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It’s never held government, or even opposition, yet One Nation’s managed to exert an outsized influence on the public policy agenda. From borders to migration, multiculturalism to Indigenous affairs, the far-right party has mastered mainstreaming and captured the masses fleeing the Coalition. In the fourth instalment of The Making of One Nation, we speak to Josh Sunman, Associate Lecturer in Publi...

Solar solutions to food waste in Africa. The legal battle facing France's far-right leader Marine Le Pen. Marcia Langton asks what it means to belong on one's own land. The design evolution of the soccer ball. What is the protocol for alien first contact. And on The Year That Made Me, Jessica Mauboy. 

We’d all like deeply considered policy and informed debate to be at the heart of politics, but unfortunately controversies and scandals tend to steal the show. For most parties, scandals are disastrous: they lose seats, ministers and elections — but not One Nation. It's weathered defections and punch-ups (including a memorable smearing of blood on a Senate door), jail and chaos, and thirty years o...

From missing oil money to disappearing flight credits, and new Mozart music uncovered. Plus chess prodigy and International Master, Irina Berezina on how a chess competition nearly ended her life. 

You might remember this line in Pauline Hanson's maiden speech: "I'm afraid we're in danger of being swamped by Asians." It wasn't the first racist comment she'd made in public and it certainly wasn't the last. Over the years, her enemies have changed and she now targets Muslims and elites, but it's the same tactic and it's infiltrated Australian politics. This series was hosted by Ashlynne McGhee...

From a knife-edge by-election in Britain to a pivotal vote in Colombia, a peek at Arthur Boyd's monumental tapestries and acclaimed author Anna Funder on The Year That Made Me.

From a fish and chip shop in regional Queensland to the heart of Australian politics: this is the unlikely story of the country's most controversial minor party. In episode one, Ashlynne McGhee asks who was Pauline Hanson before she became a phenomenon, and what did she actually represent? Was she a cause of a new kind of politics, or a symptom of one already forming?

This week on Sunday Extra, the father-daughter dates of North Korea's Supreme Leader and his 13-year-old daughter being positioned as successor, Russia and the Taliban cosy up and Gen-Z discover the joys of bird-watching.

Armenians head to the polls in a pivotal election that could shape the country's future direction at a time of profound regional uncertainty. Despite its vast population and investment in the game, why does China continually fail to qualify for the men's Football World Cup. Burmese artist and dissident Sai Redacted on receiving the  2026 Václav Havel International Prize for Creative Dissent. A cha...

Who is Pakistan's Field Marshal Asim Munir and how has he managed the negotiations between the US and Iran? Will China's reforms to internal migration finally allow Chinese to move to a better life? Elite-level sports can't compete with the gruelling mental training needed to become a world chess champion.  Can a circle of older women in the UK overcome housing scarcity with a new model for commun...

Ukraine’s new 35 year old defence minister is pushing the use of autonomous killer drones to win the war against Russia. In Norway, a remarkable artwork known as Future Library is collecting manuscripts that will remain unread until 2114. And on The Year That Made Me, acclaimed Soviet historian Professor Sheila Fitzpatrick reflects on the experiences and historical moments that shaped her life and...

Art Detective Arthur Brand shares his latest case; the recovery of a modernist painting by Dutch artist Toon Kelder, recovered from the home of a Dutch SS commander’s descendants.  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. Kristi Lawlor discusses her new...

On Sunday Extra this week, a post-mortem of the Farrer by-election, and was Chinese interference behind the cancellation of a major human rights conference due to be held in Zambia? Plus, new research on how awe can be good for our mental health, and on the Year That Made Me, Frances Rings shares her experience as a dancer, choreographer and now Artistic Director of Bangarra Dance Company.  

Sunday Extra presents a mix of national and international affairs, analysis and investigation.

Sunday Extra presents a mix of national and international affairs, analysis and investigation.

On Sunday Extra this week, why the UAE is being excluded from negotiations to re-open the Strait of Hormuz.  Former WaPo editor Robert G. Kaiser on how the Washington Post has fared under its billionaire owner Jeff Bezos. And the intriguing stories of the KGB’s archivist and the murky underworld associated with one of the biggest collections of works by Frida Kahlo.

What is behind the landmark secularism case in the Canadian Supreme Court that could redefine religious freedom and minority rights? Will Chadian troops arriving in Haiti be able to finally push back the violent gangs taking over Haiti? What’s in the draft Children’s Online Privacy Code, and how it could change young people’s digital lives? New York Times puzzle editor, Will Shortz, takes into the...

Will Hungarian elections on 12 April spell the end for Prime Minister Viktor Orbán? A new report uncovers how North Korea is sending state-sanctioned forced labourers to Russia. The end of more than 700 years of rule for hereditary peers in the British House of Lords And on The Year That Made Me, an Easter Sunday special guest, Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, the Most Reverend Kanishka Raffel.

Sunday Extra presents a mix of national and international affairs, analysis and investigation.

This week on Sunday Extra, a new study finds no evidence that medical cannabis was any more effective at treating anxiety and depression than placebos.  The fascinating world of numbers stations, one of the oldest forms of encrypted communication which are still used by intelligence agencies to get messages to operatives in the field. A new documentary from Werner Herzog called records a journey o...

Sunday Extra presents a mix of national and international affairs, analysis and investigation.

This week on Sunday Extra, as the war in the Middle East continues we look at the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world's most important shipping lanes. As Reza Pahlavi, son of the last Shah or Iran, makes his case for why he should lead the country through a democratic transition we look at the history of the Pahlavi dynasty. Nepal held new elections this week to replace the government ousted by the...

An ex-Pentagon official on the escalating conflict in the Middle East, Israel is debating re-introducing the death penalty, a live update on death of the Ayatollah, the 40th anniversary of the Philippines people's revolution, queer history archives at SLNSW and Bob Brown on The Year That Made Me.

Sunday Extra presents a mix of national and international affairs, analysis and investigation.

This week on Sunday Extra, Timor Leste has appointed prosecutors to take on crimes against humanity committed by the Myanmar military junta, the software engineer locked in a legal stoush with Services Australia, and we look at the company founders of Breville in our Household Names series. Plus, on the Year that Made Me it's Marianne Jauncey, the medical director of the Uniting Medically Supervis...