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Dinh Nguyen escaped from Vietnam after more than six years in a “re-education camp” after the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975.

When Saigon fell, Dinh Nguyen was condemned to torment beyond imagining

Dinh Nguyen has lived through pain and loss inconceivable to most of us. But on the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, he says he lives in heaven now.

  • Tony Wright

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Amber Wheeler colours client Whitney Barnes’ hair in her salon, Steel Magnolia, in the Kentucky town of Magnolia.

The world is consumed by Trump’s chaos. In MAGA heartland, they’ve barely noticed

Polls show the president has lost his sheen. But from “Hog’s Haven” to a hair salon in rural Kentucky, Americans who voted for Donald Trump still think he’s their best chance.

  • Michael Koziol
Melbourne Writers Festival director Veronica Sullivan.

Festivals have ‘privileged literary works’ over popular, commercial fiction: Veronica Sullivan

As the new director of the Melbourne Writers Festival, Veronica Sullivan has tried to create a program with broad appeal.

  • Kylie Northover
Salmon farming in Tasmania has become central to the federal election campaign.

Troubled waters: Tasmania goes to the polls for the ‘salmon election’

Tasmania has just five federal seats. But many locals think the smallest state could be crucial to deciding who forms government in May.

  • Bianca Hall
It takes an incredible range of skills to make it politics if you’re new to it.

When brilliance is not enough: What it takes for an outsider to become one of the political greats

Mark Carney is leaning heavily on his outsider status in his appeal to Canadian voters, but it may not be an advantage in the long run.

  • Samantha Selinger-Morris

Gen Zs, Millennials, Boomers. Is it all just silly talk? Not at this election

Baby Boomers and their elders are outnumbered by Millennials and Gen Zs at this election. What does the shift mean for politics? And who invented “generations” anyway?

  • Angus Holland
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A three-cornered contest in Gilmore makes life complicated for the major parties

How a sense of betrayal brought a major complication to a battleground seat

At the last election, Labor won Gilmore by just 373 votes. A new player has emerged to muddy the waters.

  • Nick O'Malley
The fall of Saigon saw hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese refugees make Australia their home.

The hunted and haunted outcasts who changed their new country forever

They endured war, risked death and faced down pirates. And 50 years after they began to arrive in Australia, they have left a profound mark on their new home.

  • Kate Geraghty and Michael Ruffles
Christopher Dale Flannery (second from left) entering court.

A hitman’s legacy: the family left devastated

Roger Wilson has been reduced to the passport photo used in police appeals for information when he disappeared, and he has become a bit player in his own life.

  • John Silvester
The Anzacs of Leighterton

The year the Anzacs came: the little-known story one English village still tells its children

Leighterton still relied on horse-drawn carts when a few hundred young Australians arrived in 1918, weaving their way through the skies above and into the hearts of the villagers below.

  • Rob Harris

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