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03 Shifting Cultures | Saving our species from 2022-04-25T11:05:46
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 intr...
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Shifting Cultures | Healing with fire on koala country from 2022-04-18T11:05:50
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 ...
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01 Shifting Cultures | A town in fear of the sea from 2022-04-11T11:05:07
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 ...
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Changing faces: how cosmetic injectables are reshaping our idea of beauty from 2022-04-04T11:05
As more people use anti-wrinkle injections and dermal fillers to alter their appearance, the way we see ourselves and what we think we should look like is changing. What does that mean for the futu...
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The last chance lands: Werribee South's market gardens from 2022-03-28T11:05
Welcome to Werribee South. A wedge of verdant farming land 30km south-west of Melbourne that's under threat from the ever-growing city.
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501 Deportees from 2022-03-21T11:05
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 ...
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Everyone wants to be Fuhrer | Part 2 from 2022-03-14T11:05:42
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 s...
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Everyone wants to be Fuhrer | Part 1 from 2022-03-07T11:05:19
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 s...
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The seed savers from 2022-02-28T11:05
How important is diversity in seeds and what kinds of diversity will we eat in the future?
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Myanmar - a year in the life of a coup from 2022-02-21T11:05
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 da...
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Danny's inferno part 2 - The Whiskey monster from 2022-02-14T11:05
Danny Stuart was a teenager when he witnessed what he says was a stitch-up by corrupt Queensland Police of his Uncle John Stuart for the firebombing of the Whiskey Au Go Go nightclub. Veteran jour...
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Danny's inferno Part 1 - Family demons from 2022-02-07T11:05:45
Behind the tragic firebombing of the Whiskey Au Go Go nightclub in Brisbane 1973, where 15 people lost their lives, lies another tale of two young children surviving the violence of their abusive f...
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A Succulent Chinese Meal from 2022-01-31T11:05:35
How an imprisoned playwright helped create Australia’s most iconic internet meme. This...is democracy manifest.
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Who's going to make the gravy? from 2021-12-13T11:05:52
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 Kelly’s ‘How to Make Gravy’ — written as a letter from prison at C...
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The Kabul diaries part 2 from 2021-12-06T11:05:02
Ghezal is a journalist trapped in a safehouse in Kabul as The Taliban take over the city. Through the intimacy of voice messages she tells her story of searching for a way out of Afghanistan for h...
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The Kabul diaries Part 1 from 2021-11-29T11:05:12
Ghezal is a journalist in Afghanistan and when her city Mazar i Sharif falls to The Taliban they come looking for her. She escapes to Kabul, joining the desperate crowds at the airport but unable t...
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Rise of The Cat Empire from 2021-11-22T11:05:52
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 d...
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Brief Encounters from 2021-11-08T11:00
Three stories which explore brief encounters, chance meetings and the fleeting nature of life
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The dignity business from 2021-11-01T11:05:52
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 emer...
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Following The Star of Taroom from 2021-10-25T11:05:52
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 si...
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You are not alone - Turkey from 2021-10-11T12:05
Under the rule of President Erdogan Turkey has become the world’s biggest jailer of journalists.
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You are not alone - Stella Nyanzi Uganda's rudest writer from 2021-10-04T11:05:25
Stella Nyanzi’s words are searing, she plans to topple a dictator with them. She was imprisoned for her poem on facebook that called the President of Uganda, Museveni, a diseased foetus that shoul...
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You are not alone - Ma Thida prisoner of conscience from 2021-09-27T11:05:46
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 ...
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You are not alone - Uyghur poets from 2021-09-20T11:05
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 po...
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Let's talk about race: Is it ok to be white? from 2021-09-13T11:05:09
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 S...
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Let's talk about race: Race and class from 2021-09-06T11:05:38
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?
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Let's talk about race: The new racists from 2021-08-23T11:05:02
Why do people who’ve experienced racism dish it out to other racial groups? Sami Shah investigates a taboo subject that’s like a crack in the mirrorball of multicultural Australia.
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Let's talk about race: An uncomfortable truth from 2021-08-16T11:05:58
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 y...
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Is Australia racist? from 2021-08-09T11:05:27
Comedian and journalist Sami Shah had never experienced racism until he moved to Australia from Pakistan. It makes him the best person to prise ope...
Let's talk about race: Is Australia racist? from 2021-08-09T11:05:27
Comedian and journalist Sami Shah had never experienced racism until he moved to Australia from Pakistan. It makes him the best person to prise open the lid on this difficult conversation about wha...
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Walking eel country from 2021-08-02T11:05
As you enter the town of Lake Bolac in southwest Victoria, you pass a sign that says 'home of aquatic sports', but historically Lake Bolac is famous for its fine quality and abundance of kuyang or ...
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Bev Francis - strongest woman in the world from 2021-07-26T11:05
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...
