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Sunday Extra presents a lively mix of national and international affairs, analysis and investigation, as well as a lighter touch.
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Tweet of the week, 20 September 2026
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Sep 19, 2026 |
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The Year that Made Me: Mem Fox, 1982
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Sep 19, 2026 |
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Face-to-face with Carlos the Jackal, the world's first super terrorist
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Sep 19, 2026 |
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Rewiring Asia's democracies
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Sep 19, 2026 |
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The National Communication Museum's 'Radical Computing' exhibition is a love letter to the personal computer
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Sep 19, 2026 |
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How researchers figured out Australia's pre-colonial population was grossly underestimated
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Sep 19, 2026 |
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Turi King and the human stories behind our DNA
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Sep 19, 2026 |
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Historic election in Philippines autonomous region
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Sep 19, 2026 |
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The troubles that come with a free meal
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Sep 19, 2026 |
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Tweet of the week, 13 September 2026
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Sep 12, 2026 |
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The Year that Made Me: Sandy Mackinnon, 1982
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Sep 12, 2026 |
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Fighting for Country, Kin and Nation
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Sep 12, 2026 |
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A backyard astronomer from Broken Hill has contributed to a world-first space discovery
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Sep 12, 2026 |
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Puggle season is upon Australia's 'Enigmatic Echidnas'
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Sep 12, 2026 |
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Why banks are moving billions in gold around the world
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Sep 12, 2026 |
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What does it sound like when neutron stars collide?
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Sep 12, 2026 |
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The sinking of the Indus Treaty
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Sep 12, 2026 |
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BRICS summit sees first Xi visit to India since 2019
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Sep 12, 2026 |
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The Year that Made Me, Rosalie Ham, 2000
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Sep 05, 2026 |
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What Samuel Beckett saw in Nazi Germany
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Sep 05, 2026 |
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Tenzin Choegyal's musical tribute to the Dalai Lama
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Sep 05, 2026 |
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Pioneering astronomer Nancy Grace Roman honoured in space
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Sep 05, 2026 |
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Extra Intrigue: CIA director's dash to Moscow and Xi and Trump prepare to meet
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Sep 05, 2026 |
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Eureka prize winner Helen Paterson on why a truthful witness can sound unreliable
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Sep 05, 2026 |
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Is the era of ultra fast-fashion over? Shein's stock market stumble
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Sep 05, 2026 |
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What were you doing at 11? Anderson Taylor runs his own museum
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Aug 29, 2026 |
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The Year that Made Me: Andrew Upton, 2025
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Aug 29, 2026 |
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Muppets in the museum
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Aug 29, 2026 |
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Why Danny Estrin is driven by 'Precious Metal'
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Aug 29, 2026 |
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Lily Shearer on evoking Country
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Aug 29, 2026 |
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Can AI improve our democracy?
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Aug 29, 2026 |
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Japan will soon test missiles in Australia, here's why
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Aug 29, 2026 |
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Syria's new economic and security landscape
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Aug 29, 2026 |
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Poetry between the written and spoken words
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Aug 22, 2026 |
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The Year that Made Me, Bharat Sundaresan, 2007
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Aug 22, 2026 |
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Pro Jank Footy: the video game love letter to our "absurd" footy culture
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Aug 22, 2026 |
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Jane Hutcheon on uncovering family history secrets
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Aug 22, 2026 |
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“If you read me, weep”: Prophetic warnings of Europe's hunger stones
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Aug 22, 2026 |
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Clinical Trial of the Year
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Aug 22, 2026 |
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Kazakhstan elects representatives to brand new parliament
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Aug 22, 2026 |
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Taiwan’s mega defence budget signals determination to head off China threat
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Aug 22, 2026 |
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Tweet of the week, 16 August 2026
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Aug 15, 2026 |
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The Year that Made Me: Anika Molesworth, 2006
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Aug 15, 2026 |
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Hazel de Berg and the birth of oral history in Australia
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Aug 15, 2026 |
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Hard as Puck: inside the hardcore world of para ice hockey
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Aug 15, 2026 |
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From ancient Rome to Nazi Germany, the remarkable history of the census
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Aug 15, 2026 |
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Iceland votes on whether on un-freeze EU membership talks
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Aug 15, 2026 |
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Could a New UN Tax Deal Raise $500 Billion a Year?
