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1 day ago | 
abc.net.au | Carmel Rooney |Nicola Harrison |Sarah Kanowski
Claude Robinson is the manager of Rainbow Lodge, a home in inner Sydney for men just out of prison. Claude knows the place well because nearly 20 years ago he was sent there himself. At the time, Claude was a heroin addict who did crime to pay for his habit and wound up in a minimum security jail. Then after he assaulted a prison guard, he ended up in one of Australia's toughest prisons - Goulburn Correctional Centre.
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2 days ago | 
abc.net.au | Nicola Harrison |Meggie Morris |Sarah Kanowski
When Jemma Sbeg started recording a podcast in the back of her Subaru about her quarter life crisis, she had no idea just how many people she would reach. But other people her age were desperate for guidance through their 20s - a decade a lot of us romanticise before we get there, and after we leave. It's a decade of massive growth for humans, when we make big decisions about relationships, careers and our own identities, but Jemma felt like she had no idea HOW to make the right choices.
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1 week ago | 
abc.net.au | Nicola Harrison |Alice Moldovan |Richard Fidler
Jamila’s craniopharyngioma had been growing for years, unbeknownst to her. In hindsight, it was her son who gave the first clue, when he stopped breastfeeding overnight at 11 months old. Today Jamila is an author, a broadcaster and the deputy managing director of Future Women, dedicated to achieving gender equity in Australian workplaces.
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1 week ago | 
abc.net.au | Nicola Harrison |Alice Moldovan |Sarah Kanowski
Whale and dolphin researcher, Barry McGovern’s love of sea creatures started in Cork, Ireland, when as a child he met the county’s solitary, friendly dolphin, named for the singer Dusty Springfield. Barry grew up on Ireland’s West coast, in a tiny surfing village where he knew all the bird calls off by heart. His interest in animal science led him to Edinburgh Zoo, where he fed cassowaries and regularly, accidentally spooked a flock of Chilean flamingos.
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1 week ago | 
abc.net.au | Nicola Harrison |Meggie Morris |Richard Fidler
Adam Kay was not far off qualifying as an obstetric consultant in the United Kingdom, when a caesarean section on his labour ward went catastrophically wrong. He couldn't face experiencing another tragedy like it, nor the blunt response from his boss in the aftermath, and so he quit doctoring altogether. Adam took a radical inventory of his life, reassessing his goals, his dreams and his relationships and completely up-ending the conventional life he had felt backed into.
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1 week ago | 
abc.net.au | Carmel Rooney |Nicola Harrison |Sarah Kanowski
Briana Blackett began her career in TV News in Wagga Wagga, in country NSW with the story of a rogue sheep gone wild in a ‘ram raid’ at the local shops. Within a few years she was working in television in London. Then she got a call asking her if she’d like to join a new TV network in Qatar. With her then-husband, she started working at Al Jazeera as a journalist when it began in 2005. Briana's first son, Max, was born in Doha. He was a toddler when Briana realised he wasn't responding to his name.
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1 week ago | 
abc.net.au | Carmel Rooney |Nicola Harrison |Sarah Kanowski
Ray Seidler was one of Sydney's most loved doctors, he lived in a wealthy area with his wife and four children and his uncle was the famous architect Harry Seidler. To outsiders, it may have looked as if Ray had a lucky life, but behind closed doors he was locked in a herculean struggle with his own mental health. His regular bouts of depression caused him to regularly 'run away' from his own home and family, and eventually led to his suicide.
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2 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Nicola Harrison |Alice Moldovan |Sarah Kanowski
Erna Walraven is a former senior curator and was one of the first women to work at Sydney's Taronga Zoo in the 1980s. She was born in The Netherlands, to parents who were involved in the Dutch resistance during World War II. Erna's love of languages took her to Spain, where she lived for many years with her widowed sister and young nephew. Erna met a penniless Australian backpacker and fell in love, settling in Sydney.
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2 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Carmel Rooney |Nicola Harrison |Richard Fidler
Mawunyo Gbogbo grew up as a church-going African Australian girl growing up in the sleepy mining town of Muswellbrook, NSW. Her parents met in Ghana, migrating to Australia when she was a baby. At high school, Mawunyo fell hard for a charismatic boy, and for the first time, she was introduced to hip hop music. When she was offered a chance to further her budding media career in New York City at the Bible of hip hop, The Source magazine, she grabbed it.
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2 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Nicola Harrison |Jennifer Leake |Richard Fidler
Luke Hura has innate ability to understand and communicate with animals and for decades he's been training them for film, TV and the stage. You’ve probably seen one of Luke's dogs in action, he trained Bouncer, the labrador from Neighbours, the kelpie from the film Red Dog andthe maremma who starred in Oddball. Luke has trained cats, chickens and even earned the trust of a big black pig with tusks, whom he says was a dream to work with.
