Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast

From golf, to tennis, to football – nation states are increasingly using sportswashing to improve their country's image and distract from dubious human rights records. But does this process of reputation laundering actually work? And why has it reached 'fever pitch' in 2023?

What does it take to survive on the driest inhabited continent on Earth? Indigenous people have tens of thousands of years of knowledge about this, but their place in the conversations about water planning and management are often tokenistic at best, or worse, completely absent.

Bradley Moggridge wants to change that. He's a Kamilaroi man and hydrogeologist, and he knows Indigenous knowledge needs to be central to Australia's water future.

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In a recent Australian Book Review essay titled ‘A Referendum in Trouble’, history professor Bain Attwood compares the 1967 referendum, when Australians overwhelmingly voted to support Indigenous rights, with the forthcoming referendum to change the constitution and establish a First Nations Voice - where polls indicate the ‘yes’ vote will struggle to even get a bare majority.

Attwood says the huge changes in Australians’ views on race, rights and history since 1967 are a factor.  

Guest: Bain Attwood, Professor of History, Monash University

A stem cell conference in Boston attracted so many scientists to a talk on rejuvenation technology that police had to be called to clear the aisles.

The Robodebt Royal Commission report exposes the failure of government oversight of the debt recovery scheme despite it being shown to be unfair and unlawful

Did you know that some of Australia’s largest public hospitals are run according to a religious code of ethics?

This week's mystery caller sweeps across inland skies in search of insect prey – the White-backed Swallow.

This week's tweeter is a familiar voice of our woodlands and open forests – the Peaceful Dove.

Can you guess this week's tweeter?

These common pain killing medications are taken for similar reasons but work in slightly different ways.