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How Australian Labor lost 'the unlosable election'
Social Researcher Rebecca Huntley on Australia's new political landscape
Jessie Cole's survival story
After two suicides within her family, Jessie returned to Northern NSW to begin again (R)
How to change a mind
Eleanor Gordon-Smith on how one night in King's Cross upended her belief in the power of reason
How to change a mind
Eleanor Gordon-Smith on how one night in King's Cross upended her belief in the power of reason
Irvine Welsh: the origins of Trainspotting
As a young man, Irvine Welsh fell off a double-decker bus and won a tidy sum in compensation. Then he began to write 'Trainspotting'
The story of The Snowy
While writing a history of the Snowy Scheme, Siobhan McHugh unearthed a history of drowned towns, pugnacious unionists, terrifying brumbies and unexpected romance in a laundry floor
Revealing the scars: the life of Kate Mulvany
Kate has used tragic events in her own life as creative fuel to write more than 25 plays (R)
When the library burned
Susan Orlean on the mystery of who set fire to the Los Angeles Central Library
The brutal and beautiful world of Australia's native bees
Toby Smith takes us into the hives of Australia's native bees
How a milkmaid with cowpox changed history
David Isaacs on the surprising and perplexing history of human vaccination