Braided

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Young people aren’t one-dimensional, nor are they an homogenous grouping of Gen Y or Z individuals. Braided is a podcast…

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By: Artful Dodgers Studio

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Thin Black Line

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It would be a mistake to assume that Thin Black Line – an investigative documentary into the death of 18-year-old…

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By: ABC Radio

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The Wait

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Mozhgan Moarefizadeh is stuck in Jakarta, living without the right to do many things that most Australians take for granted…

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By: The Guardian

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Wild Black Women

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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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By: 98.9fm

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The History Listen

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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

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The Signal

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The Signal is a current affairs podcast about what is happening, why, and how it relates to Australians in 15-minute…

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By: ABC Radio

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How Do You Sleep At Night?

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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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By: ABC

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Routines & Ruts

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Routines & Ruts is an interview-based podcast by Madeleine Dore that provides listeners with insights into how other people structure…

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By: Madeleine Dore

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Heckin’ Concerned

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

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By: Lipp Media

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Radio National Fictions

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Radio National Fictions is the ABC’s latest home for creative audio fiction.  This podcast opens up a space outside of…

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By: ABC Radio National

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Frontier War Stories

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Frontier War Stories shines a light on the first 140 years of resistance from First Nations people against the colonial…

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By: Boe Spearim

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SHADES

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SHADES is a podcast exploring socio-political issues via Australian hip-hop music produced by Indigenous, Black and diverse artists. Producer Beź…

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By: Beź Zewdie

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Slaughterhouse Road

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Slaughterhouse Road is an entertaining and innovative work of audio fiction with an unusual format. It’s described by its creator,…

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By: Jessica Hamilton

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Women on the Line

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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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By: 3CR

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Blacademia

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

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By: Amy Thunig

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From the Embers

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During the horrific fires over the 2019 and 2020 summer, Australians came to rely on the reach of the ABC…

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By: Community Broadcasting Association of Australia

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Extraordinary Voices for Extraordinary Times

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Poets Ellen van Neerven and Omar Sakr alternate monthly hosting duties in this podcast that mixes dialogue with poetry readings….

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By: UQP

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Black Magic Woman

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Hosted by Mundanara Bayles, Black Magic Woman is a conversational podcast featuring First Nations guests and highlighting the stories, diversity…

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By: Mundanara Bayles

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Birds Eye View

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners please be advised that episodes may contain the voices of people who have passed. …

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By: Story Projects

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Noir Hear This

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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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By: SBS

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Coronacast

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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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By: ABC

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Days Like These

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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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By: ABC

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No Feeling is Final

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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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By: ABC

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Supercast

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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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By: Assemble Papers and RMIT Design Hub

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Breathless

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Breathless is hosted by Guardian contributors Taylor Fuller and Miles Herbert, who provide in-depth and investigative reporting into David Dungay…

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By: Guardian Australia

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transomatics

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transomatics is an embodied practice created by Sumarlinah Winoto for the trans and gender diverse community to help deal with…

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By: Sumarlinah Winoto

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Don’t Look Back

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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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By: ABC / double j / triple j

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Pill Pop

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

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By: The Wheeler Centre

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Ladies, We Need To Talk

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What are the questions that make you blush? The things you only think about alone, in the middle of the…

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By: ABC Audio Studios

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Bittersweet Podcast

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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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By: Wintana Kidane and Rahel Davies

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Oh My Dog

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Oh My Dog is created by Michelle Ransom-Hughes – the longest-serving producer of ABC Radio’s flagship podcast, Conversations. She brings…

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By: Alongside Radio

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Constellations

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Constellations is an ambitious, unusual project built around highly original sound works from a community of international artists – with…

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By: Constellations

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Full Story

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Full Story marks Guardian Australia’s entry into the news podcast fray. Released almost daily, Full Story breaks complex issues and ideas…

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By: The Guardian Australia

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7am

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7am is a daily narrative news briefing that is sharp and accessible with a clean, slick audio design. Each morning…

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By: Schwartz Media

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Search Engine Sex

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Search Engine Sex is Australia’s first Spotify Original podcast. In its first episode – published June 2020 – presenter and…

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By: Spotify Australia

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Brain on Nature

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In 2015 a bicycle accident left Sarah Allely unable to read, write, watch TV or listen to podcasts. Nature was…

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By: Sarah Allely

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Deviant Women

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Every fortnight, Lauren and Alicia – the two women behind the mic at Deviant Women – take a different rule-breaking woman…

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By: Lauren Butterworth and Alicia Carter

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fauna

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The relationships animals have with humans are rarely more complicated and intense than they are at the zoo. We try…

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By: Zoos Victoria

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Unravel

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Crime podcasts are at their best when they reach past the grim details and gore of murder, and investigate something…

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By: ABC Audio Studios

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Sum of All Parts

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Maths and numbers aren’t your thing? Have a listen to Sum of All Parts and think again. Producer Joel Werner…

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By: ABC RN

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Love and Luck

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Told through voicemails, this audio drama is set in present-day Melbourne, and gives you tiny glimpses into the growing romance…

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By: Erin Kyan and Lee Davis-Thalbourne

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People Movers

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

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By: Lindsey Green

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Trace

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ABC investigative reporter Rachael Brown revisits the unsolved murder of Maria James, found stabbed to death at the back of…

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By: ABC

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Pretty for an Aboriginal

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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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By: BuzzFeed

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Is it On?

