Guardian Australia Reads
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Guardian Australia Reads
Three times a week, hear the best of Guardian Australia’s journalism read out loud to you. Listen on Apple Podcasts and Spotify
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Reading romance books after heartbreak, finding nostalgia, and living with cancer and Covid
A writer wonders about a happily ever after. Nostalgia rises after years of rapid tech change. And cancer survivors manage treatment during lockdown
Taking inspiration from Chrissy Amphlett, Sharon Stone’s stunt double, and a diving superwoman
Meet three Australian women pushing back on the expectations and stereotypes so often placed on them
‘I am Bob. Just Bob’: could a Wollongong folk hero have had a Nazi past?
The steel city once knew him as a migrant made good who contributed a great gift to the arts. But one man has been digging into the true identity of B...
Leading the charge: road-testing Australia’s EV stations on a 2,800km round trip
What are the pleasures and pitfalls of driving an electric car from Sydney to Melbourne and back? Guardian Australia’s economics correspondent Peter H...
Travelling lions, sinking islands and the last video store
These are some of our favourite stories from the Guardian Australia Reads audio library. A lion gets inside a London black cab, a son contemplates the...
In search of Australia’s elusive treasures
Three stories of mystery this week: on the scent of platypus eggs, tracking Australia’s ‘most beautiful mammals’ and uncovering fabled Aboriginal art...
An all-female fight camp, a middle-aged guide to surfing and discovering postpartum rage
Three stories about women at major points in their lives – challenging the stories they’ve been told about themselves. We take on combat sport, brave...
‘The good fight’: Roebuck Plains Station and its return to Indigenous owners
The Yawuru people have finally had 530,000 hectares of their traditional country returned to them. We also hear suburban tales of electrifying our hom...
Meet the superhumans
For four extraordinary people, superpowers are not beyond the imagination – they are an ordinary reality that they smell, remember and see every day
‘Stop and enjoy your life’ – how to rethink work after the pandemic
The pandemic has made us re-evaluate what we took for granted. How have Australians made sense of the value of work, amidst all this change and chaos?...
Big cats, green sea turtles and 130 different bird species
Three stories take us into the animal kingdom. Meet communities around Australia ‘discovering’ animals on land and sea, both big and small
A bank heist, losing the vroom and an endurance swim
In a new format, Guardian Australia Reads presents three of our best features, read to you out loud. In this episode, we hear the stories behind Austr...
A day at the beach: sex, sharks and ashes
We take you to the beach and get among the sand and saltwater. Hear four very different stories about memorable moments at the beach. Together they ce...
The English teacher and the Nazis: trove of letters in Melbourne reveals network that saved Jews
Frances and Jan Newell painstakingly uncovered their mother’s role in facilitating the escape of Jews and political dissidents from Berlin to Britain....
Pure heaven, but also hell: my trek to find the Disappearing Tarn
In the mountain by Hobart a lake appears just after heavy rain, then vanishes. Features editor Lucy Clark recommends a story that takes us on a myster...
Witness K and the ‘outrageous’ spy scandal that failed to shame Australia
Witness K and lawyer Bernard Collaery helped correct what they saw as a gross injustice. Luke Henriques-Gomes introduces Christopher Knaus’ story abou...
‘We need to be alarmed’: food banks in overdrive as politicians allow Australians to go hungry
Food relief organisations say they are helping more people than ever before. But this is not a good news story. Head of news, Mike Ticher, introduces...
‘The right thing to do’: restoring Aboriginal place names key to recognising Indigenous histories
Indigenous communities argue that renaming landscapes should not be limited to removing overtly racist colonial names. Assistant news editor Shelley H...
When released from prison, Darko Desic faces deportation to a country that no longer exists
Desic turned himself in to police in Sydney 30 years after escaping jail. Ben Doherty explores how his friends and family are pleading for the Austral...
‘My father will go down like the captain of the Titanic’: life on the Pacific’s disappearing islands
Many in the Saposa Islands are wrestling with the dilemma of starting a new life on the mainland or staying to watch their homes vanish. Deputy editor...
