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The Guardian Australia's culture team is often joined by performers, writers, musicians, and artists of every form. They discuss the news, trends, events and everything else which encompass Australia’s incredible culture
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Reading romance books after heartbreak, finding nostalgia, and living with cancer and Covid
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A writer wonders about a happily ever after. Nostalgia rises after years of rapid tech change. And cancer survivors manage treatment during lockdownAutor: The Guardian
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Taking inspiration from Chrissy Amphlett, Sharon Stone’s stunt double, and a diving superwoman
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Meet three Australian women pushing back on the expectations and stereotypes so often placed on themAutor: The Guardian
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‘I am Bob. Just Bob’: could a Wollongong folk hero have had a Nazi past?
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The steel city once knew him as a migrant made good who contributed a great gift to the arts. But one man has been digging into the true identity of Bob SredersasAutor: The Guardian
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Leading the charge: road-testing Australia’s EV stations on a 2,800km round trip
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What are the pleasures and pitfalls of driving an electric car from Sydney to Melbourne and back? Guardian Australia’s economics correspondent Peter Hannam goes for a test drive. Plus: we hear from a wrestling champ who can’t compete, and about a new island forming in the PacificAutor: The Guardian
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Travelling lions, sinking islands and the last video store
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These are some of our favourite stories from the Guardian Australia Reads audio library. A lion gets inside a London black cab, a son contemplates the future of his father’s ashes on a sinking island and Melbourne’s last video store resolutely stays openAutor: The Guardian
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In search of Australia’s elusive treasures
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Three stories of mystery this week: on the scent of platypus eggs, tracking Australia’s ‘most beautiful mammals’ and uncovering fabled Aboriginal art 40 years after its disappearanceAutor: The Guardian
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An all-female fight camp, a middle-aged guide to surfing and discovering postpartum rage
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Three stories about women at major points in their lives – challenging the stories they’ve been told about themselves. We take on combat sport, brave board burn and experience postpartum furyAutor: The Guardian
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‘The good fight’: Roebuck Plains Station and its return to Indigenous owners
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The Yawuru people have finally had 530,000 hectares of their traditional country returned to them. We also hear suburban tales of electrifying our homes and discovering treasure on council cleanup daysAutor: The Guardian
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For four extraordinary people, superpowers are not beyond the imagination – they are an ordinary reality that they smell, remember and see every dayAutor: The Guardian
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‘Stop and enjoy your life’ – how to rethink work after the pandemic
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The pandemic has made us re-evaluate what we took for granted. How have Australians made sense of the value of work, amidst all this change and chaos? We also hear about the digital preservation of a Sydney herbarium, and unlikely discoveries from Alexander Downer’s suitcaseAutor: The Guardian
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Big cats, green sea turtles and 130 different bird species
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Three stories take us into the animal kingdom. Meet communities around Australia ‘discovering’ animals on land and sea, both big and smallAutor: The Guardian
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A bank heist, losing the vroom and an endurance swim
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In a new format, Guardian Australia Reads presents three of our best features, read to you out loud. In this episode, we hear the stories behind Australia’s biggest bank heist, the (controversial) quiet sounds of electric motorcycles and 10-hour swims across the ChannelAutor: The Guardian
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A day at the beach: sex, sharks and ashes
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We take you to the beach and get among the sand and saltwater. Hear four very different stories about memorable moments at the beach. Together they celebrate and remember the feeling of elation – both big and smallAutor: The Guardian
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The English teacher and the Nazis: trove of letters in Melbourne reveals network that saved Jews
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Frances and Jan Newell painstakingly uncovered their mother’s role in facilitating the escape of Jews and political dissidents from Berlin to Britain. Head of news Mike Ticher recommends a story that starts with an old leather suitcaseAutor: The Guardian
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Pure heaven, but also hell: my trek to find the Disappearing Tarn
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In the mountain by Hobart a lake appears just after heavy rain, then vanishes. Features editor Lucy Clark recommends a story that takes us on a mysterious searchAutor: The Guardian
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Witness K and the ‘outrageous’ spy scandal that failed to shame Australia
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Witness K and lawyer Bernard Collaery helped correct what they saw as a gross injustice. Luke Henriques-Gomes introduces Christopher Knaus’ story about espionage, oil fields and diplomatic embarrassment for the Australian governmentAutor: The Guardian
