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Helping you figure out all the big stuff in life: relationships, health, money, work and the world. Let's talk! With trusted experts and your stories, Life Matters is all about what matters to you.
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Ask Aunty: My poly boyfriend is playing me voicemails sent by his other date
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May 02, 2024 |
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What do your clothes say about you?
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May 02, 2024 |
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Can job-sharing present a different model for leadership?
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May 01, 2024 |
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Here's What I Know: opera singer David Hobson takes life inspiration from his late mother
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May 01, 2024 |
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Mutton was once a 'gratuitous by-product', so how did lamb become one of our most cherished national foods?
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May 01, 2024 |
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Family Meal shows how food can be an act of caring
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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The long path of long COVID
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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Suddenly single at sixty
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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Carli spent 13 years in a cult – she shares the warning signs
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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27 killed in 4 months: what’s it going to take to end violence against women?
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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Young women have less savings than young men: why?
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Apr 28, 2024 |
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Failing up: why are mediocre workers around me being promoted?
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Apr 28, 2024 |
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Loving my lying, dying, cheating husband
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Apr 27, 2024 |
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Ask Aunty: my friends talk over each other and I can't stand it
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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Have you flipped the script on parenting?
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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What ever happened to being formal?
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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Here's What I Know: Geraldine Turner's confidence tip for the stage of life
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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The Chong family share their culinary lineage
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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Leslie Jamison shared the splinters of a life
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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How to create genuinely caring cultures in health and aged care
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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This is where you have to go: a mother's fight for justice
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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Michelle Ford-Eriksson on doping, boycotts and winning gold in Moscow
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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How can we process trauma that is tied to a particular place?
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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'If I had to have a titanium knee placed in my leg, it would be worth it. I'm going to finish this walk.' Finding yourself on the Camino de Santiago
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Apr 21, 2024 |
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Does wearing glasses make your eyesight worse?
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Apr 21, 2024 |
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"How's the weather?" Why we do small talk, and how to master it.
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Apr 21, 2024 |
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Ask Aunty: I feel uncomfortable about my friend's social media feed
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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How is the cost of living affecting your relationships?
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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How to make sure your kids are getting the right nutrients for an active life
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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Here's What I Know: why Yumi Stynes is looking forward to old age
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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What’s the best way to tell the history of Australia? It’s by eating cake
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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Jennifer Wong's hour of power
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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Is squatting a legitimate response to the housing crisis?
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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Morris Gleitzman: Tweet
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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'You are not normal' and other important lessons when trying to change people's behaviour
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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Will psychedelic assisted therapy become more accessible?
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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How Ozempic may be supercharging fat phobia
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Apr 14, 2024 |
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How to stop breaking up with your friends
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Apr 14, 2024 |
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Solitude is bliss: learning how to love alone time
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Apr 14, 2024 |
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Ask Aunty: Help! My friends are breaking up with me
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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What does a 'good life' mean for you?
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Could getting strong heal your neck pain, sore back, headaches and even trauma?
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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Here's What I Know: Tracey Spicer on the power of timing
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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Can you be ethical and still make s**tloads of money? The growing ethical investment industry says yes
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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How Anna Jacobson knitted herself back together
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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Navigating the obstacles – learning to drive after 30
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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How BackTrack continues to help vulnerable kids chase their dreams
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Why is the live music industry struggling?
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Survey aims to encapsulate how women experience pain
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Keeping your vitamin D levels up during Winter
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Apr 07, 2024 |
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How independent libraries are helping readers find their people
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Apr 07, 2024 |
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Want to be happy? Try living like a toddler
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Apr 07, 2024 |
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Ask Aunty: can you express your concerns about what your adult daughter wears?
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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Understanding the nature of your secret crush
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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It can feel like conspiracy theorists are everywhere. Are they?
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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Here's What I Know: Lizzy Hoo finds joy in being late
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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Pet grief can be disenfranchised: how do we give it the respect it deserves?
