Podcasts
30 April 2019
Election 2019 | The central goals of housing policy have been lost in debates about tax breaks for landlords
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15 April 2019
Australia’s last big healthcare reform was in the 1970s. As the election campaign gets under way, two analysts discuss urgently needed changes with Peter Clarke
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31 December 2018
A decade after her first interview with Inside Story, writer and media analyst Margaret Simons talks to Peter Clarke about ten years of change, and…
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18 March 2018
Two political insurgencies — in Batman and in South Australia — failed to live up to expectations this weekend. Peter Clarke talks to political scientist Rob …
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24 November 2016
Peter Clarke talks to Bio21 researcher Chris Armstrong about new research that challenges popular views of this enigmatic illness
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22 October 2016
Can evolution be used to control the spread of cane toads? In this 2005 interview, biologist Rick Shine reports from the field
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12 October 2016
Inside Language | Streams, brooks, creeks, rivulets – they’re not quite the same thing, are they?
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28 September 2016
Inside Language | Kate Burridge and Peter Clarke discuss how and why we turn nouns into verbs into adjectives
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14 September 2016
Inside Language | The little dot with the tail – where did it come from and where is it going? Peter Clarke talks to linguist Kate Burridge
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25 July 2016
Inside Language | Peter Clarke and Kate Burridge look at those persistent expressions that reflect dead and dying attitudes
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24 June 2016
Inside Language | Why does the perpendicular pronoun cause us so much trouble? Peter Clarke talks to linguist Kate Burridge
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5 May 2016
Donald Trump has vanquished his rivals and Hillary Clinton seems set for the nomination. Political scientist Simon Jackman talks to Peter Clarke about what happens next
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8 April 2016
Inside Language | It’s long been one of the sharper words in the language, but does it still pack a punch? Kate Burridge talks to Peter Clarke
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28 March 2016
Inside Language | A surprising number of English words have completely different meanings in different contexts. Linguist Kate Burridge discusses why with Peter Clarke
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12 February 2016
Inside Language | Disinterested or uninterested? Honing in or homing in? Kate Burridge and Peter Clarke look at the shades of meaning that might have had their day
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5 February 2016
Inside Language | Following the release of the people’s choice for Word of the Year, Kate Burridge and Peter Clarke look at the words that came on…
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17 January 2016
Inside Language | Is swearing losing its cathartic effect? Kate Burridge talks to Peter Clarke about taboo words
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8 January 2016
Inside Language | Linguist Kate Burridge talks to Peter Clarke about how a jolly old time became the province of fraudsters and other dubious characters
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7 January 2016
Inside Language | In the first in a new podcast series, linguist Kate Burridge talks to Peter Clarke about how we merge and lose sounds in spoken…
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18 December 2015
In the wake of the Ian Macfarlane affair, Peter Clarke talks to Brian Costar about Barnaby Joyce, Malcolm Turnbull and the balancing act that keeps the Coalition afloat
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5 November 2015
Jane Goodall and Stephen Mills join Peter Clarke to take the temperature of the political interview
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29 March 2015
The Coalition has won a convincing victory in New South Wales. Stephen Mills talks to Peter Clarke about the result and its implications
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23 March 2015
Down to the wire? In this fifteen-minute podcast, Peter Clarke talks to psephologist Peter Brent about this Saturday’s NSW election and the federal…
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1 February 2015
As the count continues on the day after the election, Inside Story’s election analyst Brian Costar talks to Peter Clarke about a remarkable result and its national repercussions
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22 January 2015
The Coalition lost in Victoria and looks like doing less well than expected in Queensland and New South Wales. Peter Clarke discusses why, and what it says about the…
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16 May 2014
Senate voting needs to be simpler and more transparent. Brian Costar talks to Peter Clarke about a plan to fix the system, and looks at the politics of the federal budget
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27 September 2013
Peter Clarke talks to Brian Costar about why Cathy McGowan is likely to serve more than one term, why the Electoral Commission is under attack, and who should lead the Labor Party
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20 August 2013
Peter Clarke talks to Fact Check presenter John Barron about the ABC’s newest project
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9 July 2013
From the Radio National archive, Terry Lane talks to Labor senator Jacinta Collins
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2 July 2013
With a federal election looming, Peter Clarke talks to the director of ABC News, Kate Torney, about the challenges facing the corporation’s news-gatherers