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Jess Hill: a new kind of power
Jess Hill was a teenage magazine founder, a travel writer, a Middle East correspondent and a survivor of serious illness before she wrote her groundbreaking book on domestic violence
Published on 4 years, 1 month ago
John Grisham: lawyering, writing and innocence
Novelist John Grisham with his life story; from his work as a trial lawyer, to writing, and how he became involved in a movement using DNA testing to exonerate the innocent
Published on 4 years, 1 month ago
Abbas Nazari: After the Tampa
Abbas Nazari was a 7 year old refugee on a sinking fishing boat in the Indian Ocean when he was rescued by the MV Tampa, just as Australia closed its doors to asylum seekers. After being given a home…
Published on 4 years, 1 month ago
Roxanne McDonald's deadly life on stage
The Mandandanji, Darambal and Wangan woman's career in theatre has taken her from Roma, in outback Queensland, around the world, with a brief break as a guard at a children's hospital
Published on 4 years, 1 month ago
The country kid economist
When Ken Henry was starting out in his career, Australia was known as the 'miracle economy'. Economics got inside him and Ken eventually helped the country sail through the 2008 global financial cris…
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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
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Harry and the monster croc
Harry Bowman tells adventurous tales from his three decades driving tour boats in the crocodile-infested Adelaide River, including the day he saved the life of a croc named Brutus (R)
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Lioness Liz and her surfer boys
Elizabeth Osborne with tales of struggle, love and grief from raising her five kids as a single mum, and the moment she saw her youngest, World Champion surfer Mick Fanning survive a shark attack on …
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The Beatles, Brian Epstein and me
Joanne Petersen recalls working as a personal assistant to The Beatles' manager, the freedom of the Swinging Sixties in London and eloping to the Bahamas with a Bee Gee
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The brave lives of Charmian and Neen: Memoir writer Nadia Wheatley
Nadia Wheatley with the stories of two women ahead of their time: the writer Charmian Clift and her own mother Nina Watkin.Two decades ago, Nadia published her acclaimed biography of the late Austral…
Published on 4 years, 1 month ago