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Lucy's button shop Nov 23, 2023

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Lucy Godoroja deals in the business of buttons, and the stories each button carries with it from Bohemia, or Milan to her shop in Sydney, and then into the hands of passers-by

Hayley's morbid curiosity Nov 22, 2023

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British-Australian journalist Hayley Campbell uncovers the secret society of the western world's death industry, run by people who have made death their life's work. CW: contains discussions of death and descriptions of dead bodies

Pentridge Prison, Australia's bluestone hell Nov 21, 2023

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Writer and journalist James Phelps takes you inside the bluestone walls and medieval-looking turrets of Australia's most infamous jail

Jon Owen's radical love Nov 20, 2023

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Jon Owen on how he chose a life of 'intentional downward mobility' to help addicts, sex workers, and the homeless, from Calcutta to Mount Druitt to the Wayside Chapel

Catherine Martin: making Elvis and loving Baz Nov 17, 2023

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How a fashion-loving misfit from Sydney took over Hollywood with husband Baz Luhrmann, winning more Oscars than any other Australian (R)

The ladder out of depression with psychiatrist Ian Hickie Nov 16, 2023

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Professor Ian Hickie has spent decades trying to understand clinical depression. Where does it come from? What role do genes play? And most importantly – what works to release its chokehold?

Prepared for anything Nov 15, 2023

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Brendan Watson took his Scouts promise very seriously as a young boy. He's leaned in to his pledge in some very unexpected ways, from Moscow to Mongolia and through temporary blindness back home again

The rise of the Super Bilby Nov 14, 2023

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Ecologist Katherine Moseby is helping Australia's bilbies, quolls, and stick-nest rats evolve to become tougher, faster and stronger, so they can survive the looming threat of more than 2 million feral cats (R)

Mick and Juana: a love story Nov 13, 2023

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Mick O'Regan met his feisty, brilliant wife Jo for the first time on a work brigade in Nicaragua. They fell in love and had a beautiful baby boy. Then quite unexpectedly, when Jo was in her 50s, Mick became her carer

Wily cockatoos, bin chickens and spangled drongos Nov 10, 2023

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Darryl Jones on the dramatic lives of Australia's city-dwelling native birds

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