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Aug 15, 2026 |
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Viet Nam sees its diaspora as a 'strategic asset', but many Australians distrust its communist leaders
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Aug 15, 2026 |
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The Year that Made Me: Colin Barnett, 1985
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Aug 08, 2026 |
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The Sacrifice of Farinelli examines the life of superstar castrato
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Aug 08, 2026 |
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Tony Jones' new film asks if we can live without animal testing
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Aug 08, 2026 |
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The Fatal Island - Paul Toohey
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Aug 08, 2026 |
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Borderline confusing: enclaves and exclaves of the world
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Aug 08, 2026 |
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Can AI scribes ease the burden on doctors without compromising care?
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Aug 08, 2026 |
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Is Tibet in danger of cultural extinction?
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Aug 08, 2026 |
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Vale Bill Oddie: funny man, bird man
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Aug 01, 2026 |
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The Year That Made Me: Mohammed Massoud Morsi, 1967
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Aug 01, 2026 |
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The Sydney mum who's traditional cooking has gone viral
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Aug 01, 2026 |
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Parramatta: A Dictionary of Place and Memory
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Aug 01, 2026 |
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Populate or Perish: 81 years since Australia's postwar immigration drive
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Aug 01, 2026 |
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The insidious power of cults
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Aug 01, 2026 |
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Indonesia's economic downslide
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Aug 01, 2026 |
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Wanted: one diplomat with infinite patience; UN chief selection gets underway
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Aug 01, 2026 |
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Tweet of the week, 26 July 2026
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Jul 25, 2026 |
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The Year that Made Me: Craig Johnston, 1988
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Jul 25, 2026 |
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The tome that ignited a witch hunt hysteria
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Jul 25, 2026 |
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Who was Linda Goodman, America's forgotten astrology queen?
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Jul 25, 2026 |
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The Light on the Hill: 135 years of Australian Labor Party history
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Jul 25, 2026 |
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India's Cockroach Janta Party claims victory as minister resigns
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Jul 25, 2026 |
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The Year that Made Me: Alice Pung, 2006
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Jul 18, 2026 |
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From Mussolini to Beyoncé: Mary Beard talks Classics
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Jul 18, 2026 |
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Mapping the global fungi network
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Jul 18, 2026 |
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Angertainment: Ed Coper on why we are stuck in a rage loop
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Jul 18, 2026 |
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Apes and humans have been sharing a laugh for 15 million years
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Jul 18, 2026 |
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The arrest of rapper Mehdi El Youbi: Morocco cracks down on critical voices
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Jul 18, 2026 |
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John Safran on Race Around the World in the digital age
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Jul 11, 2026 |
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The Year that Made Me: S. Shakthidharan, 2008
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Jul 11, 2026 |
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Chris Cody’s jazz travels from Mountain to Sea
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Jul 11, 2026 |
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Tweet of the week, 12 July 2026
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Jul 11, 2026 |
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Coffee under threat of extinction: is this the bitter end?
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Jul 11, 2026 |
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Harnessing the therapeutic power of horses
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Jul 11, 2026 |
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Albania's Flamingo Revolution can't be ignored
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Jul 11, 2026 |
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The Year That Made Me: Jessica Mauboy, 2006
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Jul 04, 2026 |
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Who you gonna call (if aliens call first)?
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Jul 04, 2026 |
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The incredible physics behind football design
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Jul 04, 2026 |
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Marcia Langton on the "existential challenge" for Indigenous Australians
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Jul 04, 2026 |
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Meet Jordan Bardella, the 30 year old who could be France's next president
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Jul 04, 2026 |
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Fighting Food Waste in Uganda
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Jul 04, 2026 |
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Death of Strine? How the Aussie vernacular has changed
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Jun 27, 2026 |
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Mozart lovers rejoice! New compositions discovered in French library
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Jun 27, 2026 |
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The Year that Made Me: Irina Berezina, 1997
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Jun 27, 2026 |
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World-first universal basic income scheme underway in the Marshall Islands
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Jun 27, 2026 |
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Venezuela's missing oil money
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Jun 27, 2026 |
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Virgin flight credits expire on June 30: everything you need to know
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Jun 27, 2026 |
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Can science save the insects?
