Guardian Australia Reads

A writer wonders about a happily ever after. Nostalgia rises after years of rapid tech change. And cancer survivors manage treatment during lockdown

Meet three Australian women pushing back on the expectations and stereotypes so often placed on them

The steel city once knew him as a migrant made good who contributed a great gift to the arts. But one man has been digging into the true identity of Bob Sredersas

What are the pleasures and pitfalls of driving an electric car from Sydney to Melbourne and back? Guardian Australia’s economics correspondent Peter Hannam goes for a test drive. Plus: we hear from a wrestling champ who can’t compete, and about a new island forming in the Pacific

These are some of our favourite stories from the Guardian Australia Reads audio library. A lion gets inside a London black cab, a son contemplates the future of his father’s ashes on a sinking island and Melbourne’s last video store resolutely stays open

Three stories of mystery this week: on the scent of platypus eggs, tracking Australia’s ‘most beautiful mammals’ and uncovering fabled Aboriginal art 40 years after its disappearance

Three stories about women at major points in their lives – challenging the stories they’ve been told about themselves. We take on combat sport, brave board burn and experience postpartum fury

The Yawuru people have finally had 530,000 hectares of their traditional country returned to them. We also hear suburban tales of electrifying our homes and discovering treasure on council cleanup days

For four extraordinary people, superpowers are not beyond the imagination – they are an ordinary reality that they smell, remember and see every day

The pandemic has made us re-evaluate what we took for granted. How have Australians made sense of the value of work, amidst all this change and chaos? We also hear about the digital preservation of a Sydney herbarium, and unlikely discoveries from Alexander Downer’s suitcase