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More than half the children in out-of-home care in Western Australia are Indigenous; it's the highest rate of overrepresentation in Australia. So what is the government doing about it?

Meet the Greenocks. They fostered their first child seven years ago oblivious to the joy, the grief, the chaos, the worry and the love it would bring to their home.

The aftermath of child sexual abuse is an ordeal for all survivors - but for men, it can carry particular challenges. Mal and Ari tell their stories.

Poet Andy Jackson writes about people who live Marfan Syndrome, including some famous characters who are thought to have had it, such as Abraham Lincoln, Robert Johnson and Rachmaninov.

The story of a young Australian man killed fighting with the Kurds in Syria.

A tale of friendship, betrayal, hoarding, squatters and a missing $100,000 dollar cheque. Helen and Franca weren't meant to be friends because Franca was Helen's husband's lover. But then Franca had a daughter and a big problem with hoarding. Helen stepped in to help.

What has practising mindfulness taught sound artist Sherre Delys about understanding climate change and stress at work? Join Sherre on this very personal and sound-rich story of mindfulness as she comes to understand how to be mindful and still be yourself.

Stories of big cats prowling the Australian bush are now generations old. Hundreds of Australians say they’ve seen a panther, lion or tiger roaming wild in the countryside. Is there a whisker of truth to these sightings?

Our cultural practices help define us, but when the mood of the world is against us, what do we do? 

On a sweltering February night in 2010, the destinies of two 21-year-olds — one white, and one black collided fatally on a deserted road outside of Broome. Gene Gibson, a cognitively impaired Pintubi man, was caught in the failures of the justice system.

What happens to romance and intimacy when you become your partner’s carer? One woman’s unlikely story of love when her husband fell ill with Parkinson’s disease and dementia.

In 1994 mother-of-two, Pamela Lawrence, was murdered Andrew Mallard would make one of the most unorthodox "confessions" in the annals of criminal justice and virtually every single part of the justice system fell down..

Michael ‘Tarzan’ Fomenko lived among the dense tropical rainforest for 50 years.

Old LP records found in a rubbish skip reveal some famous voices.

On the eve of his 19th birthday, in February 1963, John Button's life changed forever, when he was accused of the manslaughter of his girlfriend in a hit and run accident on the streets of Perth. It took nearly half a century to prove his innocence.

A very personal journey to the Philippines to meet the children of Australian sex tourists.

Darryl Beamish was a profoundly deaf teenager when he was charged with the 1959 axe murder of glamorous young Perth socialite Jillian Brewer. The Beamish case would take fifty years to resolve, and remains as a landmark case of the miscarriage of justice.

Within Australia's Islamic communities, mental illness is often a silent scourge. We hear personal stories from the frontlines of mental health awareness.

Michelle Phillips, one of Australia’s elite athletes, is deciding what’s next after devoting the past 11 years of her life to the little-known sport of Ultimate Frisbee.

This year marks the centenary of Finland's independence - a country and a history cursed and blessed by its location.