Stories of sharing support and solidarity with people who understand you.

Stories to guide you through: troubled waters, flooded plains, and a malfunctioning waterslide.

It’s a fact of life that you can’t always get what you want. But you can always try for the next best thing.

Gus Fitzgerald, a surfer and swimmer and commercial diver, describes a life of lessons learnt from the man who taught him to swim. And Timmy Burarrwanga tells the history of pre-colonial contact between Makassarese of Indonesia and the Yolngu people of Arnhem land — a history rooted in sea cucumber.

Stories about how language is passed between generations, and people working to keep languages alive.