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Better Off Dead

17 Why Do I Have to Go Through Hell to Get to Heaven? / Life & death

Podcast episode

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Better Off Dead

10 Neither hasten nor prolong death: palliative care in Australia, part 1 / Life & death

Podcast episode

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The Wheeler Centre

The Thalidomide Scandal: A Long Road to Justice / Law

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Lunchbox / Soapbox

Lynne Segal: The Pleasures (and Perils) of Ageing / Young & old

With Lynne Segal

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The Fifth Estate: Big Tobacco / Health & medicine

With Sally Warhaft, Kylie Lindorff, and Nicola Roxon

Falling Out of Love With Madness / Health & medicine

By Jon Tjhia

(Click to watch video.)

Emma Forrest’s career as a writer almost predates her adolescence. She’s toured with pop bands, written a column in the Times, published several books including three novels, and dated stars of stage and screen. She’s also struggled with debilitating mental illness. This is how she described her descent into madness in a 2008 Guardian article advising sympathy for Britney…

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The Fifth Estate

The Public Purse / Australian politics

With Kristina Keneally, Sally Warhaft, and John Hewson

Good Life, Good Death: The Morality of Mortality / Life & death

With Phillip Adams, Amanda Lohrey, Tony Coady and 1 other

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Monday Conversations

Anaesthesia: Sydney / Bodies

With Kate Cole-Adams, Benjamin Law, Eamon Flack and 1 other

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High Notes: Michael Pollan on the New Science of Psychedelics / Drugs

With Michael Pollan and Christine Kenneally

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Lunchbox / Soapbox

Gregory Phillips on The Republic and Aboriginal Peoples / Government

With Gregory Phillips

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‘Stories Were Escape’: On childhood illness and the power of Rapunzel / Books, reading & writing

By Jo Case

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Question Time: Puberty / Health & medicine

With Madeleine Morris, Amanda Dunn, Benjamin Law and 1 other

Monica Dux: The Happy Gestator / Health & medicine

Podcast episode

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The Fifth Estate

State of Emergence / Government

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Subtexts

Body/Language / Identity

With Quinn Eades, Kelli Jean Drinkwater, Clementine Ford and 1 other

Podcast episode

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The Leap Year

21 Ahmed Dini on the towers / Health & medicine

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Dementia and Optimism: Christine Bryden and Paul Bryden / Health & medicine

With Christine Bryden and Natasha Mitchell

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