Malala - Ed#724

When Malala Yousafzai speaks, the world takes notice. At 11, she spoke out against the Taliban’s ban on girls’ education. At 15, she survived an assassination attempt. At 17, she won a Nobel Peace Prize for her advocacy. Now, at 27, Malala is using her voice to amplify the stories of others through film. “I believe that storytelling is the soul of activism,” Malala tells us. “I know this from my own life and how much my story has resonated with people around the world.”

More highlights in this edition:

• In his Letter to My Younger Self, the voice behind 90s band Custard and Bluey’s dad Bandit, Dave McCormack, looks back on his “musical summer of love”…that lasted six years.
• The extremes of summer heat and winter chill are affecting countless Australians: our investigation into housing energy efficiency takes the temperature of this growing problem for low-income renters.
• Author Tim Winton sees apocalyptic visions in Juice, his new novel inspired by the environmental plight faced by his grandkids.
• On her powerful new album I Just Have to Climb This Mountain, Sarah Blasko uses simple piano to express complex ideas of faith lost and found.
• In Tastes Like Home, Jasmin Weston tops her Dad’s Creamy Fish Pie with golden mashed potato, with thanks to her family’s thrifty ingenuity in the kitchen.
• And in Ozzities, we replay the history of Ned Kelly as seen on film: beards, bucketheads and Mick Jagger, too.