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Megan Davis: the road to the Uluru Statement from the Heart
Megan Davis was raised as a 'Queensland Rail kid', then in a book-loving household in a housing commission home. She grew up to become a lawyer at th…
3 years, 9 months ago
Mawunyo's life in love, journalism and hip hop
Mawunyo Gbogbo grew up in a church-going Ghanaian-Australian family in the mining town of Muswellbrook, NSW. As a young woman she grabbed the chance …
3 years, 9 months ago
Wendy McCarthy's bold life
How a sheltered girl who grew up on a soldier settlement farm in country New South Wales grew up to become a feminist trailblazer
3 years, 9 months ago
Upside down in Bass Strait
Ocean racing navigator Will Oxley first learned his trade through celestial navigation, using a sextant and the stars. He then began ocean racing aro…
3 years, 9 months ago
Briana, Max and Freddy: love, trains and mouth music
Briana Blackett was a journalist working in Qatar when she realised her baby son Max wasn't responding to his name. When Max was diagnosed with autis…
3 years, 9 months ago
The caving time lord
Dr Kira Westaway is a geochronologist who places modern and ancient humans in context by dating things found in caves. For Kira, how we understand ou…
3 years, 9 months ago
The hunt for Hitler's horses by an art sleuth
Art detective Arthur Brand met neo-Nazis, billionaire collectors and underground art dealers on his hunt for the two enormous bronze horse sculptures…
3 years, 9 months ago
Healing the grieving heart
Wendy Liu has spent many years right up close to death. As a forensic counsellor she worked with families who had lost someone to an accident or viol…
3 years, 9 months ago
Music, mothering and Martha Wainwright
The folk singer on the songs in her blood and the intergenerational conflict between professional creativity and family
3 years, 9 months ago
Oumuamua's secrets
Avi Loeb was Harvard's top astronomer when he became intrigued by reports of a pancake-shaped object the size of a football field hurtling through ou…
3 years, 9 months ago