Saturday Magazine

Fiona, Kenny and Macca are joined live on-air by Michael Wilson, Research Fellow at the Movember Institute of Men’s Health; as they discuss Men’s Mental Health

Michael Wilson is a Research Fellow focused on men’s mental health and suicide prevention, based with Orygen at the University of Melbourne.

Since 2018, Michael has published and presented research both nationally and internationally across a range of subjects, includi...

Fiona, Kenny and  Macca are joined live on air by Nicholas Huxley, International Educator and Fashion Designer; as they discuss the annual Met gala red carpet hits and misses

Nicholas Huxley was born and brought up in Papua New Guinea as one of five boys. His mother worked as a correspondent for the ABC and his father was managing editor of the Times Courier newspaper. Huxley began his training in 1973 at Ea...

Macca, Kenny and  Fiona are joined live in the studio by Rachel Westaway, Lib Prahran, Shadow Asst Min Small Business + Hosp. State budget response, firebombing epidemic, Libs retain Nepean in the by-election, in this extended interview the Sat Mag team and Rachel discuss factionalism in politics, the rise of One Nation and what is emerging as the new political alignments in Australia, as well as the rise of Reform in the UK.

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Macca, Kenny and Fiona are joined live on air by Ged Kearney, MP Cooper – Asst Min for Prevention of Family Violence, as they discuss the new policy initiative National Healthy Men Community Conversations.

The Albanese Labor Government is has launched the national Healthy Men Community Conversations project to support the health and wellbeing of men and boys.

The project will deliver a series of community conversations across...

Macca, Kenny and  Fiona are joined up first this week by Dr. Cameron McLaren, as they discuss evidence based Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) in Australia,

Dr. Cameron McLaren is a Victorian-based medical oncologist and a leading advocate for, and practitioner of, Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) in Australia. He works at Casey Surgical Group (Berwick) and Monash Health, specialising in gastrointestinal, genitourinary, lung, and breast...

Macca is joined in the hosting seats this week by Fiona Patten and Saturday Magazine’s Produce Kenny Hill, as they discuss the week that was and what’s coming up in this week’s programme.

Patten established the Australian Sex Party in 2009 to focus on personal freedoms after deep frustration with stagnation on censorship, freedom, marriage equality and drug law reform. On 22 August 2017, it was announced that the ...

Our last guest for this week’s programme is Clare Stephens is a podcaster, editor, and formerly was the editor-in-chief for Mamamia. This year Clare published her first novel ‘The Worst Thing I’ve Ever Done’ and launched her new podcast The Pile On.

Former editor of Mamma Mia and the creator and host of interview podcast The Pile-On where she speaks to public figur...

Nevena, Macca and Misha talk to Lenore Taylor about World Press Freedom Day.

Raised in Brisbane, Taylor attended Brisbane Girls Grammar School and studied journalism and politics at the University of Queensland, where she was co-editor of the student newspaper Semper Floreat. She began working as a journalist in 1987 at The Canberra Times. She was later national affairs correspondent and then chief political correspondent at...

Nevena, Misha and Macca talk to Lizzie O’Shea, Chair, Digital Rights Watch, Are Corporations Profiling You?

Lizzie O’Shea sues companies and governments that do the wrong thing. Lizzie works and opens dialogues about the intersection of technology, law and human rights. Lizzie is the founder and chair of Digital Rights Watch, Australia’s leading digital rights organisation, she is an advocate for stronger laws to protec...

Misha Ketchell discusses with Macca and Nevena Whistle-blower laws in Australia

David McBride, a former Australian military lawyer, was jailed in May 2024 for leaking secret documents that exposed alleged war crimes by Australian special forces in Afghanistan. While Ben Roberts-Smith was implicated in these crimes, he has not been imprisoned, though he was arrested in April 2026 for war crimes and lost a civil defamation case where...

On 30 April 2026, Commissioner Virginia Bell AC SC presented the Governor-General, Her Excellency the Honourable Sam Mostyn AC, the Interim Report of the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion. The Interim Report was tabled in the Australian Parliament on 30 April 2026.

The Interim Report examines the circumstances surrounding the antisemitic Bondi terrorist attack on 14 December 2025 Term of Reference (c) of the Lett...

Macca and Nevena ae joined in the hosting seat this week by Misha Ketchell, Editor and an executive director of The Conversation.

Misha Ketchell is the Misha Ketchell is the editor and an executive director of The Conversation Australia and New Zealand. He was previously editor of Crikey, founding editor of The Big Issue Australia and editor of The Melbourne Weekly. He spent six years at The Age of and four years at the ABC as a pr...

Zoe and Macca are joined live in the studio by Laura Wiener.

Laura has been in the zoo field since 1998 and worked at a variety of different zoological facilities in the US, including San Diego and Oregon Zoos. Laura’s main focus has been mammals with a keen interest in rhinoceros species.

Four rare snow leopard cubs—two boys and two girls named Maya, Kira, Lumi, and Sabu—debuted at Melbourne Zoo in April 2026, born to mother Miska...

Macca and Zoe are joined live on air by Professor Mark Kenny, from ANU, as he discusses his recent panel at the Sorrento Writer’s Festival, is podcasting re-shaping the media landscape?

Professor Mark Kenny is a political journalist, commentator, and academic, formerly chief political correspondent and national affairs editor for The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, and The Canberra Times. A regular on ABC’s Insiders and Sky N...

Macca and Zoe talk to David Gibson about a bill introduced into Parliament to address the historic treatment of LGBTI personnel in the Australian Defence Force is being welcomed as a long-overdue step toward justice.

The Defence Force Discipline Amendment (RCDVS Implementation) Bill 2026, introduced by Minister for Veterans’ Affairs Matt Keogh, will enable eligible Defence personnel convicted solely on the basis of consensual homos...

Thanks to our producer Kenny Hill, we have a very special treat for ANZAC Day. Renouned Australian stage and international cinema actor Richard Roxburgh reads the poem; ‘The Fallen”.

Richard Roxburgh is one of Australia’s most accomplished and versatile actors, celebrated for his work across acclaimed international film, television and stage productions.

His standout film credits include Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge! and...

Zoe and Macca are joined live on-air by Dr. Monique Ryan, Independent Member for Kooyong, Deputy Chair of Standing Committee on Health, Aged Care and Disability; as they discuss the cuts and changes to the NDIS, ANZAC Day and politics.

Dr Monique Ryan is an Australian politician and former paediatric neurologist who serves as the independent Member of Parliament (MP) for the Division of Kooyong in Victoria. She was first elected in...

Zoe, Macca and Kenny talk to Kenny and Macca talk to Konrad Benjamin from Punter’s Politics, about his recent invitation to the Senate Select Committee Hearing on Taxation of Gas Resources.

Punter’s Politics is an Australian political commentary podcast and associated political movement with the goal of making Australian politics simpler for everyday people. The podcast was launched in June 2024 by former economics teacher Konrad B...

Our next guest for this week is Peter Khalil, MP for Wills and Assistant Minister for Defence.

Some of the topics discussed today between Macca, Zoe, Kenny and the Minister are:

With so many Australian service people currently serving on US subs, what does that mean for Australia in escalating global conflicts?

Had the Israeli government adequately responded yet over the deliberate bulldozing of ANZAC graves at the Commonwealth Cem...