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Dr Suzie Sheehy's journey to the basement of reality
Scientists continue to discover the rarer and rarer objects which make up our universe. Why are we so obsessed with the particles around us?
4 years ago
Ariadne and the Minotaur
Kate Forsyth on how revisiting the story of a bloodthirsty Minotaur lurking in a labyrinth in Crete made her realise how we all need monsters
4 years ago
Nova Peris shines bright
Nova is a woman of many firsts — an Olympic gold medallist and Northern Territory Senator. She continues to strive for excellence while showing up fo…
4 years ago
Quandamooka Country to Canberra — Dr Valerie Cooms
Aunty Kath, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, was Valerie's godmother, and just one of many staunch political figures on both sides of her family. Val worked her w…
4 years ago
How Thomas found his voice on the wharves
Torres Strait Islander man Thomas Mayor was working as a wharfie in Darwin when he became a union delegate, then an author, and a tireless advocate …
4 years ago
River, desert, island — Julie Janson's stories
After years teaching in the remote Northern Territory, Julie began to trace her ancestry among the Darug people around the Hawkesbury River. Her most…
4 years ago
Gary Lang and the jewel of dance
Gary is a Larrakia man from Darwin, whose dancing career has taken him from the early, bright lights of Glebe in Sydney, around the world, to the tom…
4 years ago
Deserter, archaeologist and spy – the extraordinary adventures of Charles Masson
Dr Edmund Richardson tells the story of the East India Company deserter who went in search of one of Alexander the Great's lost cities, in Afghanista…
4 years, 1 month ago
Taming the Black Dog, and burnout
Gordon Parker is the founder of the Black Dog Institute, which works to remove the stigma around mental illness. His latest focus is the phenomenon o…
4 years, 1 month ago
Finding a dad, zoology and a life-threatening illness
Ben Bravery tells the story of his childhood in Logan, Queensland, how he went from a career at KFC to studying male satin bowerbirds and why being a…
4 years, 1 month ago