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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Here's What I Know: Benjamin Law's traffic light system for feedback
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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What happened when Qin Qin realised she should live up to her own expectations, instead of everyone else's
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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Has online sports gambling become too big a part of the game?
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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Ernest Price and The Pyramid of Needs
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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Cadetship program aims to change the stats on disadvantage
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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How to navigate the child support system
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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What makes a good step-parent?
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Mar 31, 2024 |
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Stuck on auto-pilot? Here's how to take the wheel of your life
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Mar 31, 2024 |
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Life in 500 Words: Judy got involved with showing off her happy place
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Ask Aunty: my child thinks I'm flirting with my male friend!
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Navigating mother and daughter relationships
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Younger and younger kids are using gyms. Should they be?
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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Here's What I Know: Annabel Crabb's perfect bolognese hack
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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'Menopause is a renovation project on your brain'. How can you best project-manage?
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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Can stimulating the vagus nerve help to reduce stress?
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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The ATO is pursuing old debts that are worth billions. What impact is that having on the people affected?
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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Second Chance, how a neglected horse became a mounted police hero
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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How the adventure of a lifetime led to a life of love
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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The benefits and challenges of co-operative housing
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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Bake it till you make it
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Mar 24, 2024 |
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What's happening to all the old churches?
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Mar 24, 2024 |
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Quick fixes and hacks: the psychology of fads
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Mar 24, 2024 |
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Ask Aunty: the upselling hairdresser
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Shame runs deep. Here's how to deal with it
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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What whales can teach us about the art of being human
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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Here's What I Know: Tom Ballard on ‘complaining up’
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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Protein is the ‘miracle nutrient’ of the moment, but how much do you really need?
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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The art of speed painting: what is it?
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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Will recent incidents on Boeing planes change the decisions we make about flying?
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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Evolving consumer behaviour on electric vehicles
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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Learning how to argue better can make us better people
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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Changing the stats on early term births
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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The simple solutions that could help reduce depression in aged care
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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'Are we there yet?': a guide to surviving roadtrips with kids
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Mar 17, 2024 |
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Has the way we pay changed forever?
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Mar 17, 2024 |
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Sexual harassment is still rife in workplaces. How do we prevent it?
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Mar 17, 2024 |
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Ask Aunty: the road trip gone wrong
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Parents of teens and the value clash
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Peter Singer: The spaghetti lunch that made the world’s 'most influential living philosopher' give up meat
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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How anyone can get strong - even you
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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Ed Byrne on turning tragedy into comedy
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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Peter Goldsworthy on learning about life when faced with death
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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Balancing the books on the shadow education system
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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Is the travel industry ageist?
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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What do you get out of being a fan?
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Mar 10, 2024 |
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Will switching to a 'dumb phone' bring your attention back?
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Mar 10, 2024 |
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Ask Aunty: the awkward job interview with a younger boss
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Turning bad sex into good sex
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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The unparalleled joy of watching a muster dog round up sheep
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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When was the last time you came face-to-face with wildlife in your area?
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Rodney and Jeff have 7 kids co-parented with five other couples. How do they make it work?
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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For Social Betterment, social work education in Australia
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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How to talk to teens when they get benched
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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Can higher education make us a more equal society?
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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Jim Moginie, The Silver River
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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Minions, not overlords: Finding answers in a digital future
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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Have you talked to your loved one about their end-of-life choices?
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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The relationship is the project: building together as a community
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Mar 03, 2024 |
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Are airline point schemes worth it?
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Mar 03, 2024 |
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Rethinking housework: how mindful housekeeping can boost wellbeing
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Mar 03, 2024 |
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Ask Aunty: I'm stuck in the middle of a sister feud on the netball court
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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How to improve your relationship with money
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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Life was chaotic and overwhelming. When Maura found philosophy, it felt like 'coming home’
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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80 per cent of people with coeliac disease don’t know they have it: why are gluten issues being ignored?
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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Dungeons and Dragons turns 50
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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Is menopause leave enough for gender equity at work?
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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Cooking classes that are good for the budget and the soul
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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Visiting relatives in prison isn't always easy. So what needs changing?
