Christina Henri
Conceptual artist Christina Henri has made it her mission to tell the world about Australia's female convicts and their children.
View ArticleSally Van Gent
Sally Van Gent established a heritage apple orchard to cultivate the fruit she'd loved as a child.
View ArticleRobyn Arrowsmith
Dr Robyn Arrowsmith has spent the past ten years researching the lives of Australia's war brides.
View ArticleGlenn MacFadyen
Glenn MacFadyen's family survived a tumultuous ocean voyage from Australia to England in a boat they built themselves.
View ArticleSally Van Gent
Sally van Gent planted her own orchard in country Victoria, trying to replicate the apples her grandfather had grown in northern England.
View ArticleForeign workers can't be paid less than Australians under new Darwin labour...
A new arrangement to bring in foreign workers to fill labour shortages in Darwin includes a plan to pay them 10 per cent less than overseas workers in other parts of Australia. That has sparked a...
View ArticleLeila Abukar
Leila Abukar was born in Somalia and spent her teenage years in refugee camps.
View ArticleFederal MP Sussan Ley's unusual path to politics
Federal Assistant Minister for Education Sussan Ley flies her own plane to cover her vast electorate of Farrer.
View ArticleEast Timorese foreign minister Jose Ramos Horta, and former Klu Klux Klan...
Behind Jose Ramos Horta's charming exterior is a man who's fought a hard battle his entire life against terrible suffering.
View ArticleKooshyar Karimi faced many life and death decisions before fleeing Iran
Dr Kooshyar Karimi faced many life and death decisions before fleeing Iran.
View ArticleMaritime historian Chris Frame: how the ocean liner changed the world
Chris has been fascinated by ocean liners since he was a boy and first read the story of the Titanic.
View ArticleKay Danes was held in a Lao jail for almost a year
Kay Danes was wrongfully imprisoned in Laos, one of the world's poorest communist states.
View ArticleSaeed Fassaie on revolution and war in Tehran
Saeed was just seventeen, when he was on the run from the Islamic regime in Iran.
View ArticleReverend Bill Crews has put his unique stamp on the life of Sydney
Bill walked away from his engineering career to help the disadvantaged.
View ArticleDr Munjed Al Muderis restores mobility with robotic limbs
Munjed is one of a handful of surgeons in the world performing a revolutionary procedure called 'osseointegration'.
View ArticleRichard Glover survived a strange upbringing
Richard returns with the rest of his unusual family story.
View ArticleRAF Pilot Frank Dell's story of survival in Nazi occupied Holland
Frank Dell survived being shot down over Nazi Germany, with the aid of courageous Dutch families and resistance fighters.
View ArticleIsraeli writer Etgar Keret's seven good years
The day his son was born Etgar began writing about his own life for the first time.
View ArticleSomali-born Leila Abukar spent her teenage years in refugee camps
Leila Abukar was born in Somalia and spent her teenage years in refugee camps. (R)
View ArticlePyotr Patrushev's daring escape from the Soviet Union
Russian translator and interpreter Pyotr fled the Soviet Union by swimming across the Black Sea. (R)
View ArticleColm Toibin's novel 'Brooklyn' follows Irish migrants to America
Author, essayist and poet Colm Toibin is one of Ireland's greatest living writers (R).
View ArticleAleksander Hemon on love, loss and Sarajevo
Bosnian-American writer Aleksander recalls growing up in Sarajevo, and forging a new life in Chicago.
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