Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast

The US congress last week heard remarkable testimonies by former military officers on the existence of UFOs, or what are now referred to as UAP’s, ‘unidentified anomalous phenomena’.

The Move Forward Party won the most votes in the Thailand elections but will be excluded from a governing coalition

Just after midnight, Marty woke to find three young intruders in his bedroom. Then they started talking to him. He'd now become one of the hundreds of victims of crime in Mount Isa each year. This is the final episode looking at the youth justice system in Queensland — the state with the highest number of children behind bars.

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After a horrific accident and subsequent brain injury ended his medical career, Dr Bruce Powell had to reimagine his life and the meaning of care and recovery.

A new study warns of the forthcoming collapse of critical Atlantic ocean currents

When is depression just ‘sadness’? Why are so many children being diagnosed with ADHD and autism? How much access to care are the seriously mentally ill getting? Dr Allen Frances is one of the leading global voices in the discussion about overdiagnosis and mislabelling of mental illnesses.

He was also the head of the taskforce that wrote the ‘bible’ of psychiatric disorders in 1994, the DSM-4, and openly regrets the expansion of certain disorders in that edition, which led to a much wider expansion in the next edition

Guest: Dr Allen Frances, Professor and Chairman Emeritus of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences at Duke University.

Researchers have a lot of unanswered questions about female reproductive health.

Today's speaker has a story of a discovery that will hopefully advance this area of science, but found in a very unlikely place.

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Is it time for Aung San Suu Kyi to make way for a new generation of leaders of the democracy movement in Myanmar.

Despite 30 weeks of ongoing protests against the proposal, Benjamin Netanyahu’s hardline government this week passed the first part of a plan for judicial reform, which would curb the influence of the country’s top court over government decisions.

Detractors say this will erode democracy and lead to more corruption, but the government says the judiciary has been using its powers politically.

Guest:  Eliad Shraga, chair of Movement for Quality Government, Israel