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'Accomplishment flows into courage': Rob de Castella on the Indigenous Marathon Project
Rob de Castella, otherwise known as “Deeks” - or, to his opponents, “Tree”, due to his sturdy limbs and unshiftable calm - is a two-time Commonwealth…
1 day, 6 hours ago
Anna Funder on telling untold stories – and the blowback it sometimes brings
Australian author and intellectual Anna Funder specialises in telling the stories of people forgotten or ignored by official histories. She began her…
1 week, 1 day ago
Pulitzer novelist Andrew Sean Greer on ‘charm novels’, the Italian life and travel wisdom
Picture this: a crumbling Italian mansion in the Tuscan hills, an eccentric aristocrat, sun-soaked lunches, too much wine and a house humming with se…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
John Safran on growing up Jewish, free speech, race - and Race Around the World
John Safran burst into the public consciousness in 1997 as a contestant in the ABC TV show Race Around the World, where young filmmakers travelled th…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
What childless Gen Xer Katrina Strickland wants those stuck in today's baby-making vortex to know
There's a profound grief associated with not having kids if you really wanted them, one that's rarely acknowledged, even less understood. But there's…
4 weeks, 1 day ago
From two-up to bingo halls and gaming apps – Shaun Micallef on our gambling obsession
Shaun Micallef has graced our TV screens since 1989 – from crime caper Mr and Mrs Murder to long-running game show Talkin' About Your Generation and …
1 month ago
'Angertainers' are dividing society: Author Ed Coper explains why we fall for 'rage bait'
Social media was once harnessed by Barack Obama to spread hope. Now “angertainers” are exploiting our human instinct to seek threat to divide society…
1 month, 1 week ago
300th episode: Bob Brown on finding optimism – live at the Melbourne Writers Festival
Bob Brown has spent the past 50 years trying to make people put the planet before profit. The environmental crusader, former senator and medical doct…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
‘Even today, the cost continues’: Christie Whelan Browne on speaking out
You might know her best from Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell, but over the past 20 years, Christie Whelan Browne has become one of the most in-demand st…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Fran Lebowitz on smoking, Trump and today's young people being another species
When Fran Lebowitz was growing up in suburban New Jersey in the 1950s, she won a school award for being “the Class Wit” – and in her 50-year career a…
2 months ago