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Best of 2022 — Lindy Lee
As a Chinese-Australian girl growing up in the era of the White Australia Policy, artist Lindy Lee always felt that she didn't belong. When she becam…
3 years, 3 months ago
Best of 2022 — Stephen Walker
The author tells the thrilling, surreal story of Yuri Gagarin, the loyal communist and father of two who became the first person to journey into spac…
3 years, 3 months ago
Ken Done's vivid life
Artist Ken Done grew up in a country town in NSW, drawing, fishing and listening to the Argonauts. Before he became a became a full-time artist, he h…
3 years, 3 months ago
Life on the inside when you're cast out
Greg Fisher, CEO of Sydney's first queer museum, wanted to replicate his family's warm, loving spirit with his own future family. He and his wife did…
3 years, 3 months ago
Niki Savva's brutal assessment of Scott Morrison
Niki Savva has seen ten prime ministers move in and out of the lodge during her decades as a political reporter, but one of those leaders stood out t…
3 years, 3 months ago
The story of English
Linguist Kate Burridge with the story of how Old English began on a small, damp island on the periphery of the world (R)
3 years, 3 months ago
Cephalopods — magicians of their watery world
Professor Peter Godfrey-Smith on the mystery of the octopus and giant cuttlefish, and why cephalopods are the closest we will come to meeting an inte…
3 years, 3 months ago
Victor Perton and the secret to optimism
Victor's refugee mother was widowed at a young age, his grandparents were tortured and killed by the Soviets, but Victor says he comes from four gene…
3 years, 3 months ago
Eva's arrested development
When Eva's parents fled from their home in communist Poland, she was told to "ask no questions". But once she got to the 'free world' she couldn't st…
3 years, 3 months ago
Richard E. Grant and his pocketful of happiness
The actor on the late love of his life, his wife Joan Washington, and the final message she left him
3 years, 3 months ago