Wild Black Women

Wild Black Women is a radio-show style podcast that critically reflects on current affairs. Hosted by Chelsea Bond and Angelina…

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How Do You Sleep At Night?

How Do You Sleep At Night? is a six-part documentary series about people deemed ‘bad’ by society. Far from casting…

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Heckin’ Concerned

In Heckin’ Concerned, charismatic host and member of the South Asian diaspora, Amruta Nargundkar helps listeners make sense of the…

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Women on the Line

Women on the Line is a national current-affairs program with an intersectional feminist lens, broadcast out of 3CR in Melbourne. …

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Blacademia

Blacademia is a celebration of First Nations excellence in academia. Each episode, hosted by Gamilaroi woman and Macquarie University PhD…

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Noir Hear This

Nordic Noir is a crime-fiction sub-genre that has gone international. Noir Hear This is a podcast dedicated to the sub-genre,…

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Coronacast

On the release of the first episode of Coronacast on 4 March 2020, Australia had 51 total cases of Covid-19;…

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Days Like These

Listening to Days Like These feels like meeting someone for the first time, but conversing as if you’re long-lost friends…

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No Feeling is Final

Content warning: this series includes discussions of mental illness, hospitals, and suicide. No Feeling Is Final is a complex, multi-layered…

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Supercast

Supercast is a podcast about sound, space and listening in the contemporary world. Across four 20-minute episodes, Supercast brings together…

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Don’t Look Back

Don’t Look Back is a treasure trove of stories from Australian personalities, musicians, writers and celebrities. In each episode, Caz…

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Pill Pop

Pill Pop takes its listeners on a road trip in an old ambulance – that’s ‘Ambu-Lance Armstrong’ – from Gumtree….

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Bittersweet Podcast

In Bittersweet Podcast, two African-Australian storytellers, and friends, share their opinions and life experiences. Wintana Kidane and Rahel Davies bring…

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People Movers

You might use one everyday, but have you ever given much thought to escalators? Lindsay Green has. In People Movers,…

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Pretty for an Aboriginal

Actor Miranda Tapsell (Love Child, The Sapphires) and writer/actor Nakkiah Lui (Black Comedy, Kiki and Kitty) join forces to present…

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Is it On?

BuzzFeed News reporters Alice Workman and Lane Sainty take the week in Australian politics and pack it into an hour(ish)…

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Starving Artist

Starving Artist is Honor Eastly’s exploration of ‘art, money and how to make it work’. In it, she speaks to people…

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Game Changers: Radio

Game Changers: Radio is a ‘love letter to radio in the form of a podcast’. Host Craig Bruce (former Head of…

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The Garret

The Garret is a literary podcast ‘by writers, for writers, about writers’. Each episode (released about every week, seasonally) features a…

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The Weekly Planet

The Weekly Planet is a high-energy wrap-up of film and TV news and reviews, with a particular focus on comic book…

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Connect Learn Share: Life in Australia

Connect, Learn, Share: Life in Australia is a peer-to-peer resource for newly arrived people to Australia. From language to culture,…

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Change Agents

The Conversation, a website that brings academic commentary and research to a general audience, launched into the podscape (in cahoots with Swinburne…

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Talking Indonesia

Every fortnight, the team behind Talking Indonesia interview experts about Indonesian politics, language, society and culture. Hosts Dr Dave McRae,…

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Three Feet Away

Produced by Eric George and for the Australian, where they both work as journalists, Three Feet Away is the only local podcast –…

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This Kid Life

This Kid Life, from the Sydney Opera House, is a podcast series for kids. What do they know? Do they know things?…

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Being Honest With My Ex

Cheating, resentments, broken penises – there isn’t much Honor Eastly and Peter C. Hayward won’t talk about in Being Honest With My…

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Hey Fam

Hosted by friends Andrew Levins and Angus Truskett, Hey Fam is a weekly podcast covering the ‘finer things in life’ – movies, video…

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Save The Date

Save The Date is a funny and sometimes heartrending conversation between two Australian men who want to marry each other – but can’t….

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Sisteria

Sisteria is a friendly, conversational show about ‘women’s experiences as creators and consumers of arts and culture’. Co-host Stephanie Van Schilt…

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Word for Word

Word for Word brings you behind the curtain of Australian word and phrases with an A-to-Z of etymology, semantics and general word…

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So You Want to Be a Writer

Made by the Australian Writers’ Centre, this podcast covers the world of writing, publishing and blogging. It’s presented by Valerie Khoo…

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Can U Not?

