Podcasts
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
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
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
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
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
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
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