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Public broadcasting was once the dominant form of broadcasting in many countries, so how is it adapting to the media landscape of the 21st century?.
Stage performer Geraldine Turner opens up about overcoming some horrific personal experiences, as well as her career full of stellar performances.
14 year old McKyus Levi, who lives with autism, loves to draw monsters.
Dr Suzy Sheehy introduces us to the people who staged ground-breaking experiments of the twentieth century.
Worried about racial inequities in the health system, First Nations women are fighting for culturally safe birth options. But as Quandamooka woman Carly Williams finds out, not everyone in the mainstream healthcare service is on board.
How are your knees feeling? There's a pretty good chance one or both of them are sore — after all, knee osteoarthritis is a leading cause of disability globally, and Australia's no exception. Trouble is, we don't really have any way of treating it. But never fear — this week we're hearing from someone who's bringing her engineering background to take a peek inside dodgy knees and see what it might take to fix them.
First Nations language and culture is showcased in a new outback murder mystery.
Huge amounts of copper will be needed for the transition to renewable-driven electricity.
Boris Johnson's resignation has left the UK Tory party scrambling to find someone to replace him.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has solidified the resolve of NATO member states after the destabilising period of the Trump presidency.
Gareth Owen OBE is the Humanitarian Director of Save the Children UK. His first experience as a volunteer aid worker was in war torn Somalia in 1993, during the failed US lead Operation Restore Hope
As cryptocurrency values crash around the world, the NFT market is following suit and crashing as well. The two are tightly connected as NFTs are bought with cryptocurrency. The NFT market has skyrocketed since 2021, when $69m USD was paid for an NFT by hitherto-unknown artist, Beeple. But freelance tech reporter Amy Castor says a lot of the NFT market is not real – it's fake.
Making democracy work in diverse, multicultural societies is a huge but vital challenge all over the world
Being one of Australia's cutest animals hasn't prevented its slide towards extinction. Reporter Rachael Brown investigates what is being done to try to curb the koala's declining population.
Solomon Islands journalist Dorothy Wickham joins us to discuss her opinion essay, published recently in the New York Times, that says in the absence of US or Australian investment, China has become a somewhat positive economic force in the poor country.
What does it take to survive on the driest inhabited continent on Earth? Indigenous people have tens of thousands of years of knowledge about this, but their place in the conversations about water planning and management are often tokenistic at best, or worse, completely absent. Bradley Moggridge wants to change that. He's a Kamilaroi man and hydrogeologist, and he knows Indigenous knowledge needs to be central to Australia's water future.
Each year the Reuters Journalism Studies Institute at Oxford University puts out a comprehensive global snapshot of how the world consumes news.
A global web of smart little floats is taking the oceans temperature
Health advocates are calling on the new Albanese Government to appoint a Minister of Loneliness.
Pat O'Shane was the first female Aboriginal teacher in Queensland, the first woman and Aboriginal person to be the head of a Government department and the first Aboriginal Magistrate in Australia
Flacco & The Sandman, the singular characters that were stars of the 1990s and early 2000s comedy scene, have reunited for a show in Bathurst.
As the war in Ukraine continues, so do war crimes trials. Already trials have been conducted - and concluded - by Ukraine and by the Russian-backed breakaway republic of Donetsk. c
Thousands of Australians are finding they still feel ill several months after contracting coronavirus. They're experiencing a new and little understood condition called long COVID. As Geoff Thompson discovered, the demand for medical treatment is now overwhelming.
Chile and Colombia have both elected leftist leaders recently after decades of right and centre-right governments. It's part of a political shift in a number of Latin American countries that's being dubbed the 'pink tide'. So what's driving it?
Don't you love tipping your head back on a clear, dark night, and seeing those silvery stars twinkling above you? We know in our brains that they're giant balls of burning gas, even though they look like fairy dust scattered across the sky. And the reason we know this is because of the science of astronomy. This week we're hearing from an astronomer about the incredible discoveries her field has managed to uncover, and what the next generation of radio astronomy might achieve… right here in Australia.
Being solitary is a cause for celebration for the so-called Hermettes, a secret group of women who prefer to be left alone.
Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky will make a virtual address at this week's G7 and NATO summits.
The Roundtable this week looks at three different scenarios regarding refugees. Why have asylum seeker boats restarted to Australia? Where are the world's most neglected displacement crises? And why Tik Tok has become a source of reliable information for people fleeing their countries.
Abbas Nazari was 7 years old when his family boarded a crowded fishing boat in 2001, bound for Australia, that became the focal point of the Tampa Affair.
Nostalgia, niche whatever you want to call it vinyl records are making more of a comeback.
John Anderson wants to raise the standard of public debate in Australia and says there needs to be an honest discussion about climate science and the transition from fossil fuels.
Precious artefacts looted from Cambodia and Thailand made their way into prominent collections here in Australia, and around the world. In the second and final episode of his investigation, Mario Christodoulou investigates why it's taking so long for these precious works to be returned to their rightful home.
PaykanArtCar has won the Human Rights Foundation's 2022 Václav Havel International Prize for Creative Dissent
You probably have a favourite colour, flower, or song. But do you have a favourite parasite? Shokoofeh Shamsi does - although she studies parasites for a living, so maybe that makes a bit more sense. The bad news for the rest of us who don't spend a lot of time thinking about this stuff? Her favourite parasites live in many Australians' favourite food.
A small beetle may be the solution to an invasive aquatic weed threatening the future of a lake in Cameroon and the communities that live from it.
With overfishing at critical levels, the World Trade Organisation is targeting the billions of dollars' worth of subsidies that China and EU countries pay to enhance their fishing fleets
The Albanese government has committed to having new legislation for a national anti-corruption body tabled in parliament by the end of this year. What will it look like and what powers should it have?
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