Community Radio: Best Australian Podcasts by Monthly Downloads & Awards.

Are you looking for local Australian podcasts to listen to? Here is a list via category of Australian made podcasts.

As you can see by the amount of podcasts which qualify for a ‘best podcasts’ list, there’s never been a better time for podcasts. Though the format has been around for a couple of decades now, it’s only in the last few years that they really hit their stride. You might say that we’re living through a golden age of podcasts, if you’re the kind of person who needs all their culture categorised into neat eras.

Podcasts are now big business. In this post-Serial audio world, journalists, celebrities, academics and yes, anyone else who owns a mixing desk and a microphone, now has a regular show. The quality is generally very high but some efforts can still be hit and miss with dozens of podcasts popping up around the same themes or TV shows. To help you out we curate this every-changing list of interesting podcast recommendations spanning technology, culture, science, politics and beyond

Podcasts are the new black. Fact. But as with anything good, they come with their difficulties; the pain of coming to the end of a series only to find it was the final one, or the struggle of trying to find a new one that scratches the right itch. Well, luckily the Cosmopolitan team are really into podcasts and I am really into obsessive list making…

Here’s our ultimate list of the best (and free) podcasts you need to listen to, as compiled by our very own podcast-junkies.

Top 100

Believe: Paranormal & UFO Radio
Sexy Stories With Chantelle Otten Sexologist
Mid Flight Brawl Podcast
True Blue Crime
Too Peas In A Podcast
Happy Hour With Lucy & Nikki
Forgotten Australia
The Nurse
Always Was, Always Will Be Our Stories
The Social Work Stories Podcast
Dev Raga – Personal Finance Podcasts
Coronacast
Loose Units: The Podcast
Beenham Valley Road
Free Radicals
Roy And HG – Bludging On The Blindside
Hamish & Andy’s Remembering Project
The Junkees – Dave O’Neil And Kitty Flanagan
The Vanishing Of Vivienne Cameron
My Dad And Son Are Missing
“The Week on Wednesday” With Van Badham & Ben Davison
The Good Bits
I Just Called To Tell You A Joke
The Eleventh
The Birder’s Guide
The Story Chunder
History Detective
Thumbs Up Thumbs Down Podcast
Australian True Crime
Little Lost Girls
Story Time With Jimmy Barnes
True Crime Island
Escape This Podcast
Understate: Lawyer X
Judith Lucy – Overwhelmed And Dying
The Clink
Dead Bodies Podcast
Life And Crimes With Andrew Rule
The Little Dum Dum Club With Tommy & Karl
Chasing Charlie
TOFOP
PEP With Chas And Dr Dave
The Ice Project
The Wigs
Wilosophy With Wil Anderson
Cricket, Et Cetera
A Perfect Storm: The True Story Of The Chamberlains
Casefile True Crime
Don’t You Know Who I Am?
Great Mates With Kade & Troy
Weird Crap In Australia
Bloody Murder – A True Crime Podcast
Conversations For Ally
Evidence Locker True Crime
Led By A Heartstring
All Rise, The Mentoring Podcast For Women Lawyers
Fangirling
A Rational Fear
Hamish & Andy
The Last Voyage Of The Pong Su Podcast
Carousel Sniper Victim
Good Weekend Talks
Do Go On
Life On The Land
We Are Human With Sam Thaiday
The History Listen
Awesome Aussie Songs Podcast
Full Story
Murderlaide
SeaChangers
Stolen Lives True Crime
Emperors Of Rome
Jeffrey Epstein, The Prince And The Pervert
Naked City
BookSlut
Squiz Today
7am
Book Cheat
Monsters Who Murder: Serial Killer Confessions
Podnews Podcasting News
TV Blackbox & McKnight Tonight
Gavin Woods Countdown Podcast
History Lab
Queer As Fact
ABC Comedy Presents
Asian Bitches Down Under
Claremont: The Claremont Serial Killings
Don’t Tell The Pilot – Australian Politics
True Stories Of Crime And Violence
Two Open Books
Up And Away
In Black And White
Squiz Shortcuts
A Podcast Of One’s Own With Julia Gillard
What’s Right Within
Flex’s Semi-Factual History Lessons
Narelle Fraser Interviews
On The Reg
The Morbid Curiosity Podcast
Australian Histories Podcast