Kyoto reveals secret delights
Japan’s old capital is just as enchanting when you wander off the beaten track.
Fiona Harari
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The phenomenal power of science … and hope
While most people diagnosed with a glioblastoma die within two years, joint Australian of the Year Richard Scolyer is training for an aquathlon and a duathlon, with no sign that his cancer has recurred.
A refugee still traumatised by tragedy of his arrival
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.
Teen sailor defied sea snakes and sharks in reef rescue
Chaice Grant was on his first sea voyage when he spotted a yacht in distress – hundreds of kilometres away from land. What happened next?
Death-rolled by croc and living to tell the tale
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.
How a family was born in the wake of devastating Ash Wednesday fires
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?
Howling winds, rough seas, and an avian flu scare
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.
‘No one knows about my time in a Greek jail’
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.
Olympic swimmer banned with Dawn Fraser surfaces six decades on
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?
She survived Auschwitz — but nothing could dim Magda’s light
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.
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