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Writers & Ideas: A NewSouth Publishing Podcast
Interviews with authors of NewSouth Publishing books (University of New South Wales Press).
January 14, 2024
Addressing Modern Slavery
Before you left your house this morning, chances are that you used products and consumed goods that were produced by modern slavery. From the coffee y…
September 21, 2022
Never Say Die
Today we are joined by two guests: Dr. Fiona Crawford, a writer, editor, and researcher whose work engages with social, environmental, and sports. Dr.…
July 20, 2022
Cadre Country
Since the founding of the Communist Party in China just over a century ago there is much the country has achieved. But who does the heavy lifting in C…
July 8, 2022
Root and Branch
Eda Gunaydin joins us today to talk about Root and Branch: Essays on Inheritance (NewSouth, 2022). Lots of themes: Turkey, Australia, Sydney, family, …
March 21, 2022
Waiting for Gonski
Anyone interested in how education policy is made and unmade, in school funding models, their historical and contemporary development and their effect…
October 19, 2021
Upheaval
Matthew Ricketson joins to discuss how newsrooms, the engine rooms of reporting, have shrunk. A generation of journalists has borne witness to seismic…
September 6, 2021
Tongerlongeter
Nicholas, today's guest, explains Australia has no war hero more impressive than Tongerlongeter. Leader of the Oyster Bay nation of south-east Tasmani…
June 15, 2021
Level Up Your Essays
I've had 18 years of formal education - why is writing so hard? Today's guests Dr Katherine Firth explains the disease's cure. The book Level Up Your …
May 19, 2021
The Missing Among Us
'To be missing, you must be missed'. Erin Stewart's 2021 book examines missing for just about every point of view. In Australia 38,000 people are r…
April 30, 2021
Truth Telling
What if the sovereignty of the First Nations was recognised by European international law in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? What if the auda…
April 2, 2021
British India, White Australia
Commonwealth, curry and cricket: now that explains India and Australia! Not really, and not according to today's guest. Kama Maclean discusses her boo…
February 26, 2021
Eating with My Mouth Open
Wow! Food, family, memory, insight, body, mind - worth the effort this one. Eating with My Mouth Open (NewSouth, 2021) is food writing like you’ve ne…
January 27, 2021
The Bible in Australia
The bible and Australian society! Meredith Lake's published a new 2020 edition of The Bible in Australia: A Cultural History (NewSouth Books, 2020). I…
December 21, 2020
The Ways of the Bushwalker
Today I talked to Melissa Harper about her book The Ways of the Bushwalker: On Foot in Australia (NewSouth, 2020). Australians have always loved to st…
September 13, 2019
Wild Sea
Joy McCann discusses the great circumpolar ocean that surrounds Antarctica. McCann is the author of Wild Sea: A History of the Southern Ocean (Univers…
December 27, 2018
City Life
In his new book, City Life: The New Urban Australia (NewSouth Publishing, 2018), Seamus O’Hanlon, an Associate Professor at Monash University, explore…
September 7, 2018
Wild Sea
In her new book, Wild Sea: A History of the Southern Ocean (NewSouth Publishing, 2018), historian Joy McCann explores the history of the vast Southern…
August 31, 2018
The Bible in Australia
In her new book, The Bible in Australia: A Cultural History (NewSouth Publishing, 2018), historian Meredith Lake explores the various, often surprisin…
March 13, 2018
The Battle Within
In her new book, The Battle Within: POWs in Postwar Australia (NewSouth Books, 2018), Christina Twomey, Professor of History at Monash University, exp…
December 22, 2017
Disposable Leaders
In his new book, Disposable Leaders: Media and Leadership Coups from Menzies to Abbott (NewSouth Publishing, 2017), Rodney Tiffen, Emeritus Professor …