1996: Walter Mikac
IT was the morning of April 29, 1996, when the policeman led us up the hill, away from the carnage of the Broad Arrow Cafe.
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1996: Walter Mikac
WALTER Mikac dealt with the unbearable loss of his wife and daughters, to go on and build a new life and family.
The collector
MICHELLE de Kretser on the “great decency” among Australians, why she won’t read reviews of her own books and where she finds her inspiration.
10 Questions: Khoa Do, filmmaker, 34
KHOA Do has written and directed a new TV mini-series about a young Australian executed in Singapore for drug smuggling.
High alert
THEY’RE cheap, they’re widely available and some are even legal. Why police, politicians, parents and medicos fear the scourge of synthetic drugs.
Synthetic drugs scourge spreads
THEY call themselves “psychonauts” and synthetic drugs are their newest fixation.
No regrets?
PASSING fads, botched jobs, spelling mistakes … Today’s tattoo could be tomorrow’s tragedy.
Laws unto himself
FOR decades he ruled the airwaves and even now, at 77, he can cause a stir. John laws looks back on his life – and his regrets.
This is John Laws
FOR decades he ruled the airwaves and even now, at 77, he can cause a stir. In a Magazine interview, John Laws looks back on his life – and his regrets.
Footballers used ‘as stem cell lab rats’
AFL and NRL footballers are being used as “lab rats” by biomedical companies to promote radical stem cell therapy.
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