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Ahmed spent six years in immigration detention before winning a landmark legal case, he was finally free. But when the government appealed that decision in the High Court Ahmed and his partner Danice …

Danice and Ahmed fell hard for each other, even though he was behind bars and she had four children. When he was released they started building a life together until Ahmed's visa was cancelled, he …

When the daughter of a trailblazing feminist moves to small town NSW, the only women’s organisation she can join is the Country Women’s Association. How will she fit in?

Stand up comedian David Rose is deaf in one ear. His own experience of living with hearing loss gets him curious about the rise and rise of headphone wearing, and what this may be doing to one of our …

Listless in the Melbourne lockdowns two through six, Lisa Divissi became obsessed with the mystery of her adopted cat’s past life - and what it means to live with the unknown

We follow two people in Afghanistan whose lives have been transformed since the Taliban takeover. Surveillance and poverty have …

Two stories from the beating heart of small town country Australia: how a fence is helping to hold one community together and the …

As he helped his mother Sushila pack up her home to move into residential aged care, writer Sunil Badami uncovered something even …

Four sisters plan to take on their family’s huge beef cattle property in southwest Queensland. Despite the spectre of drought, …

Australia is famous for its unique wildlife and landscapes. But we also have the highest mammal extinction rate in the world, and there are big declines in frogs, reptiles, and birds caused by …

In regions worst-hit by Australia’s Black Summer bushfires, a rebirth is happening. Not just the green shoots bursting from the blackened trees, but the reawakening of ancient knowledge. On sacred …

The ocean is central to the Esperance community’s lifestyle and identity. But three fatal shark attacks in three years have had a profound impact on this remote Western Australian coastal town. As …

As more people use anti-wrinkle injections and dermal fillers to alter their appearance, the way we see ourselves and what we …

Welcome to Werribee South. A wedge of verdant farming land 30km south-west of Melbourne that's under threat from the ever-growing city.

For most of us the experience of deportation is unimaginable. In this story we meet 3 people who've been deported under Australia's controversial 501 clause in the Migration Act, who've failed the …

Between 2015 and 2019, Michael* was a leader in the Australian alt-right movement. He was instrumental in building the presence of extreme rightwing groups, online and in the real world, before a …

Between 2015 and 2019, Michael* was a leader in the Australian alt-right movement. He was instrumental in building the presence of extreme rightwing groups, online and in the real world, before a …

How important is diversity in seeds and what kinds of diversity will we eat in the future?

What’s it like to live under a military coup? Across the past year, after the military seized power in Myanmar on February 1st, 2021, young Burmese journalist, Mi Zar has been keeping a diary of …

Danny Stuart was a teenager when he witnessed what he says was a stitch-up by corrupt Queensland Police of his Uncle John Stuart …

Behind the tragic firebombing of the Whiskey Au Go Go nightclub in Brisbane 1973, where 15 people lost their lives, lies another …

How an imprisoned playwright helped create Australia’s most iconic internet meme. This...is democracy manifest.

Every family has its secrets, but for people from the LGBTQIA+ community the 'secret' can be their true selves. We meet three young queer Australians at different stages of coming out.
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As you enter the town of Lake Bolac in southwest Victoria, you pass a sign that says 'home of aquatic sports', but historically …

Locals were devastated when their newspaper was axed, so they set up their own. Dynamo editor cum journalist Susanna Freymark tells the stories that really matter to The Richmond River community.
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Indigenous and African migrant communities collide in the Northern Territory, as Sydney-born Brian Obiri-Asare explores what it …

When the Black Summer firestorm hits her street, Cath runs for her life—leaving her partner Jack, who’s hellbent on staying to defend their home. Later, among the shock and the chaos, it hits her: Oh …

Landays is a powerful and subversive form of poetry in Afghanistan, performed by women. Part of traditional folk culture, the …

It might be the most famous recipe in Australia: flour, salt, a little red wine, and don’t forget a dollop of tomato sauce.

Paul …

Ghezal is a journalist trapped in a safehouse in Kabul as The Taliban take over the city. Through the intimacy of voice messages …

Ghezal is a journalist in Afghanistan and when her city Mazar i Sharif falls to The Taliban they come looking for her. She …

The Cat Empire’s style is impossible to pin-down. The most accurate description might be 'uniquely Melbourne'.

