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Sunday Extra presents a lively mix of national and international affairs, analysis and investigation, as well as a lighter touch. Incorporating Ockham’s Razor and Background Briefing.

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Sunday Extra 19 May 2024

Sunday Extra presents a mix of national and international affairs, analysis and investigation.

Published: with Julian Morrow

Sunday Extra
Duration: 2 hours 18 minutes 54 seconds

The precarious work of journalism in Gaza

The images and reporting from inside Gaza are almost exclusively the work of local journalists

Published:

Gaza journalist pic
Duration: 15 minutes 10 seconds

The Complex World of Orangutan Communication

Deep in the jungles of Indonesian Borneo live a group of critically endangered Orangutans. Though their populations are threatened,  their booming ‘long calls’ can still be heard for kilometres.

Published: with Julian Morrow

Male Flanged Orangutan
Duration: 17 minutes 56 seconds

How many died in the WW2 Nazi camps on the Channel Island of Alderney?

-A British government inquiry is looking into the “unspeakable and unimaginable brutality and sadism” of Nazi concentration camps during the German occupation of the Channel Island of Alderney in WW2.

Published:

Alderney camp pic
Duration: 12 minutes 49 seconds

NSW's 5,600km long dingo fence has 32km gap

Ecologists are calling for a re-evaluation of the purpose of the dingo fence that sits on the Queensland / New South Wales / South Australia border.

Published:

Duration: 14 minutes 39 seconds

A.J. Jacobs: Following the US constitution's original meaning

A.J. Jacobs has made a career out of experimenting on himself and one of the regular results of his experiments is long stints in the New York Times bestseller list.

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Duration: 18 minutes 16 seconds

NZ poet wins Calibre Essay Prize with entry about mother's hair salon

Tracey Slaughter's latest prize-winning personal essay is told from her perspective growing up on the floor of her mother's hair salon, listening to the stories of women.

Published:

Red-haired lady standing in front of greenery.
Duration: 9 minutes 57 seconds

The Year That Made Me: Ro Allen, 1995

Ro Allen is Victoria’s Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commissioner . 

Published: with Julian Morrow

Duration: 20 minutes 8 seconds
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