In 1977 Australian Robina Courtin became one of the first westerners to be ordained a Buddhist nun. Then she founded the Liberation Prison Project

Alan Turner's life in emergency medicine has seen him spend much of his life in war zones, and remote Australia

When Scott Rankin was a child he slept on a Chinese junk moored in Sydney's Lane Cove River, until the day six squad cars of police arrived

The frontman of You Am I on his life in music, his Kalgoorlie childhood, and his battles with anxiety

Bernie is the man behind several massively influential public health campaigns, including 'Quit for Life', and AIDS awareness (R)

Robert Fisk has spent his career reporting from war zones and interviewed one of the world's most infamous terrorists, Osama Bin Laden.

When Campbell McConachie befriended a man called Lindsey Rose at a Sydney pub, he didn't know Lindsey had already killed several people

Shushma Malik on Emperor Nero's decadence, destruction and debauchery (R)

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Buzzfeed's Craig Silverman explains where fake news comes from, who benefits, and how the average person might tell genuine news from fake