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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The value of competition: why do duopolies exist in Australia?
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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A childhood obsession with feijoa leads to reflections on what it means to belong
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Feb 25, 2024 |
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Why gym memberships are so hard to cancel
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Feb 25, 2024 |
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Why we aren't 'hanging out' anymore, and how to bring it back
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Feb 25, 2024 |
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Ask Aunty: my brother who lives in Europe won't let my backpacking son stay at his place
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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What Hilary Harper learned, finding love on the apps
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Teaspoon exhibition invites new reflections on Australia's past
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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Dr Kate Luckins was a bona fide 'eco-warrior'. Then she had kids.
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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'I’m everything I need to be': how Dassi Erlich found her strength after years of abuse by Malka Leifer
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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What will the right to disconnect mean for the way we work?
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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What are the health risks of asbestos-contaminated mulch?
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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That apple is too loud: Imbi Neeme on living with misophonia
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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The surprising benefits of insomnia
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Feb 18, 2024 |
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Ask Aunty: bin night vs the right to park outside work
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Stuck in a rut? Here's how to deal with it
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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A potential treatment for superbugs? Injecting patients with trillions of viruses
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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Do we need single-sex schools? Neuroscience gives us the answer
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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DATED 01 | Hearts on the line
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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DATED 02 | How we date now
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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DATED 03 | Our complicated bonds
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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DATED 04 | Our naked selves
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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DATED 05 | Happily ever after?
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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Enter the Dragon, the significance and superstitions of the Lunar New Year
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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'Swiftie-mania' is upon us, but has fan culture really changed?
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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Telco customers in financial hardship get better protections, but consumer groups want more
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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How to get an asteroid named after you
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Feb 11, 2024 |
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How do you want to spend the last years of your life?
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Feb 11, 2024 |
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From cave artists to self-optimised gym junkies: the history of free time
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Feb 11, 2024 |
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Ask Aunty: what can I do about the boarder who pays no board?
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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Rituals that mark the ends of things can help us move forward
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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Life in 500 Words: Silver Sands is Rick's happy place
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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What happened when Australia’s leading surf scientist caught his first wave?
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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Are we on the precipice of fixing inequality in our school system once and for all?
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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Kate Manne is unshrinking in her critique of fatphobia
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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How to stop maths anxiety from ruling your life
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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Taking a whole-of-life approach to care
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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Why I stick my tongue out while concentrating, and the science behind other quirky behaviours
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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Teens need sunscreen not retinol – combating the skinfluencer effect
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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Junda Khoo shares the tastes of his home
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Feb 04, 2024 |
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Rachel Ward is regenerating the land and herself
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Feb 04, 2024 |
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Jenny Valentish becomes a human guinea pig in the world of wellness
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Feb 04, 2024 |
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Ask Aunty: what's the etiquette when it comes to inviting your friend's partner to a group event?
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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How to bring fun into your everyday life
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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Life in 500 Words: Monica's happy place is wherever she is
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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The cannibalistic origin of sex and its 2-billion-year history
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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Too much screen time? How to take care of our eyesight
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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No 'just' in friendship
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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Can childcare become affordable and accessible?
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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Girl Friday
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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Melatonin and the concern about yummy gummy sleep aids
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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What to do when your child won't go to school
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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What we're learning about romantic love
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Jan 28, 2024 |
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Take me to the river: how urban swimming is cleaning up city rivers
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Jan 28, 2024 |
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‘It’s like going on a date night with yourself’: Discovering the joy of meditation from those whose lives have been transformed by it
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Jan 28, 2024 |
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Life in 500 Words: Gardens are Sanda's happy place
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Too Hard Basket: I want to change my name
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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How do our past relationships influence our new ones?
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Two birders on bikes ride the country to help build a school
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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To find happiness, we should first search for meaning
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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How it feels to give the ultimate gift
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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How to support a young person who stutters
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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What role should pill testing play in Australia's drugs policy
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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What's a human library and why are they important?
