'For more than 40 years, Mark Colvin brought the news to Australians from all over the world.'
'Now, the respected ABC journalist is in his own story.'
'Colvin is the subject of a new play that details his life-saving organ transplant, aptly named Mark Colvin's Kidney.'
'A group of youths have created a space for young people of diverse backgrounds, who they say often feel disenfranchised, to express themselves through spoken-word poetry.' (Introduction)
'Arch and Helen Flanagan drove into Rosebery in January 1964 in a tiny Zephyr 6. It was one month after the Murchison Highway had reached the isolated west coast mining town.
Wedged between his parents on the bench seat was future Man Booker Prize winning novelist, Richard, then just two and a half.' (Introduction)
'From the moment Larry Buttrose heard the story about Saroo Brierley, he knew what a remarkable one it was.
A five-year-old boy loses his family at an Indian train station, spends 32 hours on a train, three weeks alone on the streets of Kolkata, then gets placed in an orphanage where an Australian family adopts him and takes him to Hobart.'
(Introduction)
'The 2017 Adelaide Writers' Week full program has been released and is set to be more controversial than usual, with topics like the refugee crisis, war, feminism and cultural identity featuring heavily.' (Introduction)
