On today’s episode, former AFL player, coach and transgender advocate Danielle May Laidley opens up about her battle with gender dysphoria and how reconnecting with her childhood sweetheart, plus her friends from footy, helped her get through her lowest points. Plus, what the future holds and whether she will one day return to the AFL.

Hosting the conversation is the co-author of Laidley’s memoir, Don’t Look Away, senior writer for Good Weekend, Konrad Marshall.

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On this episode, we speak to former Newcastle Knights player Alex McKinnon, whose life was changed forever when a tackle left him a quadriplegic almost a decade ago. Today, he opens up about his injury, how it made him a better person, and how legendary coach Wayne Bennett helped him through that testing time.
Hosting the conversation is chief sports writer for The Sydney Morning Herald, Andrew Webster.

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In this episode, we speak with professor Martin Green from the University of New South Wales about the solar cell that's turbo-charging the take-up of solar energy around the globe.
Hosting the discussion about how Green and his colleagues developed the cell over many decades, what it means for the world and why, despite international accolades, he's not yet a household name is the environment and climate editor for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, Nick O'Malley.

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On today’s episode we speak with journalist Madonna King about the growing global problem of "sextortion", in which teens are groomed online then extorted for money and/or explicit pictures. Madonna, who looks at the issue in her new book Saving Our Kids, speaks with Good Weekend senior writer Melissa Fyfe about the people and forces behind sextortion, the damage they're inflicting on our kids - and what parents can do about it. 

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On today’s episode, we speak with British historian Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads and The Earth Transformed: An Untold History. His discussion with Good Weekend deputy editor Greg Callaghan covers the way mankind has reacted to ecological shocks, our industrial enslavement of animals, the threat of new pandemics - and how, in the face of all this, he remains an optimist at heart.

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On this week’s episode of Good Weekend Talks we speak with journalist David Meagher, who has written a memoir, Secrets & Lies, about the sexual abuse and bullying he suffered at school, the drug use and suicidal ideation that followed, and what it felt like, four decades later, to help put his abuser in jail. He talks with Good Weekend editor Katrina Strickland.

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On today’s episode we speak with retired AFL star Joel Selwood, whose glittering resume includes premierships and all-Australian berths. He’s perhaps best known as the consummate captain, having lead the Geelong Cats for 10 years or 227 games - the most as a skipper in AFL history. Hosting a discussion about everything from head high tackles to concussion, fertility and disability to the balance between ruthlessness and kindness in sport, as well as Selwood's upcoming memoir, All In, is Good Weekend senior writer, Konrad Marshall.

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On today’s episode, we speak with former broadcaster Tracy Spicer about artificial intelligence, misogyny in the media and what it’s like living with long COVID. Her latest book, Man-Made, examines the rapidly developing world of technology, which she says is fraught with danger, posing a real risk to the gains made by the civil rights movement.

And hosting this conversation about bias in machine learning, living with a disability and indigenous women as the world’s first coders - is senior culture writer at The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, Kerrie O’Brien.

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This week, we speak to writer Tim Winton about his campaign to save the remote, pristine ecosystems around Ningaloo, in north-west Western Australia.

The award-winning author has produced a documentary about the battle to protect this beautiful reef and the land that surrounds it from numerous threats including salt mines, oil and gas pipelines and a deep water port proposed for the middle of a humpback whale refuge.

Hosting the conversation is Good Weekend senior writer Tim Elliott.

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On today’s episode, we speak to actor Rachel Ward, the subject of our recent cover story Promised Land. The Thorn Birds star is married to Bryan Brown, lives on a property in the Nambucca Valley on the mid-north coast of NSW. And in the past three years, Ward has been on a transformative journey, away from traditional farming techniques, to a fully-fledged regenerative practice.And hosting this discussion, about regenerative farming's role in reducing climate change and Ward’s upcoming documentary about her life on the land, is freelance writer Candida Baker.

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