Good Weekend Talks
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Good Weekend Talks features in-depth conversations with the people fascinating Australians right now, from sport to politics to the arts, business and beyond, interviewed weekly by the country's top journalists. Consider it a magazine for your ears.
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Ken Done on colour, critics and the 'real reason' he went to art school
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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Eat Pray Love author Elizabeth Gilbert: 'True grief feels like the end of the world'
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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'I just felt like such a loser': Olympic champion Cate Campbell on loneliness and depression
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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The “fusion of hilarity and horror” that inspired children’s author Andy Griffiths
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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Tracey Holmes: Meeting a Beatle, driving with Pele – and ‘this thing that still exists’ in sport
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Aug 15, 2025 |
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‘Connecting your identity to sport is a dangerous game’: AFLW star Libby Birch
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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From dance floor to ‘orgy room’: What happens on a typical swingers’ night?
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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What worries Sarah Wilson? Nothing less than the collapse of civilisation
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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Meet Hugh de Kretser - president of the Australian Human Rights Commission
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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Soprano singer Danielle de Niese - making opera cool again
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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True crime writer Mark Dapin on cops, Chopper, and the good within bad people
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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Artist Vincent Fantauzzo on fighting, dyslexia – and painting Heath Ledger
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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Crime writer Mark Brandi on the ‘incredibly painful’ experience that changed his life
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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How China ate Apple – and is now weaponising its technology against the West
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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Dos and don’ts of home renos and building: A checklist from Grand Designs’ Anthony Burke
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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'I was so scared': A forced-marriage survivor's harrowing story – and escape
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May 30, 2025 |
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Chef prodigy Hugh Allen on his new restaurant, creativity – and recognising critics
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May 23, 2025 |
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Sleep expert Matthew Walker on snoring, napping, nightmares and the power of slumber
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May 15, 2025 |
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Novelist Hannah Kent on writing, nightmares – and the ghost who lives with her
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May 09, 2025 |
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Meet historian Rutger Bregman – fighting the good fight with 'realistic idealism'
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May 02, 2025 |
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Inside the battle to retain Labor's traditional heartland voters
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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You Am I's Tim Rogers on addiction and anxiety, playing footy and prowling the stage
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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Melinda French Gates on perfectionism and pain, parenting and philanthropy
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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‘My goggles filled with tears’: Ellie Cole on medals, motherhood – and silver linings
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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'Crazy, yeah?': Jane Flemming on Aussie athletics' new golden age (including Gout Gout)
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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Meet Matt Kean – the politician who chose the planet over party
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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Curtis Stone on critics, cooking for a crowd – and selling meat pies in LA
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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Finance minister Katy Gallagher on loss, love, politics and pet kangaroos
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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Kara Swisher on Elon, Trump and the tech bros taking over
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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Fear, fun and faceplants: a day in the life of ballet dancer Callum Linnane
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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Richard Roxburgh, Peter Greste and 400 days in an Egyptian prison
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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“There’s not one silver bullet to fix things”: Music Australia boss Millie Millgate
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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Processed meats and cancer: How a shock diagnosis of stage four bowel cancer drove Lucie Morris-Marr to investigate the links
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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Why Helen Garner trained her forensically observant eye on an Aussie rules team - and what she learnt from it
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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Australian Open boss Craig Tiley on the highs and lows of running a global event
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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Good Weekend Summer: Missy Higgins on turning adolescent angst and mid-life heartbreak into song
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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Good Weekend Summer: Tim Minchin on social media, doubt and the surprising advice he gives uni students
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Dec 27, 2024 |
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Good Weekend Summer: Kate Winslet on photojournalism, sexism, and women in film
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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A feature writing masterclass from Good Weekend's Amanda Hooton and Konrad Marshall
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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Stephanie Gilmore's year off competitive surfing
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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Pole vaulter Nina Kennedy on winning gold in Paris, and setting her sights on LA
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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Chinese Australian dissident artist Badiucao on being followed, threatened - and impersonated
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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Hannah Diviney on acting, ableist language and not having to always strive for amazing
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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Gina Chick on the beauty and power of strangeness
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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Kate Winslet on photojournalism, sexism, and women in film
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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Author Joe Aston on what went wrong for the Qantas brand
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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British author Jon Ronson on why psychopaths rule the world - and how we should view Donald Trump
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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Literary editor Jason Steger on 25 years of wrangling books, authors and publishers
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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Mark Manson, author of 'The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k' on how the self-help industry gets it wrong
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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Norman Swan researched the best way to parent kids under ten. Here's what he reckons
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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Eric Beecher on media, moguls and what it's like to be sued by a Murdoch
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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Tim Minchin on social media, doubt and the surprising advice he gives uni students
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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Author Markus Zusak on the magic - and mayhem - of mongrels
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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Missy Higgins on turning adolescent angst and mid-life heartbreak into song
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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From Sydney to Singapore, Melbourne to Manila: meet the man playing Alexander Hamilton in the hit musical
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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What impact has that 'controversial' $443m investment made to the Great Barrier Reef?