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The Melbourne Towers'hard lockdown - one year on from 2021-07-19T11:05
In July last year, after a surge in Covid outbreaks, 3000 residents in nine public housing towers in Melbourne were forced into hard lockdown. Police surrounded the buildings and no one was allowed...
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Martuwarra Fitzroy River: Then they came for the water from 2021-07-12T11:05
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners are advised that the following program contains the voice of a person who has died. The Martuwarra Fitzroy River is one of Australia’s most pristine...
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Martuwarra Fitzroy River: First they came for the land from 2021-07-05T11:00
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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Refugees chase the Olympic dream from 2021-06-28T11:00
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 togeth...
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Greetings from Port Kembla from 2021-06-21T11:00
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 w...
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Greetings from Footscray from 2021-06-14T11:00
Migrants, artists, drug users and The Western Bulldogs have brought fame and infamy to Footscray. Writer and local Alice Pung introduces us to the people that make this Melbourne suburb feisty and...
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Greetings from Mallacoota from 2021-06-07T11:00
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 traditiona...
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Greetings from Broken Hill from 2021-05-31T11:00
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 ev...
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Boy on the Bike - the mystery of a wartime photograph from 2021-05-17T11:05
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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Searching for Trough Man from 2021-05-10T11:05
He emerged of Sydney's gay party scene of 1980s, a time of creative and sexual freedom. But where is he today?
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Broken by battle from 2021-04-26T11:00
Australian forces took part in the conflicts in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Three soldiers share their experiences of those wars and returning home to face a battle of a different kind.
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Secrets and sexuality: the cost of coming out from 2021-04-10T14:00:04
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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After faith from 2021-04-03T14:05
What happens when you no longer believe in God, but still experience a God-shaped hole in your life?
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A newspaper is born from 2021-03-27T14:00:48
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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Boobs Behaving Badly: the dark side of breast implants from 2021-03-13T14:05
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 ...
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Cath and Jack and the firestorm in Dale Place from 2021-03-06T13:05:24
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: ...
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Overlooking the grasslands from 2021-02-27T13:30
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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Mapu Anyul Yandi Gindarr - people come together as one from 2021-02-20T14:05
Indigenous and African migrant communities collide in the Northern Territory, as Sydney-born Brian Obiri-Asare explores what it means to be black in Australia
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The Gift: life on the organ donor waiting list from 2021-02-13T14:05
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 for someone to die, but that you could also die waiting? This is 30 ...
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Australia's caste divide from 2021-02-06T14:05
The caste system has impacted the lives of many South Asians for thousands of years, but how does it affect communities here in Australia?
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One Single Moment from 2021-01-30T14:05
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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The New Normal, ep 3 from 2020-12-12T13:30
2020 will forever be remembered as the year which was turned upside down in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic. Using intimate audio diary recordings, this series follows 11 people from around th...
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The New Normal, ep 2 from 2020-12-05T13:30
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 recordi...
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The New Normal, ep 1 from 2020-11-28T13:30
Covid-19 has created a new economic and social reality. Using intimate audio diary recordings, this series follows the lives of 11 people, spread around the country and spanning several generations...
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The New Normal, ep 1 from 2020-11-28T13:30
Covid-19 has created a new economic and social reality. Using intimate audio diary recordings, this series follows the lives of 11 people, spread a...
Living on the ice edge from 2020-11-07T13:30
What if instead of looking at the world through complex systems like politics, economics, community health, we observed the world through the lens of ice?
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What does haka mean today? from 2020-10-31T13:30:33
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 perform...
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Worm Holes and Dinosaur Trails from 2020-10-24T13:30
What can dinosaurs and giant worms tell us about the meaning of time?
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Songs from a walled village from 2020-10-17T13:30:17
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 brida...
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The genetic lottery from 2020-10-10T13:30
The Ashkenazi Jewish population have a much higher risk of cancer than other people. In this story three families talk about receiving the news that could drastically change their lives.
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Songs of Love and Suicide - Landays poetry of Afghanistan from 2020-10-03T13:30
Landays is a powerful and subversive form of poetry in Afghanistan, performed by women. Part of traditional folk culture, the poems are oral and improvised. And for the women who give voice to them...
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Facing down the beauty myth from 2020-09-26T13:30
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 and the young feminists who love it.
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No ordinary beauty queen from 2020-09-19T13:30
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 the lives of young African-Australian women.
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The forbidden city - Melbourne's covid curfew from 2020-09-12T13:30:25
Take a near empty tram through Melbourne in curfew and meet the people behind the masks who are keeping the city alive.
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A Bucket List of Sounds from 2020-09-05T13:30
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.
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Small town syndrome from 2020-08-29T13:30
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 years later to track him down.
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Still in the shearing game from 2020-08-22T13:30
Australia is facing a shortage in shearers — long hours, injury, poor working conditions, and extended trips away from home are making the job a difficult proposition for the next generation.
