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As a child, author/illustrator, Lawrey Goodrick, experienced anxiety and depression. He often felt like an alien, unable to find his place, and he didn’t understand why. In his racing, analytic thoughts, he considered it a consequence of his vast imagination and curse of creativity. As an adult, Lawrey was diagnosed with High Functioning Autism, and the world as he knew it made a whole lot more sense. Lawrey writes and illustrates outrageous characters and adventures that re

I sat opposite my doctor, a stunned expression on his face. One of those expressions a person adopts when they’ve been hit with some unexpected news, their thoughts retreating for a moment, their composure bleak, like you’ve taken the stool of life of which they sit on completely out from underneath them. I’ve had a few eerie events in life that knocked the cliché wind out of me, so many simultaneously that I was struggling to see a future. Studying Psychological Science att

Most technology-addicted Electricians (that’s what batteries call humans) may have been disappointed with the sideswiping 23-metre 30-tonne Eris rocket that struggled to raise the Vegemite jar payload into the stratosphere above Bowen, Queensland in late July 2025. But it wasn’t disappointing for the future of the Australian Space Industry, nor the start of National Science Week 2025. ‘It was the most thrilling 14-seconds of the 50-year drought of the Australian Space Progra

Only a fraction of Glen Hollands' story has been revealed in the A Current Affair report aired on Channel Nine. Glen and his family suffering multiple indignities post the day of his heart surgery where he died in the operating theatre that had been posed as successful by doctors at Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane, November 2023. When I saw Glen post-operation, he resembled nothing like the Glenn Robbin’s comedy ego Russell Coight of which I often quickly compared for othe