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Time to rethink the Great Australian Dream
Peter Clarke, Wendy Stone and Peter Mares
30 April 2019
Election 2019
| The central goals of housing policy have been lost in debates about tax breaks for landlords
Podcasts
In Melbourne, progress on chronic fatigue
Peter Clarke
24 November 2016
Peter Clarke
talks to Bio21 researcher
Chris Armstrong
about new research that challenges popular views of this enigmatic illness
Podcasts
Me, myself and I
Kate Burridge & Peter Clarke
24 June 2016
Inside Language
| Why does the perpendicular pronoun cause us so much trouble?
Peter Clarke
talks to linguist
Kate Burridge
Podcasts
Untangling nots
Kate Burridge & Peter Clarke
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
Podcasts
The contronym conundrum
Kate Burridge & Peter Clarke
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
Podcasts
Colliding words
Kate Burridge & Peter Clarke
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
Podcasts
Popular pick
Kate Burridge & Peter Clarke
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…
Podcasts
Bad language
Kate Burridge & Peter Clarke
17 January 2016
Inside Language
| Is swearing losing its cathartic effect?
Kate Burridge
talks to
Peter Clarke
about taboo words
Podcasts
On the slippery slope with rorters and fraudsters
Kate Burridge & Peter Clarke
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
Podcasts
Benedict Cumberbatch and the art of distance assimilation
Kate Burridge & Peter Clarke
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…
Podcasts
For better or worse
Peter Clarke
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
Podcasts
Spin control
Peter Clarke
5 November 2015
Jane Goodall
and
Stephen Mills
join
Peter Clarke
to take the temperature of the political interview
Podcasts
Coalition still ahead in New South Wales, still behind in Canberra
Peter Clarke
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…
Podcasts
Three elections and a hypothesis
Peter Clarke
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…
Podcasts
Fixing the Senate
Peter Clarke
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
Podcasts
Independent in Indi: what happens now? (And why the Electoral Commission is suddenly under attack)
Brian Costar & Peter Clarke
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
Podcasts
The facts are the story
Peter Clarke
20 August 2013
Peter Clarke
talks to Fact Check presenter
John Barron
about the ABC’s newest project
Podcasts
Making the news
Peter Clarke
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
Podcasts
Kerry Packer: the interview
Terry Lane
5 September 2012
In this 1978 interview, Packer provides a rare insight into his childhood and the influence of his father
Podcasts
Paywalls: the good news and the gamble
Peter Clarke
2 November 2011
The
Australian
’s online paywall is up and running. The
New York Times
has announced strong subscriber figures.
Peter Clarke
discusses the prospects…
Podcasts
The fourth estate under scrutiny
Peter Clarke
11 October 2011
Peter Clarke
talks to
Margaret Simons
and
Tim Dunlop
about the federal government’s media inquiry and the fallout from the judgement in the Andrew Bolt case
Podcasts
“I needed to know all about them. And, more than that, I needed to write about them”
Peter Clarke
23 December 2010
Brian McFarlane
talks to
Peter Clarke
about a lifetime at the movies
Podcasts
Getting off the bus
Peter Clarke
16 September 2010
Neither the major parties nor the media coped well with the seventeen days of uncertainty after the election.
Peter Clarke
talks to
Sophie Black
and
Brian
…
National affairs
Rob Oakeshott: Why I became an independent
Terry Lane
25 August 2010
In this interview with
Terry Lane
, first broadcast in 2002, the newly independent MP discusses why he joined the Nationals, and why he left
Podcasts
“If you can reach that point of almost nonchalance in playing, that’s a different level of creativity again”
Peter Clarke
30 June 2010
John Bell
talks to
Peter Clarke
about acting, King Lear and the Bell Shakespeare Company
Podcasts
Digging up a scandal
Peter Clarke
18 June 2010
The story of how two journalists unearthed the Securency scandal shows what would be lost if newspapers stop funding investigative journalism. They talked to
Peter Clarke
Podcasts
“It’s good to be back”
Peter Clarke
28 April 2010
Barack Obama has gone onto the front foot, but did he leave it too late? Political historian
David Farber
discusses the post–healthcare reform prospects with
Peter Clarke
Podcasts
The subtle art of collaboration
Margaret Simons & Peter Clarke
14 April 2010
Margaret Simons
(pictured) talks to
Peter Clarke
about a challenging co-writing project, the political memoirs of Malcolm Fraser
Podcasts
Great expectations
Peter Clarke
2 December 2009
Chrissy Sharp
and
Michael Williams
talk to
Peter Clarke
about Melbourne’s new literary hub, the Wheeler Centre
Podcasts
Authenticity and the ABC
Peter Clarke
16 November 2009
Six months into the job, the ABC’s director of news,
Kate Torney
, talks to
Peter Clarke
about where the national broadcaster is headed
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