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Bringing an Indigenous perspective to Australia Day coverage

As part of the ABC's Australia Day coverage, Indigenous staff produced a special TV program on the meaning of the day and what can be done to unite Australians.

Two women and a man standing at a desk in a TV studio with another woman on a TV screen.

Source: ABC News/Topic: Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander)

Sadaf thought she'd escaped violence, until she started high school

Sadaf's family moved to Australia to escape war-torn Afghanistan, but instead she faced more violence in the schoolyard. Her experience is not unusual for culturally and linguistically diverse youth in Australia.

A teenager smiles at the camera in front of some greenery

Source: ABC News/Topic: Bullying

Quick and easy dinner recipes for beginners

Starting out in the kitchen? These recipes are super accessible.

Chicken cauliflower tray bake on a serving plate and in a tray.

Source: ABC Everyday/Topic: Food and Cooking

Teachers told 'troublemaker' Hayley she would never graduate. She almost believed them

While her peers attended class and completed their homework, Hayley Doyle was counting down the days until she could leave. A school-based traineeship turned her life around.

A young womanl with brown eyes, blonde and brown hair, wearing a colourful shirt smiles at the camera.

Source: ABC Capricornia/Topic: Education

A new disease outbreak is threatening dogs. This is what you need to watch for

While we continue to be occupied with the COVID pandemic, another life-threatening disease has emerged — for our furry friends.

A sad and lonely dog sits on a couch.

Source: The Conversation/Topic: Animals

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Syd Kirkby was the first explorer to survey Antarctica

Syd Kirkby has done something which no human being will ever do again - at least not on this planet.The first year he went, 85 percent of Antarctica had never been seen before.
Duration: 51 minutes 17 seconds

Source: ABC Radio/Topic: Adventure

Sick in the land of the well

Jacinta Parsons was in her 20s when she became horribly unwell with Crohn's disease, a chronic disease of the digestive system.
Duration: 52 minutes 18 seconds

Source: ABC Radio/Topic: Diseases and Disorders

Ajay Rane and the gift of the earthenware pot 

Ajay is an obstetrician and his father, born to one of India’s lowest classes, was a surgeon — an improbable career that was funded by a whole village.
Professor Ajay Rane stands in his doctor's scrubs and cap in a hospital corridor.
Duration: 50 minutes 22 seconds

Source: ABC Radio/Topic: Human Interest

Richard and the island

Richard Flanagan on writing his apocalyptic novel on a remote island, as bushfires burned through Tasmania's forests.
Duration: 49 minutes 57 seconds

Source: ABC Radio/Topic: Bushfire

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Moments in History

Auschwitz Untold: In Colour

A powerful account of one of the most hideous crimes in history told from the perspectives of 16 Holocaust survivors whose stories are made all the more real by the power of restored and colourised black and white archive.

Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 53 seconds

Source: iview/Topic: DOCUMENTARY

This Week in History: Mummy unwrappings

Mummy unwrapping parties seem a macabre way to spend the night with friends over dinner, but once it was all the rage.

Duration: 27 minutes 26 seconds

Source: ABC Radio/Topic: Human Interest

The ghost hunter and the haunting of housewife, Alma Fielding

Between the grief-stricken World Wars, seances were very fashionable in Britain, and efforts to document hauntings by ghosts or poltergeists were serious and intense.

Black and white photo of Alma Fielding seated in lounge chair, smoking; black curly hair, stylishly dressed during 1930s
Duration: 22 minutes

Source: ABC Radio National/Topic: Human Interest

The evolution of popular music

How did we get from the blues, jazz and Motown sounds, to the wide variety of musical styles we hear today? Take a guided tour through the evolution of popular music.

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Duration: 50 minutes 53 seconds

Source: ABC Radio/Topic: Music

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