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Kate Forsyth on the intrepid and curious Charlotte Waring Atkinson
Charlotte was Australia's first children's author. She came to the colony of NSW from London in 1826, and now her trailblazing, tragic and dramatic l…
3 years, 1 month ago
What the world can learn from Charlie Brown
From Charlie Brown to Franz Kafka, psychoanalyst Josh Cohen explores why being a loser can be a good thing
3 years, 1 month ago
Billy Bragg — the boy from Barking
Billy Bragg grew up in working-class Barking, east of London. The expected path was to go from school to the local car factory, but Billy his sights …
3 years, 1 month ago
Gillian Bell — life and cake
Gillian has the best job in the world — travelling overseas to bake sumptuous and heartfelt wedding cakes, using foraged and fresh produce to tell a …
3 years, 1 month ago
George Williams – the whacky world of micronations
Micronations are home to fascinating, often eccentric characters who construct their self-declared countries in their own image, with pomp, pageantry…
3 years, 1 month ago
Growing up in a country pub
Max Beck had a wild, lively and at times devastating childhood, growing up in Bendigo's old Crown Hotel
3 years, 1 month ago
Becoming a cowboy
Roland Breckwoldt fell in love with the idea of being a cowboy as a child, so at 15 he railed against his strict German father's wishes, left home an…
3 years, 1 month ago
How memory works
Over her many decades as a practising psychiatrist, Veronica O'Keane developed a fascination for our memory, how it functions in the brain, and the r…
3 years, 2 months ago
The alluring aliens of our forests
Fungi have given us many gifts, from penicillin to food, but they can also be quite scary. Dr Alison Pouliot spends her time trying to explain these …
3 years, 2 months ago
Keenan's courage
Justice advocate Keenan Mundine broke the cycle of crime and incarceration in his own life after a chance meeting at a birthday party (CW: mentions s…
3 years, 2 months ago