Trial by Water is an investigative podcast series about Robert Farquharson, who has been locked up for decades for an unthinkable crime: murdering his three sons in a dam on Father’s Day, 2005. Now scientists and lawyers are asking the question: did we get it wrong? And is this man in prison for a crime he didn’t commit?
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The Morning Edition (formerly Please Explain) brings you the story behind the story with the best journalists in Australia. Join host Samantha Selinger-Morris from the newsrooms of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, weekdays from 5am.
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Take a journey into the dark depths of the Australian criminal underworld with Australia’s most formidable crime reporter - John Silvester. https://www.theage.com.au/topic/naked-city-jbi #crime #truecrime #police #news
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Good Weekend Talks features in-depth conversations with the people fascinating Australians right now, from sport to politics to the arts, business and beyond, interviewed weekly by the country's top journalists. Consider it a magazine for your ears.
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The best footy writers from The Age and SMH bring you the weekly lowdown on all things AFL. If you like the pod, please take the time to rate & review us on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your pods. We love to hear from you and it makes it easier for the rest of the podcast world to find us. And, why not become a subscriber? Our supporters power our newsrooms and are critical for the sustainability of news coverage. Becoming a subscriber also gets you exclusive behind-the-scenes content ...
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A major investigation by The Age newsroom in Melbourne, Australia, into the death of Phoebe Handsjuk, who was found at the bottom of a garbage chute in a luxury apartment building.
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Wrong Skin: a relationship banned under traditional law. An investigation into an unsolved suspicious death and a missing person in the Australian outback.
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Fun, funny and wise: Flight of Fancy with Ben Groundwater is an exploration of all things travel, for those with a thirst for seeing the world.
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From the top TV critics at The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, an entertaining and informative weekly podcast about the shows you need to be watching - and the ones to skip.
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Let's Talk About Sects is an award-winning monthly podcast focusing on a different cult each episode. Sarah takes a storytelling, deep dive approach, looking at the history of a sect's leaders, the recruitment of members, their experiences, psychological aspects, and notable incidents during its existence. You can support us on Patreon, with a one-off donation, or grab some merch. Sarah Steel's debut book Do As I Say is available now. “A fascinating and well-researched look into cults and th ...
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A show about the stuff you buy and whether it's a good deal. From discount wine to mattresses and fast fashion, we take a deeper look at consumer affairs. Hosted by Ebony Bowden, Liam Mannix and Bhakthi Puvanenthiran.
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Bondi Badlands, a podcast from The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, investigates a series of murders and mysterious disappearances of gay men that happened on the southern headland at Sydney's Bondi Beach in the late 1980s and early 1990s. When a high profile TV newsreader and weatherman disappeared on the Bondi cliff tops on a frigid winter's night in July 1989, it received nationwide news coverage but such a shoddy police investigation that links would not be drawn to a series of other m ...
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Welcome to News with The Sydney Morning Herald, your daily news briefing from the newspaper in Sydney everyone turns to. Drawing from the best journalism in the country, News with The Sydney Morning Herald brings you the most important local, national and world politics, business, sport and entertainment news of the day directly from Australia’s most authoritative newsroom.
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Your insider's guide to the Rugby World Cup. Georgina Robinson and Tom Decent bring you the inside stories, unravelling all the twists and turns, and sharing their experiences on the ground at the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan.
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Superdraft 2001: the day that changed the game. Over four episodes Emma Quayle will be speaking to some of the key players in the Superdraft including Luke Hodge, Luke Ball, Chris Judd, Dane Swan, Peter Schwab, John Turnbull, Steve Johnson and Jimmy Bartel.
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Welcome to It All Adds Up the podcast where we make money easy to understand so that listeners can begin building their financial wealth. We’re going to cover topics like: investing for the first time, crypto, how do interest rates work, how to crack into the property market, saving for retirement. Join The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age's senior economics writer Jessica Irvine and money editor Dominic Powell from August 25 as they try to help you make it all add up.
