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Lunch with ‘that’ teacher, poet Alan Wearne.

A seat at the desk of academic, poet and author Debra Adelaide.

Play and pedagogy with designer Mary Featherston.

A conversation with Tasman Bain, co-founder of PNG gender-equality charity Meri Toksave.

Since he first started travelling to Utopia, Tim Jennings has been collecting paintings by various artists. His gallery, Mbantua, now has a permanent collection: 30 years’ worth of art from Utopia. ‘I thought it could be very important to see how the artists change over time, evolve over the years. We’ve got about 1000 paintings. In this collection you can see part of the evolvement of the artists.’

An American stand-up comic writes about the therapeutic potential of psychedelic drugs.

For 20 years, Terry O’Connor has advocated for the rights of service personnel to access their lawful entitlements, including the sought-after Gold Card, which grants unlimited access to medical services, or to gain compensation for post-traumatic stress disorder. ‘Cases are complex jigsaws,’ he says, ‘requiring the chasing down of witnesses, detective work and knowledge of military history, and can take years to appeal from the date of the original primary decision.’

Maxine Beneba Clarke on the Black Grapevine and the founders of the Black Lives Matter movement.

A blabbering chat with singer-songwriter Ron Peno.

How Liz Cahalan is using motherhood, dance and Beyoncé to change lives.