One of Full Story’s best episodes in 2021 was about Isaiah. As a kid, Isaiah couldn’t escape the police. He went on to spend his teenage years in and out of youth detention. Now this young Dunghutti man is trying to change how our justice system treats Indigenous children

One of our best Full Story episodes from 2021 was this Guardian investigation into a scheme allowing foreign nationals to purchase citizenship in Vanuatu, or ‘golden passports’ – and with it, visa-free access to the EU and UK. While such citizenship schemes are not illegal or unusual, Guardian Australia revealed that among Vanuatu’s newest citizens are senior political figures from around the world, as well as several convicted and alleged criminals Pacific editor Kate Lyons and freelance reporter Euan Ward speak to Laura Murphy-Oates about how this passport scheme works and how it could be exploited

Paul Daley talks to Tony Birch about finding affection on the so-called margins of the inner city, the injustice of climate change and blak humour. Birch also describes why he doesn’t view his fiction as having a political message

Traditional owners are standing together to protect the Fitzroy – a ‘beautiful, living water system’. This story by Indigenous affairs editor Lorena Allam is one of our best episodes of the Guardian Australia Reads podcast in 2021

Gifted as a cub by a maharajah to a young British boy, Singh lived at a house in Surrey before outgrowing his home and being driven in a black cab to the zoo. This surprising story by Ben Doherty is one of our best episodes from the Guardian Australia Reads podcast in 2021.

Mohammad Zaman Khadimi was forced to make an impossible choice as he fled the Taliban for sanctuary in Australia. In one of our best episodes from the Guardian Australia Reads podcast in 2021 – Ben Doherty tells the story of Khadimi, a young Hazara man who walked out of class one morning and into a world entirely changed

Some farmers see a vicious pest that should be shot on sight, others a native species that plays a vital role in Australia’s ecosystem. In one of our best episodes from the Guardian Australia Reads podcast in 2021, Adam Morton looks at the conflicting views of what to do about the dingo

By striving for tranquility rather than gratification you are less likely to ruin your own day and you’ll be more pleasant to others. In one of our best episodes from the Guardian Australia Reads podcast in 2021, Brigid Delaney examines an ancient way to pursue happiness

In this episode of our new podcast Book It In, features editor Lucy Clark talks to Kathryn Heyman about the indignities that women endure throughout their lives and the craft of writing a memoir

After a year of Covid, climate change and holding politicians to account, Gabrielle Jackson talks to Guardian Australia editor Lenore Taylor about the year in news and politics