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Jun 20, 2026 |
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The Year that Made Me: Anna Funder, 1988
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Jun 20, 2026 |
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How scientists celebrate midwinter in Antarctica
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Jun 20, 2026 |
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Arthur Boyd's monumental tapestries
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Jun 20, 2026 |
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Colombia's first left-wing government threatened by Trump's ally "The Tiger"
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Jun 20, 2026 |
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How long will it take for Andy Burnham to become the UK's next PM?
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Jun 20, 2026 |
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Taiwan's first International Booker Prize
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Jun 13, 2026 |
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The Year That Made Me: Sophie Cape, 2010
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Jun 13, 2026 |
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Why was a fragment of Homer's Iliad inside an Egyptian mummy
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Jun 13, 2026 |
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Audio play about four teens in an Irish cemetery wins prestigious BBC Award
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Jun 13, 2026 |
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Why is bird watching so hot right now?
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Jun 13, 2026 |
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Prominient Miskito Indigenous rights activist dies of "enforced disappearance"
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Jun 13, 2026 |
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Russia and the Taliban cozy up
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Jun 13, 2026 |
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Is a 13-year-old girl being positioned as North Korea's future leader?
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Jun 13, 2026 |
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Newly discovered document sheds light on sick leave during the Black Death
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Jun 06, 2026 |
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The Year That Made Me: Chris Wilson, 1976
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Jun 06, 2026 |
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"When people ask me about the ‘situation’ in Iran"
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Jun 06, 2026 |
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Cane: the complex story of South Sea Islander history and culture
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Jun 06, 2026 |
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Film about healing after genocide wins Rwanda's first Camera d'Or
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Jun 06, 2026 |
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Communism, corruption and parental expectations: why China fails at football: why China fails at football
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Jun 06, 2026 |
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Armenia votes, but don't call it a choice between Russia and the West
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Jun 06, 2026 |
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Burmese artist Sai Redacted wins prize for creative dissent
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Jun 06, 2026 |
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The Pakistani Field Marshall Between Washington and Tehran
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May 30, 2026 |
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The Power and Punishment of Competitive Chess
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May 30, 2026 |
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Tweet of the week, 26 May 2026
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May 30, 2026 |
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The Year That Made Me: Jason Gillespie, 1995
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May 30, 2026 |
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The historians turned spies who saved Greece's treasures from the Nazis
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May 30, 2026 |
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Catching the Bigfoot Hunters
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May 30, 2026 |
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Happy home: The UK's first housing cooperative for older women
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May 30, 2026 |
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China lifts regulation on internal migration but not everyone benefits
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May 30, 2026 |
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Renewing an old theory of the New Zealand accent
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May 30, 2026 |
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The Melbournian running for parliament in Cyprus
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May 24, 2026 |
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The Nightline wants to hear your late-night thoughts
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May 23, 2026 |
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Tweet of the week, 24 May 2026
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May 23, 2026 |
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The Year That Made Me: Sheila Fitzpatrick, 1989
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May 23, 2026 |
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Rediscovering Australian fantasy novel The Land Behind The World - and its intriguing author
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May 23, 2026 |
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The library that no one alive will read
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May 23, 2026 |
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The bizarre story of Honduras-gate
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May 23, 2026 |
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Ukraine's new Minister for Defence goes all in on killer drones
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May 23, 2026 |
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Welsh Labour defeated for first time in over a century
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May 23, 2026 |
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The Year That Made Me: Warren Entsch, 1996
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May 16, 2026 |
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Fashion, art and the body in between
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May 16, 2026 |
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Sisters Under Fire: The extraordinary courage of two Australian nurses at war
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May 16, 2026 |
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Dreaming Inside: poetry by inmates and young people in the justice system
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May 16, 2026 |
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The case for being reasonable
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May 16, 2026 |
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Is this the end of the Thaksin era in Thai politics?
