‘We’re talking about children with complex health needs,’ says Shahleena Musk, Senior Lawyer with the Human Rights Law Centre. The centre has made a submission to the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health…

‘I thought I should just find a place far away from my home country where I could start my life.’ Asylum seeker Abdul Aziz Muhamat escaped South Sudan’s civil war in 2013 making…

Writer, lawyer and award winning digital rights activist Lizzie O’Shea joins Uncommon Sense fill-in host Ben Eltham to talk digital rights and what she describes as Australia’s ‘drift towards authoritarianism’ over the past…

The pendulum of ideology swings back and forth, but the neoliberal obsession with unfettered growth has persisted for decades, contributing to what environmentalist Bill McKibben calls the ‘architecture of deceit and denial’ about…

When we have debates about things that have high stakes for us, people on both sides often lift the standards for what counts as good and reliable evidence. This can result in us…

Emma Dawson is the Executive Director at Per Capita, an independent Australian think tank that discusses issues of inequality. Emma joins the program to give her take on the major policy differences between…

Is it right to eat meat? Should we give to charity? World renowned philosopher and bioethicist Peter Singer joins Uncommon Sense to discuss these issues in detail. Peter is a utilitarian, which means…

It was a work by 13th century Persian poet Rumi that provided the inspiration for Geelong businessman Peter Roberts to pack up his family and move to America to study the art of…

‘You don’t ask for what you think you can get – you ask for what you want.’ Social researcher and writer Rebecca Huntley tackles the rising political temperature of the nation in her…

Historian Carolyn Rasmussen joins Uncommon Sense host Amy Mullins to talk about her latest work The Blackburns: Private Lives, Public Ambitions. The book tells the story of the relationship between Australian political…