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07/09/2021

Fossil fever: driving and digging on Australia’s dinosaur trail

Picturing western Queensland as the floor of an ocean takes imagination – but it doesn’t take long to find evidence of prehistoric plenty. Guardian Australia lifestyle editor Alyx Gorman recommends this story where we go back to a time when dinosaurs roamed the countryside

07/09/2021

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10 min
09/12/2021

‘They’ve forgotten we’re still here’: Australia’s polio survivors

For most, our previous pandemic is a distant memory. But for these five polio survivors, new health problems have just begun. Features editor Lucy Clark introduces personal stories that take us around the country

09/12/2021

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19 min
09/11/2021

Top of the tile: wordsmiths of all ages vie for Australia’s Scrabble honours

Ranging in age from eight to 87, Scrabblers hit the boards in western Sydney earlier this year vying for national supremacy. Sport editor Mike Hytner recommends this match report on a competitive board game with mind-bending wordplay

09/11/2021

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14 min
03/06/2023

Former Scissor Sisters’ frontman Jake Shears, Marina Hyde on fauxlanthropist Jeff Bezos, and meaning in a post-divorce world

The Scissor Sisters’ Jake Shears reflects on the new wave of queer culture – and throwing the ultimate party (8m32s); Marina Hyde on how difficult it is being a philanthropist like Jeff Bezos (1m30s); and Joanna Biggs tries to find meaning in a post-divorce world (19m32s)

03/06/2023

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37 min
18/05/2023

Why are influencers taking feuds to the boxing ring? Pop Culture with Chanté Joseph

Social media influencers and YouTubers including KSI and Jake and Logan Paul are making millions by taking their internet feuds into the boxing ring. How did the world of boxing become the arena for social media beef?

18/05/2023

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27 min
25/11/2021

‘It will be found’: search for MH370 continues with experts and amateurs still sleuthing

It’s the “mystery that must be solved”. Seven-and-a-half years after the Malaysia Airlines flight disappeared with 239 people on board, head of news Mike Ticher recommends this story as he remembers covering the tragedy when the news broke

25/11/2021

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15 min
09/10/2021

‘Hell scared’: how a terrified homeless boy found himself locked up alone in the ‘hole’

Louie has been in and out of juvenile detention most of his young adult life. He tells of how he’d pretend to be on the phone to family just to stay out of solitary a few minutes longer. Indigenous affairs editor Lorena Allam recommends this story from Guardian Australia’s reporting on childhood in custody

09/10/2021

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14 min
30/11/2021

Speed, decisiveness, cooperation: how a tiny Taiwanese village overcame Delta

A rural community of 5,500 people, with an under-resourced health system, came together to take on Covid. International news editor Bonnie Malkin introduces this story about a community effort to confront Delta

30/11/2021

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12 min
21/12/2021

My life and death hike through busy Melbourne to help a duck march her eight babies to water

For three hours, writer Debbie Lustig fends off traffic and protects the ducklings like a crazy lollipop lady with a fishing net. Assistant news editor Rosemary Bolger introduces this gripping story

21/12/2021

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10 min
30/10/2021

‘That was it, we lost him’: one Sydney family torn apart by Covid

‘Only when you become one of those numbers, when you’re in it, do you realise how serious it is.’ Live news editor Patrick Keneally recommends this story about personal loss and grief behind the Covid headlines

30/10/2021

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14 min

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