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May 16, 2026 |
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“Indiana Jones of the art world” recovers painting looted by Nazis
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May 16, 2026 |
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The Year That Made Me: Frances Rings, 1988
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May 09, 2026 |
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The neuroscience of awe, and why it's good for us
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May 09, 2026 |
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The seven personalities who led Australia's "era of dramatic political flux"
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May 09, 2026 |
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The history of direct action and democracy
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May 09, 2026 |
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Data breach affects 275 million students
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May 09, 2026 |
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China's influence suspected after Zambia cancels human rights conference
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May 09, 2026 |
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How One Nation triumphed in Farrer
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May 09, 2026 |
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High Court hears goat slaughter footage case with implications for press freedom
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May 09, 2026 |
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Tweet of the week, 3 May 2026
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May 02, 2026 |
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The Year That Made Me: Kon Karapanagiotidis, 2000
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May 02, 2026 |
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Translators gear up for slam event at MWF
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May 02, 2026 |
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Saplings: humour and tragedy in a play about youth social justice
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May 02, 2026 |
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Can chimpanzees at war find a path to peace?
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May 02, 2026 |
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Prepare for the sulphur shock
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May 02, 2026 |
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What does Palantir do, and who is its unusual CEO?
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May 02, 2026 |
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World Press Freedom Day
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May 02, 2026 |
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Tweet of the week, 26 April 2026
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Apr 25, 2026 |
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The Year That Made Me: Deborah Lawrie, 1979
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Apr 25, 2026 |
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The "beautiful secret" Oliver Sacks left scribbled in the margins of his library
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Apr 25, 2026 |
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Is Shaddap You Face Australia's best novelty song, or a poor ethnic stereotype?
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Apr 25, 2026 |
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Wayback Machine: The internet's archive in peril
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Apr 25, 2026 |
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Will a landmark ruling end corporate complicity in atrocity crimes?
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Apr 25, 2026 |
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Working in the Exclusion Zone 40 years after the Chernobyl disaster
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Apr 25, 2026 |
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Why some female veterans don't feel recognised on Anzac Day
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Apr 25, 2026 |
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Tweet of the week, 19 April 2026
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Apr 18, 2026 |
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The Year that Made Me: Yann Martel, 1990
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Apr 18, 2026 |
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On pedantry *or being pedantic
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Apr 18, 2026 |
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A history of typos across five centuries
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Apr 18, 2026 |
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Vasili Mitrokhin: The Spy in the KGB Archive
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Apr 18, 2026 |
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The complex web behind Frida Kahlo's most famous paintings
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Apr 18, 2026 |
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Jeff Bezos and the decline of the Washington Post
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Apr 18, 2026 |
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UAE struggling to navigate Hormuz crisis
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Apr 18, 2026 |
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Tweet of the week, 12 April 2026
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Apr 11, 2026 |
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The Year that Made Me: Omar Musa, 2023
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Apr 11, 2026 |
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'Reds under the bed' - 75 years on from the Communist Party case
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Apr 11, 2026 |
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Trust, betrayal and family - the Framing by Fernanda Dahlstrom
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Apr 11, 2026 |
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48 down: America's largest crossword puzzle tournament turns 48
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Apr 11, 2026 |
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What's in the Children’s Online Privacy Code?
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Apr 11, 2026 |
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New Gang Suppression Force arrives in Haiti
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Apr 11, 2026 |
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Canada's secularism law tested in the Supreme Court
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Apr 11, 2026 |
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Tweet of the week, 5 April 2026
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Apr 04, 2026 |
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The Year that Made Me: Archbishop Kanishka Raffel, 1986
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Apr 04, 2026 |
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Melbourne institution Snuff Puppets could be snuffed out
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Apr 04, 2026 |
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The Aussie cinema that was ranked the 30th best in the world
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Apr 04, 2026 |
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Is Viktor Orbán's rule in Hungary about to end?
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Apr 04, 2026 |
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60 years of the National Folk Festival
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Apr 04, 2026 |
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Hereditary Peers are getting the axe
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Apr 04, 2026 |
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How North Korea deploys forced labour in Russia
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Apr 04, 2026 |
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40 years of Adelaide's "Frankenstein bus-rail hybrid"
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Mar 28, 2026 |
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Tweet of the week, 29 March 2026
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Mar 28, 2026 |
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The Year that Made Me: Emily Strasser, 2009
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Mar 28, 2026 |
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Slavery and sex trafficking: uncovering the secrets of Australia's first Hollywood icon
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Mar 28, 2026 |
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The cost of living too long
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Mar 28, 2026 |
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Is it OK to drink in front of your kids?
