Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast

Costa Constanti, who was born and bred in Melbourne - is running for parliament in Cyprus with the Volt Party, which calls itself “the first Pan-European party”.

The Nightline is an instalment work coming to the Malthouse Theatre in Melbourne, and the creators are calling on night owls, shift workers, insomniacs and anyone who happens to find themselves awake in the small hours for anonymous contributions. Guest: Roslyn Oades , director of The Nightline.

This week's colourful wetland caller is found across the north and down the east — the Azure Kingfisher.

Acclaimed Soviet historian Professor Sheila Fitzpatrick reflects on the experiences and historical and personal events of 1989 that shaped her life and career.

Australian author Anne Spencer Parry's debut 1976 fantasy novel The Land Behind the World was described by the Sydney Morning Herald as "weird, complex, fanciful — and intriguing". Sheila Ngọc Phạm describes Parry as someone whose “works are a testament to the life she formed from unusual, difficult and brave choices”.

Future Library is a long-term literary project based in Norway. It currently holds 11 unpublished manuscripts and a growing forest of spruce trees, planted to supply paper for books that will not be printed until 2114. No one has read the manuscripts, and they will remain sealed for almost a century. Guest: Anne Beate Hovind, Chair and producer of Future Library , in Oslo.

A strange international scandal known as “Honduras-gate” has raised allegations of a covert disinformation campaign targeting left-wing Latin American governments. Former diplomat Jeremy Dicker unpacks the claims and the geopolitical intrigue surrounding the story. 

A bitter disagreement has emerged between Ukraine's Ministry of Defence and military leadership over the use of autonomous weapons.  Ukraine is emerging as a world-leading drone technology producer, as a result of the Russian invasion, and the new Minister is going all in on battlefield tech capable of making lethal decisions with no human oversight. 

The Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru - which translates to the Party of Wales - is forming government for the first time after an historic electoral victory. While Plaid Cymru has stood for Welsh independence for 100 years, party leader Rhun ap Iorwerth has ruled out an independence referendum in their first term. Guest: Elliw Gwawr, Political Correspondent at BBC Wales.

Warren Entsch was the Federal member for the seat of Leichhardt in far north Queensland from 1996 to 2025 with a gap between 2010 and 2013. He was instrumental in the push for marriage equality.

Behind the Met Gala's red carpet "Fashion is Art" theme this year is a more nuanced interpretation of how fashion and art collide. The Met's Costume Institute has a new exhibit called Costume Art, which pairs nearly 400 historical and contemporary garments with paintings, sculptures and artefacts from across the museum's 5,000-year collection. Guest: Dr Llewellyn Negrin Adjunct Senior Researcher a...

The heroic accounts of Australian Army Nursing Sisters Margaret Anderson and Vera Torney who survived the perilous evacuation of Singapore in 1942.

In 2012, a group of writers organised a workshop in Junee Correctional Centre with funding from the South Coast Writers Centre. The collection of writing by inmates was published in a volume called Dreaming Inside: Voices from the Junee Correctional Centre. Since then, the project - now known as  Ngana Barangarai  (or ‘Black Wallaby’) has grown significantly, with Aunty Barbara Nicholson at the he...

In her new book Being Reasonable: the case for a misunderstood virtue, Professor Krista Lawlor describes reasonableness as 'one of the essential fluids in our social machine'.

The release of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra after eight months in jail has prompted debate over whether Thailand's long-dominant 'Thaksin era' has finally come to an end.

A painting looted by the Nazis has been discovered hanging in the home of a Dutch SS-Commander's descendants. Portrait of a Young Girl, a modernist painting by Dutch artist Toon Kelder was recovered thanks to the work of art detective Arthur Brand, known as the 'Indiana Jones of the art world'.

Dancing was always part of Frances Rings' childhood, helping her make sense of the world around her in a small country town. But when, at just 17, she boarded a bus to Sydney to study at NAISDA Dance College, Frances discovered dance could be more than movement — it could be a way of carrying culture, ceremony and storytelling, and a deeper connection to her identity. Guest: Frances Rings, Artisti...

A growing body of research suggests that experiencing awe has positive effects for our sense of wellbeing - an idea that might make intuitive sense, but which is being increasingly supported by empirical research in the fields of neuroscience and psychology. Guest: Dr Nikki-Anne Wilson, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the UNSW Australian Ageing Futures Institute and Conjoint Research Fellow at Neu...

How did the formative experiences, personality traits, world views and leadership styles of Australia's last seven Prime Ministers influence the instability of Australian politics in the last quarter century? Guest: Paul Strangio, author of The Alchemy of Leadership: Seven Australian Prime Ministers in a Turbulent Twenty-First Century , emeritus professor of politics at Monash University.

Proponents of direct action say it’s part of democratic life. It’s detractors say it's a threat to safety, a violation of majority rule and rule of law. What can the history of direct action tell us about its place in our democracy today? Guest: Sean Scalmer, professor of history at the University of Melbourne

Approximately 9,000 educational institutions and 275 million of their students have been affected by a data breach involving the 'learning management system' Canvas Criminal hacking group ShinyHunters has claimed credit for the hack and is demanding a ransom from the US tech company Instructure which runs Canvas. Guest: Abu Barkat Ullah , Associate Professor of Cyber Security at the University of...

The major human rights conference RightsCon was due to convene in Zambia this week but was cancelled at the last minute, with some suggestion the government was under pressure from China to do so. Guest: Linda Kasonde, Zambian lawyer and civil society activist.

ABC election analyst Casey Briggs not only called the seat for One Nation at 8pm, he also called Farrer as now a safe seat for One Nation.

The Human Rights Legal Centre and the Alliance for Journalists’ Freedom have intervened in a case being heard in the High Court to raise what they describe as 'public interest concerns relating to whistleblowing and press freedom'. 

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