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Janty Blair is a Butchulla, Mununjhali and Woppaburra woman who, after a lifetime of nursing and midwifery, discovered her funny bone in her late 50s…
1 year, 6 months ago
The tin hut that's still standing
Dr John Paterson grew up in a tin hut in rural Darwin. He helped hold it down during Cyclone Tracy and has taken care of it so it still stands today.…
1 year, 6 months ago
Bindi — Dinner with Marlon Brando, didgeridoo at the Taj Mahal and always looking forward
When his elders named him Bindi, David Hudson had no idea his future would involve performing with his didgeridoo at the Taj Mahal, or a role in a fi…
1 year, 6 months ago
Nardi Simpson on Crocodile Country
Yuwaalaraay writer, storyteller and performer, Nardi Simpson of the Stiff Gins talks about her life, art and the meaning of country (R)
1 year, 6 months ago
Ken Wyatt - the Noongar boy who made history
Ken Wyatt was born at Roelands Mission in outback WA, where his mother had been taken as a small girl, after she was stolen from her family. More tha…
1 year, 6 months ago
Surviving Pinochet, living for art
Paula Quintela was seven years old when she witnessed Augusto Pinochet’s coup d’etat in Chile. She broke up the darkness by becoming her country's ch…
1 year, 6 months ago
Married at the Wayside Chapel
Playwright Alana Valentine on the story of the radical minister, Ted Noffs, who married thousands of couples who weren’t accepted anywhere else, incl…
1 year, 6 months ago
Beyond the hills and into the mountains
Since she was a child, Michelle Johnston has tried to satisfy her insatiable curiosity about the world and the people in it. Most recently, her quest…
1 year, 6 months ago
Finding home on the Tooraweenah Aerodrome
Mark Pitts needed to find peace after a hard life in the rugby and boxing worlds. So he went back to the airstrip that his aviator grandfather made f…
1 year, 6 months ago
Risking everything
For more than 20 years, Dominic Gordon cycled through the same self-destructive behaviours - stealing, risky sexual encounters, vandalism and drug-us…
1 year, 6 months ago