Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast

This Sunday the RAW  Comedy National Grand Final take place at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Raw is a national search for emerging voices in the comedy industry.

Rice is a staple of a large portion of the world’s diet, but while rice demand is soaring, cultivation is not -- with yields being affected by land and labour scarcity as well as climate change. As a result, there’s now talk of a ‘global rice crisis’.

Guest: Jean Balié,  Director General of the International Rice Research Institute

In the U.S. the decision on the right to access a commonly used abortion drug is headed for the country’s Supreme Court. After a federal judge in Texas ruled the Food and Drug Administration was wrong, 23 years ago, to approve the drug mifepristone, a U.S. Appeals Court decision on Thursday temporarily preserved access to the abortion pill, with tighter rules. The Biden Administration will now appeal to the Supreme Court to restore full access to mifepristone.

The war in Ukraine has brought into question whether or not Swiss neutrality is tenable.

This year marks the 25th anniversay of the Good Friday Agreement, so how has peace been mainitained over the last two decades? And how does it compare to those growing up in Northern Ireland post the Troubles.

Can you guess this week's tweeter?

Biden Administration advisor, ‘Genius Grant’ recipient and founder of both Rewiring America and Rewiring Australia Saul Griffith joins The Year That Made Me – to explain why he’s a man on a mission to electrify everything, and why 2019 was his year.

The political lines around the Voice referendum are shutting out Indigenous voices.

Callum is thinking about the future of freshwater systems in Australia. They're full of life, within and around the water.

But how do we protect these waterways when humans also rely on them? 

Callum Donohue explores this careful balance.

Comedian Josie Long is in Australia with her new show, Re-Enchantment