RN Drive - Separate stories podcast

Photographer Matthew Newton on the untamed beauty and urgent conservation story of Tasmania’s takayna/Tarkine, one of the last great wildernesses on Earth.

Consumer advocacy group CHOICE has unveiled its 2024 Shonky Awards and if you’re one of the hundreds of thousands of Australians who have fallen prey to a dodgy “hey mum” text or a suspicious call from your “bank” then you’re probably pretty familiar with one of the top gongs.

The world has until 2025 to lower emissions, but the latest global report says they're still climbing

There are calls for urgent action after a new report revealed that young people are accessing porn at younger ages than ever before.

US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, says the news that North Korean troops have entered combat alongside Russian forces in Ukraine is a "profound and incredibly dangerous development".

It’s still a couple of months until President Donald Trump 2.0 inauguration, but his administration is already starting to take shape with positions being loaded with Trump loyalists and defenders.

The Federal Government is committing $80 million as part of plans to extend the voluntary administration period for Rex Airlines. An application will be made to the Federal Court to extend the administration period to the end of June next year.

A history of the group dynamics of some of the most famous artists in the French Impressionist movement.

After years of public feuding, Art Garfunkel has built a bridge over the troubled waters between himself and former bandmate Paul Simon.

A 4.1 magnitude earthquake in the NSW Upper Hunter at midday left thousands of people without power this afternoon. The quake was recorded near Muswellbrook and is the fourth significant earthquake in three months.

This year is shaping up to be a bumper summer for cicadas with the emergence of one species in particular - the Green Grocer. 

As the reporting season winds up Australia’s Big Four banks released their annual financial results and climate reports, detailing their exposure to fossil fuels to help limit global warming to one-point-five degrees Celsius.

“Never, in the field of human conflict, was so much owed by so many to so few”

Buried beneath mountains of ash, the final moments of the citizens of Pompeii reveal intimate glimpses of horror and humanity.

So your social media feed is now a dump for conspiracy theories, fake news and assumptions…and it’s up to you to figure out what’s true and what’s not. 

The Donald Trump effect on climate will no doubt be a key topic of conversation amongst world leaders, if not officially, then on the sidelines of COP29 in Azerbaijan today, a major international climate conference.

"We know that student debt can't be fixed, because student debt shouldn't exist. All student debt should be wiped."   That's according to the Federal Greens as they put forward a $70 billion dollar plan over the next decade to wipe the student debts of three million Australians altogether.

As glamorous as being in a band may look, it can be a job, just like any other. Franz Nicolay’s new book ‘Band People’ takes a look at the practicalities of being a working musician. 

41,000 people live in situations that amount to modern slavery in Australia. That's according to the international human rights group, Walk Free. Former federal Labor minister Chris Evans has worked extensively with Walk Free and has just been named Australia's first national anti-slavery commissioner. 

A study by University of Queensland has found that gambling and alcohol ads are being served up many times in a short period to people at high risk of gambling or alcohol-related harms.

In a new book coming out next week, author and broadcaster Titus O’Reily takes readers on a hilarious journey through the most outrageous and completely bizarre stories in sporting history and exposes the biggest scandals of the winners and the sinners.  GUEST: Titus O’Reilly, presenter, performer, broadcaster and author of 'The Seven Deadly Sins of Sport'

Pop musician Geoffrey O'Connor tells us why he'd prefer rain over sun any day and what it was like touring with 80s icon Edwin Collins

Australia’s largest sport survey has just delivered its findings and some of the most popular sports on the list are very surprising.  GUEST: Vaughan Cruickshank, Senior Lecturer, Health and Physical Education, University of Tasmania

A public hospital in regional New South Wales is restoring abortion services after an ABC investigation revealed the executive had banned staff from providing terminations to patients for non-medical reasons .

US President Joe Biden has invited Donald Trump to lunch at the White House, with the President-elect’s team saying the visit “will take place shortly - a sign of a peaceful transition of power, unlike January 2021.