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Michelle Brasier was told she had a 97 per cent chance of getting cancer. She chose to laugh about it.

Jessica and JP had a dilemma — what to do with embryos left over from IVF. Emma and Richard had a different problem — how to fall pregnant. Could you give a potential baby to people you’d only just met?

Australian Story producer Kirstin Murray recaps her day interviewing singer-songwriter Kate Miller-Heidke, as the musician talks about her career and personal life highs and lows in the lead-up to her Eurovision performances in Tel Aviv.

Haunted by the experience of childbirth, Kate Miller-Heidke feared she would never find the strength to sing again. Now she’s reached the pinnacle of pop and in a few days will be competing on the biggest stage of her career at Eurovision.

It took lying by the side of the road, his life ebbing away, for a disenchanted young doctor to realise he did want to save lives. In the shadow of death, Dr Tim Duncan finds his true calling.

Regional communities are being advised to chlorinate their house water after a third child death from a parasite that thrives in warm, fresh water across inland Australia.

Love really can conquer all, with the successful marriage of one of Australia’s “most popular couples” proof a strong bond can weather any storm.

A young farming couple tough out WA’s drought with a radical experiment in land regeneration based on natural ecosystems.

Swimming great Kieren Perkins has revealed a panic attack nearly led him to abandon an Olympic gold-medal-winning race that became one of the most enduring moments in Australian sporting history. On tonight’s Australian Story, Perkins explains that, after a poor showing in the 1,500-metre heats at the 1996 Atlanta games, he considered ditching the final to “disappear into obscurity”.