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Madeleine West agreed to a police sting to catch her abuser. Then her body began to shut down
The childhood trauma hasn’t gone away, but Madeleine West has turned it into something more meaningful – helping others.
- Jordan Baker
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‘Your failures are just as important as your successes’
It is every performer’s nightmare: what if you go on stage … and then forget everything. It happened to Frances Rings – in her first performance, her big break. How she stumbled through it has become a life lesson.
- Cassidy Knowlton
This neuroscientist wants you to live forever. Here’s how
What if you could cryonically freeze your brain and be revived in the future? It’s not so far-fetched.
- Cassidy Knowlton
Hannah Ferguson wants Rupert Murdoch to know her (and hate her). Her ambition doesn’t end there
The political commentator has become a Gen Z favourite mixing up talk of vibrators and pop culture with Canberra critiques.
- Josefine Ganko
Joe Gersh thinks Melbourne is falling behind Sydney. And he knows how to fix it
The first thing that hits is the smell of premium scented air. The exclusive venue is where I sit down to lunch with Joe Gersh, businessman, philanthropist, ex-ABC board member turned virulent critic – a man who upended his life and doesn’t pull any punches.
- Stephen Brook
Michael refused to take no for an answer, and now he’s in the running for a Logie
Love on the Spectrum’s Michael Theo has spent the past six years navigating his rise as an unlikely celebrity.
- Louise Rugendyke
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The River: Chris Hammer, crime writer, returns to the source
The author of Scrublands is among Australia’s top crime writers. But his fiction may never have emerged without his early non-fiction. And a jolt from the man who would become the celebrated master of crime novels, Peter Temple.
- Tony Wright
‘I’ll never forget that moment’: Samantha Ratnam on politics, Palestine and the path ahead
Samantha Ratnam is close to tears. The former Greens candidate for Wills is talking about the interaction with locals after the federal election – and the one issue that played a defining role in the campaign.
- Hannah Hammoud
He used to be a street kid. Now he has an apartment with a harbour view
Kings Cross has changed dramatically since the heady days of the late 1960s. So too, one of its most colourful and long-time locals.
- Lucy Macken
‘Don’t be fooled by our positive sound’: Why Mental as Anything are afraid of everything
Brothers Reg Mombassa and Peter O’Doherty are full of existential angst, but they’re still determined to make happy music about sad subjects.
- Thomas Mitchell