Australian Story
Putting the "real" back into reality television, Australian Story is an award-winning documentary series with no narrator and no agendas — just authentic stories told entirely in people's own words.
Australian Story
Putting the "real" back into reality television, Australian Story is an award-winning documentary series with no narrator and no agendas — just authentic stories told entirely in people's own words.
Australian Story
Putting the "real" back into reality television, Australian Story is an award-winning documentary series with no narrator and no agendas — just authentic stories told entirely in people's own words.
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Episode 1: Australian Story Special: David Hicks
For the first time on television, David Hicks tells his story. On Tuesday 20th September at 8.30pm...
Episode 1: A Soldier's Journey / Wild Stallion / Dante's Inferno
Episode 2: Trail Blazers / Cecelia and Justin / The Chant of Tommy Lewis
Episode 3: Goodbye Mary / Slow Business / The Butcher's Pen
Episode 4: Australia Street / Mother and Sons / The Underwoods of Riveren
Episode 5: Coming Home / Sentimental Journey / Spirited Woman
Episode 6: Robin's Song / A Day At The Dump / Lily's Children
Episode 7: The Postman / Rifka's Flock
Episode 8: Betty and Me / The Barber / Life on a String
Episode 9: Men's Business / The Nun's Story / The Hard Sell
Episode 10: The Great Escape / Love Story / Food of Love
Episode 11: The Surgeon's Story / Dingo Dash / The Deep End
Episode 12: Mother and Child / Personal Best
Episode 13: Pride of the Fleet / A Place in the Sun
Episode 14: The Quality of Mercy
Episode 15: The Grand Obsession / Good Move / Debbie's Place
Episode 16: Kerry's Baby / The Go-Between
Episode 17: A Woman's Place / Song of Joy
Episode 18: Medicine Man / Acting Up
Episode 19: Life of Slicer / Mrs Ainsworth / Dancing Dad
Episode 20: A League of His Own / Twilight Rebel
Episode 21: Master of Ceremonies / Tall Poppies
Episode 22: Longley's Endeavour / Home Grown
Episode 23: The Last Muster / Mr Squiggle
Episode 24: Fame / A Different Drum
Episode 25: Calling the Tune / The Matchmaker
Episode 26: Best of Relationships
Episode 27: Best of Blokes
Episode 1: The Parson's Daughter / The Keeper
Episode 2: The Commissioner / Outback Legend
Episode 3: Heroes / Girl's Own
Episode 4: The Mouse That Roared / Dragon Tale
Episode 5: Seize the Day / Alf of the Antarctic
Episode 6: The Portland Boy / Harold the Kangaroo
Episode 7: Portrait of Mick / A Woman's Voice
Episode 8: Woman For All Seasons / Sister Act
Episode 9: Native Born / Trials of Life
Episode 10: Rocks and Rollers / Silent Nights
Episode 11: House of Hancock
Another look at the 1997 classic story on Australia's richest person, Gina Rinehart.
Episode 12: Norm's Army / Folk Hero
Episode 13: Lamb's Tale / Where Eagles Fly
Episode 14: Lady Jane / The Good Sport
Episode 15: Accidental Hero / A Girl Like Alice
Episode 16: The Player / Heart of Gold
Episode 17: Born to Run / Jesse's Town
Episode 18: Outback Daughter
Episode 19: The Last Tentman / A Secret Life
Episode 20: The Sound Barrier / The Sunshine Twins
Episode 21: Concerto For Don / Dream Run
Episode 22: A Will of Their Own
Film maker and author Pamela Traynor introduces the story of two amazing and indomitable young Austr...
