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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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By: FBi Radio
On International Podcast Day, ABC Radio celebrated ‘all things pod’ with its inaugural podcast industry conference, held at ABC Ultimo…
By: ABC Radio
The Audiocraft podcast features recordings from the annual Audiocraft conference – a day of creative conversations with some of the…
By: Audiocraft
SPUN is a live storytelling event based in Darwin that takes place roughly four times a year. It’s very much in…
By: StoryProjects
Deadly Voices from the House host Rhoda Roberts invites Aboriginal and First Nations leaders from diverse pockets of arts and culture (including…
By: Sydney Opera House
Ideas at the House collects live recordings from Sydney Opera House’s talks programme – including themed festivals like All About Women…
Dear Reader features bubbly, animated conversations about books from people who ought to know – two librarians (plus guests). Hosts…
By: Melbourne Library Service
Penmanship was a podcast featuring long interviews with Australian writers of all varieties, hosted by Brisbane-based journalist Andrew McMillen. Published…
By: Andrew McMillen
‘Yassmin Abdel-Magied has a secret love. She dreams of an alternative life in one of the world’s richest, whitest and…
By: ABC
Phoebe’s Fall is Melbourne daily newspaper the Age‘s answer to Serial, if you like – a six-part true crime audio series centred on…
By: Fairfax Media
Peter Taggart and Rebecca Shaw present this intermittent but well-liked podcast, often recorded live, in which they present their funny, rambling…
By: Peter Taggart and Rebecca Shaw
Go behind the scenes at the Guardian Australia newsroom, where hosts Bridie Jabour and Miles Martignoni discuss news stories with the journalists who…
By: Guardian Australia
Curtain is a true crime podcast hosted by Amy McQuire and Martin Hodgson, and it very much borrows from the Serial…
By: BIMA Projects
Two of the Guardian Australia‘s senior staffers, political editor Katharine Murphy and editor Lenore Taylor, discuss and decode comings and goings of Australian…
Long Story Short was a short series produced for ABC Radio National in 2013 with the aim of ‘showcasing real life Australian…
By: ABC Radio National
Hosted by Sarah L’Estrange for ABC Radio National, Animal People is a short series that delves into the complex relationships between…
Kinderling is a streaming radio network for kids and parents, and Kinderling Conversation is its podcast – essentially a podcast of…
By: Kinderling
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
Stop the Posts (‘stop the boats‘, geddit?) is a weekly news discussion from two Sydney-based comedians – James Colley and Nick Fischer…
By: James Colley and Nick Fischer
Guardian staff come together to discuss issues of ‘race, culture, sex, gender, and identity’ in the news. Yes, you’ll hear some…
By: The Guardian
Based out of Melbourne and presented by Tommy Dassalo and Karl Chandler, The Little Dum Dum Club is one of…
By: Tommy Dassalo and Karl Chandler
Produced by youth broadcaster triple j, The Hook Up is ‘all about love… and f*cking!’ How’s that for a hook? Hosted…
Hosted by comedian Nazeem Hussain, the ABC Radio podcast Burn Your Passport describes itself as the ‘anti-travel’ podcast, designed to convince you…
By: ABC Radio Comedy
The Outer Sanctum is a place for stories about Australian Rules football – told by an all-female team of passionate footy fans not often…
By: Emma Race, Kate Seear, Nicole Hayes, Alicia Sometimes, Lucy Race and Felicity Race
Token Skeptic takes a skeptic’s look at current affairs, ‘urban legends, good science, pseudoscience and what makes popular culture pop’….
By: Kylie Sturgess
Hack is a daily current affairs program produced by ABC’s youth radio network Triple j. Hosted by Tom Tilley, Hack covers a vast…
By Association is a podcast about football – not wonky ball Australian Rules football, but the round balled kind played…
By: James Parkinson
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…
By: Hit Network
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
Each season of SBS True Stories explores a different theme. From high school survival tales to true stories of untold Australia, this podcast features…
By: Special Broadcasting Service
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…
Presented by Daniel Browning, a Bundjalung and Kullilli man, AWAYE! tells stories about Aboriginal arts and culture from across Australia – as…
Late Night Live is one of ABC Radio National’s most popular podcasts – and the home of some of its…
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…
The Law Report tries to make legal matters accessible and listenable through ‘informative, jargon-free stories about law reform, legal education, test…
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…
The Body Sphere is all about … you guessed it. It’s radio that gets physical, delving into the many ways…
All in The Mind explores all things mental. It’s about the brain and behaviour, and the fascinating connections between them. In each…