Melbourne-based writer/editor Brodie Lancaster and lawyer/writer Kamna Muddagouni come together to make Can U Not? – a podcast delivering intelligent commentary and feminist…

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Politics with Michelle Grattan

Beloved by pundits and lauded by policy wonks, veteran political journalist Michelle Grattan’s podcast for The Conversation delivers great insider…

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Follow the Money

The Australia Institute is a Canberra-based progressive think tank, and its podcast Follow the Money is intended to clarify economic issues…

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Speaking With…

Produced sporadically by academia-meets-journalism website The Conversation, Speaking with… is a podcast with a rotating roster of hosts introducing guests experts…

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The Policy Shop

Hosted by University of Melbourne Vice-Chancellor Glyn Davis, The Policy Shop was a podcast that ran between 2016 and 2018, all…

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Her Game

Her Game explores how people experience their gender in the traditionally hyper-masculine world of Australian Rules football. Created in 2015, the…

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Backchat

Backchat is FBi Radio’s ‘alternative to talkback’. Hosted by Osman Faruqi and Heidi Pett, the show delivers weekly news as well informed and approachable…

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OzPod 2016: Australian Podcast Conference

On International Podcast Day, ABC Radio celebrated ‘all things pod’ with its inaugural podcast industry conference, held at ABC Ultimo…

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Audiocraft Podcast

The Audiocraft podcast features recordings from the annual Audiocraft conference – a day of creative conversations with some of the…

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Deadly Voices from the House

Deadly Voices from the House host Rhoda Roberts invites Aboriginal and First Nations leaders from diverse pockets of arts and culture (including…

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Ideas at the House

Ideas at the House collects live recordings from Sydney Opera House’s talks programme – including themed festivals like All About Women…

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Dear Reader

Dear Reader features bubbly, animated conversations about books from people who ought to know – two librarians (plus guests). Hosts…

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Penmanship

Penmanship was a podcast featuring long interviews with Australian writers of all varieties, hosted by Brisbane-based journalist Andrew McMillen. Published…

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Motor Mouth

‘Yassmin Abdel-Magied has a secret love. She dreams of an alternative life in one of the world’s richest, whitest and…

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Behind the Lines

Go behind the scenes at the Guardian Australia newsroom, where hosts Bridie Jabour and Miles Martignoni discuss news stories with the journalists who…

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Australian Politics Live

Two of the Guardian Australia‘s senior staffers, political editor Katharine Murphy and editor Lenore Taylor, discuss and decode comings and goings of Australian…

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Kinderling Conversation

Kinderling is a streaming radio network for kids and parents, and Kinderling Conversation is its podcast – essentially a podcast of…

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Token

Guardian staff come together to discuss issues of ‘race, culture, sex, gender, and identity’ in the news. Yes, you’ll hear some…

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The Little Dum Dum Club

Based out of Melbourne and presented by Tommy Dassalo and Karl Chandler, The Little Dum Dum Club is one of…

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The Hook Up

Produced by youth broadcaster triple j, The Hook Up is ‘all about love… and f*cking!’ How’s that for a hook? Hosted…

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Burn Your Passport

Hosted by comedian Nazeem Hussain, the ABC Radio podcast Burn Your Passport describes itself as the ‘anti-travel’ podcast, designed to convince you…

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The Outer Sanctum

The Outer Sanctum is a place for stories about Australian Rules football – told by an all-female team of passionate footy fans not often…

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Token Skeptic

Token Skeptic takes a skeptic’s look at current affairs, ‘urban legends, good science, pseudoscience and what makes popular culture pop’….

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Hack

Hack is a daily current affairs program produced by ABC’s youth radio network Triple j. Hosted by Tom Tilley, Hack covers a vast…

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By Association

By Association is a podcast about football – not wonky ball Australian Rules football, but the round balled kind played…

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Hamish & Andy

Hamish & Andy is the hugely popular podcast of Australian commercial radio kings Hamish Blake and Andy Lee. The pair have been broadcasting together for years – and it…

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AWAYE!

