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Jonathan Haidt on 'attention fracking' and how to stop tech companies from stealing your child's focus
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Pip Williams — from dyslexia to the Dictionary of Lost Words
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Jon Ronson on psychopaths, sociopaths and how to spot them
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Alice Roberts on the skeletons' secrets
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Professor Alice Roberts examines the bones of those who died between five and ten centuries ago, so...
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Exploring death and grief with heart and healing
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Lee Berger, National Geographic Explorer in Residence and real-life Indiana Jones with tales of his...
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31 Oct 2024
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The Indigenous psychologist doing things differently - From the Pilbara to Perth and beyond
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Dr Tracy Westerman grew up in the Pilbara, where suicide and mental health issues have deeply scarr...
How a famous, broken bible changed the story of a family
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23 Oct 2024
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Helping people die on their own terms — why Bhawani became a VAD practitioner
22 Oct 2024
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Bhawani O'Brien's first name means "giver of life" in Tamil, which is ironic she says, because one ...
Kanye and me — why John Safran squatted in Ye's Hollyweird mansion
21 Oct 2024
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Australian Gonzo author and documentary filmmaker John Safran has made a career out of getting into...
Changing prisoners' minds with Vedic meditation at Rikers Island
18 Oct 2024
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Joh Jarvis was a high-flying boss when grief from a terrible loss began to overwhelm her. She tried...
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17 Oct 2024
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Indian-Australian actor and playwright, Nicholas Brown on being cast as a villain, and what made hi...
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16 Oct 2024
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The hardship, cruelty and loneliness of the mission system during the Great Depression didn't crush...
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15 Oct 2024
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I was a political prisoner in Myanmar — and I could never hate the Burmese
14 Oct 2024
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Raising kids diffently and being generous with love: Writer Nikki Gemmell
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10 Oct 2024
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Dasha Ross' most epic adventures were chartered with her larger-than-life husband John Pinder, incl...
Prostate cancer, testosterone and Tim Baker's masculinity
09 Oct 2024
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When surf writer Tim Baker was diagnosed with Stage 4 prostate cancer, he had no idea how the hormo...
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Melbourne's seedy underbelly and the gangsters who run the joint
07 Oct 2024
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04 Oct 2024
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Beloved Australian actor, Noni Hazlehurst looks back on her life on stage and screen.Noni Hazlehurs...
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03 Oct 2024
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The country music star remembers a childhood spent roaming the Nullarbor Plain, and the number one ...
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Irish journalist and author, Fintan O'Toole on how the Victorians changed the meaning of Shakespear...
How Tolstoy and Chekhov schooled George Saunders on life's great lessons
30 Sep 2024
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Writer George Saunders on how famous short stories by writers like Chekhov, Tolstoy, Turgenev and G...
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27 Sep 2024
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Claire Nelson hadn't told anyone where she was going, and her phone lost signal shortly into her hi...
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26 Sep 2024
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25 Sep 2024
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The unexpected plot twist: From the David Jones food hall to Opera Australia
23 Sep 2024
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After a stint being homeless and living in his car, Stephen Smith was working at David Jones Food H...
An odyssey across Australia — how 11,000 sheep were walked from Victoria into the outback
20 Sep 2024
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In 1882, thousands of sheep set off from a property in Western Victoria. Their destination was a hu...
Antibiotic resistant superbugs and how to fight them
19 Sep 2024
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Professor Ian Henderson has spent his career searching for new treatments in the fight against anti...
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18 Sep 2024
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Jeffrey Broadfield has made building his life. It has taken him around the world, and given him a p...
Fish sperm sausages, and eyeball icecream: the Josh Niland story
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13 Sep 2024
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Treating dementia — a new way of caring for the elderly
12 Sep 2024
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Psychiatrist Duncan McKellar wrote the report that triggered the Royal Commission into Aged Care Qu...
The man with the magnificent voice James Earl Jones, and his legacy including Star Wars and the Lion King
11 Sep 2024
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The late James Earl Jones grew up with a stutter and hardly said a word for years. After an English...
Epic sharks — the ancient origins of the monsters of the sea
10 Sep 2024
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Words of love — writing stories of Aboriginal land
09 Sep 2024
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My brother's death — writing the story of a family's grief and loss
06 Sep 2024
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For decades, Gideon Haigh and his mother were the only two people who really knew what happened on ...
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05 Sep 2024
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How dogs think — and what they think of us
04 Sep 2024
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Dog behaviourist Laura Vissaritis uses science and psychology to better understand what our dogs re...
My Stolen Generations story: how Brenda was taken from her family, twice
03 Sep 2024
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As a young child, chunks of Brenda Matthews' early memories were missing until her biological mothe...