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Hana Assafiri was married off at 15 to a controlling and abusive man. Within four years she'd escaped, to begin her remarkable reinvention.Hana was born in Melbourne and lived in Lebanon with her family for much of her childhood. In 1976, her family returned to Australia.While st ...  Show more

Hana Assafiri was married off at 15 to a controlling and abusive man. Within four years she'd escaped, to begin her remarkable reinvention.Hana was born in Melbourne and lived in Lebanon with her family for much of her childhood. In 1976, her family returned to Australia.While st ...  Show more

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

Captain Reg Saunders was the first Indigenous Australian to become a commissioned officer in the Australian Army. He was following a warrior tradition stretching generations back, fighting not for king but for country.He didn't have citizenship in Australia, but Reg led troops an ...  Show more

The ABC journalist explains how competing, overlapping narratives and outright myths form our understanding of events of the past, featuring an impersonation of Winston Churchill talking about a lemon tree.Matt presents and writes the ABC TV show and podcast “If You’re listening” ...  Show more