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Barbara O’Neill was banned from practising as a naturopath after claiming bicarbonate soda was a cure for cancer and advising pregnant women not to take antibiotics. Laura Murphy-Oates and reporter Melissa Davey explore this extraordinary case and discuss the dangerous lack of regulation around the booming wellness industry

A former spy and his lawyer exposed an illegal bugging operation the Australian government conducted on Timor-Leste during negotiations over oil and gas field resources. Now they face jail time. Transparency reporter Christopher Knaus explains to Gabrielle Jackson how whistleblowers become targets under Australian law.

A former spy and his lawyer exposed an illegal bugging operation the Australian government conducted on Timor-Leste during negotiations over oil and gas field resources. Now they face jail time. Transparency reporter Christopher Knaus explains to Gabrielle Jackson how whistleblowers become targets under Australian law.

The climate crisis is a complex issue. So how do you explain it to kids? For children living on Tuvalu – who are already seeing the effects of climate change – it’s an unavoidable conversation. How do you create hope when your island will be unliveable in their lifetime? And here in Australia, how much should we be telling kids about the potential scale of the problem? Pacific editor Kate Lyons, with the help of Tuvaluan and Australian kids, sits down with Laura Murphy-Oates to discuss

Australia is running in short supply when it comes to long-term strategies to tackle the drought. In 2018 Barnaby Joyce became drought envoy but what did he actually do for drought-stricken farmers? In the podcast, chief political correspondent Sarah Martin takes Laura Murphy-Oates through what we know about his movements and ask the question: did we get value from the taxpayer funds spent on the role? And what does this appointment tell us about the Coalition’s broader drought policy?

Charlotte Wood has been described as one of Australia’s most original and provocative writers. Her previous Stella-prize winning novel The Natural Way of Things was about young women who speak out about sexual mistreatment. In The Weekend, selected by Guardian Australia as one of the 12 Unmissable Australian books of the year, her attention has shifted to older women: how they grieve, their friendships and the unique challenges and joys that come with ageing. In this episode Charlotte Wood, Guardian Australia’s associate editor Lucy Clark and host Laura Murphy-Oates talk about flipping the script on ageing

Almost a million people have been targeted by the government’s welfare debt collection program. But critics have condemned the program and its treatment of welfare recipients. Can this system ever be fair? Reporter Luke Henriques-Gomes examines the issue through the case of a woman who fought a year-long battle to have her robodebt dropped

Almost a million people have been targeted by the government’s welfare debt collection program. But critics have condemned the program and its treatment of welfare recipients. Can this system ever be fair? Reporter Luke Henriques-Gomes examines the issue through the case of a woman who fought a year-long battle to have her robodebt dropped

The country is facing an escalating environmental disaster. In eastern Australia the destruction of trees and plants on farms, known as land clearing, has exploded. Our native vegetation is a key part of how we can stop the climate crisis, so why are we cutting down so many trees?

The country is facing an escalating environmental disaster. In eastern Australia the destruction of trees and plants on farms, known as land clearing, has exploded. Our native vegetation is a key part of how we can stop the climate crisis, so why are we cutting down so many trees?