The six-piece have earned fans worldwide through 20 years of raucous live shows and …

Chinese-Australia singer, Rainbow Chan, returns to her mother’s village in Hong Kong. She meets some charismatic grannies who sing surprisingly subversive and feminist protest songs, known as bridal …

Three stories which explore brief encounters, chance meetings and the fleeting nature of life

It’s the perennial question: what's for dinner tonight?

But for a rising number of Australians experiencing food insecurity during the pandemic, the question has taken on new meaning.

As NSW emerges …

It was a simple act, done in a less-than-simple way. When Johnny Danalis decided to return the “Star of Taroom”, an ancient Indigenous groove stone his father had souvenired in the 1970s, it was …

What does your voice say about you? Not your choice of words, but all the extra information the voice carries, like our emotions, accents, even apparently our identity. Details that big tech and …

Under the rule of President Erdogan Turkey has become the world’s biggest jailer of journalists.

Stella Nyanzi’s words are searing, she plans to topple a dictator with them.  She was imprisoned for her poem on facebook that …

Ma Thida is a major figure in the struggle for democracy in Myanmar.  A surgeon and writer she was initially happy to go to prison to gain experience to write a prison memoir.  However after years in …

In this first program in a series marking 100 years of Pen International, the organisation that advocates for prisoners of conscience around the world, we investigate the disappearance of Uyghur …

Are white people being silenced by being labelled as racists? Controversial comedian Isaac Butterfield thinks so.  And what about people who publicly call out racism? Are they also silenced? Sami …

The idea that immigrants are taking work away from working class white people has created a perfect racist storm.  Where does the idea come from and how do we counter it?

Why do people who’ve experienced racism dish it out to other racial groups?  Sami Shah investigates a taboo subject that’s like a …

Comedian and journalist Craig Quartermaine describes to Sami Shah white Australia’s reaction to Indigenous people and their place in our national narrative as “an uncomfortable truth”.  So how do …

Comedian and journalist Sami Shah had never experienced racism until he moved to Australia from Pakistan. It makes him the best …

As you enter the town of Lake Bolac in southwest Victoria, you pass a sign that says 'home of aquatic sports', but historically …

Bev Francis found out by accident she was the strongest woman in the world. It was the late 1970s, and the sport of women’s weightlifting was still new. When international records were compared, no …

In July last year, after a surge in Covid outbreaks, 3000 residents in nine public housing towers in Melbourne were forced into …

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners are advised that the following program contains the voice of a person who has …

The Martuwarra Fitzroy River is one of our most pristine river systems. But it’s fast becoming one of Australia’s most contested spaces; for the oil, gas and land around it, and for the water in it.
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How can you represent your country at the Olympics if you don’t have one? This was the challenge facing refugee athletes until 2016 when an Olympic team made up of asylum seekers was brought together …

From the Aboriginal mission to the steelworks to the sex workers, there’s many a tale etched into the bitumen of Wentworth Street.  Local artist Anne-Louise Rentell takes us on a tour of a suburb …

Migrants, artists, drug users and The Western Bulldogs have brought fame and infamy to Footscray.  Writer and local Alice Pung …

The firestorm of 2019 has left a lingering shadow over this town.  Local radio DJ Don Ashby shows us the other side of Mallacoota – the abalone divers, the museum in a war bunker and the traditional …

There’s so much more to this town than Priscilla and Mad Max. Writer Jack Marx takes us to the hidden corners of Broken Hill and its history; from the cross that used to light up the main street …

The town of Nederland in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains has an unusual mascot: an old, dead Norwegian man, whose body is preserved in …

In 2003, journalist Andrew Gray was embedded with a US tank battalion during the Iraq invasion. In this documentary he returns to an event from that time which has haunted him for nearly 20 years.
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He emerged of Sydney's gay party scene of 1980s, a time of creative and sexual freedom. But where is he today?

The unlikely story of two half-sisters who connected late in life, a birth mother turned adoptive mother, and what can happen …

Australian forces took part in the conflicts in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Three soldiers share their experiences of those wars …

When a young American took up a position with the US Antarctic Program in the late '90s he imagined incredible adventures within a pristine landscape, but he found something completely different.
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Every family has its secrets, but for people from the LGBTQIA+ community the 'secret' can be their true selves. We meet three young queer Australians at different stages of coming out.
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What happens when you no longer believe in God, but still experience a God-shaped hole in your life?

