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Pack ice, seal fat and the big slide: Tim and Ernest's incredible journey Apr 13, 2022

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Tim Jarvis on his adventures following in the footsteps of explorer Ernest Shackleton, who tried valiantly to cross Antarctica from sea to sea, from 1914-17

Sara El Sayed: love, tradition and rebellion Apr 12, 2022

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Sara El Sayed on growing up Arab in South-East Queensland, while juggling conflicting expectations from her father to be a good Muslim girl, and from her grandmother who encouraged her to write, and not marry

Clinical pain neuroscientist Dr Tasha Stanton: Why chronic pain is like a bilby in a bathtub Apr 11, 2022

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Clinical pain neuroscientist Dr Tasha Stanton explains her studies into the power of the mind when it comes to coping with injury and illness.

Clinical pain neuroscientist, Dr Tasha Stanton works with people who experience chronic and crushing pain at the University of South Australia.

Typically, her patients suffer from osteo-arthritis and back pain.

Tasha says that far from being only the result of injury or illness, pain is influenced by many different factors in our lives — emotional turbulence, stressful jobs, or a lack of previous movement.

She wants to change the story around pain, and give people back their mobility and their zest for life.

She aims to do this by challenging the messages in the brain related to pain and movement.

Tasha does this in different ways, one of which involves showing people elongated images of their fingers and knees.

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Taking your cat for a walk and why dogs never stop loving — Jeffrey Masson Apr 08, 2022

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The bestselling author explores animal behaviour and grief — the loss we feel when a beloved pet dies, and how other species understand death (R)

Indira Naidoo: losing a sister and finding healing Apr 07, 2022

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After her younger sister died suddenly, broadcaster Indira Naidoo's world was shattered. Then she turned to her urban landscape for solace (CW: mentions suicide)

The unusual life of Elizabeth Macarthur Apr 06, 2022

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Novelist Kate Grenville on the story of love, grief and mental illness she unearthed when she revisited the letters of colonial gentlewoman Elizabeth Macarthur

The world-record-breaking sheep shearer turned outback cop Apr 05, 2022

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Laurie Bateman went on an intense, lonely 18-month journey to become a Guinness World Record-holding sheep shearer, but it's not the accomplishment the Kamilaroi man is most proud of

Hannah Gadsby and the point of no return Apr 04, 2022

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The Australian comedian on Nanette, her 'farewell' to stand up comedy; being diagnosed with autism as an adult; and on Douglas, the show and the dog (R)

Sian Prior: reckoning with childlessness Apr 01, 2022

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Sian Prior with the story of the years of longing and loss which marked her quest to become a mother, and what happened when she found herself childless at the age of 50

For many years Sian Prior desperately wanted to have a baby.

Her longing to be a mother played havoc with her relationships and her body.

It never happened, and Sian had to decide what to do with the freedom that was hers.

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Childless is published by Text

Patrick Gale's family secrets Mar 31, 2022

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English author Patrick Gale finds inspiration in the endless sunset beyond his Cornish farm, old family letters and a pair of bearskin gloves from his childhood dress-up box

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