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Dying well 
AM, ABC Radio Current Affairs 2016

With the cost of standard funeral leaving little change from $10,000 it comes as no surprise that money - more than religion - is often uppermost in the minds of families when a loved one dies.
That's particularly true when those families are living on welfare payments.
But one community has taken matters into its own hands and is about to open funerals costing a fraction of that price through one of Australia's first not-for-profit, community run funeral parlours.

Death in the line of duty 
Background Briefing, ABC Radio National 2014

Like soldiers returning from combat, police officers around Australia are battling the symptoms of post traumatic stress after years of frontline work. For their troubles, they're shunned, isolated, and further traumatised by insurance companies when they seek compensation.In extreme cases they end their suffering by taking their own lives. But police forces won't reveal suicide figures and the PTSD epidemic has remained hidden. Now, the dramatic final words of one police officer, and a push for a Parliamentary inquiry, may end the silence. (Warning: some listeners and readers may find the content of this report disturbing).
Image: Many more police officers die by their own hand than are killed in the line of duty. (AAP: Dean Lewins)

When a surgeon is not a surgeon
Background Briefing, ABC Radio National 2015

While most of us assume medical procedures are tightly controlled, one segment of the industry has almost entirely escaped regulation. A look at the fields of cosmetic surgery and skin cancer treatments.

Burma Railway POW honoured in farewell
ABC PM 2015

Like many veterans, Roy Cornford rarely spoke about his time as a prisoner of the Japanese from the fall of Singapore in 1942 to his extraordinary rescue by an American submarine in 1945.
But when he did tell his story, it revealed his extraordinary place in history.
Image: Roy Cornford with his medals two years before his recent death.

Architects intend to clear the record of Opera House's murky history
ABC AM 2015

For more than half a century, the story of how the Sydney Opera House came to be built has remained largely unchallenged. But now a group of architects and designers who worked with architect Peter Hall have formed a small group to set the record straight.

Police suicides through post traumatic stress 
2013–2014,  ABC News

Royal Commission to hear fresh 
child abuse allegations  2013, ABC News
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