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Quarantine dreams from 2020-08-15T13:30:26
Have you been having more vivid dreams lately? You’re not alone. We delve into the collective unconscious to find out what’s behind these ‘quarantine dreams’.
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My voice is my passport from 2020-08-08T13:30
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 go...
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The Lone Soldier from 2020-08-01T13:30
Every month many young Australians pack their bags and travel to Israel to join the Israeli Defence Force. And when they do, the army calls them lone soldiers.
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Beyond the cure from 2020-07-25T13:30
A family receives devastating news that changes their lives and propels them into a future they never imagined.
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Cann River Emergency Warning from 2020-07-18T13:30
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 ...
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Arncliffe's rear window from 2020-07-11T13:30
During the pandemic lockdown a documentary maker grows increasingly obsessed with his neighbours and sets out to meet them all.
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04 | Housing the Australian Nation: Brisbane from 2020-06-27T13:30
In the final episode Peter Mares is in Brisbane to see if the not-for-profit community housing model offers some solutions to the crisis in affordable housing.
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03 | Housing the Australian Nation: Adelaide from 2020-06-13T13:30
Peter Mares travels to Adelaide, home to the South Australian Housing Trust, which once set the gold standard for state housing authorities worldwide, but now struggles to house even the most vulne...
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02 | Housing the Australian Nation: Hobart from 2020-06-06T13:30
Peter travels to Hobart which in late 2019 was named Australia’s least affordable capital city for renters. More than one in four Australian households rent from a private landlord. There are growi...
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01 | Housing the Australian Nation: Melbourne from 2020-05-30T13:30
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 housi...
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The COVID Diaries — Episode 3: Work from 2020-05-23T13:30
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.
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The COVID Diaries — Episode 2: School from 2020-05-16T13:30
From the trenches of the home schooling front a teacher, a student and a parent tell the story of the education revolution brought on by COVID-19.
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The COVID Diaries — Episode 1: Home from 2020-05-09T13:30
Stolen hand sanitizer, an iso wedding, losing all three of your jobs in one week—life at home in lockdown in Australia, as told through the intimate audio diaries of three women.
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Where have all the sharks gone? from 2020-05-02T13:30:25
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 o...
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Lives After Hate, part 2 from 2020-04-25T13:30
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 engaged in the politics of hate when they decide to walk away from it?
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Lives After Hate, part 1 from 2020-04-18T13:30
The story of one man's slide into the white supremacist movement in Canada in the late 1980s, and which asks the question; whose voices should be heard in the aftermath of violence, as a community ...
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Solomon Islands: encounters in paradise from 2020-04-04T13:30
If your government failed to provide running water, electricity, roads, safety from gender violence, or other staples of everyday life, what would you do? In the Solomon Islands people are taking m...
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Survival across the ditch: Kiwis in Australia from 2020-03-28T13:30:02
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 from 2020-03-21T13:30
Tombstones were once doors to the afterlife, where spirits could pass through. Today they're smaller, but they still mark a place where we can leave offerings, tell stories and think alternative th...
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My beautiful lungs - living with cystic fibrosis from 2020-03-14T13:30
Cystic fibrosis affects nearly 4000 Australians but how much do you know about what it's like to live with?
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#I'llridewithyou, West Papua from 2020-03-07T13:30:49
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...
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Inside the birth suite: why women are left traumatised by birth from 2020-02-29T13:30:30
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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Vanuatu's stolen generation from 2020-02-22T13:30
150 years ago thousands of young men were taken from the Pacific Islands. Today the scars are still being felt.
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Polygamous marriage in modern Malaysia from 2020-02-15T13:30:43
Muslim Malaysians often have complex and tangled views about polygamy. Their feelings and beliefs aren’t always mirrored by their actions. What role does pragmatism play? What role does faith play?
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Survival and revival in the Torres Strait from 2020-02-08T13:30:26
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.
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South Korea's hope in hell from 2020-02-01T13:30
Expectation and competition are pushing young South Koreans to give up on marriage and kids.
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Love, obsession and fanyuism in figure skating from 2020-01-25T13:30:39
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 watch him skate.
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Five days in a balloon from 2019-12-14T13:30
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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Back to the multilingual future from 2019-12-07T13:30:22
To imagine our multilingual future do we have to return to the past?
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Talking through the generations from 2019-11-30T13:30:11
Migrant languages tend to disappear by the third generation. But is there a way to resist this trend towards being a 'graveyard of languages' and for us to hold onto language through the generations?
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How language education is failing and flourishing from 2019-11-23T13:30:44
The Australian education system both values and devalues languages other than English. So schools play a crucial role in contributing to a multilingual Australia — or do they?
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Bringing up bilingual baby from 2019-11-16T13:30:26
Australian families and communities who bring up their children in more than one language take on a huge challenge. Is it worth the effort?
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Is Australia ready for the multilingual mindset? from 2019-11-09T13:30:43
Australia has a monolingual mindset but a multilingual reality. What does this mean for how we go about our day-to-day lives? Masako Fukui and Sheila Ngoc Pham investigate.
