Michael Dulaney

Decades before any climate change blockades, young people put their bodies on the line to save a wild river. Here's what we can learn from them today.

Phoney environmental claims are a big problem in the fashion industry. So, how do you know if the "eco-friendly" label is a lie?

He was a man so famous everybody knew him, yet such an enigma that nobody seemed to know anything about him. I was on a journalistic road to nowhere, but once I started, I couldn't stop, writes Louisa Lim.

For decades, a group of crooked Queensland cops known as the Rat Pack ran a murky system of bribes and extortion. But they never dreamed that the sex workers they exploited would bring about their downfall.

Would you coat your arm in raw fish then swim with sharks? Valerie Taylor did.

Wendy got unwittingly involved in horse racing’s biggest cheating scandal. She lives with the consequences today.

Nora Heysen was the first woman to win the Archibald Prize, but she was devastated by the stinging criticisms of men who told her that women couldn't make art.

After his abduction, Arthur left the fight to save his Kings Cross street. Juanita Nielsen’s murder brought him back.

In the shadow of Juanita Nielsen's disappearance lies another suspicious and unsolved death. This is her story. Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this story contains the name and image of a person who's died.

How do you get to work with your hero? For young Australian singer-songwriter Tate Sheridan, it all started with a mystery package and a phone call.

Lord Sydney Ling had a gift for telling people in showbusiness everything they wanted to hear, and even claimed a Guinness World Record. But things got murky when two amateur detectives tried to separate fact from fiction in his life story.

When Kasey Edwards first noticed the flat Earth poster in her mother's house she believed it was harmless. It was the first sign her mother was drifting away from her friends and family, and heading down the rabbit hole.

Opal dealer Mike Poben nearly got rid of the 100-million-year-old fossils found in a bag of rough dirt — but his decision to keep them changed his life, and our view of Australia's deep past.

Jane Fonda's big life has included Barbarella, visiting communist North Vietnam, best-selling workout videos and decades of activism. Now in her 80s, her biggest commitment yet may be confronting the urgency of climate change.

As the Black Lives Matter movement grows in prominence around the world alongside calls to defund the police and dismantle the prison system, Indigenous activist Vickie Roach has seen a fight she has lived for decades suddenly thrust into the mainstream.

Coronavirus lockdown has led to people logging on to dating apps, partnering up and "accelerating romance". But at a time of such upheaval, can you be trusted to make a rational decision about your love life?

Scientists warn that far-reaching changes to the environment are leading to new diseases like COVID-19 emerging faster than ever before. And they say something needs to change if we want to prevent the next pandemic.

One man's letter drop to his neighbours at the start of the pandemic led a whole street to connect with each other, share the load during a crisis and even solve a local mystery.

The true survival story of six boys marooned on a deserted Pacific island for more than a year has captured global attention, but the author says it's just one example of a different, kinder view of human nature.

Like a lot of people, Relationships Australia's Elisabeth Shaw is still trying to figure out how to navigate tension and disagreements while stuck at home.

An oral history by doctors, nurses and researchers who worked in West Africa to contain "the most deadly communicable disease known to man."

Sex therapist Esther Perel's parents saw being erotic as an "antidote to death" during the Holocaust. She thinks couples could learn a lot from their experience.

Captain Thunderbolt probably wouldn't have survived as long without the help of Mary Ann Bugg, who taught him to read and nursed him back to heath after he was shot. So why is he the only one celebrated as a folk hero?

Some people are turning to professional organisers for help with decluttering — does the industry reveal our complicated relationship with our stuff?

A decade after they lost everything in Black Saturday, one Victorian family is learning just how difficult it is to declutter.