19+ hour, 20+ min ago   (828+ words) When Jim Rogers was diagnosed with young-onset Alzheimer’s at 55, it was far from the first time his family had been forced to face the unimaginable. Years earlier, Jim had been left to raise his three young children alone following the…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (717+ words) The Great Hall in Federal Parliament House is a sea of satin. The room hums with warm, earnest, life-changing conversations. Each year, on a cold Tuesday in September, country women swap their denim and work boots for evening gowns and…...

6+ day, 13+ hour ago   (656+ words) The first thing you notice when you meet the oldest woman in Australia, Lorna Henstridge, is her handshake. Firm, strong like a tradie, not something you expect from a 110-year-old. But not having met a 110-year-old before, I suppose I…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1275+ words) Lily Schubert didn’t leave her bed for six years. She lay alone in a dark, silent room. Even the faintest light, the smallest sound or someone’s touch was unbearable. Speaking took too much energy. The most she could manage was…...

2+ week, 13+ hour ago   (522+ words) When professional trainer Tiffiny Hall stepped onto the platform on Channel Seven’s Gladiators, Ed Kavalee was so enamoured. But it was his best friend that declared, “If you meet her, you’ll marry her.” It was a bold statement. Luckily, working…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (805+ words) Tea is what Dr Mary Cole prescribes for safeguarding the future of Australia’s farmers. Compost tea, that is, and soil aeration, molasses, and planting multi-species crops. For more than 45 years, Mary has been using her expertise in plant pathology and…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (541+ words) When Curtis McGrath OAM was deployed to go to Afghanistan in 2012, a tour where he would be clearing landmines and IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices) his girlfriend, Rachel had one question: “What are you going to do if you lose your…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (1508+ words) Carol grew up, along with her two younger brothers, on a sheep and cropping farm north of Gilgandra in the central west of NSW. Carol’s parents separated when she was in late primary school, and she moved with her mum…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (502+ words) At an artist’s studio in Surry Hills, there’s a wicker chair no one is allowed to sit in. It belonged to a man who died in 1992. The paint splatters on the floor surrounding it were carefully sealed under a waterproof…...