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Break the Rules

Being yelled at by an incoherent drunk man isn’t how I wanted to spend my Friday night.

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The Seven Deadly Sins of Sport

Sloth can sometimes be hard to pick.

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Pictures of You

Last night’s party is still throbbing in my head as I scramble awake, a tsunami of remorse crashing over me.

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The Whole Truth

It’s Friday 11 November 2022, around 10 a.m., and I’m sitting in a makeshift broadcast booth set up in the spare bedroom on the top floor of my house in Woollahra.

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Fire

When I was twelve years old, I was buried alive within the grounds of a construction site.

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Squat

The sound of static – a quick stab – comes from somewhere.

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Everyone this Christmas has a Secret

‘I didn’t know he’d book a magician!’

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Sonny Boy

I was performing since I was just a little boy.

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Stories from the Otto Bin Empire

Adam was fifteen years old when he first arrived at The Corner – fifteen going on sixteen, his birthday only a few weeks away.

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Tell Me Everything

This is the story of Bob Burgess, a tall, heavyset man who lives in the town of Crosby, Maine, and he is sixty-five years old at the time that we are speaking of him.

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The Blue Hour

In the chastening chill of a dazzling October morning, James Becker stands on the footbridge, hip hitched against the handrail, rolling a cigarette.

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Marigold Mind Laundry

Somewhere on Earth was a village where spring faded into autumn, and after autumn, spring returned once more.

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The Business Bible

Welcome, friends, to your Business Bible, in which I share everything I’ve learnt about setting up and running a successful business.

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Juice

So I drive until first light and only stop when the plain turns black and there’s nothing between us and the horizon but clinkers and ash.

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Nanny Piggins and the Origin Story

When I say Nanny Piggins grew up in a sty, that probably doesn’t sound very good to you.

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High Wire

There was a car on fire up ahead.

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Reset, Nourish, Burn

Hi – we are Susie Burrell and Leanne Ward, co- hosts of Australia’s most successful nutrition podcast, The Nutrition Couch.

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The 113th Assistant Librarian

On the first day of the rest of his life, Oliver Wormwood was up, dressed and out of the house before the balefire lamps on Wizard’s Way had been switched off.

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The Grandest Game

There was a price to be paid for power, always.

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Icon and Inferno

The forecast had called, as it often did in Honolulu, for scattered showers.

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Human Design Made Simple

Human Design is a system that brings together ancient spiritual wisdom with modern scientific knowledge to rewrite the rules when it comes to success, abundance, purpose, love and life so that everyone is empowered to thrive.

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Your Celestial Compass

Since ancient times, humans have looked to the starry skies for guidance.

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We Solve Murders

You must leave as few clues as possible

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