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At 10.30pm on a warm Monday night, Lucien Alperstein grabs his shopping bags and heads out the door to get some groceries. He makes the 15-minute walk to his local shopping centre where he passes the customer entrance and heads straight to …

Now like any single gal, I’ve been acutely aware of the single girl construct. I’m also resourceful enough to know there are diverse avenues to explore when dividing up the concept, but it’s the more commercially enterprising and idealised narrative I’m going …

It is 11am and my brother, Cornelius, walks straight to the fridge, grabs a microwave meal and eats it straight from the plastic container. On his way to bed, he unhooks his stethoscope from his neck and flings off his Adidas trainers. …

Envision a world where spare change saves lives. Where credit card purchases of, say, $19.20, could be rounded up by consumer choice and the difference donated to charity. This is the future of giving and one of many initiatives the Give Easy …

Independent filmmaking is not a career for the faint of heart writes Rebekah Woodford It’s mid afternoon and the scent of freshly painted walls fills the air. Cylinders of brightly coloured fluid in all the colours of the rainbow are arranged along …

In Australia, where repeated governments have pursued ever-tougher ‘Laura Norder’ policies, the barriers are high to establishing a human rights conversation around the rights of prisoners. Such a proposal is frequently dismissed as politically inconvenient – perhaps because the criminal justice system …

Alexis Smith, 22, came to Australia to study. But what started as an academic adventure quickly escalated into a nightmare medical ordeal. She came to learn but left with a piece of Australia that saved her life, and changed it forever.   Alexis …

They are familiar murmurings and they gather righteous crescendo as they seep into print, broadcast and online media platforms. But to many of us, we have heard them all before and recognise the strategy for what it is – helmet promotion via …

As a manager of a homelessness shelter in Queensland, Cara* first suspected a problem with management about two months after she left on sick leave to start her treatment for Stage IV esophageal cancer. After a short period at work, she was …

John Pelletier is a victim of a privacy breach so shocking, it could have landed him in jail. Literally. “I had a criminal record and I didn’t even know it,” he says. “It was the most confusing moment of my life.” He …