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Learning my family connection to the brutal history of Australia's pearling industry

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Encore: My orgasm induced amnesia and other epic adventures

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Anthony Scaramucci on Trump, getting fired and owning his mistakes

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How to keep living when life falls apart

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Encore: Inside the minds of the fish who sleep, have friends, and know it's the weekend

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How I decentred men and fell in love with my friends instead of another f*ckboy

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A little girl with a life split in three — how Mimi made it [PART II]

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A little girl with a life split in three — how Mimi made it [PART I]

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Mick Fanning on surfing, punching a great white shark, and losing three brothers

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Encore: A family story of growing up poor in Outback Queensland

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My poo transplant, ayahuasca trip and other wellness quests

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Encore: Why I became a teacher at the school where I was bullied

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Richard Glover on the strange, hilarious and heartbreaking rules of Australian parenting

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Monica McInerney's five year rollercoaster ride

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Encore: The pilot shot down by enemy fire and how he survived

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Magda's mum, the tragic secret, and the moment of grace

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Encore: The Olympic swim coach who spat on a silver medal, and how it changed him

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Caring for my fiercely strong-willed father

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Stories from our elders: how Jane Fonda changed her life in her third act

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Remembering Angry Anderson: rock n' roll animal and incurable romantic

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Stories from our Elders: My passionate friendship with a rebel poet

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Stories from our Elders: the chef who taught 37,000 Australians how to cook

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Stories from our Elders: Bryan Brown's road from Bankstown to Hollywood

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The radical history of personal computing—looms, coding, beige boxes and AI

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Encore: Vickie's turbulent life in and out of prison, and how she reclaimed her power

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My dad Jim Henson, the creative genius behind 'The Muppets'

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Encore: What happened when I tried MDMA therapy

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Healing intergenerational trauma and epigenetics—the children of the Third Reich

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Comedian Urzila Carlson regrets nothing

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Encore: Meg Washington on the magic of music

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Louise Adler on why she questions everything

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Encore: The beautiful questions your intellectual mind can't answer

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Black ops and human shields—the secrets on board Flight 149

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From the Nazis to the Stasi, how ordinary citizens live through extraordinary times

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Encore: The family secret which inspired 'The Teacher's Pet'

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Loving my dad, who has younger-onset Alzheimer's

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Encore: An infamous WWII prison and the soldiers who tried to escape

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The day my big, fat Egyptian wedding went pear-shaped

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The Kennedys—inside the infamous political dynasty and their summertime secrets

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Encore: My beloved husband's path to Voluntary Assisted Dying

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Top-secret cake recipes and a 'Garden of Eden'—nourishing the soul with homestyle Jewish cooking

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Encore: A father and a son and The Odyssey

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Richard Flanagan on belonging in books and in Australia

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A Palestinian family story

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Encore: Maggie Dent on guiding young girls to become confident young women

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The three shocks that changed Australia

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Encore: How a teen mum named Melissa proved everybody wrong

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The forensic psychiatrist fascinated with the minds of lone mass killers

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The post-punk guitarist who decided to finally live openly as herself, a trans woman

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Encore: Catching killers and breaking up bikie gangs

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Helping other people became my business success story

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Encore: Falling in love with 'Mao's Last Dancer'

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The doctor who learnt to walk again, using exercise

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Finding my mother alive and becoming invincible

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Encore: A parenting educator on making sense of his own childhood

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Zoonoses — the diseases that jump from animals to people

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Encore: The cop who stared down Peter Falconio's outback killer

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What seven ancient traditions can teach us all about living a good life today

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Growing the goodness of the world—Hannah Moloney on why we garden

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Encore: How Zenith became a death walker, and her true self

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Rasputin's killer and the Australian conductor

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Encore: The compulsive and complex behaviour I kept hidden for years

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Teaching boys behind the razor wire, inside Australia's juvenile detention system

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The doctor, the near-death experience, and the saint-in-waiting

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Encore: Designing for the drag queens in 'Priscilla, Queen of the Desert'

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Australia’s ‘Bench Queen’ on her salvation — the gym

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Encore: Jarvis Cocker and the Pulp masterplan

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Hannah Richell: loving my husband Matt, and finding my way after his death

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Jacinda Ardern on her life as the ex-Mormon girl who became New Zealand's Prime Minister

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Remembering Sam Neill, the shy boy from Dunedin who became a movie star

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Everyday magic, witch hunts and fairies in medieval Scotland

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Encore: My year in Japan, in stillness and silence

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How the Liberal Party lost its hold on Australia

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NAIDOC 2026: From an iron lung to the page — Gayle’s life in comics and words

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NAIDOC 2026: Troy Cassar-Daley: the boy from Halfway Creek

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NAIDOC 2026: Anita Heiss with stories of love and war from the Wiradjuri people

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NAIDOC 2026: Rachel Perkins on 'The Australian Wars'

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NAIDOC 2026: Victor the fire man on burning country to heal it

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Finding love, compassion and God after a lifetime of drugs and crime

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Encore: Gina Chick's wild grandmother, and embracing her life as 'an element'

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Nuking the moon and mirrors in space—man's wildest attempts to control the weather

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Encore: A brother's insight into the genius of artist David Hockney

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The mysteries, ghosts and healing powers of the Abbotsford Convent

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How limitations in life, love and creativity can actually set you free

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Encore: The traits I was teased about are now my trademarks

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The adoptive mum who now fights to keep families together

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Encore: How not to be a d***head with singer Kasey Chambers

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A race against time to help my friend dying from mesothelioma

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"ELVIS IS ALIVE AND RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT" The story behind the nonsensical Weekly World News

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Encore: Darren Hayes on the dark side of his fame with Savage Garden

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Why this private investigator loves the cases others have given up on

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Encore: My eerie week inside Kanye West's Hollywood mansion

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Rowing against the current—the Australian heroine of the Titanic's 'lifeboat 16'

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From party trick to pop star — meet Molly Lewis, professional whistler

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Encore: My adventures on the high seas with a fugitive on the run

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Algorithms, accountability and the 'manosphere'—empowering men to be the solution

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Encore: The remarkable life of Professor Richard Scolyer

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How Japanese spirituality can help make everyday life more beautiful

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Hip Hop, home, and humanity—'trials' on reckoning with his origin story

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Learning from the mighty matriarchs of the animal kingdom