Readers Digest Australia

No wonder Reader's Digest is the world's most widely read magazine. Hard-hitting, thought-provoking and entertaining, with unforgettable stories in each issue, RD is packed with features short enough to read in one sitting, but stimulating enough to keep you thinking for days. Every month millions of people get inspired, informed and entertained by its wide variety of stories about people, health, humour, adventures and world events, written by the best local and international journalists. All the stories are fact checked to the smallest details to ensure that readers get the most accurate and truthful stories, making Reader’s Digest the world’s most trusted magazine.

The People’s Choice: Australia’s Most Trusted 2026

The Ripple Effect

The Ordeal of John Cali • Police thought the deaths of his wife and daughter were a murder-suicide but he was sure they weren’t.

SMART ANIMALS

MY (RELUCTANT) TRIP TO THE TITANIC • In 2023, the submersible Titan imploded on its way to view the famous sunken ocean liner. A year earlier, our author—a sitcom writer—took the same trip. Here’s what he saw.

LIFE

The Fibre Future Is Now—and Aussie Broadband Is Leading the Charge

Fascinating Fungi

Bluster About Extreme Weather

Making Friends with AI • Whether you’re already chummy or you’ve been avoiding getting acquainted, our guide will help you understand how to best use the technology to make your life easier … and what to watch out for

How AI IS SAVING LIVES • Artificial intelligence can find new uses for existing drugs, helping to treat rare diseases, including the one that almost killed Joseph Coates

We’re now General. Still Australia’s Favourite Air. • Fujitsu General may have changed its name to GENERAL Australia, but the quality you have relied on for generations remains.

FROM BEGINNINGS IN JAPAN THROUGH TO A HOUSEHOLD NAME IN AUSTRAL IA

THE BOY WITH THE BILLION DOLLAR SECRET • A young man’s hard work left a lasting impression on his school librarian, and as it turns out, changed the entire world

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LAUGHTER • THE BEST Medicine

Choose Life • THERE ARE TIMES WHEN OUR FAILURES, GUILT AND SORROWS LEAD US TO DESPAIR. BUT WE NEED NOT GIVE IN. WE CAN RISE, WALK AGAIN AND…

News From the WORLD OF MEDICINE

CHOOSING ZEN OVER ROAD RAGE • A Survival Guide to Finding Daily Gratitude When the World Is Trying Its Best to Test You.

8 Pillars of a Joyful Life

My Heart Will Go On • A medical journalist’s surprise heart attack reveals how much she didn’t know about the No. 1 killer of women—and men

How to tell if you’re having a heart attack

SPECIAL DELIVERY • Australia’s youngest surviving pre-term baby was born 4,000 kilometres from home – and the only way little Stevie could be flown back to Perth was with Newborn Emergency Transport Service of WA (NETS WA) and Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS).

My Dad, the Cookie Monster

What Happens When You Give Up the Grog? • The Poison in the Pinot: A Sobering Look at the Science of Drinking.

Turn the Page

LAST-DITCH EFFORT • THE 13-YEAR-OLD SKATEBOARDER HAD BEEN MISSING FOR THREE DAYS. THEN A SHARP-NOSED HERO PICKED UP THE TRAIL.

The RD LIST • READ, WATCH, LISTEN

QUOTABLE QUOTES

Brain GAMES • SHARPEN YOUR MIND

WORD POWER • May 4 is Star Wars Day. And this May the fourth, may the Force be with you. That’s because we’re channeling the Force here with words related to force, both physical and psychological. Will you save the galaxy or fall to the dark side? Search your feelings, then turn the page for the answers.

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