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Sunday Extra presents a lively mix of national and international affairs, analysis and investigation, as well as a lighter touch.
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India through Indigenous eyes
Julie Janson is a Burruberongal woman, novelist, playwright and poet. In her new book, Letters from India, she writes about the profoundly moving expe...
The Year that Made Me: Deborah Cheetham Fraillon, 2023
Deborah Cheetham Fraillon AO is a soprano and composer whose extensive CV includes Artistic Director of Short Black Opera and Dhungala Children's Choi...
Gatz is a play worth the numb backside
Gatz is a six-hour theatrical reimagining of The Great Gatsby (eight and a half hours with intervals), which The New York Times called “the most remar...
Dr. Bot - The future of AI in medicine
As doctors are weighed down by increased demands, reduced support and the fast pace of change in medical research, could AI help save the health syste...
Getting deep: the fascinating infrastructure of subsea cables
Roughly 98% of all global internet traffic travels not via phone towers or even satellites, but underwater, along a vast network of fiber optic cables...
Nepal elects rapper-turned-politician Balen Shah
Rapper-turned-politician Balen Shah has been elected Nepal's new Prime Minister. The 35 year-old was the mayor of Kathmandu before he ran against form...
The Pahlavi Shahs of Iran
Reza Pahlavi, the son of the last Shah of Iran, is pitching himself as a democratic future leader of Iran, claiming to have broad support in Iran. Who...
The underestimated power of the chokepoint
Iran’s control of the Strait of Hormuz highlights how vulnerable global trade routes can be to disruption — and how easily strategic choke points can...
Iran's Supreme Leader is dead... what happens next?
Donald Trump has announced the death of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei from a missile strike coordinated by the United States and Israe...
The Year that Made Me: Bob Brown, 1976
Bob Brown is a giant of the environmental movement and Australian politics.
A former doctor, Bob is the co-founder of the Australian Greens, ser...
The People's Guide to the Australian Constitution
As Constitutions go, America’s is the most famous and revered document. By contrast, the Australian constitution doesn’t inspire as much interest.
The award winning documentary about an Italian fascist poet
Fiume o Morte! Has been praised as “the funniest and most unorthodox history lesson of the year”. In January, it was awarded Best Documentary at the E...
Why Václav Havel's 1978 essay is "eerily relevant today"
When Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney gave his rousing speech on middle powers at Davos, he quoted Václav Havel - the Czech dissident, and later pr...
Forty years on from the fall of Ferdinand Marcos
Forty years ago this week, events in the Philippines were underway that would lead to the fall of the dictator Ferdinand Marcos, who had served as Pre...
Israel seeks to revive the death penalty
In November 2025 a bill was introduced to Israel's Knesset by the Jewish Power Party that would re-establish the use of capital punishment in the coun...
An ex-Pentagon official on US and Israel's strikes on Iran
The world is coming to grips with the joint American and Israeli strikes across Iran, and Iran retaliatory missile and drone strikes in Israel and in...
Australian journalist Murray Hunter is a free man again
Last October, we covered the story of Australian writer and resident of Thailand Murray Hunter, who was arrested in Thailand for articles he had writt...
Why Myanmar removed its representative from Timor-Leste
Last week we spoke with Christopher Gunness from the Myanmar Accountability Project about the universal jurisdiction legal case that Timor-Leste has o...
The Year that Made Me: Julie Inman Grant, 1995
The e-Safety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant on growing up in a single parent household, her connection to Ted Bundy, rejecting an offer from the CIA a...
Cooking the first mushrooms sent to space
In August 2024, astrophysicists from Swinburne University sent vials full of the mycelium of edible mushrooms to the International Space Station.
How one DMT trip could treat depression
A fascinating new study observing the effects of the psychedelic drug DMT - or dimethyltryptamine - on people who have already tried two other forms o...
Hillary McPhee on other people’s words - again
The legendary publisher and one half of McPhee Gribble has re-published her memoir Other People's Words with a new afterword.
The UK chemical research facility that identified Navalny poison
The testing that identified the poison that killed Russian dissident Alexei Navalny was carried out at Porton Down, a British government chemical defe...
Ian Bremmer's Puppet Regime
Geopolitical analyst and president of the Eurasia group, Ian Bremmer has a new avenue for explaining the big news in international politics: Muppets-s...
Winston Peters proposes referendum on Maori seats
A political debate has erupted in New Zealand over whether or not to retain special Maori electorates in the New Zealand parliament.
From foreign correspondent to Uber driver
Steven Scherer has written about his unexpected journey from career high to just trying to make ends meet and provide for his family in a touching ess...
Tweet of the week, 15 February 2026
This week's tweeter has a soft, high-pitched call, and can be found around dense undergrowth in forest, scrub, heath and along creeklines. It's the Re...
The Year that Made Me: Marianne Jauncey, 1998
Dr Marianne Jauncey works with people many in society dismiss as “lost causes” — drug users in Kings Cross, in inner-city Sydney. But far from acting...
Rivers Flow: Reflections on the songs of Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners are advised that the following program contains names of people who have died.
“It seems certain...
The return of The Muppet Show!
In what is perhaps the biggest news in TV comedy of the year - maybe in forty years - earlier this month, a brand new episode of The Muppet Show was r...
Household Names: Breville
In this episode of Household Names we delve into the history of Breville, a company that many of us are familiar with because of their iconic jaffle m...
The dilemma of de-extinction
A scientific breakthrough by Colossal Bioscience has seen the 'resurrection' of the dire wolf, a megafauna-hunting wolf species that died out around 1...
The cybersecurity expert taking Services Australia to court
Queensland software developer Fraser Tweedale made a Freedom of Information request for the MyGov Code Generator app's code so he could review it, but...
Timor Leste takes on Myanmar crimes against humanity
Timor Leste has appointed prosecutors to investigate crimes against humanity committed by the Myanmar military junta against members of the Chin ethni...
The missing edition of OZ Magazine
In the 1960s independent magazine OZ became a cause célèbre when its editors were charged, in the UK and Australia, with obscenity.
Edition 4 of...
The Year that Made Me: Abraham Kuol, 2010
Abraham Kuol spent the first seven years of his life in Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya. His family came to Australia as refugees, and this year he is Vi...
The Aussie Magna Carta
The Magna Carta is one of the world's most famous documents, and Australia has it's own copy from 1297. Libby Melzer recently completed a 10 year proj...
The uncanny rituals of Opera for the Dead
Straight from Sydney Festival to Melbourne's Art House, Opera for the Dead is a striking contemporary Chinese cyber-opera that blurs ritual, music and...
Household names: Mary Penfold
Mary Penfold was the driving force behind Penfolds wines, which grew from a small vineyard outside Adelaide in the 1850s to the wine-producing powerho...