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How Dassi Erlich found her strength and finding joy in sustainability

Dassi Erlich shares how she found the courage to speak out, even as her community did everything it could to silence her, and how she and her two sisters built a formidable community coalition to see justice served.

Published: with Hilary Harper

Duration: 54 minutes 34 seconds

'I’m everything I need to be': how Dassi Erlich found her strength after years of abuse by Malka Leifer

The sentencing of former principal Malka Leifer, last year, for sexual abuse was the result of a decades-long fight by the sisters Leifer abused to bring the truth to light.

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Dassi Elrich
Duration: 23 minutes 21 seconds

Dr Kate Luckins was a bona fide 'eco-warrior'. Then she had kids.

Dr Kate Luckins was an in-demand sustainability commentator with stellar green credentials. But, a decade after having her first kid, she found herself exhausted, 'eco-guilty' and staring at an electricity bill double the average household.

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Kate Luckins
Duration: 13 minutes 27 seconds

Teaspoon exhibition invites new reflections on Australia's past

Artist Simon Normand began collecting teaspoons during lockdown, which sparked an exploration of how Australia selectively commemorates certain towns and individuals in its kitsch teaspoon art.

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Two giant tea caddies and a giant teaspoon sit on the walls of a gallery, next to wooden boxes containing descriptive text.
Duration: 15 minutes 41 seconds
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