Saturday Extra - Separate stories podcast

This weekend marks one year since Anthony Albanese defied expectations and won a second term in a landslide.
In this time, both Australia and the world have changed: War in the Middle East, cost of living pressures, the rise of One Nation. 
The prime minister discusses domestic issues and the place of Australia in the era of 'America first' and general global upheaval.

Moving between the mountains of Papua New Guinea and Sydney, musician Ngaiire leads a kind of double life - cooking by fire and living off grid one day and returning to the rat race the next. 
After building a 20 year music career and touring the globe, Ngaiire is now building a music school in her home village to give young Papua New Guinean artists the chance she never had: to hone their craft in the highlands they call home.

Opening our series on 250 years since American independence, we feature historian Jill Lepore, an expert in the US Constitution who tells the stories of ordinary people who have struggled to change the country's founding document.

This week, Charles III became the first British king to address a joint meeting of US Congress.
It was one part of his trip across the Atlantic, coming at a time when there are noticeable cracks developing between the US and UK.
So as the US turns 250 this year, what's the state of the 'special relationship'?

Tim Ayliffe is a journalist-turned-thriller writer.
He joins Saturday Extra for The Last Thing, where he talks through his last great reads and a book launch he recently attended (with a very personal connection).