In this episode of our sister podcast, host Michael Williams speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks. She shares her life sentence and reflects on how her upbringing provided the essential building blocks for a career as a writer.

In this episode of our sister podcast, host Michael Williams speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks. She shares her life sentence and reflects on how her upbringing provided the essential building blocks for a career as a writer.

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Read This: How Geraldine Brooks Became a Novelist

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Under one of the most remarkable landscapes in Australia is one of the world’s largest undeveloped reservoirs of onshore gas – and a Texas oil man wants to get it out.

Project Valhalla would drill an initial 20 fracking wells across an area twice the size of Victoria in the Kimberley. And after the WA EPA recommended it for approval, the proposal is now one step closer to going ahead.

The Kimberley is also the largest and most intact tropical savanna in the world – a place of living songlines, deep cultural significance and extraordinary biodiversity, where campaigners say no local species has ever been recorded as extinct. And communities are divided. More than a record 8000 appeals have been lodged with the state government in an effort to stop the project.

Today, journalist Katherine Wilson on the fight over fracking in the Kimberly – and how Project Valhalla made it this far.

 

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Guest: Journalist Katherine Wilson

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Under one of the most remarkable landscapes in Australia is one of the world&rsquo;s largest undeveloped reservoirs of onshore gas &ndash; and a Texas oil man wants to get it out.
Project Valhalla would drill an initial 20 fracking wells across an area twice the size of Victoria in the Kimberley. And after the WA EPA recommended it for approval, the proposal is now one step closer to going ahead.
The Kimberley is also the largest and most intact tropical savanna in the world &ndash; a place of living songlines, deep cultural significance and extraordinary biodiversity, where campaigners say no local species has ever been recorded as extinct. And communities are divided. More than a record 8000 appeals have been lodged with the state government in an effort to stop the project.
Today, journalist Katherine Wilson on the fight over fracking in the Kimberly &ndash; and how Project Valhalla made it this far.
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Guest: Journalist Katherine Wilson
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The Texas oil man planning to frack the Kimberley

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In 2007, future United States president Donald Trump stepped into the wrestling ring for a showdown with Vince McMahon, then head of World Wrestling Entertainment and Trump’s close friend.

Trump played the villain perfectly.

For decades now, Trump has been shaped by a love affair with professional wrestling. It taught him how to control and manipulate a crowd, how to speak, and how to respond to criticism.

It also shaped his cabinet, with Trump appointing Linda McMahon, Vince’s ex-wife, to the position of secretary of education.

Today, contributor to The Saturday Paper Joseph Earp on how Donald Trump brought the art of pro-wrestling to politics.

 

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Guest: Journalist and author, Joseph Earp.

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In 2007, future United States president Donald Trump stepped into the wrestling ring for a showdown with Vince McMahon, then head of World Wrestling Entertainment and Trump&rsquo;s close friend.
Trump played the villain perfectly.
For decades now, Trump has been shaped by a love affair with professional wrestling. It taught him how to control and manipulate a crowd, how to speak, and how to respond to criticism.
It also shaped his cabinet, with Trump appointing Linda McMahon, Vince&rsquo;s ex-wife, to the position of secretary of education.
Today, contributor to The Saturday Paper Joseph Earp on how Donald Trump brought the art of pro-wrestling to politics.
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Guest: Journalist and author, Joseph Earp.
Photo:&nbsp;AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File

How pro-wrestling shaped Trump

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For months, Jim Chalmers has been trying to write a budget about the future – productivity, reform, repair.

But events have a way of dragging budgets back into the present. And right now, the present looks expensive.

People are still under pressure. The economy’s been hit by another oil shock. And the Treasurer is trying to make the case for restraint without looking like he’s asking Australians to wear even more pain.

So will Jim Chalmer's upcoming budget be one of reform - or crisis management?

Today, senior economics correspondent for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, Shane Wright, on what kind of budget this moment demands. 

 

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Guest: Senior economics correspondent for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, Shane Wright.

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For months, Jim Chalmers has been trying to write a budget about the future &ndash; productivity, reform, repair.
But events have a way of dragging budgets back into the present. And right now, the present looks expensive.
People are still under pressure. The economy&rsquo;s been hit by another oil shock. And the Treasurer is trying to make the case for restraint without looking like he&rsquo;s asking Australians to wear even more pain.
So will Jim Chalmer's upcoming budget be one of reform - or crisis management?
Today, senior economics correspondent for&nbsp;The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, Shane Wright, on what kind of budget this moment demands.&nbsp;
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Guest: Senior economics correspondent for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, Shane Wright.
Photo:&nbsp;AAP Image/Lukas Coch

It’s a tough time to be Jim Chalmers

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Read This: How Geraldine Brooks Became a Novelist

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