Locals were devastated when their newspaper was axed, so they set up their own. Dynamo editor cum journalist Susanna Freymark tells the stories that really matter to The Richmond River community.
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Noelle Martin was an 18-year-old law student when she found hundreds of explicit images online with her face photoshopped onto …

In 2018 more than 20,000 Australians decided to ‘upsize their cup size', and if the numbers are anything to go by, the desire for bigger breasts isn’t decreasing. Breast augmentation is currently …

When the Black Summer firestorm hits her street, Cath runs for her life—leaving her partner Jack, who’s hellbent on staying to defend their home. Later, among the shock and the chaos, it hits her: Oh …

Natural temperate grasslands once spread from the Melbourne to the South Australian border, but only 1% remain. So how can we learn to see the landscape anew and protect the remaining grasslands?
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Indigenous and African migrant communities collide in the Northern Territory, as Sydney-born Brian Obiri-Asare explores what it …

What's it like to be waiting for an organ transplant waiting for the gift that could save your life, knowing that you're waiting …

The caste system has impacted the lives of many South Asians for thousands of years, but how does it affect communities here in Australia? 

What's it like when an ordinary day suddenly spins out of control? Three people tell their stories of a near-death experience
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In the remote Aboriginal communities of Central Australia, a musician most of us have never heard of, was “bigger than The Beatles”.

Come inside a neo-natal intensive care unit, where the lives of premature babies hang in the balance. Four mothers remember the excitement and the agony of their babies' first few months of life.
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A documentary maker can’t forget the hopes and dreams of a 14-year-old boy he interviewed and returns to the same rural town nine …

Cystic fibrosis affects nearly 4000 Australians but how much do you know about what it's like to live with?

30 years ago Bill was a Policeman and Brett was a teenager heading towards a life of crime. But then Bill said something to Brett …

2020 will forever be remembered as the year which was turned upside down in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic. Using intimate …

Covid-19 has turned everyone’s lives upside down and as the year has dragged on, we are all learning to live with a new post-pandemic economic and social reality. Using intimate audio diary …

Covid-19 has created a new economic and social reality. Using intimate audio diary recordings, this series follows the lives of …

A gay family story with a twist. Gay couples John and Charlie, and Ruth and Betty hit some very modern day family dilemmas.

About twenty years ago two gay couples met by chance in Sydney. Betty and Ruth wanted to have children, so did Charlie and John. But the boys didn't just want to be sperm donors, they wanted a …

What if instead of looking at the world through complex systems like politics, economics, community health, we observed the world …

The All Blacks have taunted their opponents with haka for more than a century. But the world saw haka in a new light after the Christchurch terror attacks in 2019 triggered spontaneous haka …

What can dinosaurs and giant worms tell us about the meaning of time?

Chinese-Australia singer, Rainbow Chan, returns to her mother’s village in Hong Kong. She meets some charismatic grannies who sing surprisingly subversive and feminist protest songs, known as bridal …

The Ashkenazi Jewish population have a much higher risk of cancer than other people. In this story three families talk about …

Landays is a powerful and subversive form of poetry in Afghanistan, performed by women. Part of traditional folk culture, the …

On the 30th birthday of Naomi Wolf's The Beauty Myth we do a deep dive into the multi-billion dollar world of the beauty vlogger …

Anyier Yuol has been a soccer star, beauty queen and a refugee. She's on a mission to change the face of Australian fashion and …

Take a near empty tram through Melbourne in curfew and meet the people behind the masks who are keeping the city alive.

Before the tumours on her auditory nerve turn Kylie Webb’s world silent, she has a few sounds she’d like to hear one more time.

A documentary maker can’t forget the hopes and dreams of a 14-year-old boy he interviewed and returns to the same rural town nine …

Australia is facing a shortage in shearers — long hours, injury, poor working conditions, and extended trips away from home are …

Have you been having more vivid dreams lately? You’re not alone. We delve into the collective unconscious to find out what’s …

What does your voice say about you? Not your choice of words, but all the extra information the voice carries, like our emotions, accents, even apparently our identity. Details that big tech and …

Every month many young Australians pack their bags and travel to Israel to join the Israeli Defence Force. And when they do, the …

A family receives devastating news that changes their lives and propels them into a future they never imagined.

