Fifty people died on December 15, 2010, in the nation’s worst civilian maritime disaster in more than a century dominating. Of those who had boarded the SIEV 221 days earlier, only 42 people survived. Meysam Rahimzadeh was among them.
Chaice Grant was on his first sea voyage when he spotted a yacht in distress – hundreds of kilometres away from land. What happened next?
Johnny Banjo escaped a crocodile’s jaws of death after minutes of wrestling for his life. After poking the crocodile in the eye, Banjo grabbed his shirt and a loose can of beer before legging it on land. As it turns out, crocs are fast there too.
They lost their home in the 1983 Ash Wednesday fires. Just a few days later, Vivienne and Ian Kroehn were expecting their first child. What happened next?
With its barren landscape and a sprinkling of very British sights (including a bust of Margaret Thatcher) the Falkland Islands are a unique travel destination – but first you’ve got to get there.
Fifty years ago The Australian reported a young Sydney woman had been arrested and jailed in Greece for having her boyfriend stay in her apartment. We’ve tracked her down to hear her story.
Marlene Dayman was 14 at the 1964 Tokyo Games. But after marching at the opening ceremony, she was banned from competing. When you give a teen a ‘life sentence’, how do they turn out?
The wartime experiences of my in-laws, and the obliteration of an entire branch of family, have shaded each trip to Budapest, the shadows always tempered by those who survived and remained, their warmth and laughter, the jubilation of being in their embrace. Today, there is only melancholy.
No one has mentioned how gob-smackingly gorgeous this city is, with its enormous harbour skirted by countless golden beaches.
She blasted into federal parliament a decade ago and was quickly written off – but her passion and persistence has made her a force to be reckoned with. Where’s the limit for Jacqui Lambie?
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