Writers & Ideas: A NewSouth Publishing Podcast

Writers & Ideas: A NewSouth Publishing Podcast

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Interviews with authors of NewSouth Publishing books (University of New South Wales Press).

Justine Nolan and Martijn Boersma, "Addressing Modern Slavery" (UNSW Press, 2019)

January 14, 2024

Addressing Modern Slavery

Justine Nolan and Martijn Boersma
Hosted by Jane Richards

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…

Fiona Crawford and Lee McGowan, "Never Say Die: The Hundred-Year Overnight Success of Australian Women's Football" (NewSouth Books, 2019)

September 21, 2022

Never Say Die

Fiona Crawford and Lee McGowan
Hosted by Keith Rathbone

Today we are joined by two guests: Dr. Fiona Crawford, a writer, editor, and researcher whose work engages with social, environmental, and sports. Dr.…

John Fitzgerald, "Cadre Country: How China Became the Chinese Communist Party" (NewSouth Books, 2022)

July 20, 2022

Cadre Country

John Fitzgerald
Hosted by Dong Wang

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…

Eda Gunaydin, "Root and Branch: Essays on Inheritance" (NewSouth, 2022)

July 8, 2022

Root and Branch

Eda Gunaydin
Hosted by Bede Haines

Eda Gunaydin joins us today to talk about Root and Branch: Essays on Inheritance (NewSouth, 2022). Lots of themes: Turkey, Australia, Sydney, family, …

Tom Greenwell and Chris Bonnor, "Waiting for Gonski: How Australia Failed Its Schools" (UNSW Press, 2022)

March 21, 2022

Waiting for Gonski

Tom Greenwell and Chris Bonnor
Hosted by Alice Garner

Anyone interested in how education policy is made and unmade, in school funding models, their historical and contemporary development and their effect…

Andrew Dodd and Matthew Ricketson, "Upheaval: The Great Digital Disruption in Journalism and Its Aftermath" (NewSouth, 2021)

October 19, 2021

Upheaval

Andrew Dodd and Matthew Ricketson
Hosted by Bede Haines

Matthew Ricketson joins to discuss how newsrooms, the engine rooms of reporting, have shrunk. A generation of journalists has borne witness to seismic…

Henry Reynolds and Nicholas Clements, "Tongerlongeter: First Nations Leader and Tasmanian War Hero" (NewSouth, 2021)

September 6, 2021

Tongerlongeter

Henry Reynolds and Nicholas Clements
Hosted by Bede Haines

Nicholas, today's guest, explains Australia has no war hero more impressive than Tongerlongeter. Leader of the Oyster Bay nation of south-east Tasmani…

Inger Mewburn and Katherine Firth, "Level Up Your Essays: How to Fix Your University Essays and Get Better Grades" (NewSouth, 2021)

June 15, 2021

Level Up Your Essays

Inger Mewburn and Katherine Firth
Hosted by Bede Haines

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 …

Erin Stewart, "The Missing Among Us: Stories of Missing Persons and Those Left Behind" (NewSouth, 2020)

May 19, 2021

The Missing Among Us

Erin Stewart
Hosted by Bede Haines

'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…

Henry Reynolds, "Truth Telling: History, Sovereignty and the Uluru Statement" (NewSouth, 2021)

April 30, 2021

Truth Telling

Henry Reynolds
Hosted by Bede Haines

What if the sovereignty of the First Nations was recognised by European international law in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? What if the auda…

Kama Maclean, "British India, White Australia: Overseas Indians, Intercolonial Relations and the Empire, 1901-1947" (NewSouth, 2020)

April 2, 2021

British India, White Australia

Kama Maclean
Hosted by Bede Haines

Commonwealth, curry and cricket: now that explains India and Australia! Not really, and not according to today's guest. Kama Maclean discusses her boo…

Sam van Zweden, "Eating with My Mouth Open" (NewSouth, 2021)

February 26, 2021

Eating with My Mouth Open

Sam van Zweden
Hosted by Bede Haines

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…

Meredith Lake, "The Bible in Australia: A Cultural History" (NewSouth, 2020)

January 27, 2021

The Bible in Australia

Meredith Lake
Hosted by Bede Haines

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…

Melissa Harper, "The Ways of the Bushwalker: On Foot in Australia" (NewSouth, 2020)

December 21, 2020

The Ways of the Bushwalker

Melissa Harper
Hosted by Bede Haines

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…

Joy McCann, "Wild Sea: A History of the Southern Ocean" (U New South Wales Press, 2018)

September 13, 2019

Wild Sea

Joy McCann

Joy McCann discusses the great circumpolar ocean that surrounds Antarctica. McCann is the author of Wild Sea: A History of the Southern Ocean (Univers…

Seamus O’Hanlon, "City Life: The New Urban Australia" (NewSouth Publishing, 2018)

December 27, 2018

City Life

Seamus O’Hanlon
Hosted by Jason Schulman

In his new book, City Life: The New Urban Australia (NewSouth Publishing, 2018), Seamus O’Hanlon, an Associate Professor at Monash University, explore…

Joy McCann, "Wild Sea: A History of the Southern Ocean" (NewSouth Publishing, 2018)

September 7, 2018

Wild Sea

Joy McCann
Hosted by Jason Schulman

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…

Meredith Lake, "The Bible in Australia: A Cultural History" (NewSouth Publishing, 2018)

August 31, 2018

The Bible in Australia

Meredith Lake
Hosted by Jason Schulman

In her new book, The Bible in Australia: A Cultural History (NewSouth Publishing, 2018), historian Meredith Lake explores the various, often surprisin…

Christina Twomey, "The Battle Within: POWs in Postwar Australia" (NewSouth Books, 2018)

March 13, 2018

The Battle Within

Christina Twomey
Hosted by Jason Schulman

In her new book, The Battle Within: POWs in Postwar Australia (NewSouth Books, 2018), Christina Twomey, Professor of History at Monash University, exp…

Rodney Tiffen, "Disposable Leaders: Media and Leadership Coups from Menzies to Abbott" (NewSouth Publishing, 2017)

December 22, 2017

Disposable Leaders

Rodney Tiffen
Hosted by Jason Schulman

In his new book, Disposable Leaders: Media and Leadership Coups from Menzies to Abbott (NewSouth Publishing, 2017), Rodney Tiffen, Emeritus Professor …