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Remembering Midnight Oil's Rob Hirst

Rob Hirst, the former drummer for the band Midnight Oil has died at age 70. In 2018 Sarah sat down with Rob for a wide-ranging conversation about music, nature and reconnecting with family (R)

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  What leaving my family’s Baha’i faith taught me about love and life

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  Encore: Melissa Lucashenko and the story of Edenglassie

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  From drug smuggling and opium dens to marching in the first-ever Mardi Gra…

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  I was a teenage military officer in the War on Terror. Then I had to make …

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  The secret life of a hostage negotiator

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  Upside down in Bass Strait

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  New Beginnings: How Rafael Bonachela let out his inner showgirl with Kylie…

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  New Beginnings: Justin Heazlewood on swapping fame for his hometown

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  New Beginnings: When a sea change collides with messy midlife

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  New Beginnings: Artist Loribelle Spirovski on finding family and love

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  New Beginnings: Felicia Djamirze, beauty queen and drug dealer

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  Holiday listening: Anh Nguyen Austen's story of rescue and reinvention

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  Holiday listening: the secret world of the human ear

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  Holiday Listening: Birds, bees and intelligent machines

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  Holiday Listening: Nerida's nudibranchs, sea dragons and siphonophores