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The Jane Anderson Brand You Show is the podcast for experts, consultants, speakers, trainers, academics and coaches who are or aim to be the leaders in their field. Jane shares her insights as well as interviews those who are industry experts to find out about their experiences when marketing themselves under their Personal Brand, or name. According to US Labour Data, by 2020 50% of the workforce will be self-employed. The ability to market & sell yourself is an essential skill for the futu ...
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The Confession is a podcast where the justice system itself is on trial. At the centre of it all is Katia Pyliotis, accused of bludgeoning a man with a statue of the Virgin Mary. Four years of Katia’s life is spent behind bars, until the truth emerges because of a stroke of luck. When an item thought long lost is suddenly found and the spotlight is shifted from Katia to her accusers, the police. Richard Baker tells the story of a murder, a botched trial and the system that allowed it to happ ...
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Since late 2020, the case of missing Sydney woman Melissa Caddick has captivated the country. A seemingly successful businesswoman from Sydney's eastern suburbs went missing after authorities raided her Dover Heights home amid questions over an unlicensed financial planning business. Sydney Morning Herald investigative journalist Kate McClymont would reveal key details of a massive Ponzi scheme and a $23 million fraud that ripped off investors including her family and friends as Caddick live ...
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Welcome to News with The Age, your daily news briefing from the newspaper in Melbourne everyone turns to. Drawing from the best journalism in the country, News with The Age brings you the most important local, national and world politics, business, sport and entertainment news of the day directly from Australia’s most authoritative newsroom.
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The Drop is a weekly show tackling the latest in the world of pop culture and entertainment. Why does it seem like everything on television is based on a true story? Why is Kate Bush back in the charts? How did Pete Davidson get so popular? Join host Osman Faruqi and The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age's team of culture writers and critics as they answer these questions and more along with interviews with musicians, actors, film makers and everyone involved in the world of culture.
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A North Korean dictator, bags of heroin, drug lords, spooks, sailors, Australian cops and a web of lies: Come aboard The Last Voyage of The Pong Su.
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Surly Joe is a rant about politics, life, and SJWs. Surly Joe is a South London boy living in Sydney, Australia. This is not a podcast for children, unless your children are cool.
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Produced in commercial partnership between the SMH, The Age and IG Markets. A podcast that fills you in with all you need to know about what's happening in the world of financial markets. The Age's Lucy Battersby is joined by IG Market analyst Kyle Rodda. Stay up to date with all the latest movements in the business world - https://www.theage.com.au/business or https://www.smh.com.au/business
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Your weekly guide to pop culture in Australia. Mostly the fun bits. Karl Quinn is an entertainament writer for The Age and Sydney Morning Herald; Andrew Young is a musician, DJ, pedagogue and all-round man-about-town. Together they are The Clappers, and together they present this always-on-the-pulse and frequently hilarious look at culture high and low. If it's happening in film, TV, books, galleries - and let's not forget cycling - there's a 50-50 chance it's happening on The Clappers. Mayb ...
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Inside the battle to retain Labor's traditional heartland voters
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39:29In this episode - one week before the federal election - we talk to Kos Samaras. Samaras had a long career as a Labor strategist - particularly in running campaigns for the Victorian party - before founding the political consultancy firm RedBridge in 2020. He's one of the big thinkers in Australian politics, who grew up in a blue collar Labor famil…
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Inside Politics: How does polling work and will it be right this time?
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23:10This week we are doing a special podcast about our complicated relationship with political polls. As journalists, we like them because, maybe, they can tell us something about what voters are really thinking. But we are a bit wary of them too. Especially after the federal election in 2019, where the polls were wrong. That caused a massive rethink i…
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Real Footy tipping: 'Goldstein's a great warrior, but ...'
