Being left out, and fighting for a fair go

35 stories.

Kintsugi Heroes

The Warrior and the Artist: Mike Armstrong's Path Through PTSD

A 23-year Army veteran discovers that sharing his PTSD diagnosis publicly gives strangers permission to seek help they've avoided for years.

Connecting Seniors

The Second Family: How a Lawyer Found His Children Fifty Years Later

A lawyer turned broadcaster gives fathers a platform after family law took everything from him.

Golden Threads

When Friendship Changes Everything | Golden Threads

Ian Harvey learned that the people he thought he was helping were teaching him what hard really means.

Grit Diaries

She Won Her Case Against Parliament House—But the Real Battle Was Survival

A diplomat speaks up against systematic workplace bullying in Parliament House and finds purpose helping others trapped in silence.

Kintsugi Heroes

Reflecting on Drug Addiction, Prison and Rehabilitation with Dean Lloyd

A suburban teenager's curiosity about heroin spiralled into armed robbery, incarceration, and a twelve-year addiction — and then became the unlikely foundation for a fellowship-winning mission to close a prison.

Kintsugi Heroes

Helping Refugees Overcome Trauma Through Storytelling & Drama Therapy with Catherine Maguire-Donvito

A drama therapist reveals how giving refugee teenagers a stage to tell their own stories — from childhood laughter to war-zone terror — is quietly rewiring traumatised brains and transforming school communities across Sydney.

Alpine Bushfires

A Perspective from Inside the Alpine Fires with Trav Ledger

A volunteer firefighter from Wangaratta recounts two brutal nights on the 2019–20 Black Summer fire grounds — saving strangers' homes with everything he had, and learning to forgive himself for the ones he couldn't.

Kintsugi Heroes

Raising Standards in Swim Education and Therapy with Ruth Smith

A farmer's daughter who grew up jumping off willow trees into creeks became Australia's leading voice for aquatic therapy — now fighting to transform how swim teachers support children with additional needs.

From There To Here

From Boat Escape to Refugee Advocate: Mahshid Babzartabi's Journey to Reclaiming her Next Chapter

At 52, Mahshid Babzartabi left behind a career, a home, and a country to risk her life on an overcrowded boat — and arrived in Australia to build a community of thousands from almost nothing.

River Murray Recovery Stories

Leading a community with empathy, and managing media misinformation with Peter Hunter

Elected as mayor just weeks before the 2022 River Murray floods peaked, Peter Hunter drew on decades of school leadership to protect his town, combat dangerous misinformation, and hold a fractured community together through one of South Australia's worst natural disasters.

Animals & Us

Why every dog deserves to be loved with Lya Battle • Animals & Us E19

Lya Battle built a sanctuary for 2,000 strays by refusing to accept that abandonment had to be permanent.

River Murray Recovery Stories

Building a Community Workforce with Anthony Winter & Brenton Jinks

Two local tradies from the SA Department of Corrections led prisoner work crews through the 2022 River Murray floods, proving that rehabilitation, community service, and disaster response can be the same job.

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