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A writer wonders about a happily ever after. Nostalgia rises after years of rapid tech change. And cancer survivors manage treatment during...

Meet three Australian women pushing back on the expectations and stereotypes so often placed on them

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...

What are the pleasures and pitfalls of driving an electric car from Sydney to Melbourne and back? Guardian Australia’s economics corresponde...

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...

Three stories of mystery this week: on the scent of platypus eggs, tracking Australia’s ‘most beautiful mammals’ and uncovering fabled Abori...

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 Yawuru people have finally had 530,000 hectares of their traditional country returned to them. We also hear suburban tales of electrifyi...

For four extraordinary people, superpowers are not beyond the imagination – they are an ordinary reality that they smell, remember and see e...

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...

Three stories take us into the animal kingdom. Meet communities around Australia ‘discovering’ animals on land and sea, both big and small

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...

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...

Frances and Jan Newell painstakingly uncovered their mother’s role in facilitating the escape of Jews and political dissidents from Berlin t...

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 lawyer Bernard Collaery helped correct what they saw as a gross injustice. Luke Henriques-Gomes introduces Christopher Knaus’...

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...

Indigenous communities argue that renaming landscapes should not be limited to removing overtly racist colonial names. Assistant news editor...

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...

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...

Built in 1926 by a pharmaceutical company, the heritage-listed building has since become a hub for artists – who now fear it may be under th...

Public confusion and distrust over vaccination have been fuelled by what experts say are crippling failures in authorities’ response to the...

In the charity’s storeroom sit the cremated remains of seven former visitors – unclaimed, contested or forgotten. Lifestyle editor Alyx Gorm...

There is a growing effort to reconnect swimmers with city waterways once thought permanently lost to pollution. Assistant news editor Rosema...

Their shed may not be state-of-the art but a community-oriented approach to fitness is working out for Barbara and Peter Hill. Lifestyle edi...

Luke Henriques-Gomes’s grandfather was one of 44 refugees to arrive in 1975 on the only RAAF plane ever hijacked. The official response stil...

Nearly two years after fires devastated the NSW south coast, families still live in caravans as they struggle to rebuild in the face of red...

For three hours, writer Debbie Lustig fends off traffic and protects the ducklings like a crazy lollipop lady with a fishing net. Assistant...

As part of a Guardian series about chronic pain and long Covid, Linda Geddes explores the growing realisation that pain can be a disease in...

Australian consumers have invested tens of millions in early-stage start-ups since the practice was approved in 2018, but experts advise cau...

Laramba’s Indigenous residents fear they are at risk of long-term illness and say they need to know who is responsible for fixing the proble...

From alkaline waters to beauty elixirs, added oxygen and probiotics, many brands claim they have ‘enhanced’ water – but what do the experts...

For most, our previous pandemic is a distant memory. But for these five polio survivors, new health problems have just begun. Features edito...

The Q-League is a far cry from the refugee camps where some of its players learned to play football using scrunched up plastic bags. Guardia...

Traditional owners are standing together to protect the Fitzroy – a ‘beautiful, living water system’. Gabrielle Jackson, associate editor of...

Once fast enough to earn a place in the Stawell Gift hall of fame, the former VFL footballer now lives with Parkinson’s disease. Sport edito...

A rural community of 5,500 people, with an under-resourced health system, came together to take on Covid. International news editor Bonnie M...

After a decade embroiled in public controversies, one of Australia’s most high-profile feminists is exposing a softer side with her new book...

It’s the “mystery that must be solved”. Seven-and-a-half years after the Malaysia Airlines flight disappeared with 239 people on board, head...

Repeat surgeries for endometriosis could be exacerbating pain symptoms, experts say. Gabrielle Jackson, associate editor of audio and visual...

Finding love across the back fence or apartment corridor is a high-risk, high-reward proposition. Convenient? Yes. But also, potentially, mo...

To fall just short? To never know how it feels to get close? To land between, avoiding either pole? Emma Kemp, deputy sport editor, recommen...

Low Covid vaccination rates reflect practical barriers – but Māori have good reason to distrust the government. International news editor Bo...

It might be difficult to choose literature for a sheep. Lifestyle editor, Alyx Gorman, recommends this hopeful story about the rehabilitativ...

Dozens of West Papuans were tortured and thrown into the sea 23 years ago. Days later, Australia knew details of the attack, yet remained si...

Ranging in age from eight to 87, Scrabblers hit the boards in western Sydney earlier this year vying for national supremacy. Sport editor Mi...

Australia’s plant-based meat market is booming, with increasingly sophisticated production techniques aiming to earn a place on carnivores’...

Two decades ago Richard Stiles escaped an avalanche in New Zealand, but friend Steve Robinson wasn’t so lucky. Now the mountain has given up...

When Gadia Zrihan’s family were forced to leave their dog behind, they left a part of themselves too – a part they feared they could never g...

‘Only when you become one of those numbers, when you’re in it, do you realise how serious it is.’ Live news editor Patrick Keneally recommen...