As New Year's Eve approached, the crossroads town of Cann River in the heart of East Gippsland was facing the flames of an unprecedented bushfire season. Three residents describe their response to …

During the pandemic lockdown a documentary maker grows increasingly obsessed with his neighbours and sets out to meet them all.

A split second was all it took to shatter Judi Green’s life. It took decades, a lot of forgiveness and a little luck to piece it back together.

In the final episode Peter Mares is in Brisbane to see if the not-for-profit community housing model offers some solutions to the …

An obscure Japanese musician has found millions of fans thanks to YouTube.  Hiroshi Yoshimura's ambient synth music is perfect for long background listening and keeps you on the YouTube platform for …

Peter Mares travels to Adelaide, home to the South Australian Housing Trust, which once set the gold standard for state housing …

Peter travels to Hobart which in late 2019 was named Australia’s least affordable capital city for renters. More than one in four …

The COVID-19 virus has exposed the failings of Australia’s housing system like never before: rough sleeping and homelessness, the insecurity of renting, and a real estate boom-bust cycle. Our housing …

A paramedic, an Indigenous educator in the remote Kimberley, and an international student turned bike courier take us to the frontline of working through COVID-19.

From the trenches of the home schooling front a teacher, a student and a parent tell the story of the education revolution …

Stolen hand sanitizer, an iso wedding, losing all three of your jobs in one week—life at home in lockdown in Australia, as told …

In 2019, the famous flying great white sharks of South Africa’s False Bay completely disappeared, leaving locals, scientists and a booming tourism industry desperate for answers. Are shark-eating …

The story of one man's slide into the white supremacist movement in Canada, and the aftermath. How do we deal with those who've …

The story of one man's slide into the white supremacist movement in Canada in the late 1980s, and which asks the question; whose …

The fascinating life story of Homer Rieth — a composer, poet and founder of the Minyip Philosophical Society.

If your government failed to provide running water, electricity, roads, safety from gender violence, or other staples of everyday …

We make it easy for New Zealanders to work in Australia but not so easy for them to survive in times of personal crisis. Four Kiwis tell their stories of falling between the cracks.
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Tombstones were once doors to the afterlife, where spirits could pass through. Today they're smaller, but they still mark a place …

Cystic fibrosis affects nearly 4000 Australians but how much do you know about what it's like to live with?

How do you make people care when they risk going to jail for it? Three women helped start a movement in Jakarta bringing attention to West Papua, and today it’s seen thousands protesting across the …

After her own traumatic birth Elly Bradfield started asking other mothers about their births, it was like swapping war stories. Why are so many Australian women leaving the birth suite traumatised?
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150 years ago thousands of young men were taken from the Pacific Islands. Today the scars are still being felt.

Muslim Malaysians often have complex and tangled views about polygamy. Their feelings and beliefs aren’t always mirrored by their …

The island of Poruma is a shrinking tropical paradise – battered by king tides and eaten by coastal erosion. Meet the locals fighting for survival, in more ways than one.

Expectation and competition are pushing young South Koreans to give up on marriage and kids.

To his cult-like following of fans Yuzuru Hanyu is the “god of figure skating”, and no price is too high or distance too great to …

100 years ago the Banaban people had no idea they were living on the richest natural resource in the Pacific- one the world was desperate to get its hands on. The first they heard of it was when a …

Indigenous Australians have been setting fire to the bush for tens of thousands of years, and today their "cool burns" are making …

After fifty years of industrial development that’s destroyed thousands of sacred petroglyphs, the West Australian government is finally backing a push for World Heritage Listing. But it’s also …

Two blokes buy the radio rights to an international test cricket series on a credit card.

How does a community learn to live together after years of fighting each other in the most violent way possible? The remote …

Hot air ballooning is more popular in Australia than ever before. But how did it start? And where is it drifting to?
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To imagine our multilingual future do we have to return to the past?

Migrant languages tend to disappear by the third generation. But is there a way to resist this trend towards being a 'graveyard …

The Australian education system both values and devalues languages other than English. So schools play a crucial role in …

Australian families and communities who bring up their children in more than one language take on a huge challenge. Is it worth the effort?

