Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast

Imagine attending a funeral, and right in the middle of the eulogy, a well dressed 6ft tall, stranger interrupts and says he has a message from the person in the coffin. 

Of all the death and destruction in Ukraine caused by Russia’s bombing, the story of the eastern city of Mariupol stands out. Human Rights Watch conducted a 2 year investigation into the siege of the city, to gather evidence of war crimes and to capture as much as possible of what was destroyed. It estimated eight thousand people were killed in Mariupol. 

NATO’s 75th anniversary summit this week comes as political upheaval in Europe and the United States could affect the NATO alliance support for Ukraine. Some want to move on bringing Ukraine into the NATO. 

The US Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity has thrown all the prosecutions against Donald Trump and others involved in the January 6 insurrection into doubt, and it has exposed the depth of the divide on the Supreme Court bench. 

Sometimes they’re armed with a chainsaw, sometimes a bottle of poison, and often they’re operating in broad daylight. So why is it so hard to catch Sydney’s tree killers?

Over the past 20 years Jessica Brown has changed the course of hundreds of young women’s lives for the better. The charities she founded, SISTER2sister and Warrior Woman Foundation, support young women at risk through pairing with older, successful women role models.

Instead of a tweeter, can you guess this week's croaker?

Zak Grieve spent more than 12 years in a Northern Territory prison, convicted and sentenced for a murder he wasn’t there for. 

Analysis of 7 million speeches shows politicians’ language is less complex on hot days. Scientists at the Max Planck institute for demographic research have been researching the impact that warmer weather can have on our cognitive abilities, using an interesting metric: parliamentary speeches.

The Maryborough Mary Poppins Festival began as an annual high tea held by the Proud Mary's  — a group formed in 1999 of women from around the world, all called Mary.