For over 15 years, Good Weekend deputy editor Greg Callaghan has been writing about the murders of gay men at the clifftops on the southern headland of Sydney's Bondi. This was the epicentre of a wave of gay hate killings that spread across Sydney at the time. Now Callaghan speaks to Good Weekend editor Katrina Strickland about his new podcast which delves into the factors behind this war on gay men and why these murders continue to reverberate as cold cases.

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Escaping the modern world on a multiday walk in nature is an increasingly popular global holiday pastime, but as demand rises are we creating too many trails, huts and lodges within our national parks? Good Weekend senior writer Konrad Marshall and The Age environment reporter Miki Perkins discuss how walks can be made more accessible, without devaluing and degrading the very wilderness that makes them so special

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In Queensland, knife crimes have risen by 40 per cent in the last five years, a trend reflected elsewhere in the country and also in the UK, where they're so common they've been labelled a "scourge". Journalist Frank Robson spoke to the family of Jack Beasley, a 19-year-old who died from a knife wound on a night out in Surfers Paradise, about the son they lost and the charitable foundation they've set up in his name to encourage teens to leave the knives at home. Queensland Police acting inspector Ken Murray joins Robson on the podcast to talk about what's behind this worrying trend - and what the police are doing to encourage better choices.

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Award-winning photojournalist Stephen Dupont has been visiting Afghanistan on and off for more than two decades, covering the troubled country for everyone from France's Le Figaro to the Australian War Memorial, which made him an official war artist to the country in 2012. He talks about his time in Afghanistan in the 1990s and 2000s, what's happening to the country now and where it might end up, with Michelle Griffin, world editor of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, and Greg Callaghan, deputy editor of Good Weekend.

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He's known for his roles as laconic Aussie hard men, but Bryan Brown is also a film producer, family man, volunteer and now, short story writer. Good Weekend senior writer Amanda Hooton and Sydney Morning Herald film writer Garry Maddox discuss Brown's journey from working-class Sydney to the heights of the Australian film industry, the influential women in his life, his low-key volunteering and lobbying - and the chocolate cake he never got to eat. 

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Nestled in the bush on the banks of the Shoalhaven River, Bundanon is a gift, literally, made to the Australian people by artist Arthur Boyd and his wife Yvonne in 1993. Featuring a homestead, an education centre designed by Glenn Murcutt and a multi-million dollar collection of artworks by Boyd and contemporaries such as Charles Blackman and Sidney Nolan, the place has to date been mostly used for artist residencies and occasional open days.

Now however, thanks to a new $33 million building designed by Melbourne architect Kirstin Thompson, it will be open a lot more often to a lot more of us, as Boyd initially intended.  Senior Good Weekend writer Amanda Hooton and Bundanon CEO Deborah Ely discuss the new gallery, the risks of fire and flood that it attempts to mitigate, Boyd's legacy and dream, and the role regional galleries can play in a COVID-constrained world.

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The tiny Queensland town of Biloela made international headlines with its campaign to stop the deportation of a Sri Lankan asylum seeker family who'd become a much-loved part of its community. Senior writer Anne Hyland and one of the campaign's leaders, Angela Fredericks, discuss life in Biloela, the Murugappan family who were taken from their home there and put in detention, and the challenges involved in the fight to keep them in Australia.

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At only 24 Lorde has three albums and global success under her belt. But the Kiwi songstress does things her own way, swearing off social media and choosing to live a quiet life in her home country. Good Weekend's Amanda Hooton and The Sydney Morning Herald senior writer Nathanael Cooper discuss Lorde's songwriting approach, her new album and how similar - and different - she is to her friend and fellow singer-songwriter, Taylor Swift.

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Best known as a MasterChef judge and for promoting the use of indigenous ingredients, Jock Zonfrillo has taken the Australian food world by storm. Good Weekend writer Tim Elliott and food columnist Dani Valent discuss Zonfrillo's fantastical life story, the rise of the celebrity chef, the growing use of indigenous ingredients and who has the right to commercialise them - and what they've each been cooking (or not) in lockdown.

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Michaelia Cash is known as one of the Liberal Party's most aggressive "attack dogs". But as Good Weekend's Jane Cadzow discovered when spending time with Cash in her home town of Perth, the newly-appointed Attorney-General is also a karaoke-singing, coffee-drinking workaholic who loves hugs. Cadzow and Shane Wright, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age's chief economics correspondent - who has reported extensively on West Australian politics - discuss Cash the person and Cash the political operator, her role within the Liberal Party both nationally and in her home state, and the difficulties she and other WA-based federal MPs face flying regularly across the country to do their work.

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