The Banking Royal Commission revealed evidence of shocking misconduct, fraud and even crime within banking, superannuation and financial services industry. Adele Ferguson sparked the inquiry with her investigative stories and she takes you behind the scenes of how the royal commissions started and what she thinks should happen next.

Preserving Australia's Indigenous languages and the mystery of human language.

30 years ago, in Queensland, the landmark Fitzgerald Report was handed down.  Does it still provide a roadmap for greater public integrity and transparency?

Do you struggle with the small text on your phone screen or strain to hear voicemail messages?  Technology throws up problems for everyone but if you have a disability poor design can exclude you from using all kinds of devices. How do we promote inclusive design which gives access to everyone?

Former Minister for Disability Reform Jenny Macklin describes the creation of the NDIS and designing technology with disability in mind.

Jenny Macklin held many social policy portfolios over her long political career. As Minister for Disability Reform in the Gillard government she ushered in the NDIS. Jenny talks about the process of winning support for big social policy changes.

We talk about mental illness more than we ever have. But the funding and services just aren’t there compared to the system which looks after our physical health. So why is there this huge disparity when the need is so great? Political spin doctor, Alastair Campbell, talks about the politics of mental health and his own battle with depression.

In an age when you can be sacked for an inflammatory tweet, people are asked to sign ‘morality clauses’ and media ownership remains in the hands of a select few, it seems that the powerful are increasingly able to redraw the boundaries of free speech.

Dava Sobel discusses the unheralded women scientists of the Harvard College observatory who changed our understanding of the universe

The stay-at-home mum and the breadwinner dad is a distant memory for most modern parents. And in the 1950s who could imagine paid parental leave and subsidized child care? Three historians weigh up the impact of public policy on Australian families.