Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast

The West Australian Maritime Museum in Fremantle has been shortlisted for best museum exhibition in the world at the Museums + Heritage Awards.

In the remote hills of Bougainville near the disbanded Panguna mine, a cult like Ponzi scheme is being run by a man called Noah Musingku, who prefers to be called His Majesty King David Peii Upeii the 2nd. He has conned millions of dollars from both local and international investors and continues to run his scheme from his remote kingdom. Could he be a threat to Bougainville gaining independence?

Guest: Journalist Sean Williams, author of the article In search of the South Pacific fugitive who crowned himself king.

Now to an issue that continues to affect the Australian healthcare system, the scarcity of intravenous fluids. 

Updated modelling released by the Therapeutic Goods Administration last week found current shortages could last for at least the next six months.

On March 5, the Federal government announced a twenty million dollar investment to bolster capability at the only onshore manufacturer of saline solution in the country, Baxters

GUEST:

Danielle McMullen President of the Australian Medical Association

Negotiations for a ceasefire in Ukraine will move into a new phase in the coming week, as delegations from both sides of the conflict prepare for separate mediation talks in Saudi Arabia. 

Meanwhile Russia has continued its drone attacks in Ukraine, targeting the Black Sea city of Odessa, damaging infrastructure. 

The developments come as the future of NATO comes into question, and talk of 'denuclearisation' grows louder, as Donald Trump begins a second term as US President.

GUEST:

Rose Gottemoeller former Deputy-Secretary General of NATO, and the Lowy Institute’s 2025 Distinguished Fellow for International Security.

You can find how to do almost anything on YouTube. But Rob Kenney, known as the 'Internet Dad' is one of the most popular places to go for advice on some of the basic skills in life - from how to tie a tie to changing a tyre. His channel is called "Dad, how do I..." Rob Kenney tells the story of how in 2020, he came to set up his hugely successful channel.

Guest: Rob Kenney, creator of the 'Dad, how do I...' YouTube Channel. 

Can you guess this week's tweeter? This week's tweeter is a gorgeously-coloured inhabitant of Australia's arid lands – the Orange Chat.

The Notman Gang of convicts was used for road building in Tasmania. The story of their industrial campaign against their brutal treatment is now being told through big data and digital techniques.

Guest: Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, Professor of Heritage and Digital Humanities at the University of New England. Hamish is presenting the John West Lecture in Launceston.

YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005 by three former PayPal employees, it's now a tech behemoth that attracts 122 million daily users. 

A public history project called the Atlas of Drowned Towns aims to recover stories from submerged towns and communities and restore them to wider knowledge.

With the United States an increasingly erratic and unreliable ally, Europe is confronted with the question of how to bankroll Ukraine's war efforts.