Epidemiologist Professor Mary-Louise McLaws explains how Australia can reach herd immunity against COVID-19 and when children should be vaccinated against the virus in Australia. She also discusses the Delta variant outbreak in NSW, the reality of Long COVID, and whether we will ever be able to treat this virus “like the flu,” as the Prime Minister suggests. Mary-Louise is a member of the WHO’s Advisory Panel for Infection, Prevention and Control Preparedness and Response to COVID-19. Broadcast on 6 July 2021.

People for A Living Moorabool's Cameron Steele and water law and nature rights expert Dr Erin O'Donnell discuss Victoria's most flow-stressed river – the Moorabool River, near Ballarat and Geelong. They also discuss their new documentary film about it called, THE RIVER MOORABOOL. Broadcast on 29 June 2021.

Dr Richard Denniss talks about his newly updated book, 'Econobabble: How to Decode Political Spin and Economic Nonsense.' Econobabble is the incomprehensible economic jargon politicians and commentators use to dress up their self-interest as the national interest, to make the absurd seem inevitable or the inequitable seem fair. Richard is the Chief Economist at The Australia Institute. Broadcast on 25 May 2021.

Epidemiologist Professor Mary-Louise McLaws speaks in-depth about Victoria's current coronavirus outbreak and fourth lockdown, as well as the urgent drive to get Australians vaccinated. Mary-Louise talks about how we’re progressing and how long the lockdown might last, plus what policies need to be put in place now and in the future to prevent this from happening again. Mary-Louise is a member of the World Health Organisation’s Advisory Panel for Infection, Prevention and Control Preparedness and Response to COVID-19.

Nobel Prize-winning scientist Sir Paul Nurse sits down with Amy to explore and answer the question, What Is Life? This is considered in Paul's recent book, What Is Life? Understand biology in five steps. Paul is director and CEO of the Francis Crick Institute in London. His contributions to cell biology and cancer research were recognised with a knighthood in 1999, and his discovery of cell cycle regulatory molecules saw him jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2001.

Historian Professor Michelle Arrow talks about the many archival treasures on the verge of destruction if they cannot be digitised by 2025. This crisis is in large part due to chronic federal funding cuts to the budget of the National Archives of Australia. The race is on to digitise many audio-visual records and items that are disintegrating and reaching their preservation limit. Broadcast 4 May 2021.

Guardian reporter Luke Henriques-Gomes talks about the many planned controversial changes to the NDIS, which threaten the very principles the scheme was founded upon. Luke also explains his exclusive report detailing how proposed "independent assessments" for NDIS recipients would save the federal budget $700m and lead to smaller funding packages for disabled people. Broadcast on 4 May 2021.

Human rights barrister Geoffrey Robertson QC joins Amy to discuss his new book, 'Bad People – and How to Be Rid of Them: A Plan B for Human Rights,' which is the first book published on the 'Magnitsky laws' that have been adopted by 31 countries. Geoffrey explains how targeted sanctions can act as a deterrent and punishment for individuals who commit crimes against humanity and serious corruption. Broadcast on 11 May 2021.

Rick Morton, senior reporter at The Saturday Paper speaks in-depth about the aged care sector in crisis and which has been deteriorating since 1997. Rick also discusses the major findings of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety and its recommendations to the federal government. Broadcast on 16 March 2021.

Barrister Richard Beasley SC discusses why he is angry about the death of the Murray-Darling Basin and what we can do about it. Richard's new book is called, 'Dead in the Water: A very angry book about our greatest environmental catastrophe... the death of the Murray-Darling Basin.' Broadcast on May 4 2021.