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Life Matters - Full program podcast — 150 episodes · page 1 of 2
Housing and climate risk, colour for your mood
Your questions about COVID-19 now
Money and romantic relationships, letting go of a friendship
Truth telling and Michael Pollan on the psychedelic renaissance
Recycled fashion, teaching through children's stories and dogs in apartments
The future of telehealth and pressing pause on drinking in later life
NAIDOC Week and being an ally
ABC 90th birthday special: The Too Hard Basket - LIVE!
Young people and image based abuse, art therapy and plus sized op shopping
The High Court, activist brands and family-owned businesses
Stigma is still one of the biggest barriers to abortion in Australia, and what it’s like to be a young widow
Privacy, your face and the rise of facial recognition
The pain of falling out with a close friend, and should you discipline other people’s children
Menopause as an awakening and saving the reef
Learning through play and ditching poor lockdown diets
Workforce Australia changes explained, songbirds and the quiz masters
Who will be better off if stamp duty is scrapped?
Coming out later in life, and how much should you cater to your vegan visitors
Male life expectancy and the female mid-life crisis
Dowries, pies and a disability dystopia
Can Australia get off gas?
Extreme bodies, the end of email and the Queen's visit
Best advice about fatherhood, and how to juggle the roles of boss and friend
Reducing energy use and finding your community
Insecure work, art and friendship, and the power of comfort dogs
Tapping for stress relief, the rise of ‘cli-fi’, and the effectiveness of single-use plastic bans
Julian Assange and the state's responsibilities for Australians detained abroad
Older women embracing their sexuality and what to do when you outgrow a friend
How to manage your gut problems and Helmut Newton's celebrity photographs
University reform and the dark side of chivalry
Depp versus Heard, understanding the unvaxxed and your best skin
Australia's end of life laws
Cosmetic dentistry on the rise, and extravagant gift-giving in the Too Hard Basket
True healing for Stolen Generations, living alone and learning to say no
The future of aged care, negotiating pay and caravan accidents
Schools and COVID update, death technology and moving house
Independents, influence and the teal sea
Online dating no longer the outlier, and lending an expensive drill to a mate and getting a cheap one back
Disability discrimination, citizen juries and slow pleasure
The right COVID response and the perfect dinner party
Holiday rental regulation, the pain of losing a child, and Bastian Fox Phelan on our evolving relationships to our...
Deciding the legal age to vote
Do we ever really feel grown up, later life dating, and enjoying the remoteness of SW Tasmania
Wild weather and Lady Gaga's therapist
Indigenous recognition and mental agility
NAPLAN testing, travel anxiety and eating weeds
Inequality across generations
Michael Mackenzie hangs up his mic, parents behaving badly on the sidelines at kids’ sport, and The Too Hard Baske
Interest rate rises and savings, Running With Scissors from the archives, are my legs and feet ok?
Robot recruitment, male friendships and Life Matters 30th birthday
Scandi housing coops, Ingrid Betancort and does posture matter?
Thirty years of change
Rural health systems pushed to the brink, Shirley MacLaine’s love for her dog, and is my neighbour snubbing me?
Gun control since Port Arthur, Margaret Scott from the archives, Yia Yia next door
Digital 'town squares' and managing debt
Are we in the age of political apathy?
Pen friends, and a war hero changes his mind about trauma
Embracing the power of bittersweet, and film critic John Hinde from the Life Matters archives
Men's hair challenges, the quality of Australian education in 2009 and 2022
Micro-parties and batch cooking
What's your experience of 'living with COVID' been like?
Nature and grief, rethinking motherhood
Creative writing generates sparks in older brains, Breaking Bad star talks openly from the 30th archive
Flood housing aftermath, Angie Bowie from the archives, tales from a cattle station
Teens and vaping, refugees from Afghanistan
Navigating a sliding property market and public toilet anxiety
What you vote on at the ballot box
The ripple effects of overworked and overwhelmed GPs, James Freud from the archives, and the dynamics of a troubled...
Politics of fear, a former PM from the archives, can reality tv teach us about relationships?
Prolonged grief and the legacy of Dolly the sheep
What does climate justice look like? Parenting with ADHD, and Mary Robinson
How older workers could benefit from lower unemployment
Sleep-deprived teens, Pamela Stephenson from the archives, and calling someone ‘hon’
Public transport failures, Keating from the archives, and was fishing better in the old days?
Budget 2022 — Temporary cost of living relief and Life Matters 30th anniversary chat with Jane Fonda
Growing up in the country and Life Matters 30th anniversary- remember Y2K?
Who are funerals for?
The real health effects of mould, leadership through the eyes of children, and fighting over a cat
What values do we invest in our pets, and is concrete the best material to make resilient roads?
Outer suburban identity, food hang ups and defying the odds to walk again
What is lateral violence? Do boycotts work? And the politicisation of skin
Rockets, feathers and why you're paying more for fuel
Life-saving tips from one of the world’s leading sleep experts, creating a more ethical fashion industry, and...
The pros and cons of returning to work, why a serial dater likes being single, anatomy of a fraudster
Long COVID and chronic fatigue, problem solving through art and is it OK to lie to someone with dementia?
Whose job is it to buffer communities from natural disasters?
Helen Garner reflects on marriage and Merlin Sheldrake ruminates on fungi
How a few science-based tweaks to your diet can change your life, and what to do about the book club bully
Rising food prices, loving Benedict Cumberbatch, teaching schools to embrace A.I.
Questioning our biases in war coverage, resolving family conflict and how a yak is helping kids understand food...
Getting in touch with your power, menopause in the workplace and songwriter Lo Carmen
Extraordinary compassion in the face of catastrophe
Why the Gonski Review failed, and the latest flood emergency highlights the value of regional newspapers
Ukrainian Australians fear for loved ones, the agony and ecstasy of being bipolar, micro weddings and elopements on...
Wendy McCarthy on being too polite, bank accounts for children and Tasmanian trailblazer Eleanor McCormack
Australia, Mardi Gras and LGBTQIA+ rights
Lismore floods update, preparing for a career change and parenting with a disability
The fascinating history of addiction, and what to do when work and friendships collide
Where are we with vaccines and mandates? The impact of feeling like an outsider
Misconceptions about perpetrators of family violence, and the future of tiny homes