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Thursday 22 January 2026 has been declared a National Day of Mourning to honour the 15 victims of the antisemitic terrorist attack at Bondi Beach. The day will be marked by a theme of light...
In a classroom in Castle Hill, Christian and Muslim high school students from across Western Sydney are getting to know each other. The conversations going on in the room are stimulating, energetic, honest, loud. There’s...
Can cultural traditions keep pace with modern life? In multicultural Sydney, Greek and Polish youth navigate a journey of belonging, blending heritage with contemporary life. This video explores how they bridge the past and present...
In this StoryCasters podcast episode, Mega, an Indonesian woman who married an Australian man and followed him to Australia, tells her migration story to Jhames Montemayor. Mega found out her husband was not the man...
Coffs Harbour on Gumbaynggirr country has opened its arms to refugees from war-torn countries since the mid-2000s. Now a local anti-racism initiative has found creative ways to unite the regional coastal town.
In a Malaysian cemetery, I learned how to speak to the dead for the first time. The end of 2023 was when I was able to visit my 公公 kung-kung (my maternal grandpa)’s final resting...
A community with a storied culture is reconciling past and present through museums and music.
We Persians have an expression that says: ‘That person has a worm.’ This is something akin to English phrases involving ‘bug’. I am sick. I have the bug of writing.
Tears welled in my eyes, but I was careful to not let any of them out and into the salty ghormeh sabzi. My grandfather has planted a seed of doubt in the centre of my...
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