‘It was scary’: pet store essential worker reflects on the pandemic
After Australia’s first Coronavirus lockdown, many Victorians were required to work from home. However, pet store worker Mary was one of many Victorians to…
TikTok: The Rise of #ArmourBae
Clad in armour, holding an axe and having a great time doing it, Jacob Turner is taking Tik Tok by storm with his positive message. Emily Spindler-Carruthers reports.
Unbowed: The man who’s taken on mining giant Adani
What makes a man stick by his convictions and risk everything being sold from under him for the sake of the environment? Jack Meehan talks to an activist who has put everything on the line in his fight against coal mining.
Polio: the forgotten disease
In Australia there were major polio epidemics in the late 1930s and 1950s, during which time, schools, pools, state borders were closed. People who…
Audio Documentary: Dharma in Life
“Dharma is everything about life and all things surround us are dharma”. Learning dharma means learning about your life, but when some people hear…
Interview: Indigenous astronomy with Kirsten Banks
For more than 60,000 years, Indigenous Australians have been looking to the stars. In these galaxies, they see their traditions, their stories and roadmaps…
Interview: Neil Murray’s songwriting process
The lockdowns and restrictions on public life that have kept Australia’s artists and entertainers confined to their homes, have also given them time to…
Interview: Taking hair art above and beyond
Head piece sculpturists sketch, shape and generate works of art in the forms of wigs or head wear. To be recognised as a hair…
Motherhood an artist’s messy “breeze”
Melbourne artist Beck Wallman reflects on mess, her children and a creative life. Therese McMahon reports.
Back in a beloved Z
Decades since he sold it, Antoni Gecsek’s buys back his old race car. Eden Young reports.