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27:44Ahead of a bumper AFL round seven including the feature Anzac Day clash between Collingwood and Essendon, Peter Ryan and Andrew Wu run the rule over the key match-ups. The recall of veteran ruckman Todd Goldstein for the injury-hit Bombers is an element of intrigue. Support the show: https://subscribe.theage.com.au/ See omnystudio.com/listener for …
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Six days ago, American president Donald Trump signalled, with frustration, that he was prepared to walk away from trying to broker a peace deal with Russia over Ukraine, and leave the country to its fate. And then, yesterday, we got the news. Russian president Vladimir Putin had a new offer. Today, international and political editor Peter Hartcher,…
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The Australian women being involuntarily sectioned
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21:08It wasn’t uncommon, in the 19th century, for women to be given the diagnosis of ‘hysteria’ and admitted to mental health asylums if they didn’t do what their husband said, or, if they swore, or had sex outside of marriage. But did you know that women are still being involuntarily sectioned in Australia? Today, investigative reporter Aisha Dow on wh…
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Falun Gong is familiar to many as a spiritual exercise movement, and a sect that has been persecuted by the People’s Republic of China. In Sydney you'll often see practitioners demonstrating by Town Hall with flyers sharing stories of organ harvesting of wrongfully imprisoned members. But former devotees have come forward with stories of coercion a…
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'The AFL are not actually a court': Handling of the Noah Balta case comes under fire
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43:24Amid the sentencing for Noah Balta which included a curfew for the Richmond player for an assault charge, podcasters Sam McClure, Caroline Wilson and Jake Niall put the AFL and the Tigers in the spotlight for their handling of his case, which included a senior game for the club before his penalty was handed down. Support the show: https://subscribe…
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Inside Politics: The battle of the teals in Kooyong and Bradfield
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20:55The threat teal independents pose in this election - to the dominance of the two-party system, to the stability of our parliament and to the Liberal Party’s base - is very real. Today, we focus on two of these seats: Bradfield in Sydney and Kooyong in Melbourne where the teals and the Libs are neck and neck. City reporter for The Age Rachael Dexter…
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'Just as political as Conclave’: Choosing the next Pope
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17:37Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church, has died at the age 88. Francis, who had led the world’s 1.3 billion Roman Catholics since 2013, had been in increasingly poor health and pain. We are re-publishing this episode, recorded in February, with former religion editor at The Age, Barney Zwartz, on Pope Francis' mixed legacy and the impact he…
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Australians love a battler, but crying poor doesn’t work in an election
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20:24Australians love a ‘battler’. Images of shearers, Anzacs, and gold diggers are deeply entrenched in our history. Politicians know that too. Why else do we see them in hard hats and high visibility vests? But a couple of moments in this election campaign have hit a nerve. They came from a blue blood Liberal candidate in Melbourne, and the opposition…
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For years doctors dismissed Jenny’s concerns. Now she has months to live
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23:19More than 1800 women have shared experiences of feeling gaslit, being dismissed by doctors or being told their pain was in their mind as part of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age’s investigative series into medical misogyny in Australia’s healthcare system. Among the most alarming stories are those of almost 60 women who detailed their delayed …
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You Am I's Tim Rogers on addiction and anxiety, playing footy and prowling the stage
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42:06In this episode, we talk to Tim Rogers. Best known as the frontman for rock band You Am I, Rogers was born in Kalgoorlie, WA, but lived all over the country growing up, spending time in Adelaide, Sydney and Canberra, and now, rural Victoria. The 55-year-old has lived a big life so far as a songwriter, raconteur, talking head and author. He's had hi…
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Inside Politics: Is the campaign getting away from Peter Dutton?
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24:28This week on the campaign saw the release of competing housing policies, and the appearance of Peter Dutton’s son Harry. But in many ways the campaign continued to be overshadowed by Donald Trump. Labor is making increasingly explicit attacks trying to link Dutton to the US president. And Dutton’s cause wasn’t helped with one of his key frontbenche…
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It's been two weeks since Trump's liberation day. Is the world ok?
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22:36So many of us have been yanking at our hair, or just standing around, slack jawed, as we’ve watched sharemarkets collapse and the chance of a recession barrel towards us - all as a result of Donald Trump’s tariffs. But to focus on the economic chaos is to miss the larger domino effect that’s been taking place in the background, as countries begin s…
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