Annika Blau

1 month ago | abc.net.au | Anne Connolly |Ninah Kopel |Gina McKeon |Echo Hui |Annika Blau

For the past four months, I've been starting my weekend with what many might consider a rather unnerving ritual. Every Saturday morning, I make coffee, sit down at my computer from my home in Sydney, and log on to a scheduled Zoom call for a half hour conversation with a convicted killer at Goulburn prison. Garry Davis is 38, but has already spent almost a decade behind bars for a heinous crime.

Sep 27, 2024 | abc.net.au | Annika Blau |Gina McKeon |Teresa Tan |Laura Gartry

When Marnie Robertson stumped up $140,000 for a "house and land package" in the Coolah Caravan Park, she thought she was buying into a grey nomad Utopia. Yet her dream house is literally falling apart around her. The situation came to a head when the gutter feeding her rainwater tank became the latest thing to break. To get water, she was forced to feed a hose with town water into the tank. But as the 83-year-old was climbing on top of the tank, she slipped and fell onto a railway sleeper.

Jun 22, 2024 | abc.net.au | Annika Blau

Olivia Frazer is home minding her mum's dog one Saturday night when she notices something odd. Warning: This story contains language that some readers may find offensive. A car is crawling past her house. Then it stops, right in front. The doors open. "Then I just hear four or five middle-aged women screaming, 'Olivia, you're a c***. Die, piggy!'"She's scared. She doesn't know who these women are or how they knew where she lived.

Jun 22, 2024 | flipboard.com | Annika Blau

Married at First Sight's Olivia Frazer says 'villain edit' left her 'devoured' and suicidalOlivia Frazer is home minding her mum's dog one Saturday night when she notices something odd. Warning: This story contains language that some readers …

Apr 20, 2024 | abc.net.au | Annika Blau

It's July 2021, and Miki is begging for help. Her mum is trying to ask her doctor something, but in recent weeks, she's lost the ability to speak. Miki's mum has motor neurone disease (MND) and her only means of communicating is with a letter board, where she blinks to spell out what she's trying to say. She needs staff from her hospital to operate the equipment, but they're refusing to be involved. "It really sent a … message that what we were doing was wrong," Miki says.