Reading romance books after heartbreak, finding nostalgia, and living with cancer and Covid
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20 of 75 episodesTaking inspiration from Chrissy Amphlett, Sharon Stone’s stunt double, and a diving superwoman
Meet three Australian women pushing back on the expectations and stereotypes so often placed on them
‘I am Bob. Just Bob’: could a Wollongong folk hero have had a Nazi past?
The steel city once knew him as a migrant made good who contributed a great gift to the arts. But one man has been digging into the true ide...
Leading the charge: road-testing Australia’s EV stations on a 2,800km round trip
What are the pleasures and pitfalls of driving an electric car from Sydney to Melbourne and back? Guardian Australia’s economics corresponde...
Travelling lions, sinking islands and the last video store
These are some of our favourite stories from the Guardian Australia Reads audio library. A lion gets inside a London black cab, a son contem...
In search of Australia’s elusive treasures
Three stories of mystery this week: on the scent of platypus eggs, tracking Australia’s ‘most beautiful mammals’ and uncovering fabled Abori...
An all-female fight camp, a middle-aged guide to surfing and discovering postpartum rage
Three stories about women at major points in their lives – challenging the stories they’ve been told about themselves. We take on combat spo...
‘The good fight’: Roebuck Plains Station and its return to Indigenous owners
The Yawuru people have finally had 530,000 hectares of their traditional country returned to them. We also hear suburban tales of electrifyi...
Meet the superhumans
For four extraordinary people, superpowers are not beyond the imagination – they are an ordinary reality that they smell, remember and see e...
‘Stop and enjoy your life’ – how to rethink work after the pandemic
The pandemic has made us re-evaluate what we took for granted. How have Australians made sense of the value of work, amidst all this change...
Big cats, green sea turtles and 130 different bird species
Three stories take us into the animal kingdom. Meet communities around Australia ‘discovering’ animals on land and sea, both big and small
A bank heist, losing the vroom and an endurance swim
In a new format, Guardian Australia Reads presents three of our best features, read to you out loud. In this episode, we hear the stories be...
A day at the beach: sex, sharks and ashes
We take you to the beach and get among the sand and saltwater. Hear four very different stories about memorable moments at the beach. Togeth...
The English teacher and the Nazis: trove of letters in Melbourne reveals network that saved Jews
Frances and Jan Newell painstakingly uncovered their mother’s role in facilitating the escape of Jews and political dissidents from Berlin t...
Pure heaven, but also hell: my trek to find the Disappearing Tarn
In the mountain by Hobart a lake appears just after heavy rain, then vanishes. Features editor Lucy Clark recommends a story that takes us o...
Witness K and the ‘outrageous’ spy scandal that failed to shame Australia
Witness K and lawyer Bernard Collaery helped correct what they saw as a gross injustice. Luke Henriques-Gomes introduces Christopher Knaus’...
‘We need to be alarmed’: food banks in overdrive as politicians allow Australians to go hungry
Food relief organisations say they are helping more people than ever before. But this is not a good news story. Head of news, Mike Ticher, i...
‘The right thing to do’: restoring Aboriginal place names key to recognising Indigenous histories
Indigenous communities argue that renaming landscapes should not be limited to removing overtly racist colonial names. Assistant news editor...
When released from prison, Darko Desic faces deportation to a country that no longer exists
Desic turned himself in to police in Sydney 30 years after escaping jail. Ben Doherty explores how his friends and family are pleading for t...
‘My father will go down like the captain of the Titanic’: life on the Pacific’s disappearing islands
Many in the Saposa Islands are wrestling with the dilemma of starting a new life on the mainland or staying to watch their homes vanish. Dep...