Episode 23: All That Glitters / A Charmed Life
Episode 24: Her Excellency / The Makeover Man
Episode 25: Valentine's Day
Episode 26: A Wing and a Prayer / His Own Trumpet
Episode 27: Broken Heart / To Di For
Episode 28: I Had A Dream / Great Scott
Episode 29: Winter of Our Discontent
Episode 30: The Good Life / Spirit of Arnhem
Episode 31: The Comeback King / Out of the Blue
Episode 32: Upon A White Horse / As Time Goes By
Episode 33: The Homecoming / Up A Gum Tree
Episode 34: Master of Illusion / All You Need is Love
Episode 35: The Mission
Episode 36: Lost and Found / The Promised Land
Episode 37: In God's Name
Episode 38: Roads Less Travelled / Without A Trace
Episode 1: The Macpherson Women / A Grain of Sand
Episode 2: On the Waterfront
Episode 3: Last Christmas at Kaloola / Diana and Me
Episode 4: Camilla's Conversion
Episode 5: Hell for Leather / The Lost City
Episode 6: The Rest is Silence
Episode 7: The Way We Are
Episode 8: Wayne's New World / The Full Marcus
Episode 9: The Bus Driver / Dear Doctor
Episode 10: In the Name Of the Father
Episode 11: To Be a King Again / A League of Their Own
Episode 12: The Long Run / Wally's Weddings
Episode 13: The Little Master / Every Breath You Take
Episode 14: Who Dares Wins
Episode 15: Searching for the Man / Street Where You Live
Episode 16: What Katie Did / The Prime of Miss Lhuede
Episode 17: First Lady / A Distant Drum
Episode 18: A Cold Wind in August
Episode 19: Tara's Choice / Grapes of Mirth
Episode 20: One Dark Night / Queen of the Road
Episode 21: Fish Out of Water
Episode 22: In The Line of Duty
Episode 23: The Unlikely Dad / Bush Smithy
Episode 24: Sins of the Father
Episode 25: Hot Gossip / Green Nomad
Episode 26: The Long Journey Home / Northern Exposure
Episode 27: A Singular Woman / Chariots of Fire
Episode 28: A Place for Us / Top Brass
Episode 29: King Arthur
Episode 30: Citizen Cullen
Episode 31: A Life Less Ordinary
Episode 32: Great Expectations
Episode 33: Book of Ruth
Episode 34: Lords of the Land
Episode 35: Dancing with Strangers
Episode 36: The Trouble with Helen
Episode 1: Something about Pauline
Episode 2: Brown Skin Baby
Episode 3: Ben's Gift
Episode 4: The Next Big Thing / The Beetle
Episode 5: All Souls Day
Episode 6: Driving Dame Elisabeth
Episode 7: A Track Winding Back / Hart to Hart
Episode 8: Night Train / No Mean Feat
Episode 9: Climb Every Mountain
Episode 10: The Fishmongers's Son / Our Three Boys
Episode 11: Nothing Like a Dame / The Last Picture Show
Episode 12: A Man for All Seasons
Episode 13: The Long Day's Task
Episode 14: She Shall Have Music
Episode 15: The Priest and the Prodigal / Daughter of the State
Episode 16: Every Breath You Take
Episode 17: Laying Down the Law / A Woman's Face
Episode 18: A Child is Born / The Scottish Doctor
Episode 19: The Foundling / Life's a Drag
Episode 20: In Search of Kings / Going the Distance
Episode 21: The Wild One
Episode 22: Born to Buck / The Lone Star
Episode 23: The Last Hurrah
Episode 24: Mr Burrows goes to Blackwater / Secrets and Lies
Episode 25: A Genius in the Family / The Long Haul
Episode 26: The Man Who Saw Too Much / Down by the River
Episode 27: The Mango Tree
Episode 28: Raising the Rafters
Episode 29: Home on the Range / You Can't Hurry Love
Episode 30: The Big Blue
Episode 31: A True Calling
Episode 32: Mission Impossible
Episode 33: Never Say Never / The Fiddler
Episode 34: The Fall of the House of Foster
Episode 35: The Last of the Steam Demons
Episode 36: Kimberley's Wedding/My Favourite Haunt
Episode 37: Carve Their Names With Pride
Episode 1: The Young One
Episode 2: The World is Not Enough
Episode 3: Something In The Air / Time of their Lives
Episode 4: Final Analysis / Sea Change
Episode 5: A Few Good Men
Episode 6: Running Man
Episode 7: Mild Colonial Boy / Frog Freighters
Episode 8: We'll Meet Again
Episode 9: You Must Remember This / Men Behaving Badly
Episode 10: The Hanged Man's Shadow
Episode 11: A Little Learning
Episode 12: The Tycoon's Daughter
Episode 13: The Lake District / A Bug's Life
Episode 14: And Justice For All
Episode 15: A Double Life
Episode 16: The Natural