Presented by Daniel Browning, a Bundjalung and Kullilli man, AWAYE! tells stories about Aboriginal arts and culture from across Australia – as…

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Late Night Live

Late Night Live is one of ABC Radio National’s most popular podcasts – and the home of some of its…

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Big Ideas

The blurb for this one really says it all: Big Ideas broadcasts recordings of ‘talks, forums, debates, and festivals held in…

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The Minefield

Hosted by Waleed Aly and Scott Stephens, Radio National ethics podcast The Minefield invites listeners into each episode with a question:…

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The Philosopher’s Zone

The Philosopher’s Zone, hosted by Joe Gelonesi, takes philosophy into much broader territory than the name might suggest – in…

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The Body Sphere

The Body Sphere is all about … you guessed it. It’s radio that gets physical, delving into the many ways…

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All in The Mind

All in The Mind explores all things mental. It’s about the brain and behaviour, and the fascinating connections between them. In each…

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The Dumbo Feather Podcast

The Dumbo Feather Podcast features conversations with extraordinary people. Mostly recordings from their live conversation events, Dumbo Feather‘s guests are often compelling…

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Download This Show

Sydneysider Marc Fennell hosts Download this Show, a podcast about technology, social media, gadgets and digital culture. Expect stories about…

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Conversations

Conversations draws you deeper into the life story of someone you may have heard about, but never met. It’s longform…

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BooksPlus

Presented by Sydney-based Kate Evans, BooksPlus offers a weekly sampling of the best stories and interviews related to books and writing…

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Blueprint For Living

Blueprint for Living, hosted by Jonathan Green, is ABC Radio National’s ‘weekly rummage through the essential cultural ingredients – design,…

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Like I’m A Six Year Old

Like I’m A Six Year Old is a (mostly) weekly podcast where Australian comedian Tom Ballard interviews ‘interesting and passionate…

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Ingredipedia

This ‘factual food fight’ podcast records conversations between co-hosts Ben Birchall and Emily Naismith, both of whom are Melbourne-based writers…

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Mamamia Out Loud

Mamamia’s senior writers and editors record weekly conversations that cover news, pop culture, fashion, politics, parenting and more – in a chatty,…

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being Hungry

Lee Tran Lam’s Sydney-made, Sydney-focussed food podcast is a study in picking a thing and going deep with it. Each conversation…

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Wilosophy

Wil Anderson’s Wilosophy is an irregular, monthly-ish podcast in which the comedian chats one-on-one with a guest (often from the Australian media),…

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The Party Room

Hosted by RN Breakfast’s Fran Kelly and RN Drive’s Patricia Karvelas, and produced by Jess O’Callaghan, The Party Room pulls apart…

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Chat 10 Looks 3

Chat 10 Looks 3 is a podcast in which prominent Australian political reporters Annabel Crabb and Leigh Sales talk about…

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Love, Canberra

Love, Canberra features intimate conversations about love, sex and relationships. Independent podcaster Evana Ho brings a unique combination of gentle curiosity and a bold interviewing style to uncovering…

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Private Parts

Private Parts is a podcast that unfastens social taboos. A collaboration between digital designers Irit Pollak and Elin Andersson, this podcast isn’t…

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The Wheeler Centre

The Wheeler Centre podcast showcases their best talks, spanning all corners of the world of books, writing and ideas. In…

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Short & Curly

Short & Curly is a fast-paced fun-filled ethics podcast for kids and their parents, with questions and ideas to really get you thinking. It asks curly questions like about animals, technology, school, pop culture and the future.

Australian Design Radio

Australian Design Radio (ADR) is a Sydney based podcast hosted by Flyn Tracy and Matt Leach. It features conversations and commentary…

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The Rereaders

The Rereaders is a fortnightly literary and cultural podcast. Modelled on the Slate Culture Gabfest, the show’s regular hosts (writers and…

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Kill Your Darlings Podcast

Kill Your Darlings is one of Australia’s foremost independent literary journals, and its occasional podcast – hosted by Meaghan Dew –…

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The Silent Majority Podcast

The Silent Majority podcast covers Australian politics, news, gossip, pop culture and more. Hosted by Canberra-based politics reporters Alice Workman…

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Developing the Frame

Developing The Frame is a podcast for aspiring and professional photographers alike; Longform or HowSound for photos, if you like. Hear from…

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