‘The only place like it in the world’: why the Nicholas Building is the creative heart of Melbourne
Built in 1926 by a pharmaceutical company, the heritage-listed building has since become a hub for artists – who now fear it may be under threat. Cult...
‘The fear of this vaccine is real’: how Papua New Guinea’s Covid strategy went so wrong
Public confusion and distrust over vaccination have been fuelled by what experts say are crippling failures in authorities’ response to the pandemic....
The unclaimed: the ashes left waiting in Sydney’s Wayside Chapel
In the charity’s storeroom sit the cremated remains of seven former visitors – unclaimed, contested or forgotten. Lifestyle editor Alyx Gorman introdu...
A dip in the Yarra or a dive in the Torrens? The push for urban river bathing in Australia
There is a growing effort to reconnect swimmers with city waterways once thought permanently lost to pollution. Assistant news editor Rosemary Bolger...
‘It’s about quality of life’: septuagenarian gym owners keep their peers moving
Their shed may not be state-of-the art but a community-oriented approach to fitness is working out for Barbara and Peter Hill. Lifestyle editor Alyx G...
‘It was life or death’: the plane-hijacking refugees Australia embraced
Luke Henriques-Gomes’s grandfather was one of 44 refugees to arrive in 1975 on the only RAAF plane ever hijacked. The official response still staggers...
‘We’ve been abandoned’: the long road to recovery for black summer bushfire survivors
Nearly two years after fires devastated the NSW south coast, families still live in caravans as they struggle to rebuild in the face of red tape, a sk...
My life and death hike through busy Melbourne to help a duck march her eight babies to water
For three hours, writer Debbie Lustig fends off traffic and protects the ducklings like a crazy lollipop lady with a fishing net. Assistant news edito...
Sufferers of chronic pain have long been told it’s all in their head. We now know that’s wrong
As part of a Guardian series about chronic pain and long Covid, Linda Geddes explores the growing realisation that pain can be a disease in and of its...
What is equity crowdfunding? Why cleaning product and nail polish start-ups ask you to invest
Australian consumers have invested tens of millions in early-stage start-ups since the practice was approved in 2018, but experts advise caution. Life...
‘It makes us sick’: remote NT community wants answers about uranium in its water supply
Laramba’s Indigenous residents fear they are at risk of long-term illness and say they need to know who is responsible for fixing the problem. Feature...
‘Hydration is a simple thing’: has the quest to improve water actually worked?
From alkaline waters to beauty elixirs, added oxygen and probiotics, many brands claim they have ‘enhanced’ water – but what do the experts think? The...
‘They’ve forgotten we’re still here’: Australia’s polio survivors
For most, our previous pandemic is a distant memory. But for these five polio survivors, new health problems have just begun. Features editor Lucy Cla...
Rohingya United: the football team bringing together refugees
The Q-League is a far cry from the refugee camps where some of its players learned to play football using scrunched up plastic bags. Guardian Australi...
A journey down WA’s mighty Martuwarra, raging river and sacred ancestor
Traditional owners are standing together to protect the Fitzroy – a ‘beautiful, living water system’. Gabrielle Jackson, associate editor of audio and...
‘I’ve worn a couple’: how Alan Lynch’s scary decline adds to concussion discourse
Once fast enough to earn a place in the Stawell Gift hall of fame, the former VFL footballer now lives with Parkinson’s disease. Sport editor Mike Hyt...
Speed, decisiveness, cooperation: how a tiny Taiwanese village overcame Delta
A rural community of 5,500 people, with an under-resourced health system, came together to take on Covid. International news editor Bonnie Malkin intr...
Clementine Ford pivots to love: ‘For how long can you be the provocative feminist voice?’
After a decade embroiled in public controversies, one of Australia’s most high-profile feminists is exposing a softer side with her new book, How We L...
‘It will be found’: search for MH370 continues with experts and amateurs still sleuthing
It’s the “mystery that must be solved”. Seven-and-a-half years after the Malaysia Airlines flight disappeared with 239 people on board, head of news M...
A common treatment for endometriosis could actually be making things worse
Repeat surgeries for endometriosis could be exacerbating pain symptoms, experts say. Gabrielle Jackson, associate editor of audio and visual, introduc...