Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast

This week's mystery caller likes wet forest along the east coast – the Russet-tailed Thrush.

Kirli Saunder is a Gunai woman from East Gippsland Victoria who’s written nine books including the poetry collections, Kindred, and Returning  and in February this year Eclipse. She is a multi media artist connecting poetry with music and digital  technology to produce light shows, drone shows and films.

Guest: Kirli Saunders, poet, artist, singer and teacher.

Kirli Saunders is performing at the Poetry Month Gala on Thursday 28th August at the State Library of NSW -- 

AND the Shortwave x Red Room Poetry: Short Films film night on Wednesday 3rd September  at the Sydney Opera House -- an evening of new and recent short films, that celebrate the diversity of contemporary poetry beyond the page. 

Song: Daises performed by Cooee

The Australian National University is being criticised for the decision to disestablish the Australian National Dictionary Centre, which since 1988 has been jointly funded by ANU and Oxford University Press Australia to conduct research into Australian English.

The ABS described the Census testing process in a statement released this week, testing of potential changes to the content of the Census has been underway since late 2023.   

Alaska has been the location of some big negotiations in the past. Back in 1867, the Russians sold the territory to America for 7.2 million dollars, because they were short of cash. Now President  Putin has come back to the former Russian territory to meet with President Trump to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine. 

Guest: Ian Hartman, Professor of History, University of Alaska Anchorage

On 17 August 1945, Indonesian nationalist leaders Soekarno and Mohammad Hatta declared Indonesia’s independence, formally ending 350 years of Dutch colonial rule in the midst of occupation by Japanese forces. 

This week's mystery caller is cloaked in sparkling, iridescent blue-black plumage – the Spangled Drongo.

Can you guess this week's tweeter?

This week's mystery caller is a highly secretive inhabitant of arid grassland – the Night Parrot.

This week's mystery caller is a tiny, but colourful, nectivore found across the south of the country – the Purple-crowned Lorikeet.