Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast

This week on the roundtable, the panel shares personal stories of leaving extremist groups and the challenges of starting a new life with the 'former' label attached to them. The guests discuss dealing with preconceived ideas and judgement and the importance of support and helping others.

Can you guess this week's mystery caller?

Yamatji-Noongar artist and elder and member of the 'Stolen Generation', Aunty Rhonda Collard-Spratt is producing a series of children's books to help reconnect young Australians with Aboriginal culture and country.

The famously vibrant wildflowers of Western Australia's 'Golden Outback' are in bloom during one of the best seasons in memory.

Hip hop artists, Jason Diakite, aka Timbuktu, talks about translating Amanda Gorman’s poem The Hill We Climb into Swedish, and about his own identity and heritage as the son of a black American father and white American mother, born and raised in Sweden.

When winter arrives there's nothing like curling up in front of a fire heater with a glass of wine.

But there's something disturbing in this cosy picture.

As Alison Branley discovers, there's a huge risk to our health that we seem determined to ignore, even though it's estimated to kill hundreds of Australians every year

When I say “brown coal”, what word comes to mind? Dirty?

Well maybe that’s fair… if you want to burn it. But Vince Verheyen reckons there’s a future for it in a net zero emissions world.

The starting point is understanding what it is, geologically, and how to make the most of its ingredients.

We know very little about what it means to live with fatigue, particularly given its many forms and causes.

Could battery swapping in electric vehicles - which is taking off in the Asian market - work in Australia?

Australia’s border policies and changes to Indonesian law have made it much more difficult for the people smuggler boat trade would start up again.