Mridula Amin

1 month ago | sbs.com.au | Mridula Amin

Nick Lutton celebrated the new year with a fresh chapter in mind — he and his wife had just sold their home and bought an acreage in Queensland, where they would soon move with their young family. But a few hours into 2025, he went into cardiac arrest from heart failure and died on the floor of their Wilton home, aged 44. "I found my phone, called triple zero, and started CPR," his widow, Stacey Lutton, recalls tearily. Her 11-year-old daughter Evie had also awoken.

2 months ago | sbs.com.au | Mridula Amin

This article contains references to child abuse and suicide. Digger* remembers when he was six years old, being told by the other boys how to make his bed to ward off predators in the night. He would tuck the sheets tightly under his small mattress to make a cocoon. "We thought that was our safety net. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. I can still remember hearing boys scream as they were taken away," Digger recalls.

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Mridula Amin

Phyllis Tedesco has lived in western Sydney for 50 years but has never visited the city’s most famous beach, Bondi – until last weekend. The 67-year-old, who migrated from Italy when she was five, lives in Fairfield. On Sunday, she hopped aboard one of the free buses operated by her council this summer, ferrying locals to Sydney’s eastern suburbs beaches to help combat the “many barriers to access”. For Tedesco, the bus is a golden ticket.

Aug 26, 2024 | abc.net.au | John Lyons |Nick Wiggins |Maryanne Taouk |Mridula Amin

As we walk through the heart of Iran's capital we see a large digital clock nestled among several shops. It's counting down to what it claims, is the time left until the state of Israel is destroyed. The clock overlooks Palestine Square in Tehran as cars and vendors come and go in a country that is in conflict internationally and at home. Across the square is a billboard, several stories high, depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a straitjacket.

Jun 16, 2024 | abc.net.au | Avani Dias |Dylan Welch |Mayeta Clark |Mridula Amin |Nick Wiggins

/ Posted 3 minutes agoThe long arm of the Indian state is reaching Australians and threatening national security. Late one night in January 2023, Harjinder Singh's phone rang while he drove his taxi around Melbourne. It was a man he'd never met, speaking Punjabi, with a veiled threat: Stop the referendum going ahead or "the result will be bad". A flag blows outside Harjinder's house for a nation that doesn't exist.