As state borders open up and restrictions ease, we hear stories of people who are left in limbo—refugees and asylum seekers held in indefinite detention, and Australian citizens unable to return home.

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.