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Damien Murphy

Damien Murphy is a senior writer for The Sydney Morning Herald.

POWs: Lorna Johnston and Sister Berenice Twohill, whose war story was the subject of a 2010 series <i>Sisters of War</I>.

Sister of war

Sister Berenice Twohill is one of the few people to have survived a POW camp and become a heroine of a film about her experiences.

Whale research recognised: Micheline-Nicole and Curt Jenner put whale research in WA on the map.

Whale alert; Call me email

When Micheline-Nicole and Curt Jenner started counting humpbacks off Western Australia they could not spot a fluke to save their lives.

Natalie Gould (left) and her mother Mairi Petersen (right) fear the end is looming for their bookshop, Gould's Book ...

Last chapter for Gould's Book Arcade

Gould's Book Arcade, for 50 years the last word for Sydney's discerning left-wing readers, has been priced out of gentrifying King Street, its future uncertain.

In the hours before dawn on March 31, Lismore's 10.65-metre levee wall was overtopped.

The town hung out to dry

Five months after devastating floods, Lismore residents are outraged the SES ignored its volunteers.