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‘We need to be alarmed’: food banks in overdrive as politicians allow Australians to go hungry
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Food relief organisations say they are helping more people than ever before. But this is not a good news story. Head of news, Mike Ticher, introduces an investigation into underlying inequality in Australia that predates the Covid crisisAutor: The Guardian
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‘The right thing to do’: restoring Aboriginal place names key to recognising Indigenous histories
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Indigenous communities argue that renaming landscapes should not be limited to removing overtly racist colonial names. Assistant news editor Shelley Hepworth recommends this story about truth-tellingAutor: The Guardian
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When released from prison, Darko Desic faces deportation to a country that no longer exists
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Desic turned himself in to police in Sydney 30 years after escaping jail. Ben Doherty explores how his friends and family are pleading for the Australian government to show mercy and let him stayAutor: The Guardian
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‘My father will go down like the captain of the Titanic’: life on the Pacific’s disappearing islands
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Many in the Saposa Islands are wrestling with the dilemma of starting a new life on the mainland or staying to watch their homes vanish. Deputy editor, David Munk, introduces this storyAutor: The Guardian
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‘The only place like it in the world’: why the Nicholas Building is the creative heart of Melbourne
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Built in 1926 by a pharmaceutical company, the heritage-listed building has since become a hub for artists – who now fear it may be under threat. Culture editor, Steph Harmon, introduces Brigid Delaney’s story about eight of its past and present residentsAutor: The Guardian
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‘The fear of this vaccine is real’: how Papua New Guinea’s Covid strategy went so wrong
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Public confusion and distrust over vaccination have been fuelled by what experts say are crippling failures in authorities’ response to the pandemic. Pacific editor, Kate Lyons, introduces an investigation by Jo ChandlerAutor: The Guardian
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The unclaimed: the ashes left waiting in Sydney’s Wayside Chapel
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In the charity’s storeroom sit the cremated remains of seven former visitors – unclaimed, contested or forgotten. Lifestyle editor Alyx Gorman introduces an intimate story about three of themAutor: The Guardian
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A dip in the Yarra or a dive in the Torrens? The push for urban river bathing in Australia
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There is a growing effort to reconnect swimmers with city waterways once thought permanently lost to pollution. Assistant news editor Rosemary Bolger recommends a story about alternatives to ocean swimsAutor: The Guardian
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‘It’s about quality of life’: septuagenarian gym owners keep their peers moving
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Their shed may not be state-of-the art but a community-oriented approach to fitness is working out for Barbara and Peter Hill. Lifestyle editor Alyx Gorman introduces a heartwarming story that could get you movingAutor: The Guardian
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‘It was life or death’: the plane-hijacking refugees Australia embraced
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Luke Henriques-Gomes’s grandfather was one of 44 refugees to arrive in 1975 on the only RAAF plane ever hijacked. The official response still staggers him. Head of news, Mike Ticher, introduces this little known storyAutor: The Guardian
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‘We’ve been abandoned’: the long road to recovery for black summer bushfire survivors
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Nearly two years after fires devastated the NSW south coast, families still live in caravans as they struggle to rebuild in the face of red tape, a skills shortage and dwindling government support. Rural and regional editor, Gabrielle Chan, introduces this storyAutor: The Guardian
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My life and death hike through busy Melbourne to help a duck march her eight babies to water
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For three hours, writer Debbie Lustig fends off traffic and protects the ducklings like a crazy lollipop lady with a fishing net. Assistant news editor Rosemary Bolger introduces this gripping storyAutor: The Guardian
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Sufferers of chronic pain have long been told it’s all in their head. We now know that’s wrong
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As part of a Guardian series about chronic pain and long Covid, Linda Geddes explores the growing realisation that pain can be a disease in and of itself. Gabrielle Jackson, associate editor of audio and visual, introduces this storyAutor: The Guardian
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What is equity crowdfunding? Why cleaning product and nail polish start-ups ask you to invest
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Australian consumers have invested tens of millions in early-stage start-ups since the practice was approved in 2018, but experts advise caution. Lifestyle editor, Alyx Gorman, introduces this story about a trend that has boomed during the pandemicAutor: The Guardian
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‘It makes us sick’: remote NT community wants answers about uranium in its water supply
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Laramba’s Indigenous residents fear they are at risk of long-term illness and say they need to know who is responsible for fixing the problem. Features editor, Lucy Clark, introduces this story about contaminated drinking waterAutor: The Guardian
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‘Hydration is a simple thing’: has the quest to improve water actually worked?
