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‘So the next step is space, right?’: Australia’s first female astronaut on the year she realised limits don’t exist
Meganne Christian is training for the ‘coolest job in the world’. It’s a long way from Wollongong for the 35-year-old scientist
Bronwyn Adcock
30, Dec, 2022 @2:00 PM
‘They only had about 30 seconds left’: why cars become death traps in floods
With flooding across the nation, drowning rates are at a 25-year high, and driving through floods is a leading cause. So why do people still take the risk?
Bronwyn Adcock
30, Oct, 2022 @2:00 PM
Bali bombings legacy: the woman who built a memorial to her son, ‘but not of stone’
Craig Dunn was killed with a friend in the 2002 attacks on his first trip overseas. His mother Gayle built a community centre in their names and changed the lives of many
Bronwyn Adcock
07, Oct, 2022 @7:00 PM
‘Honey-child, listen to me’: a radical Buddhist nun on how to be happy in a crazy world
From a Catholic convent in Melbourne to death row in America, Robina Courtin has learned a few things about happiness, suffering … and Donald Trump
Bronwyn Adcock
16, Sep, 2022 @8:00 PM
Teaching Jessica Mauboy: when two Top End 12-year-olds met an Australian pop star
For the chart-topping singer trying to learn Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes in Tiwi and Mangarrayi, two Northern Territory boys proved enthusiastic teachers
Bronwyn Adcock
27, Aug, 2022 @8:00 PM
Taking stock: how has 10 years of Airbnb changed Australia?
It has been a decade since the online marketplace turned ordinary Australian homes into potential tourist accommodation. How has it changed how we travel and the communities we travel to?
Bronwyn Adcock
29, Jul, 2022 @8:00 PM
The Melbourne psychiatrist fighting dowry abuse: ‘Women are not sitting and taking it’
Manjula Datta O’Connor has been advocating for victims for years, but only when she wrote a book did she understood the oppression in her own past
Bronwyn Adcock
10, Jun, 2022 @8:00 PM
The hope and climate catastrophe roadshow: ‘there’s just this thirst for optimistic story’
As Damon Gameau tours the country with his film Regenerating Australia, imagining the world’s problems solved, one audience finds hope in the dark
Bronwyn Adcock
02, Apr, 2022 @8:00 PM
‘I didn’t even know this was humanly possible’: the woman who can descend into the sea on one breath
Scientists once thought humans could swim to a maximum depth of 30m on a single breath. Amber Bourke has gone deeper than 70m and physiology alone can’t explain why
Bronwyn Adcock
05, Feb, 2022 @7:00 PM
Electric Monaros and hotted-up skateboards : the ‘genius’ who wants to electrify our world
After advising US president Joe Biden on energy, Saul Griffith is back in Australia to declare war on the climate crisis
Bronwyn Adcock
04, Feb, 2022 @9:38 PM
‘I’m really just high on life and beauty’: the woman who can see 100 million colours
As a kid, Concetta Antico was always ‘a bit out of the box’, but it took decades for her to discover just how differently she was seeing the world
Bronwyn Adcock
29, Jan, 2022 @7:00 PM
‘I’ve got this little extra strength’: the rare, intense world of a super-smeller
From petrol and perfume to Parkinson’s disease, super-smellers can detect scents others are oblivious to. For Krati Garg, the ability’s both power and pain
Bronwyn Adcock
22, Jan, 2022 @7:00 PM
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