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Our guest sold offerings outside temples in India to fund his schooling and beat hundreds of thousands of students to win a coveted place at medical school.

When he moved to Australia, he worked as a paediatrician in Darwin, doing valuable fly-in fly-out clinics at remote communities, gradually winning community trust.

Now in Melbourne, he has worked tirelessly with multicultural communities to correct healthcare misinformation and taboos. 

Guest: Dr Raj Khillan, Paediatrician and co-founder of the Healthcare Awareness Society of Australia.

Victorian recipient, Australian of the Year 2023

With energy prices soaring everywhere, finding new ways to reduce energy costs has never been more attractive … and it’s leading to some unusual developments in Europe. A public swimming pool in Devon, a lobster farm in Norway and a university in Dublin are being heated by data centres. But are they a truly large-scale energy solution?

Guest: Paul Deane, senior research fellow in energy futures, University College Cork.

Jacob is no stranger to becoming immersed in the world he's researching. He's a nanotechnologist, so things are about to get tiny.

Today, Jacob Martin explains why his research requires a balance of the real and virtual worlds of scientific experimentation.

Iran and Saudi Arabia formally severed ties in 2016 and they've been fighting a proxy war ever since. Now, the Gulf rivals have resumed relations in a deal brokered by China boosting Beijing's credibility as a credible partner in the region. So, how much of a hand did China play and what does it reveal about President Xi's alternative world order?

Six months after Pakistan's worst ever floods, parts of the country are still covered with stagnant water

Chris Minns will be the new Premier of NSW after leading his party to an election win after 12 years in opposition. The result means that Tasmania is the only state or territory with a Coalition government.

In a nursing home lives an elderly man who is being held against his will.

Pashtana Dorani is leading her education foundation for girls in Afghanistan from afar after being forced to leave the country

Can you guess this week's tweeter?