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From alkaline waters to beauty elixirs, added oxygen and probiotics, many brands claim they have ‘enhanced’ water – but what do the experts think? The lifestyle editor, Alyx Gorman, introduces an investigation into the truest properties of waterAutor: The Guardian
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‘They’ve forgotten we’re still here’: Australia’s polio survivors
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For most, our previous pandemic is a distant memory. But for these five polio survivors, new health problems have just begun. Features editor Lucy Clark introduces personal stories that take us around the countryAutor: The Guardian
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Rohingya United: the football team bringing together refugees
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The Q-League is a far cry from the refugee camps where some of its players learned to play football using scrunched up plastic bags. Guardian Australia’s sport editor Mike Hytner introduces this story about the inclusiveness of sport and a player’s memory of holding a real football for the first time…
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A journey down WA’s mighty Martuwarra, raging river and sacred ancestor
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Traditional owners are standing together to protect the Fitzroy – a ‘beautiful, living water system’. Gabrielle Jackson, associate editor of audio and visual, introduces this story and its bird-sized spidersAutor: The Guardian
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‘I’ve worn a couple’: how Alan Lynch’s scary decline adds to concussion discourse
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Once fast enough to earn a place in the Stawell Gift hall of fame, the former VFL footballer now lives with Parkinson’s disease. Sport editor Mike Hytner introduces Alan Lynch’s honest and candid account of concussion from sportAutor: The Guardian
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Speed, decisiveness, cooperation: how a tiny Taiwanese village overcame Delta
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A rural community of 5,500 people, with an under-resourced health system, came together to take on Covid. International news editor Bonnie Malkin introduces this story about a community effort to confront DeltaAutor: The Guardian
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Clementine Ford pivots to love: ‘For how long can you be the provocative feminist voice?’
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After a decade embroiled in public controversies, one of Australia’s most high-profile feminists is exposing a softer side with her new book, How We Love. Culture editor Steph Harmon introduces this profile on someone who describes herself as wilfully misunderstoodAutor: The Guardian
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‘It will be found’: search for MH370 continues with experts and amateurs still sleuthing
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It’s the “mystery that must be solved”. Seven-and-a-half years after the Malaysia Airlines flight disappeared with 239 people on board, head of news Mike Ticher recommends this story as he remembers covering the tragedy when the news brokeAutor: The Guardian
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A common treatment for endometriosis could actually be making things worse
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Repeat surgeries for endometriosis could be exacerbating pain symptoms, experts say. Gabrielle Jackson, associate editor of audio and visual, introduces a story about a chronic inflammatory condition that affects one in 10 women globallyAutor: The Guardian
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‘There’s risk in everything, right?’ The serendipity and agony of dating your neighbour
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Finding love across the back fence or apartment corridor is a high-risk, high-reward proposition. Convenient? Yes. But also, potentially, mortifying. Lifestyle editor Alyx Gorman recommends this story about neighbourhood matches and disastersAutor: The Guardian
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Anatomy of the loser AFL club: when is the sting of sporting failure worse?
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To fall just short? To never know how it feels to get close? To land between, avoiding either pole? Emma Kemp, deputy sport editor, recommends Geoff Lemon’s treatise on the losing teamAutor: The Guardian
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In Kawerau one thing impedes the effort to vaccinate Māori: New Zealand’s history
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Low Covid vaccination rates reflect practical barriers – but Māori have good reason to distrust the government. International news editor Bonnie Malkin introduces Morgan Godfery’s personal investigation of this fraught historyAutor: The Guardian
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‘A brilliant way to get humans to behave’: the shelter where volunteers read to farm animals
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It might be difficult to choose literature for a sheep. Lifestyle editor, Alyx Gorman, recommends this hopeful story about the rehabilitative effects of a reading program at an animal shelterAutor: The Guardian
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‘Killed like animals’: documents reveal how Australia turned a blind eye to a West Papuan massacre
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Dozens of West Papuans were tortured and thrown into the sea 23 years ago. Days later, Australia knew details of the attack, yet remained silent. Evening news editor Julian Drape introduces this story about survivors and campaigners still fighting for accountabilityAutor: The Guardian
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Top of the tile: wordsmiths of all ages vie for Australia’s Scrabble honours
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Ranging in age from eight to 87, Scrabblers hit the boards in western Sydney earlier this year vying for national supremacy. Sport editor Mike Hytner recommends this match report on a competitive board game with mind-bending wordplayAutor: The Guardian
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How the sausage gets made: the serious business of fake meat
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Australia’s plant-based meat market is booming, with increasingly sophisticated production techniques aiming to earn a place on carnivores’ plates. Assistant news editor Shelley Hepworth recommends this story about meat alternativesAutor: The Guardian
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Photos from ‘beyond the grave’: camera discovery reveals climber’s last images before fatal avalanche
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Two decades ago Richard Stiles escaped an avalanche in New Zealand, but friend Steve Robinson wasn’t so lucky. Now the mountain has given up some of its secrets. Features editor Lucy Clark introduces this unexpected tale about a moment that was captured on film and buried for more than 20 years before resurfacing…
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Reuniting the pack: it took 16 months and a journey through six cities to bring our dog Luna home
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When Gadia Zrihan’s family were forced to leave their dog behind, they left a part of themselves too – a part they feared they could never get back. Lifestyle editor Alyx Gorman recommends this story about a heartwarming family reunion during uncertain timesAutor: The Guardian
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‘That was it, we lost him’: one Sydney family torn apart by Covid
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‘Only when you become one of those numbers, when you’re in it, do you realise how serious it is.’ Live news editor Patrick Keneally recommends this story about personal loss and grief behind the Covid headlinesAutor: The Guardian
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