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From St Kilda to Kings Cross from 2019-11-02T13:30:01
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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Kangaroo cuddles - life inside a premmie baby unit from 2019-10-26T13:30:32
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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The cop and the crim from 2019-10-19T13:30:25
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 that turned his life around. This is a rare encounter between two m...
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Lucky Dube: how a South African musician changed the sound of desert music from 2019-10-12T13:30
In the remote Aboriginal communities of Central Australia, a musician most of us have never heard of, was “bigger than The Beatles”.
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The Call: inside the Christian Brothers from 2019-10-05T13:30
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 ...
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Aziz: A Stranger in Geneva from 2019-09-28T13:30
Manus Island detainee Abdul Aziz Muhamat has been allowed to spend three weeks in Geneva in order to accept a human rights award. But he has a big decision to make. Should he stay and seek asylum ...
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Aziz: Flight from Manus from 2019-09-21T13:30
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 his internment which is happening because he's on the short-list fo...
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The last golden age of the bee people from 2019-09-14T13:30
Australia is the last inhabited continent on earth without a little mite that could unravel our food system. Meet the city and regional beekeepers who are preparing for its inevitable arrival that ...
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Borderland: Ireland in the shadow of Brexit from 2019-09-07T13:30
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 ...
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My fake naked body: one woman's story of image-based abuse from 2019-08-31T13:30
Noelle Martin was an 18-year-old law student when she found hundreds of explicit images online with her face photoshopped onto the naked bodies of porn actresses.
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The Mystery of the Marree Man from 2019-08-24T13:30
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.
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The Iceman of Nederland from 2019-08-17T13:30
The town of Nederland in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains has an unusual mascot: an old, dead Norwegian man, whose body is preserved in a backyard cryogenics chamber. Behind it all - his grandson keeps t...
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Naponi's story: Loving a man with schizophrenia from 2019-08-10T13:30:05
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 psychiatric facility for over 14 years now and some in her Sudanese c...
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The artist and the algorithm: how YouTube is changing our relationship with music from 2019-08-03T13:30:14
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 fo...
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Ball by bloody ball from 2019-07-27T13:30
Two blokes buy the radio rights to an international test cricket series on a credit card.
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You should feel uncomfortable: One family's time in Outreach International from 2019-07-20T13:30:56
Robert, Laura and Lee Sullivan were all once members of Outreach International, an organisation that they now believe is a cult because they felt controlled and were only allowed to have relationsh...
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A Mother's Mind from 2019-07-13T13:30
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 ...
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Singing the Stones: can industry and ancient rock art coexist on the Burrup Peninsula? from 2019-07-06T13:30
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 cons...
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Wentworth Street Port Kembla from 2019-06-29T13:30:29
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.
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A revolution in the paddocks - regenerative farming from 2019-06-22T13:30:47
A young farming couple find out they can rehabilitate the environment by the way they farm, but the stakes are high, they could go broke by doing it.
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Coal country from 2019-06-15T13:30:01
A coal mine, an anonymous billboard, and a community split in two.
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Banaba: The island Australia ate from 2019-06-01T13:30:13
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 ...
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A Sense of Quietness from 2019-05-25T13:30
This story reveals a line of connection through four Irish women across two referendums, to explore the unexpected consequences of talking about abortion.
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A tourist in Modi's Varanasi from 2019-05-18T13:30:36
The ancient city of Varanasi, Prime Minister Modi’s chosen electorate, offers Hindus a direct path to the heavens but it’s one of the worst polluted places in the world and a demolition site.
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Shutup bonus — Andrew Bolt talks to Sami Shah from 2019-04-26T04:00:55
Sami Shah talks candidly with this controversial columnist and commentator about the challenges of being so open with his opinions.
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Shutup Bonus — Nyadol Nyuon talks to Sami Shah from 2019-04-26T03:30
Lawyer and anti-racism advocate is searing and reflective with Sami Shah about the divisions in Australian media and society and her role in public debate.
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Shutup 01 — Talking about speaking from 2019-04-13T13:30:43
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.
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Shutup 02 — Going mad from 2019-04-13T13:15
Sami Shah finds out what political correctness is and why it’s so darn mad.
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Shutup 03 — Getting Yassmined from 2019-04-13T13:00
A young woman posted on Facebook on Anzac Day and Australia went mad. Sami Shah investigates why every comedian of colour is afraid of being 'Yassmined'.
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Shutup 04 — Frontlines and punchlines from 2019-04-13T12:45
Sami Shah looks at where the free speech lines are being drawn in our newsrooms and comedy clubs.
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Shutup 05 — Not shutting up from 2019-04-13T12:30
Online, on campus, everywhere we’re losing free and frank speech. Sami Shah discovers the consequences of this loss but also finds some solutions.
