Tamara Oudyn

3 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Tamara Oudyn

Alex Mills feels very comfortable with the kind of man he is. But it's taken until the age of 40, a serious run-in with anxiety and depression and plenty of introspection to get there. "I'd just internalised a lot of that, so when I found myself in a really vulnerable space, opening up about that sort of stuff was really hard," he says.

Dec 9, 2024 | abc.net.au | Tamara Oudyn

There are coincidences. And then there are happenings that are straight-up, raise-the-hair-on-your-arms eerie. In this case, it was the discovery of two identical acts of love, comfort and community that played out more than 120 years apart at the same Melbourne address. Where two women at opposite ends of a century were sung to by a choir while confined to their beds, on the threshold between life and death. My friend Ambyr got in touch on a Monday night last September. "Hi love.

Nov 6, 2024 | abc.net.au | Tamara Oudyn

We thought we were being phished. Why else would someone claiming to work on Coldplay's upcoming Melbourne shows lob into our inbox on a Saturday afternoon just before the band's arrival in Australia? The community choir my three mates and I built six years ago and run together has no business hearing from one of the biggest bands in the world. We exist predominantly in the orbit of our friends and families — and if we're being generous, perhaps our wider community in Melbourne's west.

Aug 17, 2024 | abc.net.au | Tamara Oudyn

As far as theme songs go, this one's always been a banger. When a colleague played me the tweaked version recently, it hit me right in the solar plexus with a jolt of nostalgia. And if you were born in Australia before the year 2000, there's a high chance it's baked into your televisual memories too.

Jun 8, 2024 | abc.net.au | Tamara Oudyn

When a young Paul Higgins sat through lectures in law and economics at Monash University in 1978, the last place he dreamt he'd ultimately wind up was in a television studio. Yet it's became his natural habitat, from where he's been beamed into our homes on weeknights for nearly 40 years. And so, as he approaches his final weather report for the ABC this Thursday, he's been taking stock and reflecting on his storied career. "I will miss coming in here and being with my colleagues," he tells me.