The My Street competition asked people to create a story about their street and upload it to the Pool website. The winning story is MyStreet: 11 Ravenwood Place by Rusty Douglas. Highly commended were The phonebooth by chikabo and H.O.G by Camilla Bonnici. The more than 100 stories are poignant, funny, scary, racey and downright clever. They've come from streets right across Australia, some from overseas and from imagined streets also. The My Street site now also has an interactive map to display most of the stories. So click through to the website and be surprised by the creativity of the Street Stories listeners and members of Pool. Pool is a social networking site for creators of digital content, a place to share your stuff and get feedback from others about your work. So visit the Pool and do a bit of exploring.

There is an ancient tradition of taking the waters at natural hot springs. It continues today at Moree in flat, dry, north-western New South Wales. Each year hundreds of thousands of eastern Europeans journey to the hot pools of this very old style, Australian country town in search of health and rejuvenation. The annual spring and autumn visits by the Europeans feel ritualistic; Hungarians, Croats, Serbs, Greeks, Bulgarians, Italians, Turks... The visitors immerse themselves each day, sometimes for hours, interweaving their lives and sharing tales about the miracles performed by the waters. They are mainly old. Many of them have been living in Australia for more than forty years. They often speak little English and perhaps because of this, word of the wonders of Moree's waters have not permeated the wider Australian community. The faces of the people taking the waters in this story are as marvellous as their voices and we have created an audio slideshow, as well as a separate photo gallery, to share them with you. Watch our video slideshow presentation. Download our video slideshow presentation.

From within the Jewish Australian community voices of dissent are emerging, people who are challenging the mainstream version of the history of Israel and the current conflict the country is involved in. They speak about how they came to their understanding of history and the friends they have lost as a result. Israel´s official history has been challenged for some time now by Israel´s New Historians and one of the latest books challenging Israel´s historical narrative has come from Israeli society itself. Avraham Burg´s The Holocaust Is Over argues that Israel´s use of the holocaust has created a nation with a self image of victimhood, which allows all sorts of atrocities against The Palestinians... 'be it fences, sieges ... curfews, food and water deprivation or unexplained killings. All is permitted because we have been through the Shoah (catastrophe) and you will not tell us how to behave.' In Australia, where the largest community of holocaust survivors lives, it has been difficult to break through the grip of the belief that Israel is the solution to ending discrimination and persecution of Jews, and must always be defended. But, this emerging voice among the Australian Jewish community is questioning the dominant story and actively supports Palestinian aspirations for justice and peace in their homeland. We speak to three Australian Jews who have thoughtfully and courageously spoken out, acted in support of Palestinians and battled their own families and communities to live their lives with integrity and candour.

Since early this year homeless people across Australia have been going to soccer training each week in the build-up to the International Homeless World Cup. For many of them, playing soccer is the highlight of their week; a time to socialise, get some exercise, eat some of the free food and forget about the stresses of surviving on the streets. The training program is run by the Big Issue, with support from local volunteer agencies and support services. They train and regularly play matches against local corporate teams. This December Melbourne will play host to teams of homeless players from over 50 nations at the 6th annual Homeless World Cup. The build-up to the inaugural National Championships took place in July, with teams from across the country heading to Melbourne for the games and a two-day training camp. Street Stories followed the Sydney team, including Chad, Alex, Elmo, Garry and Mahad. These are their stories.