Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast

More women are having children later in life or not at all, according to the latest OECD Society at a Glance report.  

One in three women in Australia will experience anxiety during their lifetime, and women are twice as likely as men to experience depression and four times as likely to experience anxiety. The Hush Foundation brought together women mental health patients, and renowned Australian composers, to inspire an album of piano compositions, called Seeking Solace.

The giant monitor lizards are scavengers and help get rid of any dead animals which leads to some interesting benefits for other species in the area. 

But the number of heath goannas is declining and there’s hope they will benefit from a project to restore southern Yorke Peninsula’s landscape by returning locally-extinct species. 

Guest: Tom Jameson, lead author of a paper on heath goannas and carcass removal.

Thailand's newly elected senate has been approved by the country's electoral commission, after being delayed due to an investigation into complaints of an undemocratic process. The outgoing military-appointed senate reached the end of its five-year term in May 2024. 

The courts in Thailand have also set the next hearing dates for several cases involving high-profile politicians.

Guest: Kevin Hewison, the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Contemporary Asia and Professor of Asian Studies at the University of North Carolina

In a victory for peoples’ power, the Kenyan President William Ruto has sacked his Cabinet in the face of ongoing nationwide anti corruption protests that have left more than 40 people dead.

He is shut off from the outside world. Locked inside a makeshift jail in north Syria for the past five years, Hamza doesn’t even know who the Prime Minister is. This Australian citizen is one of thousands of suspected ISIS members imprisoned with no charges. 

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The latest research and clinical developments for people with Downs Syndrome will be discussed at the World Down Syndrome Congress in Brisbane from July 9-11. Emily Caska also discusses the situation in Australia for people with disability who need an organ transplant.

Charlotte Woodward is a young woman with Down syndrome who has had four open-heart surgeries and a lifesaving heart transplant. 

Dr Billy Garvey has spent his 20-year career working with children - from newborn babies to 17-year-olds - addressing mental health issues and behavioural problems. 

He says he's never met a child in his clinic who has been too difficult to help. 

As it becomes increasingly hard to find available paediatricians, Dr Billy has consolidated a list of things he wishes parents knew about addressing these mental health issues at home. 

Guest: Dr Billy Garvey, developmental paediatrician and author of 'Ten things I wish you knew about your child's mental health'. You can find his podcast here. His social enterprise is called Guiding Growing Minds.