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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A daily news show from the publisher of The Monthly and The Saturday Paper. Hear from the country’s best reporters, covering the news as it affects Australia. This is news with narrative, every weekday.

Read This: How Geraldine Brooks Became a Novelist

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Family violence in Aboriginal communities is a national crisis – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women are 33 times more likely to be victims of domestic violence, and eight times more likely to be killed by their partner.

The trauma First Nations women experience is often made worse by the systems they seek help from and people within those systems that often misidentify the victim as the perpetrator. 

But alongside these fraught systems are people doing relentless and unheralded work, to make things better for women and families fleeing domestic violence. Kalina Morgan-Whyman is one of those people – and she follows in the footsteps of her nan, Aunty Elizabeth Morgan, who founded a refuge for Indigenous women fleeing violence. 

Today, CEO of Elizabeth Morgan House, Kalina Morgan-Whyman on the issues confronting our most vulnerable, the tenuous funding environment for services like hers, and whether governments of all persuasions are serious about addressing the family violence epidemic.

 

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Family violence in Aboriginal communities is a national crisis &ndash; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women are 33 times more likely to be victims of domestic violence, and eight times more likely to be killed by their partner.
The trauma First Nations women experience is often made worse by the systems they seek help from and people within those systems that often misidentify the victim as the perpetrator.&nbsp;
But alongside these fraught systems are people doing relentless and unheralded work, to make things better for women and families fleeing domestic violence. Kalina Morgan-Whyman is one of those people &ndash; and she follows in the footsteps of her nan, Aunty Elizabeth Morgan, who founded a refuge for Indigenous women fleeing violence.&nbsp;
Today, CEO of Elizabeth Morgan House, Kalina Morgan-Whyman on the issues confronting our most vulnerable, the tenuous funding environment for services like hers, and whether governments of all persuasions are serious about addressing the family violence epidemic.
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Guest: CEO of Elizabeth Morgan House, Kalina Morgan-Whyman
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The frontline of Australia’s family violence crisis

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In the 1970s, eight children in Perth were sent to a psychiatric hospital to be ‘treated’ for being transgender. Their experiences became the basis of a medical study that claimed kids could be cured of their identity.

Now, nearly forty years after it was released, that same study is being cited in arguments against trans healthcare and being used to shape policy and law.

Today, Walkley Award-winning journalist and founding editor of ABC Queer, Mon Schafter, on how a forgotten experiment from another era is still influencing the culture war over trans healthcare.

This episode was originally published in October 2025.

 

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Guest: Walkley Award-winning journalist and founding editor of ABC Queer, Mon Schafter

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In the 1970s, eight children in Perth were sent to a psychiatric hospital to be &lsquo;treated&rsquo; for being transgender. Their experiences became the basis of a medical study that claimed kids could be cured of their identity.
Now, nearly forty years after it was released, that same study is being cited in arguments against trans healthcare and being used to shape policy and law.
Today, Walkley Award-winning journalist and founding editor of ABC Queer, Mon Schafter, on how a forgotten experiment from another era is still influencing the culture war over trans healthcare.
This episode was originally published in October 2025.
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Guest: Walkley Award-winning journalist and founding editor of ABC Queer, Mon Schafter
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The outdated trans study still doing damage

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It’s the on-again, off-again political drama that has turned Australian politics into something resembling a soap opera. 

For the second time in a year, the Liberal and National parties have split, rendering the coalition dead – again. 

The break-up has once again thrown Sussan Ley’s leadership under the bus, shattered the opposition’s ability to challenge the government – and underscored deeper pressures from an ascendant One Nation. 

Today, contributing editor of The New Daily Amy Remeikis, on the break-up, the fallout, and the ex sitting on the sidelines who can’t get enough of the spectacle. 

 

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Guest: Contributing editor of The New Daily Amy Remeikis

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It&rsquo;s the on-again, off-again political drama that has turned Australian politics into something resembling a soap opera.&nbsp;
For the second time in a year, the Liberal and National parties have split, rendering the coalition dead &ndash; again.&nbsp;
The break-up has once again thrown Sussan Ley&rsquo;s leadership under the bus, shattered the opposition&rsquo;s ability to challenge the government &ndash; and underscored deeper pressures from an ascendant One Nation.&nbsp;
Today, contributing editor of The New Daily Amy Remeikis, on the break-up, the fallout, and the ex sitting on the sidelines who can&rsquo;t get enough of the spectacle.&nbsp;
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Guest: Contributing editor of The New Daily Amy Remeikis
Photo:&nbsp;AAP Image/Lukas Coch

The ‘messy couple’ that was the Coalition

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Read This: How Geraldine Brooks Became a Novelist

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