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Life on the border: Tijuana migrant stories from 2019-04-06T13:30
As the 'migrant caravans' continue to roll into Tijuana, on the US-Mexico border, journalist Janak Rogers spent a week on the ground in the city, speaking with recent arrivals and local residents.
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Becoming Lottie – a trans girl’s story from 2019-03-30T13:30
When she was just four years old, Lottie told her mum she wasn’t a boy, but a transgender girl. Lottie had to fight to be accepted as a girl, and she, and her family faced significant challenges al...
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Boy on the Bike from 2019-03-23T13:30
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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The peaceful rebels of Poso from 2019-03-16T13:30:08
How does a community learn to live together after years of fighting each other in the most violent way possible? The remote Indonesian province of Poso is recovering from a decade-long religious co...
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Stainforth Court: closing the door from 2019-03-09T13:30
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...
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Stainforth Court: the trauma centre from 2019-03-02T13:30
Stainforth Court was a troubled public housing estate in Hobart. But what was it really like to live there?
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Ben Buckley: voting is a crime from 2019-02-23T13:30
Ben Buckley is a pilot, politician and a maverick - a councillor who won't vote for himself.
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The life and death of Turbo Brown from 2019-02-16T13:30:43
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 missio...
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The ghosts of Wittenoom: the lethal asbestos still putting Aboriginal lives at risk from 2019-02-09T13:30
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 m...
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The ghosts of Wittenoom: how asbestos changed the lives of the Pilbara's Aboriginal people from 2019-02-02T13:30:01
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 m...
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Argentina's stolen generation from 2019-01-26T13:30:38
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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How to win friends and become an Instagram influencer from 2018-12-10T11:05:35
Writer Stephanie Coombes, not satisfied with her F-list media lifestyle, goes in search of lucrative Instagram fame.
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A bad bend in the road-an accident at Bonny Hills from 2018-12-03T11:05:17
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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Me, my half-sister and her biological mum from 2018-11-26T11:05
The unlikely story of two half-sisters who connected late in life, a birth mother turned adoptive mother, and what can happen when biological relatives turn up out of the blue.
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A stroke of love from 2018-11-19T11:05:18
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.
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The last flamingo from 2018-11-12T11:05:36
What can the last flamingo who lived in Australia tell us about zookeeping, taxidermy and loneliness?
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To end all wars from 2018-11-05T11:05
Contemporary Australian poets respond to the centenary of the Armistice.
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Becoming a motherless mother from 2018-10-29T11:05:08
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 your own.
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Sex, gender and sport - are you woman enough? from 2018-10-22T11:05:36
How should transgender athletes prove that they are woman enough to play with other women on the sporting field?
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Robert Manne's voice from 2018-10-15T11:05:25
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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Mad for manga from 2018-10-08T11:05:35
Once considered nerdy, Japanese pop culture like manga and anime is now big in Australia. What’s the appeal?
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I heart women's wrestling from 2018-10-01T11:05:12
Three bad-ass women wrestlers talk about the power, performance and passion in Australia's world-class pro-wrestling scene.
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Rebel Roma from 2018-09-24T11:05:43
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 t...
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Homer of the Wimmera from 2018-09-10T11:05
The fascinating life story of Homer Rieth — a composer, poet and founder of the Minyip Philosophical Society.
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Nervous, scared, proud-women's footy comes to Bidyadanga from 2018-09-03T11:05:22
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.
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Aurukun part 2: Black, white and shades of grey from 2018-08-27T11:05
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.
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Aurukun part 1: Two love birds in the bush from 2018-08-20T11:05
We travel to Aurukun, an Indigenous community in far north Queensland, to hear the story of a Wik woman, a white engineer turned anthropologist, and their son Bruce.
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Sinkers, stinkers and sharks from 2018-08-13T11:05:34
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...
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The true cost of interpretation from 2018-08-06T11:05
Life in Afghanistan is dangerous, but if you've worked as an interpreter, you're even more of a target.
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Four parents two gaybies: part 2 from 2018-07-30T11:05
A gay family story with a twist. Gay couples John and Charlie, and Ruth and Betty hit some very modern day family dilemmas.
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Four parents two gaybies: part 1 from 2018-07-23T11:05
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. Fo...
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Edgar, Edgar, where are you? from 2018-07-16T11:05:45
After a chance encounter with a ghost from her past, Elizabeth Mora is forced to confront a decade old question: did coming to Australia break or save her family? As she reconciles her parents’ com...
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Bedtime stories from prison from 2018-07-09T11:05
Approximately half of Australia's prisoners are also parents. So how do they maintain a relationship with their kids while they're inside?
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Sink or swim: finding asylum in Australia from 2018-07-02T11:05
When Mina Abdolmaleki arrived in Australia as a spiritual exile from Iran, she thought the challenges would end there. But despite now having the freedom to think and act freely, her faith is still...
