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  • When Susan Maushart first decided to pull the plug on all electronic media at home, she realised her children would have sooner volunteered to go without food, water or hair products. At ages fourteen, fifteen and eighteen, her daughters and son didn't use media. They inhabited media. Just ...Photo iconAudio icon
    Monday 2 August 2010
  • The School Magazine is Australia's oldest literary magazine, and it's the oldest literary magazine for children anywhere in the world. It began in 1916 as a free publication for NSW primary school children, with the noble aim of presenting Australian writers for Australian children. ...
    Monday 30 August 2010
  • Colin Darcy makes a new start in life as he and his two best mates, Damien and Johnny, from Whyalla, form a hip hop group called Shadows....Photo iconVideo icon
    Thursday 2 September 2010
  • The Body Farm is the name of a research facility at the University of Tennessee - a workbench of forensic science, monitoring processes as nature does its work - and tonight we visit this institution but we're also inside a large building - a corporate corpse - where a mysterious death has minions and ...Photo iconAudio icon
    Wednesday 18 August 2010
  • Darren Jones was a talented young musician who was randomly murdered on a train in 2006. In this moving documentary his family and friends pay tribute to his life and his music. They also explain how his death has affected the close-knit community of musicians in the Dandenong Ranges, east of ...
    Friday 3 September 2010