Why my father was abandoned and the empathy I now have for his mother
Jane Messer grew up with a loving father who never really understood why as a child his mother left him and his older sister at a boarding school, so ...
Encore: The hidden corners of Emma's Hong Kong — fishing villages, beaches and ancestral graveyards
Novelist Emma Pei Yin ran away from Hong Kong as a teenager to start fresh in Australia. But she found herself repeatedly drawn back home whenever she...
'The century of foundlings'—what Cynthia found when she went looking maternal family secrets
Writer Cynthia Banham on discovering the shocking truth about her great-grandmother, reckoning with buried family secrets, and the criticisms mothers ...
Spotting the psychopaths, sadists and narcissists in our lives and how to get rid of them
Toxic people are around us in our workplaces, our families and our dating lives. Research psychologist Leanne ten Brinke is here to tell you how to sp...
Encore: How his ex-wife's hidden letter changed everything for Teddy Tahu Rhodes
Born with a magnificent voice, Opera star Teddy Tahu Rhodes fought against his destiny for years until a letter he'd been avoiding reading changed eve...
The GP clinic for patients often overlooked by society
Dr Nada Andric wants to improve the health of people who are marginalised in the community and their access to healthcare. She works at the Reverend ...
Encore: Bo Seo on good arguments and the power of disagreement
Two-time World Debating champion Bo Seo on how love and listening can improve how we disagree, so we're not at each other's throats online and offline...
Exploring loss, love and meaning with psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz
Stephen Grosz has welcomed people into his office for more than 40 years, and believes our greatest task in life is to see ourselves and others with m...
When the magical worlds of Alice Springs and Prague collided
Writer Tanya Heaslip on swapping life on an Alice Springs station for the fairytale streets of Prague, and the remarkable parallels she found between ...
Encore: Remembering cultural leader and storyteller Rhoda Roberts
The late Widjabul Wieybal woman of the Bundjalung Nation Rhoda Roberts lived through great loss and grief, in the midst of becoming one of Australia's...