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The History Listen is ABC Radio National’s audio time capsule. Taking listeners on a journey through different eras, places, voices,…
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By: ABC Radio National
The Signal is a current affairs podcast about what is happening, why, and how it relates to Australians in 15-minute…
By: ABC Radio
Frontier War Stories shines a light on the first 140 years of resistance from First Nations people against the colonial…
By: Boe Spearim
During the horrific fires over the 2019 and 2020 summer, Australians came to rely on the reach of the ABC…
By: Community Broadcasting Association of Australia
Nordic Noir is a crime-fiction sub-genre that has gone international. Noir Hear This is a podcast dedicated to the sub-genre,…
By: SBS
On the release of the first episode of Coronacast on 4 March 2020, Australia had 51 total cases of Covid-19;…
By: ABC
Content warning: this series includes discussions of mental illness, hospitals, and suicide. No Feeling Is Final is a complex, multi-layered…
Pill Pop takes its listeners on a road trip in an old ambulance – that’s ‘Ambu-Lance Armstrong’ – from Gumtree….
By: The Wheeler Centre
Every fortnight, Lauren and Alicia – the two women behind the mic at Deviant Women – take a different rule-breaking woman…
By: Lauren Butterworth and Alicia Carter
Actor Miranda Tapsell (Love Child, The Sapphires) and writer/actor Nakkiah Lui (Black Comedy, Kiki and Kitty) join forces to present…
By: BuzzFeed
BuzzFeed News reporters Alice Workman and Lane Sainty take the week in Australian politics and pack it into an hour(ish)…
Spun out from ABC RN’s AWAYE! programme, Word Up is a short-form podcast in the best sense – offering a single, clear thought…
By: ABC RN
The premise of 365 Days of Philosophy is elegantly simple. Every single day, philosophy teacher Kylie Sturgess transposes lesson notes and…
By: Kylie Sturgess
Game Changers: Radio is a ‘love letter to radio in the form of a podcast’. Host Craig Bruce (former Head of…
By: Bad Producer Productions
What do free comic books have to do with Don Quixote? And how about Buzz Lightyear? Jane Austen? Deadpool? Created…
By: Instituo Cervantes Sydney
Connect, Learn, Share: Life in Australia is a peer-to-peer resource for newly arrived people to Australia. From language to culture,…
By: Australian Red Cross
Is genius born or bred? That’s the question at the heart of this series, a branded podcast from industrial conglomerate General Electric…
By: General Electric (GE)
Every fortnight, the team behind Talking Indonesia interview experts about Indonesian politics, language, society and culture. Hosts Dr Dave McRae,…
By: University of Melbourne
Take a tour through the darker side of Melbourne’s history, as hosts Carly Godden and Lee Hooper dig true crime cases…
By: Carly Godden and Lee Hooper
Word for Word brings you behind the curtain of Australian word and phrases with an A-to-Z of etymology, semantics and general word…
By: Macquarie Dictionary and Pan Macmillan
Made by the Australian Writers’ Centre, this podcast covers the world of writing, publishing and blogging. It’s presented by Valerie Khoo…
By: Australian Writers' Centre
Beloved by pundits and lauded by policy wonks, veteran political journalist Michelle Grattan’s podcast for The Conversation delivers great insider…
By: The Conversation
The Australia Institute is a Canberra-based progressive think tank, and its podcast Follow the Money is intended to clarify economic issues…
By: The Australia Institute
Produced sporadically by academia-meets-journalism website The Conversation, Speaking with… is a podcast with a rotating roster of hosts introducing guests experts…
Hosted by University of Melbourne Vice-Chancellor Glyn Davis, The Policy Shop was a podcast that ran between 2016 and 2018, all…
By: The University of Melbourne
The Audiocraft podcast features recordings from the annual Audiocraft conference – a day of creative conversations with some of the…
By: Audiocraft
Ideas at the House collects live recordings from Sydney Opera House’s talks programme – including themed festivals like All About Women…
By: Sydney Opera House
Each episode of SoundMinds Radio offers an accessible, thoughtful window into the thinking that feeds academic research. Broadcast weekly, the…
By: Dallas Rogers and Michael Schubert
Produced by youth broadcaster triple j, The Hook Up is ‘all about love… and f*cking!’ How’s that for a hook? Hosted…
In Sleek Geeks, ‘Dr Karl’ Kruszelnicki and Adam Spencer ‘mix science with humour as they answer some of the perplexing scientific…
By: Karl Kruszelnicki and Adam Spencer
In this six-part series published late in 2015 by the Age and Sydney Morning Herald (seemingly a podcasting toe-in-the-water for those broadsheets), SMH science editor Nicky…
By: Fairfax Media
Radio National’s Health Report, presented by Norman Swan, aims to clarify and make accessible issues of personal and public health…
The blurb for this one really says it all: Big Ideas broadcasts recordings of ‘talks, forums, debates, and festivals held in…
Hosted by Waleed Aly and Scott Stephens, Radio National ethics podcast The Minefield invites listeners into each episode with a question:…
The Philosopher’s Zone, hosted by Joe Gelonesi, takes philosophy into much broader territory than the name might suggest – in…
RN’s Off Track is like an audio nature walk. Ann Jones leads us through the great outdoors, listening to ‘the…
Hosted by RN Breakfast’s Fran Kelly and RN Drive’s Patricia Karvelas, and produced by Jess O’Callaghan, The Party Room pulls apart…
The Wheeler Centre podcast showcases their best talks, spanning all corners of the world of books, writing and ideas. In…
Developing The Frame is a podcast for aspiring and professional photographers alike; Longform or HowSound for photos, if you like. Hear from…
By: Matt Warrell