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Mar 28, 2026 |
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Are refugees still welcome in regional Australia?
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Mar 28, 2026 |
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The growing health burden of type 5 diabetes
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Mar 28, 2026 |
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Why aren't China and Russia helping Iran?
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Mar 28, 2026 |
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What's on at the Africa Film Fest?
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Mar 21, 2026 |
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The Year that Made Me: Dr Olivia Ong, 2008
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Mar 21, 2026 |
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All aboard the Freedom Plane for America's 250th birthday
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Mar 21, 2026 |
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What would you pay to visit the Twelve Apostles?
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Mar 21, 2026 |
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Why spies still use WW1-era encrypted radio broadcasts
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Mar 21, 2026 |
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Seeking the elusive ghost elephant
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Mar 21, 2026 |
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Unpacking the Tillies v Japan Asia Cup final
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Mar 21, 2026 |
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Medicinal Cannabis no better than placebo for some mental health conditions
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Mar 21, 2026 |
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A South Australian election result with 'massive national implications'
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Mar 21, 2026 |
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The rich history of Australian artworks about Antarctica
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Mar 14, 2026 |
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The Year that Made Me: Adam Elliot, 2004
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Mar 14, 2026 |
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30 years since Port Arthur, a meditation on the aftermath returns to the stage
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Mar 14, 2026 |
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Have human emotions changed through history?
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Mar 14, 2026 |
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How the global economy is used as a weapon of war
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Mar 14, 2026 |
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Deep Impact averted by a shove in the right direction
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Mar 14, 2026 |
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Iraq's hard-won stability threatened by Iran conflict
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Mar 14, 2026 |
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Tooba Khan Sawari: A sporting chance in Australia
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Mar 14, 2026 |
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India through Indigenous eyes
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Mar 07, 2026 |
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The Year that Made Me: Deborah Cheetham Fraillon, 2023
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Mar 07, 2026 |
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Gatz is a play worth the numb backside
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Mar 07, 2026 |
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Dr. Bot - The future of AI in medicine
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Mar 07, 2026 |
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Getting deep: the fascinating infrastructure of subsea cables
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Mar 07, 2026 |
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Nepal elects rapper-turned-politician Balen Shah
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Mar 07, 2026 |
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The Pahlavi Shahs of Iran
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Mar 07, 2026 |
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The underestimated power of the chokepoint
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Mar 07, 2026 |
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Iran's Supreme Leader is dead... what happens next?
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Feb 28, 2026 |
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The Year that Made Me: Bob Brown, 1976
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Feb 28, 2026 |
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The People's Guide to the Australian Constitution
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Feb 28, 2026 |
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The award winning documentary about a fascist Italian poet
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Feb 28, 2026 |
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Preserving LGBTQIA+ history at the State Library of NSW
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Feb 28, 2026 |
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Why Václav Havel's 1978 essay is "eerily relevant today"
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Feb 28, 2026 |
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Forty years on from the fall of Ferdinand Marcos
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Feb 28, 2026 |
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Israel seeks to revive the death penalty
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Feb 28, 2026 |
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An ex-Pentagon official on US and Israel's strikes on Iran
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Feb 28, 2026 |
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Australian journalist Murray Hunter is a free man again
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Feb 21, 2026 |
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Why Myanmar removed its representative from Timor-Leste
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Feb 21, 2026 |
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The Year that Made Me: Julie Inman Grant, 1995
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Feb 21, 2026 |
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Cooking the first mushrooms sent to space
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Feb 21, 2026 |
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How one DMT trip could treat depression
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Feb 21, 2026 |
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Hillary McPhee on other people’s words - again
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Feb 21, 2026 |
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The UK chemical research facility that identified Navalny poison
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Feb 21, 2026 |
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Ian Bremmer's Puppet Regime
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Feb 21, 2026 |
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Winston Peters proposes referendum on Maori seats
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Feb 21, 2026 |
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From foreign correspondent to Uber driver
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Feb 14, 2026 |
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Tweet of the week, 15 February 2026
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Feb 14, 2026 |
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The Year that Made Me: Marianne Jauncey, 1998
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Feb 14, 2026 |
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Rivers Flow: Reflections on the songs of Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter
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Feb 14, 2026 |
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The return of The Muppet Show!
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Feb 14, 2026 |