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Stories of starting over: Susan Johnson
Writer Susan Johnson began an unexpected adventure when she moved to the Greek island of Kythera with her 85-year old mother Barbara (R)
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Stories of starting over: Kim Crotty
When Kim Crotty was locked up in Dartmoor prison for growing marijuana, his two young sons were bereft. After he began writing bedtime stories for hi…
2 years, 6 months ago
Stories of starting over: Anne Howell
After a serious brain operation, Anne Howell woke up in hospital with retrograde amnesia, thinking she was nine years old. With no real understanding…
2 years, 6 months ago
Stories of starting over: Charles Lomu
The Tongan-Australian man on being privileged to see love in action in his grandparents, how a spiral into grief and anger led him to periodic detent…
2 years, 6 months ago
Stories of starting over: DJ Hookie
Tom Nash was 19 when his limbs were amputated due to meningococcal septicaemia. After he began to navigate life with hooks for arms, he built a new l…
2 years, 6 months ago
Maggie Mackellar on farming, motherhood, and catching sheep
Maggie Mackellar with stories from her life on a Merino wool farm on the east coast of Tasmania, and all of life and death that surrounds her through…
2 years, 6 months ago
The Big Pineapple, The Big Merino, The Big Gumboot: how big things captured Australia
Dr Amy Clarke on the history of Big Things and our enduring fondness for kitsch and curious creations
2 years, 6 months ago
Crispian Chan on Perth's forgotten terror
Crispian Chan grew up in the shadow of a campaign of terror in Perth that engulfed his family restaurant and haunted him for years
2 years, 6 months ago
Geraldine Brooks and the world in words
The historical novelist has seen enough action to last a lifetime from her days as a Middle East correspondent, and it was her mother's imaginative i…
2 years, 6 months ago
Craig Hamilton's three lives
Coalminer turned broadcaster Craig Hamilton was in his 30s when he had a psychotic episode on Broadmeadows train station. In the aftermath, his life …
2 years, 6 months ago