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We don't belong to anywhere from 2018-06-25T11:05:34
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.
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Hugh, you're gay from 2018-06-18T11:05:58
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 was in the first Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras 40 years ago. Wil...
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Swings and roustabouts: the life and times of a shearer and his daughter from 2018-06-11T11:05
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.
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The young Apprentice from 2018-06-04T11:05
Kudakwashe Pwiti always wanted to make dancehall music, but his sheltered childhood wouldn’t prepare him for the dark side of the music scene.
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The last Jew of Essaouira from 2018-05-28T11:05:28
Why did all the Jews suddenly leave a town in Morocco where they had lived in harmony with their Muslim neighbours for centuries?
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Chasing meteors from 2018-05-21T11:05
An out-of-this-world quest to find the origins of life in the middle of the desert.
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The Conquistador, the Warlpiri and the dog whisperer from 2018-05-14T11:05:28
A remarkable tale of two women from opposite sides of the political divide in Chile who washed up in the desert in Central Australia. They've formed a strong bond and now work together with the ar...
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The Unknown Man from 2018-05-07T11:05
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.
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Antarctica, the Big Dead Place from 2018-04-30T11:05
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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Deaf heart from 2018-04-23T11:05
Jodee Mundy is the only person in her family who can hear. Ever since she was little, she has moved between two worlds.
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The Outcasts from 2018-04-16T11:05
What kind of sacrifices are you willing to make to pursue your life’s work? When anthropologist Laura Rival left Europe to live and work with a remote group in Amazonia, she took her young daughter...
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The C word from 2018-04-09T11:05
Today we're breaking taboos. It's all about the Class. Comedian Nelly Thomas gathers a group of her blue-collar classmates for a frank chat.
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Walking on eggshells from 2018-04-02T11:05
For Barry Jorgensen, an electrician and lifelong tinkerer, learning to live with Parkinson’s Disease is a bit like constantly rewiring a faulty circuit board. For his family, it's a fragile negotia...
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The legend of Larantuka from 2018-03-26T11:05
It's the world's most populous Muslim nation. So what brings thousands of Catholic pilgrims each Easter to the remote town of Larantuka in Flores, Indonesia?
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My favourite Martian from 2018-03-19T11:05
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.
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A wicked problem from 2018-03-12T11:05
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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A portrait of a foster family from 2018-03-05T11:05
Meet the Greenocks. They fostered their first child seven years ago oblivious to the joy, the grief, the chaos, the worry and the love it would bring to their home.
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Mal and Ari from 2018-02-26T11:05
The aftermath of child sexual abuse is an ordeal for all survivors - but for men, it can carry particular challenges. Mal and Ari tell their stories.
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Music Our Bodies Can't Hold from 2018-02-19T11:05
Poet Andy Jackson writes about people who live Marfan Syndrome, including some famous characters who are thought to have had it, such as Abraham Lincoln, Robert Johnson and Rachmaninov.
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Adopting a war from 2018-02-12T11:05
The story of a young Australian man killed fighting with the Kurds in Syria.
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The hoarder, the daughter, the lover and the wife from 2018-02-05T11:05:21
A tale of friendship, betrayal, hoarding, squatters and a missing $100,000 dollar cheque. Helen and Franca weren't meant to be friends because Franca was Helen's husband's lover. But then Franca ha...
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Mindfulness and the moon from 2018-01-29T11:05:26
What has practising mindfulness taught sound artist Sherre Delys about understanding climate change and stress at work? Join Sherre on this very personal and sound-rich story of mindfulness as she...
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Feral or For Real: Why do we see big cats? from 2018-01-22T11:05
Stories of big cats prowling the Australian bush are now generations old. Hundreds of Australians say they’ve seen a panther, lion or tiger roaming wild in the countryside. Is there a whisker of tr...
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Three front doors and a paddock episode four: traditions from 2018-01-16T11:30
Andrew and Ben talk about the challenge of when to honour the canon, and when to let it go in the name of creativity.
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Lost for words: The Gene Gibson story from 2018-01-15T10:25:13
On a sweltering February night in 2010, the destinies of two 21-year-olds — one white, and one black collided fatally on a deserted road outside of Broome. Gene Gibson, a cognitively impaired Pintu...
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Three front doors and a paddock episode three: down to business from 2018-01-09T11:30
There are always strings attached to earning a living from making art and writing music.
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The three of us from 2018-01-09T11:05:03
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.
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Falling: The Andrew Mallard story from 2018-01-08T11:05
In 1994 mother-of-two, Pamela Lawrence, was murdered Andrew Mallard would make one of the most unorthodox "confessions" in the annals of criminal justice and virtually every single part of the just...
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Three front doors and a paddock episode two: life into art from 2018-01-02T11:30
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 do they turn these big themes of life into art?
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Finding Australia's Tarzan from 2018-01-02T11:05:30
Michael ‘Tarzan’ Fomenko lived among the dense tropical rainforest for 50 years.
