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Episode 4: A lifetime locked in detention

The average time asylum seekers spend in detention is 564 days. Some people have been detained for more...

Episode 3: How do you say goodbye forever?

When Elaheh suddenly had to flee Iran, she didn’t realise she might never see her family again. ...

Episode 2: No right to work, no right to study

Why would a boy leave everyone and everything he’d ever known to run for protection? ...

Episode 1: A limbo of Australia’s own making

Who are the Temporary people – and how did Australia trap them in endless uncertainty? ...

Introducing Temporary: A podcast about refugees stuck in limbo

The stories of people seeking asylum are supposed to end. But in Australia, people who arrive by boat...

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Esther Duflo & Abhijit Banerjee: Good Economics for Hard Times

How can cutting-edge economics bring the world back from the brink? ...

Judith Brett: The Coal Curse

Faced with the crisis of a global pandemic, for the first time in more than a decade Australia...

Bronwyn Graham | Women in medicine: the forgotten characters

Most clinical trials do not conduct even a cursory examination of sex differences in safety or efficacy, so...

Sandersan Onie | Humanising mental health

Can a world where each of us know how to listen, respond, and be present for each other...

Linda Romanovska | The essential value of nature

Considering the multitude of benefits nature provides cities, why is it so hard to add more green to...

Lindsay Kelley | Baking together

Are Anzac biscuits our strongest symbol of survival and resilience?

Christopher Jackson | Mavericks: the champions of isolation

What happens when teamwork doesn’t make the dreamwork?

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