Guardian Australia Reads

Reading romance books after heartbreak, finding nostalgia, and living with cancer and Covid

Taking inspiration from Chrissy Amphlett, Sharon Stone’s stunt double, and a diving superwoman

‘I am Bob. Just Bob’: could a Wollongong folk hero have had a Nazi past?

Leading the charge: road-testing Australia’s EV stations on a 2,800km round trip

Travelling lions, sinking islands and the last video store

In search of Australia’s elusive treasures

An all-female fight camp, a middle-aged guide to surfing and discovering postpartum rage

‘The good fight’: Roebuck Plains Station and its return to Indigenous owners

Meet the superhumans

‘Stop and enjoy your life’ – how to rethink work after the pandemic

Big cats, green sea turtles and 130 different bird species

A bank heist, losing the vroom and an endurance swim

A day at the beach: sex, sharks and ashes

The English teacher and the Nazis: trove of letters in Melbourne reveals network that saved Jews

Pure heaven, but also hell: my trek to find the Disappearing Tarn

Witness K and the ‘outrageous’ spy scandal that failed to shame Australia

‘We need to be alarmed’: food banks in overdrive as politicians allow Australians to go hungry

‘The right thing to do’: restoring Aboriginal place names key to recognising Indigenous histories

When released from prison, Darko Desic faces deportation to a country that no longer exists

‘My father will go down like the captain of the Titanic’: life on the Pacific’s disappearing islands

‘The only place like it in the world’: why the Nicholas Building is the creative heart of Melbourne

‘The fear of this vaccine is real’: how Papua New Guinea’s Covid strategy went so wrong

The unclaimed: the ashes left waiting in Sydney’s Wayside Chapel

A dip in the Yarra or a dive in the Torrens? The push for urban river bathing in Australia

‘It’s about quality of life’: septuagenarian gym owners keep their peers moving

‘It was life or death’: the plane-hijacking refugees Australia embraced

‘We’ve been abandoned’: the long road to recovery for black summer bushfire survivors

My life and death hike through busy Melbourne to help a duck march her eight babies to water

Sufferers of chronic pain have long been told it’s all in their head. We now know that’s wrong

What is equity crowdfunding? Why cleaning product and nail polish start-ups ask you to invest

‘It makes us sick’: remote NT community wants answers about uranium in its water supply

‘Hydration is a simple thing’: has the quest to improve water actually worked?

‘They’ve forgotten we’re still here’: Australia’s polio survivors

Rohingya United: the football team bringing together refugees

A journey down WA’s mighty Martuwarra, raging river and sacred ancestor

‘I’ve worn a couple’: how Alan Lynch’s scary decline adds to concussion discourse

Speed, decisiveness, cooperation: how a tiny Taiwanese village overcame Delta

Clementine Ford pivots to love: ‘For how long can you be the provocative feminist voice?’

‘It will be found’: search for MH370 continues with experts and amateurs still sleuthing

A common treatment for endometriosis could actually be making things worse

‘There’s risk in everything, right?’ The serendipity and agony of dating your neighbour

Anatomy of the loser AFL club: when is the sting of sporting failure worse?

In Kawerau one thing impedes the effort to vaccinate Māori: New Zealand’s history

‘A brilliant way to get humans to behave’: the shelter where volunteers read to farm animals

‘Killed like animals’: documents reveal how Australia turned a blind eye to a West Papuan massacre

Top of the tile: wordsmiths of all ages vie for Australia’s Scrabble honours

How the sausage gets made: the serious business of fake meat

Photos from ‘beyond the grave’: camera discovery reveals climber’s last images before fatal avalanche

Reuniting the pack: it took 16 months and a journey through six cities to bring our dog Luna home

‘That was it, we lost him’: one Sydney family torn apart by Covid