Mick Fanning on surfing, fighting off a great white shark, and losing three brothers
Mick won 3 world surfing titles, and famously punched a great white shark in South Africa. But his life out of the water has been threaded t...
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Encore: A family story of growing up poor in Outback Queensland
Journalist Rick Morton on how his mum raised three children in poverty and the class disparities in Australia. Rick's family come from the v...
My poo transplant, ayahuasca trip and other wellness quests
Judith Lucy is one of Australia's most loved comedians. Recently after years of tummy troubles, burnout, and a complicated relationship with...
Encore: Why I became a teacher at the school where I was bullied
A portrait of one teacher and his class as they journey through the ups and downs of a school year. Brendan James Murrary has been a high sc...
Richard Glover on the strange, hilarious and heartbreaking rules of Australian parenting
The instructions found in endorsed baby books over the last century could be, with hindsight, bizarre or cruel. And were most often given by...
Monica McInerney's five year rollercoaster ride
The author on the diagnosis that floored her and the gifts that got her through harrowing treatment — including a cat named Nicholas. The Au...
Encore: The pilot shot down by enemy fire and how he survived
RAF pilot Frank Dell parachuted into Nazi occupied Holland after his plane was hit by cannon fire and with the aid of courageous Dutch famil...
Magda's mum, the tragic secret, and the moment of grace
When Magda Szubanski discovered what had happened to her mum two years after she died, it helped her see her in an entirely new light (CW: d...
Encore: The Olympic swim coach who spat on a silver medal, and how it changed him
Laurie Lawrence's obsession with winning Gold started when he was a small boy growing up above the Tobruk Pool in Townsville. When he became...
Caring for my fiercely strong-willed father
Kim Huynh on his family's remarkable journey from Vietnam to Australia. And taking on the role of carer for his fiercely strong-willed fathe...
Stories from our elders: how Jane Fonda changed her life in her third act
The legendary actress Jane Fonda on her activism, her hair epiphanies and why older women are often fearless. Jane has lived her entire life...
Remembering Angry Anderson: rock n' roll animal and incurable romantic
Iconic Australian musician, actor, youth advocate and charity ambassador Angry Anderson has died at the age of 79. Angry spent 50 years in t...
Stories from our Elders: My passionate friendship with a rebel poet
Alison Hoddinot was one of the first Australian women to study at Oxford University, but one of her lecturers, J.R.R Tolkein, refused to tak...
Stories from our Elders: the chef who taught 37,000 Australians how to cook
Elizabeth Chong didn't cook her first meal until she was a newlywed. Six decades later, the owner of a cooking school specialising in Chines...
Stories from our elders: Bryan Brown's road from Bankstown to Hollywood
Bryan Brown has played more than 80 roles on stage and screen. Raised in working-class Sydney, his talent, hard work, and unmistakable prese...
The radical history of personal computing—looms, coding, beige boxes and AI
Mel Huang Buntine on how computers started entering our homes, and the beige box of a machine that changed her own life. Personal computers...
Encore: Vickie's turbulent life in and out of prison, and how she reclaimed her power
Prisoner advocate Vickie Roach spent decades in and out of jail but after studying for her masters degree, she helped change the story for t...
My dad Jim Henson, the creative genius behind 'The Muppets'
Growing up Lisa Henson and her siblings spent a lot of time in their father's workshop and studio, watching puppets get drawn, sculpted and...
Encore: What happened when I tried MDMA therapy
Author Rebecca Huntley used supervised MDMA therapy to help her with complex PTSD and the legacy of childhood trauma. Rebecca's public life...
Healing intergenerational trauma and epigenetics—the children of the Third Reich
Catrine Clay with the story of the children of Nazi perpetrators and Holocaust survivors came together under extraordinary circumstances to...