This excerpt is one of several powerful personal stories of the Sydney Invictus Games participants shared in the new book ‘Unconquered: Our […]
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Dr Michael Wong was about to start work as a neurosurgeon one morning when an unprovoked knife attack left him clinging to life. Four years later, he has forgiven his attacker, adjusted his priorities and is agitating for reform.
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A lifelong dependence on prescription medication transformed Claire McCall’s father from a charismatic salesman to an anxious addict. She recounts the journey of his life and his final decline, and the devastation dementia can bring to families.
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Domestic violence has reached epidemic proportions, with incidents reported to police rising every year. After years of living with an abusive father, one reader knows only too well the pain, lasting damage and devastation such violence leaves in its wake.
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Too many women in Australia are dying at the hands of current or former partners through domestic violence. Joanna Tovia never considered her fearless best friend Polly would become one of them.
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I’m a recovering alcoholic. And a mum. When I lost custody of my beautiful little girl, my life began to […]
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According to the Australian Sports Commission’s official AusPlay survey, football, also referred to as soccer, is the most played sport […]
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When New Zealand became the first country to give women the vote in 1893, our antipodean nation was way ahead […]
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New Zealand’s suicide rate is the highest it has ever been. In our special MiNDFOOD investigation, Catherine Masters talks to survivors, asks […]
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This year marks the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War, and a heart-warming story has come to light of two nurses who served on hospital ships a century apart.
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October 10 marks World Mental Health Day, and this year’s focus is “Young people and mental health in a changing […]
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Josh Hickford has been through the wringer these past two years, emerging the other side of Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and making […]
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What to most of us is just a sensational headline, Margaret Ambrose lived through first-hand. She shares her all-too-real story […]
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In 2005, Scott Perkins established The Louise Perkins Foundation, named after his wife Louise, who passed away in 2004 after […]
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When David Savage was told he had a terminal illness, he and his family had to start planning for a different future – one where he would quickly disappear from the picture. It was a bolt from the blue. Then, just as they were coming to terms with it, a second opinion changed their lives all over again.
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Gathering information about abuses in conflict zones is harrowing, but for Amnesty International’s Anna Neistat, it is the first step toward justice.
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Paulina Larocca is redefining what it means to be creative in 2018, and she’s sharing the tools to help others tap in.
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Lale Sokolov met the love of his life in a Nazi concentration camp – and the pair survived. After long lives together, her death spurred him on to find someone to tell his story to – and work began on the now-published book, The Tattooist of Auschwitz.
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Painter Yaniv Janson has made it his mission to change the world’s perception of people living with disabilities – and the young New Zealand creative is letting his art do the talking, with great success.
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As part of the global #WithRefugees campaign, UNHCR has worked since 2016 to demonstrate the solidarity of people all around […]
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Pip Candrick was diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2011. Despite two critical operations and a series of harrowing setbacks, the 53-year-old has reclaimed her life – and her memories – through long-distance running.
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Mosaic artist Caitlin Hughes’ journey of healing has been facilitated by her artworks created from salvaged materials.
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Helen Fraser discovered the use of forced labour in Australia, and protested the act in a quilt.
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Adventurer Geoff Wilson and his son-in-law Simon Goodburn crossed Greenland with just their legs and the frozen winds to move them, and broke a world record along the way.
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