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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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By: BuzzFeed

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The Messenger

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The Messenger is expertly crafted, and powerful storytelling. A podcast collaboration between Behind the Wire and the Wheeler Centre, the ten-part…

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By: The Wheeler Centre and Behind the Wire

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Word Up

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Spun out from ABC RN’s AWAYE! programme, Word Up is a short-form podcast in the best sense – offering a single, clear thought…

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By: ABC RN

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365 Days of Philosophy

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The premise of 365 Days of Philosophy is elegantly simple. Every single day, philosophy teacher Kylie Sturgess transposes lesson notes and…

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By: Kylie Sturgess

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Starving Artist

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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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By: Honor Eastly

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Game Changers: Radio

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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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By: Bad Producer Productions

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The Garret

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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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By: State Library of Victoria, Swinburne University, Writers Victoria and Readings

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The Weekly Planet

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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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By: Planet Broadcasting

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2 Quixotes

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What do free comic books have to do with Don Quixote? And how about Buzz Lightyear? Jane Austen? Deadpool? Created…

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By: Instituo Cervantes Sydney

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Connect Learn Share: Life in Australia

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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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By: Australian Red Cross

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Decoding Genius

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Is genius born or bred? That’s the question at the heart of this series, a branded podcast from industrial conglomerate General Electric…

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By: General Electric (GE)

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Change Agents

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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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By: The Conversation and Swinburne University

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Just Words

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Just Words is a seven-part series by Sydney community radio station 2SER 107.3FM. Its focus: to present an in-depth exploration of…

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By: 2SER

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Talking Indonesia

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

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By: University of Melbourne

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Three Feet Away

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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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By: The Australian

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This Kid Life

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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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By: Sydney Opera House

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Background Briefing

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RN’s Background Briefing is a rarity in Australian investigative journalism. Podcast (and broadcast) weekly, the programme does current affairs in depth. Airing weekly…

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By: ABC Radio National

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Dead and Buried

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Take a tour through the darker side of Melbourne’s history, as hosts Carly Godden and Lee Hooper dig true crime cases…

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By: Carly Godden and Lee Hooper

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Being Honest With My Ex

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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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By: Honor Eastly and Peter C. Hayward

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Hey Fam

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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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By: Andrew Levins and Angus Truskett

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The Love Letters Podcast

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Described as ‘an experimental podcast of little bundles of love’, each episode of this podcast contains one letter read aloud…

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By: Liz Duck-Chong

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Save The Date

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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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By: Rhys Nicholson and Kyran Wheatley

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Contact Mic

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Contact Mic is a monthly exploration of  ‘moments of change, indecision and contact’. Each half-hour episode opens with ‘This Month In…

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By: Fleur Kilpatrick, Sarah Walker and Kieran Ruffles

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Sisteria

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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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By: Stephanie Van Schilt, Veronica Sullivan and Izzy Roberts-Orr

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Word for Word

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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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By: Macquarie Dictionary and Pan Macmillan

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So You Want to Be a Writer

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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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By: Australian Writers' Centre

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Classic Flow

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Classic Flow pairs guided yoga and meditation practise with a bespoke classical music playlist. The podcast is produced by Ramona…

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By: ABC Classic 2

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Can U Not?

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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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By: Brodie Lancaster and Kamna Muddagouni

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Politics with Michelle Grattan

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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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By: The Conversation

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Follow the Money

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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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By: The Australia Institute

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Speaking With…

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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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By: The Conversation

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Casefile

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Casefile is a popular true crime podcast with a mystery of its own – its host remains staunchly anonymous. Through…

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By: Casefile

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The Policy Shop

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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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By: The University of Melbourne

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Science Vs

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Science Vs debuted as a series for ABC First Run, based in Sydney, before being adopted by Gimlet Media and moving…

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By: ABC First Run (S1)/Gimlet Media (S2)

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National Features and Documentaries Series

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The National Features and Documentary Series is an annual collection of ten half-hour features and documentaries coming from Australia’s uniquely vast…

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By: Community Broadcasting Association of Australia

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Her Game

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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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By: Bethany Atkinson-Quinton

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