Sunday Extra - Full program podcast

Karen Mundine from Reconciliation Australia gives her report card on the state of reconciliation in Australia as we mark 25 years since 250,000 people crossed the Sydney Harbour Bridge. More than 30years ago, Suzanne Chick discovered that writer Charmian Clift was her birth mother - she and her daughter  Gina Chick talk about the ongoing ripple effect of that discovery on their lives.

We will meet three people with dangerous careers this week on Sunday Extra: Land mine clearer Shaun Pinner whose colleagues Nick Parsons and Chris Garrett died in Ukraine this week, zoo keeper Erna Walraven who worked at Taronga Zoo for 32 years and paramedic Sally Gould all share their experiences on Sunday Extra this week.

The results of the Federal election were mixed for the Greens although they still hold the balance of power in the Senate. Former Greens leader Richard Di Natale gives his thoughts on what they should do with that power. 50 years ago, the Khmer Rouge took power in Cambodia and the legacy of that murderous regime remains. And we take a look at Frankenstein and other stories about monsters.

A special post election program with guests Maxine McKew and Warren Entsch giving their analysis of the election results. Host of Insight on SBS Kumi Taguchi explores issues of identity and her troubled relationship with her Japanese father in The Year That Made Me. 

Geraldine Doogue and Noel Debien report from Rome on the funeral of Pope Francis, we preview the critical election in Canada and also a preview of Australia's Federal Election, in particular the potential changes in the Senate. 

The very first Federal election in Australia in 1901 resulted in a minority government, how did it fare and other parliaments since then with very slim majorities? And Anne Summers looks back at what has changed for women in Australia in the fifty years since she wrote Damned Whores and Gods Police.

Australia has the highest per capita amount of super in the world, but with the share market volatility, should we be doing superannuation differently? And the AEC explains how they work out who goes where on the ballot. It is not as high tech as you might think. 

Sunday Extra looks at the implications of minority government after the next election, and actor and author Tasma Walton is our guest on The Year That Made Me. And the weird and wonderful history of hi-vis, and the sandwich that conquered Australia.

It is fifty years since Malcolm Fraser took up the leadership of the Liberal Party. Margaret Simons examines his legacy in the light of the upcoming Federal election. What is behind the protests filling the streets of Turkiye and Serbia. And we find out just what America is thinking with social researcher Jon Krosnick.

Today's questions answered on Sunday Extra: Could a Trump Presidency result in less nuclear weapons in the world, is the lazy bureaucrat really a thing, who is the king of Bougainville and which Australian museum has an exhibition up for an international award?