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Jo Peck had just had her 60th Birthday when she was greeted with the news her husband of 25 years had his business elsewhere.
So Jo took a dive into the dating pool, heart first.
Her Memoir is called Suddenly Single at Sixty.
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Some organisations might seem beneficial, helping to link people into others of like mind. But for some, when they go in further to a group, they realise it has taken over their life.
After attending a free clairvoyant reading at a Mind Body Spirit festival, Carli McConkey became trapped in a new-age cult for 13 years.
She says there are tell-tale signs and calls for police to do more on cult-like groups, ahead of her appearance tonight on SBS Insight program Cult Following.
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There's a crisis in gendered violence here in Australia, with 27 women murdered this year already, and protesters around the country demanding action.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has called a National Cabinet meeting with state and territory leaders on the issue. So what can be done?
If you or someone you know is experiencing family violence, phone 1800 RESPECT - that's 1800 737 732
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You know the saying; a man is not a financial plan? It's meant to encourage women to take the reins of their own financial futures.
But young women are still much less confident and less skilled than young men in that realm.
Research from ASIC's Moneysmart has found that Gen Z women are more likely than Gen Z men to be overwhelmed by finances, have no savings, and use risky buy now-pay later services. How can we improve the situation?
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It’s frustrating if you're working hard for a promotion at work just to see a colleague you feel is less deserving advance ahead of you.
But failing upwards calls into question the idea that our workplaces are meritocracies, which is the ideal, if not the reality, that we aspire to.
Can work ever be entirely based on competence? And why do some get to fail and succeed while others don't?
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Imagine you are swept up in a great big love. You marry on an ocean liner, and all seems like a fairytale until the honeymoon takes a serious turn.
Kerstin Pilz's memoir is called Loving My Lying, Dying, Cheating Husband.
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You catch up with an old school friend and her husband for lunch. When you ask the husband questions the pair talk over the top of each other and your friend's voice gets louder and louder.
It's a distressing experience that is making you reconsider moving back to your home town, because you'll need to see more of them.
What can you do?
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The way we are as parents can be heavily influenced by our own experiences in childhood, both good and bad.
When it came to parenting your own children, how much you have stuck to or strayed from how you were parented?
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When it comes to presentation and manner, Australians are pretty casual, and more of the world is following suit. Employees are pushing back against formal dress codes in workplaces, and formal dress is necessary in fewer social settings. So are we losing anything by dropping the formalities? How does our presentation change the way we relate to each other, and ourselves?
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Angie Chong’s grandfather, Chen Wing Young, is known as the man who, in the early 1940's, popularised the dim sim in Australia. Angie’s mum, Elizabeth Chong, Australia’s 'queen of Chinese Chinese cuisine', was one of the country’s first celebrity chefs. Angie has a rich cooking legacy of her own. But now, as a grandmother, how does she bring her family together over food? And, how has she evolved traditions to keep her grandkids happy whilst maintaining a strong connection to her family’s past? A conversation with three generations - Angie Chong, her mum Elizabeth Chong and her daughter Tess Duddy-Chong
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Our closest relationships can feel all consuming sometimes. particularly our children, but also our partners, or close friends, or parents.
It can be hard to imagine ourselves apart from them; to define ourselves, outside of those relationships.
And even when a relationship ends those connections still resonate, we are shaped by the people in our lives, as we shape their lives in turn.
In her new memoir Splinters, Leslie Jamison is sharing her story: of being a mother, a wife, a teacher, an artist, and of being herself.
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Psychiatrist Duncan McKellar's life changed when he began looking into problems associated with the Oakden Older Persons' Mental Health Service in Adelaide.
His participation in the Oakden Review was spurred on by people like Barb Spriggs who, following the death of her husband six months after being admitted to Oakden, was looking for answers.
These events paved the way for the Royal Commission into Aged Care and prompted Duncan to investigate how to create caring health cultures that place patients at the centre. In his book, An Everyone Story, he champions the idea that institutions must ensure that the concerns of patients, families and staff are heard and acted on.
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In 1970 an eighteen year old, pregnant Lynda Holden took the advice of her doctor who suggested a place she could go to find support.
As it happened the support came cloaked with disrespect and deception, and she was told her Aboriginality meant she couldn't keep the baby.
Lynda is telling her story in a new memoir, co-written with Jo Tuscano, called This Is Where You Have To Go
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Australian swimmer Michelle Ford competed in the 1980 Moscow Games, at a time when the Australian Government did not want their citizens to go and when the East German Olympic team was dominating the pool. Michelle went on to win gold and bronze at those games.
Later it would be revealed that a state-wide campaign of doping athletes was being orchestrated in East Germany.
Michelle Ford-Eriksson has written about her experiences in Turning the Tide, and she wants justice for competitors who failed to be awarded Olympic medals, despite evidence of doping emerging after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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A shopping centre and a church were recently the scenes of two violent attacks in Sydney.
The events were shocking because of what happened, but they were also shocking because of where they happened.
What happens when a place that we think of as intrinsically safe sees that protection broken?
And how can we process trauma when it becomes tied to a particular place?
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Stretching across hundreds of kilometres and multiple countries, the Camino de Santiago is perhaps the best known collection of pilgrims' ways in the world and a walk that is said to be like no other.
But what is it like to put one foot in front of the other and set out on a path that will take you many weeks to complete? To follow in the footsteps of so many others who have sought faith, or transformation, or simply a nice long stroll.
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When we first start wearing glasses, or get a stronger prescription, it can feel like our previous eyesight is worse than it was.
But do glasses really make our eyes 'lazy'? Or is it all in the mind?
We answer your optometry questions.
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