Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast

With inflation at its highest level in more than two decades, and a rise in the cost of living, it seems a good time to ask how equality is faring in Australia. Is inequality growing?

Can you guess this week's mystery caller?

Valmai Dempsey was named Senior Australian of the Year for 2022 in recognition of her 60 year dedication to voluntary first-aid work

#CrushedButOkay is a new youth-led online campaign will offer practical tips for young men to deal with rejection online.

Burkina Faso architect Francis Kéré is the first African winner of the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize

Background Briefing will be on a break for a few weeks, but we will be back late May with fresh investigations.

In the meantime why not check out a new podcast made by our colleagues called Face Value.

It takes a closer look at the booming cosmetic enhancement industry in Australia and explores why so many people choose to alter their appearance with injectables or surgical procedures.

COVID-19 has changed the way we do things and seeing our faces on-screen everyday has triggered more people to seek cosmetic enhancement than ever before.

What’s Australia best known for? Venomous creatures? Football with weird rules? What about… space exploration?

They say timing is everything so when the Taliban announced early April, they were implementing a ban on opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan, it left observers wondering who the message was aimed at, given it’s the major harvesting season now.

What are the ramifications for Armenia's Velvet Revolution from the war in Ukraine?