Mark is a writer, editor and high school teacher from Newcastle, New South Wales.

After early experience nursing in remote Aboriginal communities, Amanda shifted her focus to public and emergency health.

Around the world there is increasing evidence of the over-prescribing of antibiotics and other drugs.

Eleanor takes her regular run past the razor wire and concrete of the Long Bay Correctional Centre.

Ellen Fanning is using her time looking after Conversations to present some of her favourites from the archives.

Martin was awarded the 2015 Orwell Prize for his exceptional reportage as The Guardian's Middle East correspondent.

Patrick Gordon Taylor or 'Bill' as he was known, was a fighter pilot during World War One, and awarded the Military Cross.

Bruce became fascinated with bees when he was in primary school, and his father got him his first hive when he was 13.

Military historian Lynette Silver is a member of an exclusive club, investigating a very particular type of crime.

Leah has performed jazz, blues, 'white soul' and folk since the late 1980s.