by Dr Jodi Rowley

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0:13:52

Mythbusters' Kari Byron on creating STEM's next gen

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/11/01

Kari Byron's time as a co-host on Mythbusters formed the core of her passion for science, but in the years since then she has turned that passion into a calling. She is now an advocate for fostering a love of STEM to younger generations, through her media company, EXPLR and the National STEM Festival which she founded and is expanding from the US to the rest of the world. Guest: Kari Byron, former co-host of Mythbusters, co-founder of EXPLR Media and director and founder of the

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0:17:55

Absurdist history in Netflix's mockumentary 1670

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/11/01

A new mockumentary from Netflix, 1670, looks back on the absurdities of an obscure era of history - the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth, which lasted from 1569 to 1795. Central European history expert, Darius Von Guttner Sporzynski shares the nuances of the historical comedy, and the universal truths it satirises. Guest: Professor Darius von Güttner Sporzyński, Professor of History at Australian Catholic University

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0:13:05

'Sunlight on Demand': science fiction fantasy or the...

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/11/01

It's being marketed as Sunlight On-Demand. American startup Reflect Orbital is proposing a 2026 launch date for it's test satellite, which will a carry giant mirror into orbit capable of reflecting the sun's rays back to earth. But astronomers aren't convinced that the plan can work, and they have many concerns as to the side effects of these giant satellites if they did. Guest: Michael Brown, Associate Professor of Astronomy at Monash University.

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0:19:15

A spy network for the Pacific

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/11/01

The Five Eyes alliance involving Australia, the UK, US, Canada and New Zealand is an enduring and sophisticated intelligence-sharing agreement that has been critical to the security of its member nations since its birth following world war two. A proposal from the Lowy Institute would create a similar alliance in the Pacific involving Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Fiji.

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0:12:37

Post election violence erupts in Tanzania

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/11/01

Parliamentary elections were held in Tanzania this week, but with the leaders of the two major opposition parties in jail or disqualified from running, the re-election of current President Samia Suluhu Hassan was inevitable. The Electoral Commission has announced the President won almost 98% of the vote. Protesters have taken to the streets demanding a new election. There are unconfirmed reports that hundreds of protesters have been killed in the violence.Guest Nosmot Gbadamosi,

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Tweet of the week - Buff Breasted Paradise Kingfisher

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/10/25

This week's mystery caller is a colourful summer migrant to Far North Queensland – the Buff-breasted Paradise-Kingfisher.

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The Year that Made Me: Omar El Akkad, 2001

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/10/25

Omar El Akaad was at college in 2001 when the opportunity to become a writer opened up before him. Over the following decades this path would lead him through the violence of war in Afghanistan, the hidden injustices of Guantanomo Bay and the electric energy of the Arab Spring in Egypt. It would also allow him, in 2023 to voice his anger, disgust and outrage at the images he saw coming out of Gaza, which he has stilled in his latest book, part memoir, part searing manifesto, One

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0:15:00

Can short films bring Australia and Indonesia closer?

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/10/25

It is the 10th year of the ReelOzInd! short film festival which is open to filmmakers from both Australia and Indonesia. The finalists are shown in both Indonesia and Australia both at the launch and as a pop up festival. This year's theme for the festival was imajinasi. The winning film this year centres on a father facing life as an empty nester.Guests: Jemma Purdey, Festival Director and Trivita Tiffany Winataputri, the winner of this year's competition for her fllm You, Me and

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You, Me and That Chair

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/10/25

This is the poem You, Me And That Chair by Johannes Winata, read by Trivita Tiffany Winataputri. The poem was the inspiration for the short film of the same name which recently won the ReelOZInd! short film festival. For more information about the festival click here.YOU, ME, AND THAT CHAIR(translated from Bahasa Indonesia)Maybe these are the last moments we can spend together Going about our daily lives without worrying that tomorrow we might no longer see each otheror spend the

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0:14:00

Tim Hatton on 30 years of migration policy

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/10/25

Anti-immigration protests have become a regular fixture of the Australian news cycle. In the UK, CNN reported that anti-immigration rallies in London in September were attended by around 110 thousand people. That is the context for the upcoming 2025 Colin Clark Lecture at the University of Queensland on 29 October

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0:18:00

Kenya farewells political giant Raila Odinga

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/10/25

Raila Odinga 'a towering figure in Kenyan politics' died on 15 October 2025, aged 80. A former Prime Minister, and son of Kenya’s first Vice-President, Odinga also famously ran in every Presidential election since 1997 bar one, never actually obtaining that office.

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0:21:00

The Peacemaker: a grandson remembers U Thant

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/10/25

Thirteen years after U Thant left his position as a school teacher in a small village in Burma, he found himself appointed as Secretary General of the United Nations. He was highly involved in many peace negotiations in his 10 years at the helm of the UN, including the Cuban missile crisis, the Congo, the Middle East and many more. Why is his legacy as a peacemaker largely forgotten?Guest: Thant Myint U, historian, academic and author of The Peacemaker: U Thant and the Forgotten

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0:21:51

All the Cool Girls Get Fired

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast ·

2025/10/18

Getting fired isn't normally something to celebrate, but Laura Brown, along with co-author Kristine O'Neill have created a part-memoir, part-manifesto for the modern woman - All the Cool Girls Get Fired. And it considers why the corporate ladder was never built for women, and how getting knocked off can be a blessing in disguise. Guest: Laura Brown, co-author of All The Cool Girls Get Fired

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