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Jon Owen's radical love
Jon Owen on how he chose a life of 'intentional downward mobility' to help addicts, sex workers, and the homeless, from Calcutta to Mount Druitt to t…
2 years, 4 months ago
Catherine Martin: making Elvis and loving Baz
How a fashion-loving misfit from Sydney took over Hollywood with husband Baz Luhrmann, winning more Oscars than any other Australian (R)
2 years, 4 months ago
The ladder out of depression with psychiatrist Ian Hickie
Professor Ian Hickie has spent decades trying to understand clinical depression. Where does it come from? What role do genes play? And most important…
2 years, 4 months ago
Prepared for anything
Brendan Watson took his Scouts promise very seriously as a young boy. He's leaned in to his pledge in some very unexpected ways, from Moscow to Mongo…
2 years, 4 months ago
The rise of the Super Bilby
Ecologist Katherine Moseby is helping Australia's bilbies, quolls, and stick-nest rats evolve to become tougher, faster and stronger, so they can sur…
2 years, 4 months ago
Mick and Juana: a love story
Mick O'Regan met his feisty, brilliant wife Jo for the first time on a work brigade in Nicaragua. They fell in love and had a beautiful baby boy. The…
2 years, 4 months ago
Wily cockatoos, bin chickens and spangled drongos
Darryl Jones on the dramatic lives of Australia's city-dwelling native birds
2 years, 4 months ago
How David got his sea legs
When David Hannan was a young man, he fled university and took a detour to the wild coral coast of WA where he became a lobster fisherman, before ear…
2 years, 4 months ago
Kylie Moore-Gilbert's freedom fight
Kylie Moore-Gilbert spent two years inside the Iranian prison system, secretly communicating with fellow women prisoners while she waited for news fr…
2 years, 4 months ago
Richard Flanagan's chain of events
Richard Flanagan was forever changed as a young man, when he was trapped for hours and almost drowned in an isolated stretch of river on Tasmania's w…
2 years, 4 months ago