Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast

Has the humble shopping list that's written on a scrap of paper from the kitchen bench died out?

Melbourne based artist Kenny Pittock has created a living memorial to hundreds of discarded shopping lists he found in trolleys over many years by turning them into ceramics. 

Dragons, giants and ogres are the terrifying characters of myths and folktales from all over the globe.  The type of monsters have evolved over time reflecting the changing threats to a society, from the environment and the fringes of a community. The monsters of modern myths portrayed in books and films are now more frequently humans themselves. 

Guest: Nicholas Jubber, author Monsterland: a journey around the world's dark imagination (Scribe)

When Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was first published in 1818, it’s fair to say the publishers underestimated the size of the market

Only 500 were printed.

And now one of those 500 first edition of Frankenstein is in Australia, after it was purchased by the University of Sydney.  

GUEST:

Julie Sommerfeldt Manager of Rare Books at the Sydney University Library.

https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/15189

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Khmer Rouge's brutal take over of Cambodia in 1975 following a five year civil war. 

As a child Dr Sophal Ear was forced out of Cambodia alongside his mother and siblings, eventually finding refuge in the United States.

It was a long and at times dangerous journey, and came at great personal loss.

Guest: Dr Sophal Ear, Associate Professor at Arizona State University

Do the Greens need to completely recalibrate their party's focus and messaging to win back voters they lost at the Federal election? 

While they held up in the Senate, polling shows the Greens lost older millennial voters, compounding the loss of party leader Adam Bandt, who failed to retain his seat of Melbourne.

Guest: Richard Di Natale, former Greens Senator and Leader. 

In the ACT, there has been a surge in support for independents with Senator David Pocock doubling his vote and easily retaining his Senate seat.

The normally safe Labor seat of Bean, in the south of Canberra, is too close to call, with the independent candidate Jessie Price neck and neck with David Smith.

GUEST:

David Pocock Independent Senator for the ACT

Can you guess this week's tweeter?

When Sarah Arachchi was thirteen, she decided to become a paediatrician. She fulfilled that dream in 2018 after years of study, becoming a mother and overcoming the challenges of being a brown, female doctor.  She came to Australia with her parents from Sri Lanka when she was only four years old, and has navigated a path to find her Sri Lankan Australian identity.

Guest: Sarah Arachchi, Paediatrician and auther of Brown, Female, Doctor: A Memoir (Monash University Publishing)

Kumi Taguchi has had a very successful career in the media culminating in her current role as the host of Insight on SBS. All the way along her stellar career, she has had to deal with self doubt and questions about her own identity as the daughter of an Australian mother and a Japanese father. Her new memoir explores her often difficult relationship with her father.

Guest: Kumi Taguchi, host of Insight on SBS and author of The Good Daughter: A memoir of losing my father and finding home (Simon and Schuster)

Anthony Albanese has become the first Prime Minister to win back-to-back elections in more than two decades, picking up seats in the process, including Opposition Leader Peter Dutton's own.

Mr Dutton's surprise loss in Dickson, and the Liberal Party's broader political misfortune has thrown the party into serious soul searching, as it reckons with the result and decides who will take over as leader.

GUEST:

Maxine McKew, journalist and former Labor member for the Sydney seat of Bennelong

Warren Entsch, retiring Liberal MP for the Queensland seat of Leichhardt