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Back to SearchBest of 2025: How I became a brainwashed cult bride
Liz Cameron was 18 years old when a stranger approached her in a book shop. It was the beginning of her induction into a cult, and it was an experien…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Best of 2025: The young boat builder who rowed across the Pacific
Tom Robinson was a 14-year-old living in the Brisbane suburbs when he made a promise to himself to become the youngest person ever to row across the …
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Best of 2025: Claire Keegan on bravery, writing and the single life
The bestselling Irish author grew up on a farm set on “50 acres on the side of a hill”. Growing up, she witnessed a harsh, misogynistic country that …
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Best of 2025: How Vincent Fantauzzo's life was saved by love and painting
When artist Vincent Fantauzzo was a boy he was a street-fighting petty criminal with dyslexia and a blazing talent for drawing. He escaped jail time,…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Encore: the life of Norman Swan
How a boy from Glasgow named Norman Swirsky grew up to become Australia's most famous doctorWhen Norman was 10 years old his dad decided to change th…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
William McInnes' bittersweet summers — budgie smugglers, boardies and bumming around
The author and actor thinks summer in Australia is done bigger, better and weirder than anywhere else. For three months of the year, life slows down …
7 months, 3 weeks ago
How living like a Stoic changed my life
Journalist and author, Brigid Delaney looked into the ancient philosophy during an assignment from her editor. What she discovered led her to years o…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
The Rajneeshees and me — why Martina thought she needed a guru to heal
Cult survivor and psychotherapist Dr Martina Zangger on her ten years devoted to an Indian mystic and how she learned to stand on her own two feet.
Wh…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Encore: Helen Garner's love letter to her grandson, and football
When Helen Garner began following her grandson Amby's under-16s football team, it was a chance to spend more time with her youngest grandchild before…
8 months ago
The forgotten men who fought and died in the wild jungles of Borneo
At the very end of World War Two, Australian soldiers were sent to Borneo to dislodge the occupying Japanese Forces. The story of their brutal fighti…
8 months ago