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1 week ago | 
abc.net.au | Leisa Scott |Jennifer Feller |Winsome Denyer
There's a fear that lives within Sue-Yen Luiten, a building terror that propels her as she cycles alongside the paddy fields of Vietnam's Mekong Delta, searching. It's a fear that has haunted Sue since she was a girl growing up in Western Australia and with each year it gets stronger: what if her biological mother and father are looking for her and she's not even trying to find them? And so, she searches.
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Feb 22, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Erin Semmler |Leisa Scott
There's a reason cricket commentator Bharat Sundaresan lives his life with gusto, donning technicolour outfits paired with painted fingernails and a radiant smile. He knows the high-profile, successful life he has now in Australia, the period he calls his "second innings," came close to being a duck. He could be dead.
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Feb 15, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Leisa Scott |Penny Timms
One sunny spring day, Col Clausen came home to find his wife Sheree slumped on the bathroom floor. One cold winter night, Laura Aisbett discovered her husband Stuart lifeless in the shed. Both tried CPR but could not revive their partners. Both were lost in grief. "I had to learn to accept that grief is now part of me," Col tells Australian Story. "Grief, quite honestly, lives inside me."But he had three teenage sons to care for.
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Feb 8, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Leisa Scott |Winsome Denyer |Jennifer Feller |Robyn Powell
Warning: This story contains details about domestic violence and may distress some readers. She'd escaped the violence — the choking, the double-fisted punches to her face, the threats — but Jacinta Nampijinpa Price couldn't escape the sense of failure many domestic violence survivors experience. That escape came with drugs.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Leisa Scott |Rebecca Armstrong
Singer-songwriter Missy Higgins on the moment her life 'burned to the ground'Missy Higgins has tried therapy. But there's always a gap between what she wants the therapist to hear and the truth. So, she writes. "With …
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Aug 25, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Leisa Scott |Kirstin Murray |Vanessa Gorman
Michelle Brasier was told she had a 97 per cent chance of getting cancer. She chose to laugh about it.
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Aug 10, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Leisa Scott
For most of his life, admits Nick Cave, Australia's baritone bard of the dark and deep, "I was in awe of my own genius" and everything else existed on the periphery. Then his 15-year-old son, Arthur, died and that way of living "collapsed completely". "I just saw the folly of that ... disgraceful sort of self-indulgence," Cave, 66, tells Leigh Sales in a special Australian Story interview. "I'm a father and I'm a husband and a grandfather and a kind of person of the world.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
rnz.co.nz | Leisa Scott |Erin Semmler |Yarraka Bayles
By Leisa Scott and Erin Semmler, ABCQuaden Bayles has had his share of battles, but the day he emerged from a post-apocalyptic contraption after an epic road war in the Mad Max universe was one of his finest triumphs. "I come out the war rig and everyone starts clapping for me," Quaden tells Australian Story. "Like wow, at least 100 people.
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Jun 9, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Leisa Scott |Erin Semmler
Quaden Bayles has had his share of battles but the day he emerged from a post-apocalyptic contraption after an epic road war in the Mad Max universe was one of his finest triumphs. "I come out the war rig and everyone starts clapping for me," Quaden tells Australian Story. "Like wow, at least 100 people.
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Jun 2, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Leisa Scott |Ben Cheshire
From banned on radio to sacred anthems, how Cold Chisel worked their way into our hearts. Sweat's flying, the crowd's pulsating and the raw, unfettered power of Cold Chisel is skidding towards a squealing, screeching halt. It's December 1983, and Jimmy Barnes, the wild frontman of one of Australia's most loved rock groups, prowls the stage as the band goes hell for leather, fingers flying over keyboards, guitars and drums.
