Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast

This week's tweeter is heard across the south and east of the country – the Fan-tailed Cuckoo.

After a promising start to her career was impacted by injury and selection heartbreak, Amy Sayer took a less-trodden path for a professional footballer, enrolling at Stanford University and discovering a love of philosophy.

Transgender Australia: A History Since 1910 is the first book that charts the history of transgender people in Australia from the Twentieth Century onwards.

Julian speaks to the author, a cis-gender man, and an older transgender activist, who has seen the language of trans definitions change over time.

Guests: Prof Noah Riseman, author of Transgender Australia: A History Since 1910

Jenny Scott, transgender activist

First Nations people were the first scientists in Australia. But they don't just stay in the past tense – they're still here, and still actively contributing to science.

Today's speaker Maggie Walter is Palawa and she's here to talk about how we think about First Nations science.

100 years ago, on November 23rd, 1923 Sydney radio station 2SB (now ABC Radio Sydney) was the first licensed station to broadcast over the airwaves. It was the beginning of a new era of news and entertainment in the home, transforming Australian cultural life. 

 Guest: Bruce Carty, former broadcaster, historian and author of “Australian Radio History” 

The global statistics on forced migration are stark. At the end of 2022, 108 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide as a result of persecution and conflict -- an increase of 19 million on the year before.

Aarathi Krishnan discusses the future of forced migration and what the impending catalysts are ahead of her keynote to the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law conference.

Guest: Aarathi Krishnan, Senior Advisor for Strategic Foresight for UNDP

Marine biologist Professor Richard Thompson was the first to identify microplastics on an Isle of Man beach 30 years ago. This week, he’s been at the UN Environment Programme headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, where delegates from around the world are working towards an international treaty on plastic pollution. But are policymakers listening to the scientists?

Guest: Richard Thompson, Professor of Marine Biology at the University of Plymouth

Natalia had a job at a prestigious university, $120,000 in the bank, a loving partner, and shared custody of her two sons. Then one day, a little over a year later, she woke up in a psychiatric hospital, where doctors told her she was experiencing what’s known as stimulant-induced psychosis.

This week's mystery caller picks at grass seeds in the north of Australia – the Long-tailed Finch.

In 1993 Mark and Judy Evans bought a dilapidated theme park in northern Queensland, and over the past thirty years they’ve re-made it into one of the state’s most unique tourist attractions.

It’s a story of devotion to the project, and devotion to the vision of the man who first built Paronella Park in the 1930’s, Spanish immigrant, Jose Paronella.