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Deciding to live—recovery from a decade long battle with anorexia
While fighting anorexia Lexi Crouch was admitted to hospital 25 times and placed in an induced coma twice. When doctors told her she would die, she began the slow climb up and out to health (CW: discussion of eating disorders)
Published: with Richard Fidler and Sarah Kanowski
Frosty the supercars legend and his race to the top of Mount Panorama
Mark Winterbottom grew up in outer Western Sydney, in a family with not much money to spend on expensive hobbies. But by an extraordinary twist of fate, Mark won his first mini motorbike in a shopping centre raffle at the age of 8.
Published: with Richard Fidler and Sarah Kanowski
A former army psychologist on ketamine therapy, PTSD and her surrogate twins
Louise O'Sullivan spent 10 years with the ADF, including deployments with the Special Forces in Afghanistan which eventually left her with PTSD, but a bigger battle lay ahead, the fight to save her premature twins.
Published: with Richard Fidler and Sarah Kanowski
Dad, Bob Marley and me
After the death of her father, a spiritual moment with the life-size wooden statue of Bob at Nine Mile convinced queer rapper, Jamaica Moana that everything would be alright.
Jamaica was born to the music of Bob Marley on the Central Coast of NSW.
Published: with Richard Fidler and Sarah Kanowski
How a pair of disobedient missionaries invented Australia's most iconic road trip
Tens of thousands of 'van lifers' and 'grey nomads' drive around Australia each year. But the iconic road trip has a surprising origin story involving a pair of missionaries, a retired butcher and a gun-slinging mother-daughter duo.
Published: with Richard Fidler and Sarah Kanowski
Finding great love, surviving a stroke, and writing down seven decades of life
Susan Varga tells the story of her life across seven decades, circling between Australia and Europe, activism and seclusion, surviving a stroke, and her great later-in-life love story (R)
Published: with Richard Fidler and Sarah Kanowski
Encore: How Johnathan Thurston became one of the greats
Despite being a stand-out young player, many NRL clubs initially rejected Johnathan Thurston because they thought he was too small and wiry but he went on to become one of the best rugby league players of all time.
Published: with Richard Fidler and Sarah Kanowski
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