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Articles by Michelle Rayner

The Ruins of Science - a story of misdirected medical power - ABC listen

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By Clare Wright, Angie Grant, Sophie Couchman, Michelle Rayner, Natasha Mitchell Verified
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Verified
This story starts with a mysterious photograph; a picture of an unfamiliar looking medical object. But with further sleuthing, what this piece of paraphernalia reveals from the past is a story riddled with confusion, prejudice, and misdirected medical power. Acclaimed historian and award-winning author Clare Wright uncovers the history of gay 'aversion therapy' of the late 1960s and early 1970s in Australia. Thanks to team from ABC Radio National's Shooting The Past series.
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Buried Treasure - the story of Lake Pedder

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By Frances Walley Green, Carey Dell, Michelle Rayner
| ABC Rewind
It's 50 years since the long and bitter struggle to stop the flooding of Lake Pedder, in Tasmania's rugged Southwest wilderness. The Hydro Electric Commission claimed it needed to flood the lake in order to build a dam, to supply the state's power needs.
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Boy on the Bike - the mystery of a wartime photograph - ABC Radio National

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By Andrew Gray, Claire Crofton, Angie Grant, Michelle Rayner
| Earshot
In 2003, journalist Andrew Gray was embedded with a US tank battalion during the Iraq invasion. In this documentary he returns to an event from that time which has haunted him for nearly 20 years. The shooting of a boy riding his bike, and a photograph which captured this act. Unable to let it go, Andrew uses the photograph as his starting point, to dig deep into the archives, and track down eyewitnesses, in order to try and find out the truth behind the event captured in the image.
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Zelda in chains - ABC Radio National

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By Anne Summers, Ged Kearney, Clare Wright, Lyn Gallacher, Zelda D'Aprano, Michelle Rayner, Carey Dell
| ABC News (Australia) Verified
Clare Wright uncovers the story behind an extraordinary photograph of a slim, neatly dressed woman with a beehive hairdo, who smiles demurely at the camera while chained to the front doors of a city building. Zelda D’Aprano chained to the front of the Commonwealth Building, Melbourne 1969(copyright Fairfax Syndication) Zelda D'Aprano died peacefully in her sleep in Melbourne on February 21st, 2018.
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