Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast

When two infants die after being left inside a hot car, their family seek answers to how this could have happened. Reporter Alexandra Blucher tracks down a child safety officer involved in their case, and hears why she believes the girls' deaths could have been prevented.

After an electoral officer helped police arrest a popular state minister, her life began to unravel.

"Simone" arrived on a remote island to help asylum seekers. But she witnessed something there that convinced her to leak over 2000 documents. Reporters Paul Farrell and Maddison Conaughton investigate what happened.

From humble beginnings, Fahad faced hurdles entering medical school. Now, he fights for equal access to medical education. Marty Smiley reports.

Can you guess this week's tweeter?

The Kyiv Independent was established three months before Russia’s invasion and is now one of the most trusted sources of news on the war in Ukraine

Gary Mason grew up in 1960s Belfast at the beginning of "the Troubles"; three decades of bloody sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland. But what can a life lived at the heart of conflict teach someone about building peace?

Scientists have lots of different ideas about how to conserve our native species. One of these ways is rewilding. 

Tens of thousands of Aboriginal objects exist in museum collections overseas.

Palawa woman Professor Gaye Sculthorpe located a wrongly labelled Tasmanian Aboriginal water carrier in a Paris museum while researching her family's history. 

Her research,  whilst working on Tasmanian Aboriginal collections in the United Kingdom and France, also looks at other misidentified or improperly labelled object, and is the subject of  the 2023 Eldershaw Memorial Lecture

Guest: Professor Gaye Sculthorpe, Deakin University. 

Each year Mitch McTaggart produces a snack-sized compilation of the year on Australian television, The Last Year of Television, which streams on New Year’s Eve on Binge. 

2023 is his fifth year of reviewing Australian TV, so expect highlights of the good, the bad and the cringeworthy. 

Guest: Mitch McTaggart