Life Matters - Full program podcast Folgen

Public speaker and author Kemi Nekvapil explains how to take control of our lives, gender experts talk about what a menstrual policy at work could look like and songwriter Lo Carmen reflects on the self-inventing women who have inspired her.

During a disaster or tragedy, it's heartening to see how many people selflessly lend a hand. That charitable spirit has been demonstrated across northern NSW and south-east Queensland, with volunteers and community members alike pitching in to help. Life Matters shares your stories of acts of kindness.

Ten years since the release of the Gonski Review, education experts argue that its failure was more in the implementation than the design. But there are important lessons to be learnt from the last decade. Also, the value of local regional newspapers highlighted by this week’s floods, and in The Too Hard Basket, do you intervene in fights between other people’s children?