Australia has a monolingual mindset but a multilingual reality. What does this mean for how we go about our day-to-day lives? …

Jump on a bus 'From St Kilda to Kings Cross' and discover the significance of the song that sparked Paul Kelly's career.
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Come inside a neo-natal intensive care unit, where the lives of premature babies hang in the balance. Four mothers remember the excitement and the agony of their babies' first few months of life.
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30 years ago Bill was a Policeman and Brett was a teenager heading towards a life of crime. But then Bill said something to Brett …

In the remote Aboriginal communities of Central Australia, a musician most of us have never heard of, was “bigger than The Beatles”.

For almost a century the Christian Brothers was a formidable presence in education in Australia. In recent decades the order's reputation has been deeply marred by revelations of widespread sexual …

Manus Island detainee Abdul Aziz Muhamat has been allowed to spend three weeks in Geneva in order to accept a human rights …

After six years in detention on Manus island, Abdul Aziz Muhamat is allowed to visit Geneva for two weeks. It's a strange blip in …

Australia is the last inhabited continent on earth without a little mite that could unravel our food system. Meet the city and …

Come on a road trip along the border between the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland as the departure of Britain from the European Union creeps closer. Hear what locals from both sides of the line …

Noelle Martin was an 18-year-old law student when she found hundreds of explicit images online with her face photoshopped onto …

The Australian outback is home to many mysteries, but the Marree Man has to be one of the biggest. In every sense of the word.

The town of Nederland in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains has an unusual mascot: an old, dead Norwegian man, whose body is preserved in …

The man Naponi married turned out to be violent and for decades her life was simply about survival. But her husband's been in a …

An obscure Japanese musician has found millions of fans thanks to YouTube.  Hiroshi Yoshimura's ambient synth music is perfect for long background listening and keeps you on the YouTube platform for …

Two blokes buy the radio rights to an international test cricket series on a credit card.

Robert, Laura and Lee Sullivan were all once members of Outreach International, an organisation that they now believe is a cult …

For most women becoming a new mother is an exhilarating, if physically exhausting experience; infused with love and joy. But what if it's the opposite of this? The stories of three women who have …

After fifty years of industrial development that’s destroyed thousands of sacred petroglyphs, the West Australian government is finally backing a push for World Heritage Listing. But it’s also …

It's deceptively quiet but the main street of Port Kembla has a thousand tales to tell and a cast of captivating characters to tell them.

A young farming couple find out they can rehabilitate the environment by the way they farm, but the stakes are high, they could …

A coal mine, an anonymous billboard, and a community split in two.

100 years ago the Banaban people had no idea they were living on the richest natural resource in the Pacific- one the world was desperate to get its hands on. The first they heard of it was when a …

This story reveals a line of connection through four Irish women across two referendums, to explore the unexpected consequences of talking about abortion.

The ancient city of Varanasi, Prime Minister Modi’s chosen electorate, offers Hindus a direct path to the heavens but it’s one of …

Sami Shah talks candidly with this controversial columnist and commentator about the challenges of being so open with his …

Lawyer and anti-racism advocate is searing and reflective with Sami Shah about the divisions in Australian media and society and …

What is freedom of speech and how much of it do we have? Sami Shah goes in search of the origins and limits of our free and frank speech.

Sami Shah finds out what political correctness is and why it’s so darn mad.

A young woman posted on Facebook on Anzac Day and Australia went mad. Sami Shah investigates why every comedian of colour is …

Sami Shah looks at where the free speech lines are being drawn in our newsrooms and comedy clubs.

Online, on campus, everywhere we’re losing free and frank speech. Sami Shah discovers the consequences of this loss but also …

As the 'migrant caravans' continue to roll into Tijuana, on the US-Mexico border, journalist Janak Rogers spent a week on the …

When she was just four-years-old, the child in this story told her mum she wasn’t a boy, but a transgender girl. She had to fight …

In 2003, journalist Andrew Gray was embedded in a US tank battalion during the Iraq invasion. In this documentary he returns to an event from that time which has haunted him for over 15 years.
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How does a community learn to live together after years of fighting each other in the most violent way possible? The remote …

In 2011, a murder prompted a transformation of Stainforth Court, a troubled public housing estate in Hobart. Who’s living there now? And what we can learn from this story when it comes to improving …

Stainforth Court was a troubled public housing estate in Hobart. But what was it really like to live there?

Ben Buckley is a pilot, politician and a maverick - a councillor who won't vote for himself.

