Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast

This week's mystery caller hunts insects in Australia's southern forests – the Scarlet Robin.

The Melbourne singer's second album is a deeply personal account of the lasting impact of a fundamentalist religious upbringing, and her effort as an adult to make sense of it.

Developing nations have secured a bigger international tax compliance role for the UN in a 'historic' vote at the UN General Assembly, which voted overwhelmingly in support of a resolution tabled by African member states. The prospect of a new UN convention threatens the OECD’s ability to set the global tax agenda. 

Almost sixty years after his life threatening encounter with a great white shark off Aldinga Beach in South Australia, shark conservationist Rodney Fox reflects on the day that changed "everything that came afterwards"

Science doesn't have to be restricted to old white men in lab coats. Maddie reckons it's time to make science fun! Without losing it's important messages.

Frank van Vree is the new Cleveringa Professor at Leiden University in Holland. The position is named after Rudolph Cleveringa, who became famous after a speech denouncing the invading Nazis' measures to remove all Jewish academics from their posts.

In van Vree’s inaugural Cleveringa Lecture, he will talk about the tensions between learning from the past and remembering the past.

Guest: Frank van Vree, Emeritus Professor of War, Conflict and Memory Studies at the University of Amsterdam, and the new Cleveringa Professor at Leiden University

“The best science for the most neglected” is a phrase that defines the mission of international non-profit medical research organisation DNDi - the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative, which is marking the twentieth anniversary of its founding this week.

After Médecins Sans Frontières won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999, it pledged the approximately $1 million USD in prize money to setting up a Neglected Diseases Fund.  

Guest: Dr Luis Pizarro, Executive Director of DNDi

Award winning investigative journalist Bethany Allen reveals how China has used its economic weight to coerce nations, corporations and multilateral bodies to play by its rules. From punitive sanctions, to covert intelligence gathering, and suppression of dissent, Allen describes how China has sought to expand its influence.

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