Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast

Sunday Extra presents a lively mix of national and international affairs, analysis and investigation, as well as a lighter touch.

Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast is a society podcast hosted by ABC Australia, with 247 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

ABC Australia hosts Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast, a society show with 247 episodes published.

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  First Tassie devil remains found in Juukan Gorge, WA

  Sep 26, 202614 min

  Despite the name, Tasmanian devils once lived across mainland Australia. Including, according to new research, the arid Pilbara region in the north west of Western Australia. Remains found at Juukan Gorge suggest that Tasmanian devils may have scavenged from human camps in the region for tens of thousands of years. While Juukan Gorge was partially destroyed by Rio Tinto in 2020, it is being carefully recovered by SCARP archaeology and the PKKP Aboriginal Corporation. The ongoing excavation could become "one of the most significant archaeological sites in all of Australia.” Guest: Dr Timothy Churchill, a zooarchaeologist and fauna specialist with SCARP Archaeology and a researcher at UNSW.

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  Outside islanders: author Winnie Dunn on representation in publishing

  Sep 26, 202619 min

  Winnie Dunn became the first Tongan-Australian to publish a novel with her 2024 debut Dirt Poor Islanders , a coming-of-age story about a Tongan-Australian girl growing up in Western Sydney. Now she has been invited to give the 2026 Ray Mathew Lecture at the National Library of Australia, and she previews her theme of representation in publishing for Sunday Extra. Guest: Winnie Dunn, author of Dirt Poor Islanders and General Manager of Sweatshop Literacy Movement .

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  From 'frustratingly discreet' to tell-all, the rise of Australian performance politics

  Sep 26, 202613 min

  It is unlikely that a political memoir published today would be described as 'frustratingly discreet', rather today’s former politicians often publish juicy tell-alls after leaving office, with shocking behind-the-scene revelations and an occasional stab at former rivals. As Josh Black explains in his new book Performance Politics: Australian politicians and the stories they tell, a century ago memoirs by Australian politicians were few and far between, for very interesting cultural reasons.

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  Cambodia's multi-billion dollar scam centres

  Sep 26, 202617 min

  Many of the online scams that target Australians and people across the world have come from Cambodian scam centres, and the enormous scale of the illegal industry is difficult to fathom. While the Cambodian government has shut centres down, they are the tip of the iceberg of the country's "scam-state architecture", which is now "recognised as one of the world's most consequential criminal-political systems". Guest: Jacob Sims, a leading expert on transnational crime and human rights in Southeast Asia, and columnist for The Diplomat. Jacob is author of the National Democratic Institute report and INCA digital publication “ Scam State Architecture -- Disruption, Adaptation, and the Enduring Threat of Cambodia's State-crime ”.

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  Face-to-face with Carlos the Jackal, the world's first super terrorist

  Sep 19, 202613 min

  In a small cell in a Poissy Central Prison, just outside Paris, is a 76-year-old man serving multiple life sentences for terrorist acts. The man is Illich Ramirez Sanchez, better known as Carlos the Jackal, one of the world's first international terrorists and perpetrator of horrific attacks carried out in the 1970s and 80s which claimed hundreds of lives. He was a tabloid star and provided a template for later terrorist groups such as Al Qaeda and the IRA. Guest: Joby Warwick, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of The Jackal: the rise and fall of Carlos, the world’s first super terrorist

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