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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What to do if your superannuation goes unpaid
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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Will a big investment in social housing be money well spent
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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I Am (Not) This Body: how Leisa Prowd explores her difference in dance
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Jan 21, 2024 |
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'The heaviest piece of equipment in the gym is your own brain': Jono Castano on how to get back into fitness in the new year
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Jan 21, 2024 |
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This gastroenterologist’s health was a shambles. Then he discovered the 'power of gut health'
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Jan 21, 2024 |
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Life in 500 Words: Helen's tree is a precious memento of childhood
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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Too Hard Basket: my housemate is having an affair with a married man and I can't deal with it
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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Talkback: big life changes
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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Seaweed, the tasty snack that needs a little love
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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Sit tight! A time-travelling John Farnham is taking you to 1980!
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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It’s the ‘most feared condition of our time’. Will we ever understand it?
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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Dylan Buckley on feelings and vulnerability
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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This world-renowned thinker wants to help you reach 'emotional utopia'
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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This is how your personality changes as you get older
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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Finding relief from tinnitus
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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This philosophy helped Romans conquer the world. Could it help make your job less annoying?
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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Paul Biegler was in excruciating chronic pain. Then he rewired his brain
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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‘I wanted to reinvent myself’: Jane Hutcheon’s search for a productive older life
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Jan 14, 2024 |
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Jenny Odell wants to help you slow down time
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Jan 14, 2024 |
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Too Hard Basket: the dominating dinner guest
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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Life in 500 Words: Terra's happy place is hiking on Kunanyi
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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Talkback: do we create our own luck?
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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What can honey tell us about our environment?
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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One family's quest to restore a rainforest
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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Fishing is a great Australian pastime. Is it destroying our most precious marine environments?
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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The science behind sound baths
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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Life in 500 Words: Colin's mug reminds him of the power of a great coach
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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Simple stretching can lower your stress levels as much as meditation. Here’s how to do it right.
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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Inflammation: how modern life is making us sick
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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Life in 500 Words: Jenny's laminex kitchen table
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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Teenagers and centenarians making art together
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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Could your heart or your brain be a different age to you?
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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How to live forever (or as close to it as humanly possible)
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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Life in 500 Words: Diana's 'Baby George' doll
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Jan 07, 2024 |
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Are we under too much pressure to 'age well'?
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Jan 07, 2024 |
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How collaboration turned footy mates into artists
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Jan 07, 2024 |
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Powerlifting, building boats, getting PhDs: older women's many achievements
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Jan 07, 2024 |
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Too Hard Basket: the apology from the estranged relative
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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Talkback: do you embrace clutter or need a clear home?
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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Life in 500 Words: Kathy's birthday album
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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When "Who Am I?" feels like a question without an answer, how do you find yourself?
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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Everyone has a memoir in them: How telling your life story can help you heal
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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Your brain on music: 'communitas' and compassion
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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What does writing by hand do for our brain?
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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Your brain on UPF’s: Are you eating your way to cognitive decline?
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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Autism and how love is anything but typical
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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How Australia became a prudish nation, and why that should change
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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Are companion chatbots changing who we are?
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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Life in 500 Words: Mary Louise's print
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Dec 31, 2023 |
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They went for the croissants. What they got was a lesson in parenting 'French style'
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Dec 31, 2023 |
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Rachael Coopes needed to find herself. The Answer? French clown school
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Dec 31, 2023 |
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Life in 500 Words: Carmel's divorce pendant
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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Too Hard Basket: My friend's partner 'super liked' me on Tinder
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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Talkback: exploring ethical non-monogamy
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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He was an expert in happiness, but needed to have more fun
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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Life in 500 Words: Ashleigh's happy place is in the world of words
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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Breathing your way to a better life
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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Spending more time in nature, on doctor's orders
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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Life in 500 Words: Ruth's spot on the back end of the bike
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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Could laughing more make us happier and less stressed?
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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Why singing is so good for you, and why we sound better in the shower
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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How to find the hobby that will change your life
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Dec 26, 2023 |