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Saturday Extra - Separate stories podcast
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Smart analysis, lively conversations, and great company. Understand Australia and the world with Nick Bryant.
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Noni Hazlehurst on her one-woman play The Lark
6d ago00:07:58Tap to summarizeAussie kids is touring the country with a one-woman theatre production.Noni Hazlehurst plays publican Rose Grey in The Lark, a show about an inner city Melbourne pub facing demolition as gentrification marches on without her.
Transcribe →How will AI affect the Australian political landscape?
6d ago00:16:15Tap to summarizeWhile there is a lot of attention being paid to the economic and technological change that AI is bringing, a new report argues that AI may also become a major force in reshaping Australian politics. If the effect of AI falls most heavily on educated professionals in "digitally intensive" neighbourhoods, what will be the political fallout?
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Breakthough in Gaza peace deal
6d ago00:09:10Tap to summarizeA key step in President Trump's 20-point Gaza peace plan appears to have been reached.Hamas has agreed to a plan with international mediators to lay down its heavy weapons on condition that Israeli forces fully withdraw from the Gaza territory.Can this complicated agreement work and offer a new path forward?
Transcribe →From looming cyber threats to the secret world of Pine Gap
6d ago00:14:36Tap to summarizeCyber attacks against Australian public and private entities seem to be happening more frequently, and with more sophistication.So how prepared are we for a large attack and should we doing more to stop this from happening?Plus, we look at Pine Gap, the secretive facility near Alice Springs.
Transcribe →Why Nauru changed its name to Naoero
6d ago00:10:02Tap to summarizeThis week, Nauru officially changed its name to Naoero, in order to more faithfully honour the country's language and identity.The move reflects a long desire for decolonisation and self-determination in the Pacific, but how much is in a name?
Transcribe →As the climate worsens, media coverage is falling
6d ago00:10:00Tap to summarizeLast year was Earth's third warmest year on record, with fires sweeping through parts of in Los Angeles, a heatwave killed more than 24,000 in Europe and catastrophic flooding in Southeast Asia.But despite this, media coverage of climate change continues to drop.A new study found coverage of the topic decreased by 14 per cent in 2025 compared to 2024.Is it possible for the trend to be reversed? And is the onus on the media or the public?
Transcribe →Wildfires devastate countries across Europe
6d ago00:05:38Tap to summarizeThis week, hundreds of thousands of people in France and Spain were forced to leave their homes and holiday accommodation in one of the largest peacetime evacuation operations in modern European history.Meanwhile, Greece, Italy and parts of Central Europe are expected to face heightened wildfire risk in the coming weeks. In France, the worst affected area has been the Gironde, near the city of Bordeaux, where residents have been wearing masks to cope with the smoke. We speak to a Bordeaux resident about the situation there.
Transcribe →The Last Thing: Sarah Ferguson
2w ago00:12:58Tap to summarizeSarah Ferguson is the host of ABC TV's flagship news and current affairs program 7.30 (and has one of the most impressive CVs in Australian journalism).She joins Saturday Extra for The Last Thing, where she talks through her last great read, the last great TV show she watched, and the last great art exhibition she attended.
Transcribe →US news site Politico comes to Australia
2w ago00:10:36Tap to summarizeUS news site Politico is set to launch its Australian offering next month — a newsletter called Canberra Playbook.Its launch editor is Ryan Heath, an Australian journalist who spent many years in the US and who also helped launch Politico's Playbook in Brussels.
Transcribe →Was Barnaby right to reprimand Stella the dog?
2w ago00:06:15Tap to summarizeOne Nation MP Barnaby Joyce went viral this week when he yelled at his dog mid-interview. Was he right to aggressively reprimand the animal?
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