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Brian Wilson performs in Los Angeles in 2008.

He heard voices … and music’s soul: The anguished genius of Beach Boy Brian Wilson

His clinical diagnosis was schizoaffective disorder and manic depression, but it is his music that defines him – some of the greatest of his and our times, and all time.

  • Neil McCormick

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Sunlight on the Road, Pontoise (1874) by Camille Pissarro

The now-iconic paintings that were once derided as monstrosities

As a lavish display of Impressionist works opens, an anatomy of three of the show’s iconic paintings reveals why art’s original rebels can still surprise us.

  • Kerrie O'Brien, Lindy Percival and The Visual Stories Team
It’s the 60th anniversary of (I can’t get no) Satisfaction by the Rolling Stones.

How Mick Jagger’s hit song Satisfaction has spanned the ages

A lot has happened in the six decades since the Rolling Stones released (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction. Through it all, we’re still singing – and humming that extraordinary riff.

  • Tom Compagnoni
Curator Kate Rhodes with an original copy of The Age opened at the pages reporting on the Kelly Gang’s shootings.

The untold story of the Age journalist who cut off Ned Kelly’s boot

Research for a new exhibition on Ned Kelly has revealed new details from reports by a journalist for The Age who covered the siege at Glenrowan and cut the bloodied boot off Kelly’s foot.

  • Cara Waters
Vandemonian Lags: Mick Thomas and Shelley Short.

Convicts, gold and scandal: The musical digging up our secret past

A treasure trove of true stories from Tasmania’s penal colony days has been mined for a moving musical by Mick Thomas and friends. 

  • Michael Dwyer
Springfield was the home of Abraham Lincoln before he became president.

A small US city shows how great an American president can really be

The shadow of Abraham Lincoln looms large over his home and his words offer a beacon of hope in uncertain times.

  • Riley Wilson
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Flush with excess

Toilet humour can be draining.

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
Gwenda Garde (nee Moulton), 102, at home in Orange, served in the Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service.

The teenager who hunted Japanese submarines

Gwenda Garde, aged 102, served in the Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service during World War II as a translator of Japanese Morse code.

  • Tim Barlass
Matthew Flinders’ love letters are on display at the State Library of NSW.
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Steamy love letters and happy face ‘emoji’ reveal hidden side of explorer

To mark the anniversary of Matthew Flinders’ wedding in 1801, a tranche of love letters will go on display at the State Library of NSW from April 17.

  • Julie Power

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