Stories

Leanne is the founder and owner of the South West Grief and Loss Centre. She discusses how grief is not linear, but rather made up of a million tiny moments.

Abdul-Rahman Abdullah discusses how he uses art and sculpture to create open spaces that encourage conversations around death and grief.

Trauma counsellor Dr Marilyn Metta talks about ending her mother’s life according to her mother’s wishes, and being on the brink of death herself.

Jaya is an expert in the health of vulnerable populations. When the COVID pandemic hit Australia, she believes at-risk communities here, such as Indigenous people and migrants, were let down in the government’s handling of its health response.

Karijarri and Yawuru woman Judy Anne Edgar and her daughter, Japanese Yawuru woman, Maya Shioji, discuss how much is to be gained by doing death and dying the traditional way.

Despite being close to death herself on many an occasion, or perhaps because of it, Amber Dennis embraces life with a passion.

Sheryl’s baby boy Thomas was diagnosed with a rare cancer. She decided to not proceed with treatment – choosing quality of life over quantity.

Although he was half-Chinese, half-English and entirely Australian, people only ever saw entrepreneur and successful businessman Charles Washing as Chinese.

The rights of the LGBTQ+ community in Perth would not be where they are today without the instrumental campaigning of Campaign Against Moral Persecution, otherwise known as CAMP.