Encore: Helen Garner's love letter to her grandson, and football
When Helen Garner began following her grandson Amby's under-16s football team, it was a chance to spend more time with her youngest grandchild before ...
The forgotten men who fought and died in the wild jungles of Borneo
At the very end of World War Two, Australian soldiers were sent to Borneo to dislodge the occupying Japanese Forces. The story of their brutal fightin...
Deciding to live—recovery from a decade long battle with anorexia
While fighting anorexia Lexi Crouch was admitted to hospital 25 times and placed in an induced coma twice. When doctors told her she would die, she be...
Frosty the supercars legend and his race to the top of Mount Panorama
Mark Winterbottom grew up in outer Western Sydney, in a family with not much money to spend on expensive hobbies. But by an extraordinary twist of fat...
Encore: Author Heather Rose on the grief lodged deep in her body
Heather's brother and grandfather died in a tragic drowning accident when she was 12 and from that day, she began looking for a way to commune with wh...
A former army psychologist on ketamine therapy, PTSD and her surrogate twins
Louise O'Sullivan spent 10 years with the ADF, including deployments with the Special Forces in Afghanistan which eventually left her with PTSD, but a...
Dad, Bob Marley and me
After the death of her father, a spiritual moment with the life-size wooden statue of Bob at Nine Mile convinced queer rapper, Jamaica Moana that ever...
How a pair of disobedient missionaries invented Australia's most iconic road trip
Tens of thousands of 'van lifers' and 'grey nomads' drive around Australia each year. But the iconic road trip has a surprising origin story involving...
Encore: How Johnathan Thurston became one of the greats
Despite being a stand-out young player, many NRL clubs initially rejected Johnathan Thurston because they thought he was too small and wiry but he wen...
How Aunty Rhonda learnt to cry
Artist, author and Stolen Generations survivor, Rhonda Collard-Spratt, on bush hugs, beehives, emu bumps, and finding peace. Aunty Rhonda Collard-Spr...