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The chair with five legs Oct 18, 2019

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As a girl, Davida Allen was brought up to be a proper young lady. Instead, she covered her naked body in paint and rolled around to make art. She grew up to become one of Australia's most famous painters (R)

Child convicts, lost boys and the murder at Point Puer Oct 17, 2019

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British boys as young as nine were transported to Van Diemen's Land for petty crime. 3000 of them were incarcerated at Point Puer, the first prison in the world built exclusively for children

Strange rescuers: my father's Holocaust Oct 16, 2019

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Juliet Rieden traces the story of her Czech father, who was taken as a child refugee to Britain a week before the Nazis arrived in Prague, and thus spared the fate of his extended family

Kumi’s Japanese inheritance Oct 15, 2019

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Australian journalist Kumi Taguchi grapples with divided loyalties after the death of her father

Story of a blood red rose Oct 14, 2019

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Kate Forsyth tells the origin story of a fairy tale staple, the ever-flowering red rose. Her version has its roots in Imperial China, and arrives via the French Revolution

Dear Dolly Doctor, Am I normal? Oct 11, 2019

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Dr. Melissa Kang explained sex, puberty and periods to teen girls in her role as Dolly magazine's ‘Dolly Doctor’. She spent 23 years answering questions sent by mail, that young people were too embarrassed to ask out loud

Dinosaur fields: finding fossils on the family farm Oct 10, 2019

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The random find of a dinosaur bone on her Queensland property led Robyn Mackenzie to develop an outback museum of international importance, and a deep sense of wonder at prehistoric geology

Chasing the dream that was Prague Oct 09, 2019

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Author Favel Parrett’s grandmother escaped from Czechoslovakia as a teenager, but her sister stayed behind - suffering the twin nightmares of Nazism and Stalinism

Finding the right formula with Eddie Woo Oct 08, 2019

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Waiting in line to enrol for a teaching degree in history and English, Eddie was persuaded to pursue maths instead. Despite never really liking maths at school, he signed up. The split-second decision changed his life, and the lives of many of his future students

The lucky accident of Sydney's Opera House Oct 07, 2019

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Helen Pitt on how the luminous shells of Australia's most loved building nearly didn't make it off the drawing board (R)

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