From homelessness on the riverbank, to having a million people come view his paintings, this is the story of an immensely creative man who lived hard, painted every day as though he was on a mission, …

Giant, slate-blue glaciers of asbestos tailings still contaminate Western Australia’s Wittenoom Gorge more than fifty years after the blue asbestos mine closed, putting new generations at risk of …

The Aboriginal people of Western Australia’s Pilbara region have one of the highest mortality rates from mesothelioma of any group, anywhere in the world. Thrust into working at the blue asbestos …

Maximiliano's world was turned upside down when he got a phone call from a stranger that said "You're not who you think you are." At 40 he found out he was one of Argentina's lost grandchildren.
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Dianne McGrath is a Mars One astronaut candidate. She is on the short list for a one-way ticket to live and die on the red planet.

Shearers and roustabouts are our modern-day swag-people. They straddle two worlds; travelling from shed to shed, doing one of the toughest physical jobs around.

The story of a young Australian man killed fighting with the Kurds in Syria.

Meet the Greenocks. They fostered their first child seven years ago oblivious to the joy, the grief, the chaos, the worry and the …

Crusading journalist Jill Jolliffe has spent her time giving a voice to others. But since being diagnosis with Alzheimer's, …

Writer Stephanie Coombes, not satisfied with her F-list media lifestyle, goes in search of lucrative Instagram fame.

After a 21st birthday party a car accident left a teenager dead, another in jail and a third with a permanent brain injury.  This is a story about grief, forgiveness and the healing power of music.
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The unlikely story of two half-sisters who connected late in life, a birth mother turned adoptive mother, and what can happen …

A split second was all it took to shatter Judi Green’s life. It took decades, a lot of forgiveness and a little luck to piece it back together.

What can the last flamingo who lived in Australia tell us about zookeeping, taxidermy and loneliness?

Contemporary Australian poets respond to the centenary of the Armistice.

Olivia Humphreys found herself pregnant and full of questions about what it's like to be a mother when you don't have a mother of …

How should transgender athletes prove that they are woman enough to play with other women on the sporting field?
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Public thinker Robert Manne's voice changed after he had surgery for throat cancer. In this candid documentary he reflects on questions of voice and identity, enduring love and friendship.
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Once considered nerdy, Japanese pop culture like manga and anime is now big in Australia. What’s the appeal?

Three bad-ass women wrestlers talk about the power, performance and passion in Australia's world-class pro-wrestling scene.

Come to a Gypsy wedding but don't be shocked that the bride is 14. Perty had no choice, but months later she is learning to walk a fine line between being a feminist and honouring her Roma tribal …

Two Australian musicians travelled overseas for work but they didn't make it past immigration at the airport; tales of holding …

The fascinating life story of Homer Rieth — a composer, poet and founder of the Minyip Philosophical Society.

The women of a remote Aboriginal community are thrilled to finally be playing the sport that's always been in their hearts and it's helped heal their grief.

A story of heartbreak, a journey across Australia to take an Aboriginal child, a bitter court case and, in the middle of it all, two people who loved their child.

We travel to Aurukun, an Indigenous community in far north Queensland, to hear the story of a Wik woman, a white engineer turned …

Our insatiable appetite for fish is growing, the way we hunt them is changing, yet fish farming for many still has a salty pong about it. Come visit the community of Port Stephens who are treading …

Life in Afghanistan is dangerous, but if you've worked as an interpreter, you're even more of a target.

A gay family story with a twist. Gay couples John and Charlie, and Ruth and Betty hit some very modern day family dilemmas.

Twenty years ago two gay couples met by chance in Sydney. Betty and Ruth wanted to have children, so did Charlie and John. But the boys didn't just want to be sperm donors, they wanted a family. Four …

After a chance encounter with a ghost from her past, Elizabeth Mora is forced to confront a decade old question: did coming to …

Approximately half of Australia's prisoners are also parents. So how do they maintain a relationship with their kids while they're inside?

When Mina Abdolmaleki arrived in Australia as a spiritual exile from Iran, she thought the challenges would end there. But …

When Australia stopped the boats, what happened to the refugees? Mozhgan and Jafar are young asylum seekers now stranded in Indonesia, trying to build an awkward life in limbo.

15 year old Hugh knows he’s gay but he’s terrified of anyone at his Catholic boy’s school finding out.  Then he meets Peter who …

Shearers and roustabouts are our modern-day swag-people. They straddle two worlds; travelling from shed to shed, doing one of the toughest physical jobs around.

