Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast

This week's mystery caller appears to be extending its range down the east coast – the Tawny Grassbird.

Shivshankar Menon continued a long and distinguished family tradition of foreign service for India

Seaweeds are the odorous, often-overlooked cousins of terrestrial plants. But do they deserve greater appreciation?

Fire has been fundamental for human development - but have you ever stopped to think about how it might be causing us harm? 

Fay Johnston wants us to rethink our relationship with fire, through a retelling of a story.

In an era of extremes when moderation seems an increasingly remote concept, and balance even more rarely practised, Professor Aurelian Craiutu has tripled down on moderation in a new book called Why Not Moderation? Letters to Young Radicals. It aims to present moderation as both a “radical virtue” and, interestingly, “a fighting creed.”

Guest: Aurelian Craiutu, Professor of Political Science at Indiana University

Australians have voted overwhelmingly to reject an Indigenous Voice to Parliament. 

Professor Matt Qvortrup has been described by the BBC as “the world’s leading expert on referendums”, so what does he think the factors are behind this result?

Guest: Matt Qvortrup, Visiting Professor of constitutional law at the ANU College of Law.

After the Referendum for a Voice to Parliament, what should happen next?

70 years after the first mainland nuclear test on Australian soil, the descendants of Indigenous people wounded are fighting for an end to nuclear weapons.

Kathy Jackson was once heralded as a revolutionary who shone a bright spotlight on union corruption but she too was later found to be a fraudster who had misappropriated hundreds of thousands of dollars in union members' money. So who was the man responsible for blowing the whistle on her? 

Reporter Annika Blau investigates.

Can you guess this week's tweeter?