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Three front doors and a paddock episode one: first marks from 2017-12-26T11:30
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.
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Do not go gentle from 2017-12-26T11:05
Old LP records found in a rubbish skip reveal some famous voices.
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Dead unlucky: The John Button story from 2017-12-25T11:05
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. I...
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Fallen Angels from 2017-12-19T11:05
A very personal journey to the Philippines to meet the children of Australian sex tourists.
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Any stick to beat a dog: The Darryl Beamish story from 2017-12-18T11:05
Darryl Beamish was a profoundly deaf teenager when he was charged with the 1959 axe murder of glamorous young Perth socialite Jillian Brewer. The Beamish case would take fifty years to resolve, an...
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Majnoon: Muslims and mental health from 2017-12-12T12:05
Within Australia's Islamic communities, mental illness is often a silent scourge. We hear personal stories from the frontlines of mental health awareness.
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Ultimately Frisbee from 2017-12-11T11:05
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.
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The Finnish Paradox from 2017-12-05T11:05
This year marks the centenary of Finland's independence - a country and a history cursed and blessed by its location.
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Where the bloody hell were you! Ep. 4, When the tobacco ads came down from 2017-12-04T11:05
In the Age of Aquarius the public get wise to being hoodwinked. Health campaigners hijack the medium — and turn it to their advantage.
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Too many Asians? from 2017-11-28T11:05
Why are most selective high schools for the academically gifted dominated by Asian Australian students? And what do Asian students and graduates of selective schools think of our education system ...
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Where the bloody hell were you! Ep. 3, When TV advertising went marketing mad from 2017-11-27T11:05
The hunt is on for the winning formula to make that perfect ad. Keeping clients happy and the consumers consuming.
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You will not see me die from 2017-11-21T11:05:03
An Indigenous Mexican poet has written a powerful love song to her threatened Zapotec language, a young rapper has taken her poem and transformed it into hip hop.
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Where the bloody hell were you! Ep. 2, When the TV jingle reigned supreme from 2017-11-20T11:05
TV jingles that jarred and the ones we sang along to. Australia finds its voice — and it wasn’t always pretty!
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Adelie'Front Page'Hurley from 2017-11-14T11:05
The story of Adelie 'Front Page' Hurley, Australia’s first female photojournalist, whose landscape images, published in magazines and newspapers in the 1950s and '60s helped change the way Australi...
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Where the bloody hell were you! Ep. 1, When television arrived in Australia from 2017-11-13T11:05
Black and white TV begins in Australia. American advertisements arrive bringing the Aussie cringe.
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Russia's Anti-Revolution: 100 years after the Revolution from 2017-11-07T11:05
Communism ended in failure, capitalism has corrupted the nation's soul, and so today Russians are looking inward.
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The War We Forgot from 2017-11-06T11:05
How does a nation forget a wartime catastrophe? When Japan invaded Australian territory in January 1942, hundreds of civilians were left behind to die. 75 years later, their families are still trau...
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An end to discord from 2017-10-31T11:05
Through the middle of the 20th Century, our evolving appetite for innovation in music took us on some pretty weird detours.
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Who owns mindfulness? from 2017-10-30T11:05:44
We’re told Mindfulness is the cure for our stressful lives. But what if we’re really being sold ‘McMindfulness’ - quick and dirty solutions to keep us productive? Find out from some of the world’s...
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My brilliant friend from 2017-10-24T11:05:50
Writer Lucy Grealy was sassy, smart and unafraid to talk about beauty, she was a survivor of cancer of the jaw. Her friends, writer Ann Patchett and singer Diana Jones remember her creative spirit...
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Australia's pro-gaming big league from 2017-10-23T11:05
We follow The Chiefs, one of the oldest and most successful professional video gaming teams in Australia, who are battling to make it to the League of Legends World Championship.
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A Holden history: Part two from 2017-10-17T11:05
The rise and rise of Holden in the 1950s, '60s and '70s to a position of market dominance in Australia, and then the long chain of events leading up to the end of car-manufacturing in this country.
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A Holden history: part one from 2017-10-16T11:05
A story of determination, culture clashes, politics and personalities. In part one we trace the beginnings of Holden from an Adelaide saddlery to the launch of Australia's own car.
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What happens when Cambodian refugees are deported back home? from 2017-10-10T11:05
Deportation can mean that one day you're a kid from Chicago and the next day living on the streets of Phnom Penh.
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Former foreign correspondent Jill Jolliffe's latest battle from 2017-10-09T11:05
Crusading journalist Jill Jolliffe has spent her time giving a voice to others. But since her diagnosis of Alzheimer's last year, telling her own story has become more urgent than ever.
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The last tango in Satumaa from 2017-10-03T11:05
For the small Finnish migrant population in Australia the idea of home takes on strange shapes when so far away.
