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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…
4 years 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…
4 years 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'
4 years 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…
4 years 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…
4 years 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
4 years ago
Stories from Gudanji country
Debra Dank walks and talks differently when she's at home on Gudanji country, because she comes with this place. (Content warning: Aboriginal and Tor…
4 years ago
PRESENTS — The King of Kowloon
Journalist Louisa Lim grew up in Hong Kong, surrounded by traces of a man, known first known as a crank, then an artist, and finally, a most unlikely…
4 years ago
Suicide survivor Oceane Campbell
Oceane was 18 when she attempted to take her own life. After a painstaking climb back into life, 20 years later she is a midwife, a writer and a moth…
4 years ago
Barber Charles Lomu and the meaning of love
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…
4 years ago