Episode 17: Fireworks in the Family
Episode 18: Lap Of Honour / Grand Obsession
Episode 19: The Exile / Uncle Tim
Episode 20: The Keys of the Kingdom
Episode 21: The Trouble With Sam
Episode 22: In Bed With Nene
Episode 23: Term of Endearment
Episode 24: Wives Tales
Episode 25: Like A Virgin
Episode 26: Voice in the Dark / Dad's Shrine
Episode 27: Rise of the Phoenix
Episode 28: Daydream Believer
Episode 29: Going Ballistic
Episode 30: Trials of Sister Sophie
Episode 31: Ties that bind
Episode 32: Kingdom For A Horse
Episode 33: Twenty Eight Days
Episode 34: Mistress of Ceremonies
Episode 35: Law Unto Themselves
Episode 36: Saviour On a Shoestring
Episode 37: The Torch Bearer / We'll meet again ... and again
Episode 1: The Prodigal Son
Episode 2: The Story of Sydney
Episode 3: Best of Friends
Episode 4: The Insider
Episode 5: Love is the Drug
Episode 6: Last Bus to Bethany
Episode 7: Champion of the World
Episode 8: Three Men and a Bus
Episode 9: Shining Through
Episode 10: Special Edition and Claire Goes to College
Episode 11: The Good Doctor and My Life As A Dog
Episode 12: That Sinking Feeling / Flying High
Episode 13: A Sense of Destiny
Episode 14: Inside Out
Episode 15: The Baby Maker
Episode 16: Val's Miracle
Episode 17: The Battle of Bullo
Episode 18: Out of the Blizzard
Episode 19: The Comfort of Strangers
Episode 20: Thrill of the Chase / You'll Never Walk Alone
Episode 21: For the Record
Episode 22: Man For All Seasons
Episode 23: The Best Medicine and The Woodlanders
Episode 24: The Devil You Know
Episode 25: Bridge Over Myall Creek
Episode 26: In George We Trust
Episode 27: Taking Care of Business
Episode 28: Much Ado About NIDA
Episode 29: A Hand Made Life
Episode 30: The Forgotten Ones
Episode 31: The Legend of Frogs' Hollow and The Men's Movement
Episode 32: A Little Black Mare
Episode 33: Playing For Time
Episode 34: A Place in the Country
Episode 35: Unbreakable
Episode 36: Vanishing Point
Episode 37: In the Family - The Howards
Episode 38: In The Family - The Beazleys
Episode 39: A Class of His Own
Episode 40: Then and Now - Part One
Episode 41: Then and Now - Part Two
Episode 42: Best of Friends
Episode 1: Happy as Garry
Episode 2: The Gilded Cage
Episode 3: Dangerous Liaison
Episode 4: Pride of Place
Episode 5: Trash and Treasure
Episode 6: On Their Honour
Episode 7: The Wombat Boy
Episode 8: The Quiet Man
Episode 9: Finding Frazer
Episode 10: May Day
Episode 11: The Nixon Years
Episode 12: Doctor Dave's Diary
Episode 13: When Harry Met Dawn
Episode 14: The Liberator
Episode 15: Blood Relations
Episode 16: Blonde Ambition
Episode 17: Bitter Pill
Episode 18: Queen Leah
Episode 19: Under My Skin
Episode 20: Enemy Lines
Episode 21: Courting Hina
Episode 22: The Flying Suit
Episode 23: Travels with Muoi
Episode 24: Murder He Wrote - Part 1
Episode 25: Murder He Wrote - Part 2
Episode 26: Believing in Bilbies
Episode 27: Into the Light
Episode 28: Breakfast at Taffy's
Episode 29: Being Allan Fels
Episode 30: Dear John
Episode 31: The Gatekeeper
Episode 32: Captain Sarah's Odyssey
Episode 33: The Big Chill
Episode 34: Once Were Soldiers
Episode 35: Rock Heart
Episode 36: Field of Dreams
Episode 37: Regarding Raphael
Episode 38: Crossing the Khyber
Episode 39: The Cape Crusade
Episode 1: Her Own Sweet Way
Episode 2: A Farm Somewhere
Episode 3: Postcards from Emmaville Part 1
Episode 4: Postcards from Emmaville Part 2
Episode 5: A Policeman's Lot
Episode 6: Marriage Matters
Episode 7: Double Bind
Episode 8: With This Ring
Episode 9: Harvey's Daughters
Episode 10: Boots And All
Episode 11: The Trouble with Charlie
Episode 12: On The Mountain
Episode 13: In His Stride
Episode 14: About A Boy
Episode 15: Secret Life of Jacki
Episode 16: While You Were Sleeping
Episode 17: The Affairs of Men
Episode 18: A Bird in the Hand
Episode 19: This Boy's Life
Episode 20: Something About Mary
Episode 21: The Unusual Suspect
Episode 22: Eye of a Needle
Episode 23: Walking on Water
Episode 24: Looking for Lyn
Episode 25: The Chosen One
This week, the story of three young Australians and their mission to rescue an orphaned elephant cal...