Kudakwashe Pwiti always wanted to make dancehall music, but his sheltered childhood wouldn’t prepare him for the dark side of the …

Why did all the Jews suddenly leave a town in Morocco where they had lived in harmony with their Muslim neighbours for centuries?

An out-of-this-world quest to find the origins of life in the middle of the desert.

A remarkable tale of two women from opposite sides of the political divide in Chile who washed up in the desert in Central …

In 1948, an unknown man was found dead on Somerton Beach in Adelaide. Nobody knew who he was or how he died. 70 years on the case reveals a startling new lead.

When a young American took up a position with the US Antarctic Program in the late '90s he imagined incredible adventures within a pristine landscape, but he found something completely different.
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Jodee Mundy is the only person in her family who can hear. Ever since she was little, she has moved between two worlds.

What kind of sacrifices are you willing to make to pursue your life’s work? When anthropologist Laura Rival left Europe to live …

Today we're breaking taboos. It's all about the Class. Comedian Nelly Thomas gathers a group of her blue-collar classmates for a …

For Barry Jorgensen, an electrician and lifelong tinkerer, learning to live with Parkinson’s Disease is a bit like constantly …

It's the world's most populous Muslim nation. So what brings thousands of Catholic pilgrims each Easter to the remote town of …

Dianne McGrath is a Mars One astronaut candidate. She is on the short list for a one-way ticket to live and die on the red planet.

More than half the children in out-of-home care in Western Australia are Indigenous; it's the highest rate of overrepresentation in Australia. So what is the government doing about it?
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Meet the Greenocks. They fostered their first child seven years ago oblivious to the joy, the grief, the chaos, the worry and the …

The aftermath of child sexual abuse is an ordeal for all survivors - but for men, it can carry particular challenges. Mal and Ari …

Poet Andy Jackson writes about people who live Marfan Syndrome, including some famous characters who are thought to have had it, …

The story of a young Australian man killed fighting with the Kurds in Syria.

A tale of friendship, betrayal, hoarding, squatters and a missing $100,000 dollar cheque. Helen and Franca weren't meant to be …

What has practising mindfulness taught sound artist Sherre Delys about understanding climate change and stress at work? Join …

Stories of big cats prowling the Australian bush are now generations old. Hundreds of Australians say they’ve seen a panther, …

Andrew and Ben talk about the challenge of when to honour the canon, and when to let it go in the name of creativity.

Our cultural practices help define us, but when the mood of the world is against us, what do we do? 

On a sweltering February night in 2010, the destinies of two 21-year-olds — one white, and one black collided fatally on a …

There are always strings attached to earning a living from making art and writing music.

What happens to romance and intimacy when you become your partner’s carer? One woman’s unlikely story of love when her husband fell ill with Parkinson’s disease and dementia.

In 1994 mother-of-two, Pamela Lawrence, was murdered Andrew Mallard would make one of the most unorthodox "confessions" in the …

Andrew and Ben have both made powerful work about the human cost of war and what happens to children in harm's way. How and why …

Michael ‘Tarzan’ Fomenko lived among the dense tropical rainforest for 50 years.

Ben is an artist and Andrew is a composer. They have different approaches to the creative process. Ben calls it 'practice' while Andrew thinks that makes him sound like a GP.

Old LP records found in a rubbish skip reveal some famous voices.

On the eve of his 19th birthday, in February 1963, John Button's life changed forever, when he was accused of the manslaughter of his girlfriend in a hit and run accident on the streets of Perth. It …

A very personal journey to the Philippines to meet the children of Australian sex tourists.

Darryl Beamish was a profoundly deaf teenager when he was charged with the 1959 axe murder of glamorous young Perth socialite …

Within Australia's Islamic communities, mental illness is often a silent scourge. We hear personal stories from the frontlines of mental health awareness.

Michelle Phillips, one of Australia’s elite athletes, is deciding what’s next after devoting the past 11 years of her life to the little-known sport of Ultimate Frisbee.

This year marks the centenary of Finland's independence - a country and a history cursed and blessed by its location.

In the Age of Aquarius the public get wise to being hoodwinked. Health campaigners hijack the medium — and turn it to their advantage.

Why are most selective high schools for the academically gifted dominated by Asian Australian students? And what do Asian …

The hunt is on for the winning formula to make that perfect ad. Keeping clients happy and the consumers consuming.     
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