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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Best-selling author Roxane Gay on body positivity, Trump and Channing Tatum
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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'Like a hurricane was inside the house': a survivor's tale of the Beirut port explosion
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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Grappling with twin tragedies and tax reform: Allegra Spender's life as a federal MP
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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Debunking milk myths: Farmer and food writer Matthew Evans on the white stuff
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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Solving Australia's chronic housing crisis
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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‘Live, give, get uncomfortable’: Nedd Brockmann on that epic run across Australia - and his next crazy challenge
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Jul 05, 2024 |
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'I've got to work out who the hell this guy is:' The true story behind 'Fake'
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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Athletics champ Tamsyn Manou on Australia’s ‘resurgence’ in the lead-up to Paris 2024
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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Max Chandler-Mather on housing, heckling and the perfect door knock
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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Liz Ellis on healing the wounds within netball
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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Did Robert Farquharson kill his three sons? A science-led reappraisal
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May 31, 2024 |
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Introducing: Trial by Water
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May 26, 2024 |
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How the world-famous Bondi Icebergs pool became a literal life saver
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May 24, 2024 |
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The law student who thought Kathleen Folbigg innocent - then went on to secure her freedom
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May 17, 2024 |
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What lessons are there still to learn from the Holocaust?
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May 10, 2024 |
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Bestselling author Johann Hari on the whole Ozempic conundrum
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May 03, 2024 |
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Moving from anger towards love: a Miles Franklin winner's writing process
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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Surviving 650 days in Myanmar’s notorious Insein Prison
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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Wealthy Australians are terrible at giving. How can we change that?
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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How Neil Perry became the unofficial mayor of Double Bay
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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Sydney's gay hate crimes and the lawyer representing victims
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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3AW's Tom Elliott on stepping out of Neil Mitchell's shadow - and that of his late father John
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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Paraplegic surfing - world champion Joel Taylor on reclaiming the ocean
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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What happened to Nam Le? The return of one of Australia's brightest literary talents
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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Former army lawyer David McBride on the cost of being a whistleblower
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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Inside the groundbreaking trial using psychedelics to soothe the terminally ill
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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How Hunter Johnson helps young men navigate the 'manosphere'
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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Brian Ritchie on the Violent Femmes, MONA, and his meditative flute
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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How Eric Bana and Robert Connolly survived filming in 'Leech Gully'
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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How we can harness intuition to make better decisions
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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Jelena Dokic on abuse and resilience, body positivity and trolls
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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GWT summer: Are there seven stages to go through after discovering an affair?
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Jan 13, 2024 |
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GWT summer: Hugh van Cuylenburg on feeling happier through GEM
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Jan 06, 2024 |
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GWT summer: RecipeTin Eats founder Nagi Maehashi on her inspiration - and obsessive testing process
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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GWT summer: Guy Pearce on fatherhood, films, cults and that Neighbours reboot
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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Konrad Marshall's commandments for good magazine writing
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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A whip around the world in 2023: more Wretched than Roaring Twenties
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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Taika Waititi on spirituality and sport, creativity and criticism
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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Behind the headlines: talking frankly about gender identity and transition
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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Declining sperm counts and shrinking penises - what's up with men's health (downstairs)?
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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Marcia Hines on music, longevity and personal growth
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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What restoring an 18th century French chateau taught former Victorian pollie Tim Holding and his partner about themselves
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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How do you capture your past? Acclaimed author Richard Flanagan explains
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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Journalist and author Julia Baird on the concept of grace in everyday life
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Oct 22, 2023 |