Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast

Hundreds of First Nations women gathered this week in Canberra for a landmark Wiyi Yani U Thangani or the Women’s Voices national summit, the first national event of its kind. It builds on the Women’s Voices project, led by Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, June Oscar, and comes at a pivotal time.

Guest: Dr Hannah McGlade - human rights lawyer and expert member of the UN Permanent Forum for Indigenous Issues

After four weeks of fighting between Sudan’s rival military groups, residents in the capital Khartoum are running out of food, fuel and cash. Shops, banks and most of the city’s hospitals are closed, and people are desperately hoping a ceasefire can be agreed to and enacted on the ground.

The consumer genetic testing industry has become big business.

Can you guess this week's tweeter?

John Kamara escaped war torn Sierra Leone as a child and came to Launceston as a refugee at aged 19. Despite the very real challenges of racism and adjusting to a completely new culture and way of life in Australia, he decided to make the best of it and help others like himself who had arrived with traumatic backgrounds or who struggled to understand the Australian system.

Since arriving, he’s tirelessly helped migrant communities in Tasmania.

John Kamara is the  co-founder of the Culturally Diverse Alliance of Tasmania and the African Communities Council of Tasmania, and is Tasmania’s Australian Of the Year for 2023.

Why do people promote claims that conflict with science? A new course at Cortland university in the U.S examines this question and looks at how people process information in a way that helps them confirm what they already want to believe. Students develop their own bogus scientific claims and a corresponding plan to convince people that their claims are legitimate.

Signs of Life is an intriguing collaboration between the band Fourplay and the author Neil Gaiman

We often think of sharks as villains -- but as far as humans vs sharks go… we're the bad guys.

A baseball Little League in the U.S. has come up with an innovative approach to dealing with spectator abuse of referees