An odyssey across Australia — how 11,000 sheep were walked from Victoria into the outback

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Hip Hop, home, and humanity—'trials' on reckoning with his origin story

Dan Rankine (aka 'trials') was the only little Aboriginal boy living in his rural Welsh village when he woke up shaking from a nightmare. That's when he and his mother knew they needed to go home to Adelaide.Dan is now one of Australia's most respected hip hop producers, writers ...  Show more

Encore: David Malouf on growing up in Brisbane and his life of letters

Award-winning Australian author, poet and essayist David Malouf died last week at the age of 92, he spoke with Richard in 2014.The first son of a Lebanese family, David spent his early years in South Brisbane, his vivid memories of life as it was then are captured in his classics ...  Show more

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