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The art of survival
Writer Susan Varga sees her life as full of hard joys - including her Hungarian Jewish family’s surviving WWII, her recovery from the stroke which de…
3 years, 5 months ago
Freedom's child
Sisonke Msimang fought hard to find a home. She was born in exile, the daughter of a freedom fighter who had fled South Africa during apartheid.
3 years, 5 months ago
Mapping two and a half million guitars
Even the cheapest guitars are made in part from trees which are becoming increasingly rare. Chris Gibson's curiosity about these timbers led him on a…
3 years, 5 months ago
The flying vet from outback Queensland
Dr Campbell Costello (aka Dr Cozy) has probably the largest, and most exciting, consult room in the world
3 years, 5 months ago
Cook Maggie Beer: from Bankstown to finding her purpose in the Barossa
Maggie Beer started her working life at the age of 14 in a chenille bedspread factory. Two decades later, in a pheasant farm in the Barossa Valley, s…
3 years, 5 months ago
Stupid crooks, crooked cops, and honest John
Former narcotics agent, John Shobbrook battled corruption when investigating an audacious plan to air-drop heroin into Far North Queensland in the 19…
3 years, 5 months ago
More than the station manager's wife
When Sally Warriner left behind the life she had built in the bush, it took her years to define herself as more than 'just the general manager's wife'
3 years, 5 months ago
Guilty feminist Deborah Frances-White
The podcaster and comedian on her early life in Queensland — reading Enid Blyton and yearning to wear a coat; what improv comedy taught her about hum…
3 years, 5 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…
3 years, 5 months ago
Nerida's nudibranchs, sea dragons and siphonophores
Dr Nerida Wilson spends a lot of her time getting acquainted with the mysterious creatures lurking in the dark depths of the sea
3 years, 5 months ago