Episode 26: An Inspector Calls
Episode 27: Pandemonium
Episode 28: Boy Interrupted
Episode 29: When Cowboys Ruled
Episode 30: Madam Mayor
Episode 31: What Lies Beneath
Episode 32: This is His Life
Episode 33: Her Turn To Dance
Episode 34: First Casualty
Episode 35: Personal History
Episode 36: The Usual Suspect
Episode 37: The Big 'A'
Episode 1: Before a Fall
Episode 2: A Stitch in Time
Episode 3: Courage of Conviction
Episode 4: Letters From Lindsay
Episode 5: Of Woman Born (Part 1)
Episode 6: Of Woman Born (Part 2)
Episode 7: Finding Phebe
Episode 8: Judgement Day
Episode 9: Into Thin Air
Episode 10: Colouring the Dark
Episode 11: The Highway Man
Episode 12: The Road to Tooleybuc
Episode 13: Three Little Words
Episode 14: One Man Standing
Episode 15: Light of Their Lives
Episode 16: Road to Dharamshala
Episode 17: In the Pink
Episode 18: To the Test & A Small World
Episode 19: Friday the Thirteenth
Episode 20: The Damage Done
Episode 21: From This Day Forth
Episode 22: Where There's a Will
Episode 23: Mr Singh's Opus
Episode 24: Blackhawk Rising
Episode 25: A Winter's Tale
Episode 26: Rising Son
Episode 27: Australian Story Presents....
Episode 28: In the Picture
Episode 29: Oh, Carol
Episode 30: Only in America & The Rex Files
Episode 31: Rise of the Phoenix (Updated Repeat)
Episode 32: Good Morning Mr Sarra
Episode 33: In Realms of Gold - Part 1
Episode 34: In Realms of Gold - Part 2
Episode 35: Friends In Deed
Episode 36: Into the Forest - Part 1
Episode 37: Into the Forest - Part 2
Episode 38: The Last Summer
Episode 1: Operation Wendy
Despite being born with a hare lip and double cleft palate, Wendy Harmer has become one of Australia...
Episode 2: Meeting Miss Menzies
When Ian Thorpe won his two gold medals at the Athens Olympics, it was a personal triumph for him -...
Episode 3: My Brother John
Debbie Singh was running a Perth boutique and juggling marriage and three children, when out of the...
Episode 4: The Gathering Storm - Part 1
Beth Heinrich, the woman whose case was central to the controversy that led to the resignation of Go...
Episode 5: The Gathering Storm - Part 2
Australian Story continues the saga of Beth Heinrich and her involvement from her school days, with...
Episode 6: The Born Identity
Millions of fans around the world know him affectionately as Harold Bishop, the slightly daggy star...
Episode 7: A Beautiful Mind
Melissa Holland thought she was "lucky" when a last-minute seat became available for a getaway break...
Episode 8: The Flying Doctor
Dr Glenn Singleman is the world record holder for high altitude BASE jumping, but he is unable to pr...
Episode 9: Romancing the Stone
It's a long way from the paddocks of western Queensland to the palazzos of Florence. Fourth-generati...
Episode 10: Rock of Ages
Dick Smith and his friends regroup and visit Ball's Pyramid, the formidable dagger-like rock that sp...
Episode 11: Thirteen
The dramatic story of a Sydney family forced to flee the city because of fears for the safety of the...