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The Silent Forest: A'peace park'in Myanmar from 2017-10-02T11:05:41
Beneath the canopy lies at last a healthy and rich biodiversity — Myanmar.
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Clutterbuck's dream: the ball and the box from 2017-09-26T11:05
A story of dreaming big. One man's great scheme, in Depression era Australia, to invent a waterproof football.
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The Silent Forest: Siamese rosewood from 2017-09-25T11:05:46
The lush, deep-red Siamese rosewood is so desirable people risk their lives to get it — Thailand.
The chameleon architect from 2017-09-19T11:05:09
Ross Langdon was a remarkable young Tasmanian architect who died at the hands of Somali terror group Al Shabaab. He has left a legacy across East ...
The Silent Forest: Pangolins from 2017-09-18T11:05:55
The pangolin is a small peculiar scaled mammal and is the most trafficked creature on the planet — Vietnam.
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For better or for worse from 2017-09-12T11:05:07
What happens when the person you love commits an abhorrent crime?
The Silent Forest: Songbirds from 2017-09-11T11:05:57
The last of the forest songbirds — Indonesia.
Ladies of the deep South from 2017-09-05T11:05:29
Come on a tour through the southers states of the USA where optimism abounds amongst women of every racial and economic background.
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The full cost of fraud from 2017-09-04T11:05:09
Leigh lost everything when he was caught stealing from his employer. What drove him to step over that moral line?
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Down and out in Melbourne and Darwin: part two from 2017-08-29T11:05
Darwin, like every other modern city, has contradictory policies when it comes to dealing with it's homeless population. But, in Darwin the difficu...
Down and out in Melbourne and Darwin: part one from 2017-08-28T11:05
In the spirit of George Orwell's Paris and London adventure a century ago, this is homelessness in Melbourne and Darwin today.
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The cathedral and the box from 2017-08-22T11:05:31
How two very different architectural spaces inspired innovative music, eight centuries apart.
Who killed the kangaroo king? from 2017-08-21T11:20:50
Andy Komarnicki disappeared without a trace from the south west Queensland town of St George in January 1980.
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Eric Rolls and the Pilliga from 2017-08-15T11:05:28
Eric Rolls was a rare combination; farmer, poet, self-taught naturalist and historian. He also wrote Australia’s first true environmental history<...
It's being recorded: the death of Ashley Bryant from 2017-08-14T11:05:50
What pushed this policeman and father to the edge of the cliff the day he called 000?
Douglas Grant: The skin of others from 2017-08-08T11:05:19
A remarkable Aboriginal man who suvived two wars but who many Australians at the time saw as a human experiment.
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Saving Derby from 2017-08-07T11:05
Foresters and mountain bike riders face-off in the tiny Tassie town of Derby.
A day in the life of a culture keeper from 2017-08-01T11:05
Ever felt the need to attend a drumming workshop with an extraordinary Griot? It's a treat for the ears.
Ingrid and the cassowaries from 2017-07-18T11:05:46
Dogs are running wild in the rainforests of North Queensland, killing wildlife. But one woman stood up to them
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Five miles in Tansy's shoes: religion, a musical passion and raising a disabled child from 2017-07-11T11:05:43
Religion, a musical passion and disability - walk up to the front door of any home and you're likely to hear a remarkable story. This is Tansy's.
Brian Willcox can't sleep from 2017-07-04T11:05:11
When PTSD stops Brian from sleeping he jumps in his car and drives three hours to Perth to help homeless war veterans sleeping rough.
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800 Words for Rain: Part Two from 2017-06-27T11:05
The story of Papua New Guinea's national public broadcaster, the NBC, which was born out of the hope and flourish of the country's independence fro...
800 Words for Rain: Part One from 2017-06-26T11:05
The story of Papua New Guinea's national public broadcaster, the NBC, which was born out of the hope and flourish of the country's independence fro...
Homotopia: A Love Story, Part Two from 2017-06-20T11:05
Many of us have heard stories about the difficulty of coming out as a gay person. But how do their families experience the coming out process?
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Homotopia: A Love Story, Part One from 2017-06-19T11:05
It’s been nearly fifty years since gay liberation. Now, queer folk can be who they are almost anywhere, so why do they still love to create specifi...
The house that Bali built from 2017-06-13T11:05:27
Discover the mysterious music of 1930s ‘exotic Bali’ in this tale of passion.
She's doing time: when Mum goes to prison from 2017-06-12T11:05:13
As more mothers go to prison in Australia each year, what happens to the families they leave on the outside?
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The story of Woonyoomboo from 2017-06-06T11:05:40
Take a rare journey with cultural custodian Annie Nayina Milgin across the West Kimberley as she tells the story of the Nyikina people’s creation a...
A Little Bit of Sugar from 2017-06-05T11:05
A little pub in the Western suburbs of Melbourne is an unlikely place to find your family
The Sailors' Walk from 2017-05-30T11:05
A remarkable story of survival in 18th century Australia.