Episode 12: From My Father's Fridge
In the 1980s as an unemployed medical scientist, Professor Robert Tindle made a discovery that led t...
Episode 13: Colours of Caroline
Every year, on 5th May the family of Caroline Anderson gather to remember her sudden, unnecessary de...
Episode 14: In the Midnight Hour
After the sudden death of cricket legend David Hookes in January last year, some of those closest to...
Episode 15: To Boldly Go
Earlier this year Australian diver Dave Shaw made headlines around the world when he lost his life i...
Episode 16: The Comeback Kid
Scott Draper has achieved the near impossible in the competitive world of modern sport.
Episode 17: Back Into the Forest
Australian Story revisits the program about serial killer Ivan Milat, who was jailed for life eight...
Episode 18: Of Droughts and Flooding Rains - Part 1
Peter Andrews is a racehorse breeder and farmer credited with remarkable success in converting degra...
Episode 19: Of Droughts and Flooding Rains - Part 2
In this concluding episode, eminent national and international scientists agree that Peter Andrews p...
Episode 20: The Real McInnes
William McInnes is an actor best known for his high profile TV roles in 'Blue Heelers' and 'SeaChang...
Episode 21: At Death's Door
Toni Hoffman is the nurse who lifted the lid on a medical scandal making front page news, not just i...
Episode 22: In Harm's Way
Donna Mulhearn, a 30-something successful journalist and state government public relations officer d...
Episode 23: Saving Trooper Gebhardt
Australian Story follows the extraordinary lives of a Centurion tank crew who last saw each other on...
Episode 24: The Sherman Fortune
Brian Sherman, co-founder of Equitilink, has founded a new organisation with his daughter called 'Vo...
Episode 25: Burnt by the Sun
Last year Lt Col. Lance Collins emerged as the central figure in a major unfolding controversy about...
Episode 26: The Life of Brian
When Brian and Bobbie Houston established their own tiny house of worship 20 years ago, they didn't...
Episode 27: Girl in the Mirror
Emmah Money is a beautiful and vital young woman with the world at her feet, on a mission to shape h...
Episode 28: The School of St Jude
Gemma Sisia established The School of St Jude for poor African children in Tanzania, East Africa whi...
Episode 29: The Garden of Good and Evil
Dr Lynne Milne has brought forensic palynology to the forefront of Australian crime fighting after h...
Episode 30: Ten Thousand Acres
When a light plane crash in 1987 took away Maree Stockman's husband, her son and her father-in-law,...
Episode 31: Out of the Dust
Twenty-five years after a road accident took the life of her younger brother Ben along with seven ot...
Episode 32: The Guns of Adjungbilly - Part 1
NSW Police involved in the siege at Jim Hallinan's property near Tumut four and a half years ago spe...
Episode 33: The Guns of Adjungbilly - Part 2
The conclusion to the story of the siege at Jim Hallinan's property at Adjungbilly near Tumut in NSW...
Episode 34: The Lost Boy
Ian Roberts is best known for being the first footballer in Australia to 'come out' as a gay man.
Episode 35: A Night Like This
Four popular and talented veterans of Australian Story get together to stage a once in a lifetime co...
Episode 36: Dead Man Talking
When a crooked detective rolled over at a major royal commission into police corruption a decade ago...
Episode 37: Leaving Lucy
Much to the horror of her close-knit family, Kate Holden went from a comfortable middle-class home i...
Episode 38: Wolf at the Door
John Jarratt, veteran of nearly 40 films and TV programs in Australia, is finally hitting the big ti...
Episode 39: Terms of Imprisonment
In July Heather Osland was released from Victoria's Tarrengower Prison and for the first time tells...
Episode 40: Sons of Beaches
Koby Abberton escapes a troubled childhood to become one of the world's most successful big wave sur...
Episode 1: Out of the Dust
Episode 2: With This Ring
Episode 3: Of Droughts and Flooding Rains
Episode 4: Road to Kerobokan
Episode 5: One Perfect Day
Episode 6: A Little Help From My Friends
Episode 7: The Gillard Diaries
Episode 8: The Gift Horse
Episode 9: The Absolute Beginner
Episode 10: When A Stranger Calls - Part 1
Episode 11: When A Stranger Calls - Part 2
Episode 12: Collision Course
Episode 13: It Was At Gallipoli
Episode 14: Since Adam Was A Boy
Episode 15: The Polariser
Episode 16: The Mourning After
Episode 17: Room at the Top
Episode 18: See How She Runs
Episode 19: Fathers' Day
Episode 20: A Man Called Boy
Episode 21: Dzung's Anatomy
Episode 22: 10th Anniversary Special
Episode 23: Rock and a Hard Place
Episode 24: A Wealth of Friends
Episode 25: Takes Your Breath Away
Episode 26: Beyond Reasonable Doubt
Episode 27: Beyond Reasonable Doubt - Part 2
Episode 28: Beyond Reasonable Doubt - Part 3
Episode 29: A Glorious Girl
Episode 30: Making a Mark
Episode 31: Lovers Leap
Episode 32: Man of Steel
Episode 33: Truth be Told
Episode 34: All in the Family
Episode 35: The Ride of His Life
Episode 36: The Wild Thing
Episode 37: Playing for Time
Episode 38: His Hour Upon the Stage
Episode 39: What Lies Beyond
Episode 40: Twin Peaks
Episode 41: This is the Moment
Episode 42: George's Best
Episode 43: Let There Be Light
Episode 1: Losing Private Kovco
Episode 2: Man Of The Century
Episode 3: No Stone Unturned
Episode 4: A Red Hot Go
Craig Lowndes is the first driver to win the Australian Touring Car Championship on debut, the young...
Episode 5: Million to One - Part 1
Episode 6: Million to One - Part 2
Episode 7: Down to Earth
Episode 8: An Uncomfortable Truth
Episode 9: The Peacemaker
Episode 10: Men of Ore
Episode 11: The More Things Change - Part 1
Episode 12: The More Things Change - Part 2
Episode 13: William the Conqueror
Episode 14: Windmills of Your Mind
Episode 15: Cry Me a River
Episode 16: Ash's Anatomy
Episode 17: The Peter Principle
Episode 18: Comes a Time
Episode 19: A Wealth of Friends
Episode 20: The Biggest Winner
Episode 21: The Fault Zone
Episode 22: Their Day In Court
Episode 23: Some Meaning In This Life
Episode 24: In Her Father's Eyes
Episode 25: For The Holy Grail
A repeat of the program about Australian scientists Dr Jennifer MacDiarmid and Dr Himanshu Brahmbhat...
Episode 26: The Acquittal
Episode 27: Body of Evidence - Part 1
Episode 28: Body of Evidence - Part 2
Episode 29: An Ever-fixed Mark
Episode 30: The War Zone
Episode 31: The School that John Built
Episode 32: A Winger and a Prayer
Episode 33: Live and Let Fly
Episode 34: Behind Enemy Lines - Part 1
Episode 35: Behind Enemy Lines - Part 2
Episode 36: Walk on the Wild Side
Episode 37: The Avenger
Episode 38: Before You Leap - Part 1
Episode 39: Before You Leap - Part 2
Episode 1: Hell or High Water
Episode 2: That's What Friends Are For
Episode 3: The Candidate
Episode 4: Nothing But the Truth
Episode 5: Take It To The Limit
Episode 6: None Shall Sleep
Episode 7: Bomber And Roy
Episode 8: Access All Areas
Episode 9: Father Of The Man
Episode 10: It's A Beautiful Day
Episode 11: Woman Of Steel
Episode 12: Friday's Child
Episode 13: Show Of Force - Part 1
Episode 14: Show Of Force - Part 2
Episode 15: The Sum Of Sam
Episode 16: Body And Soul
Episode 17: Show No Mercy
Episode 18: The Boy Next Door
Episode 19: Abby's Road
Episode 20: The Waiting Room
Episode 21: William Tells
Episode 22: She's Not There
Episode 23: No Man's Land
Episode 24: The Money Shot
Episode 25: Looking For Kate
Episode 26: This Boy's Life
Episode 27: It's Not Easy Being Green
Episode 28: Reality Bytes
Episode 29: Til Death Us Do Part
Episode 30: The Finishing Line
Episode 31: The Girl Least Likely
Episode 32: The Still Of The Night
Episode 33: More Fireworks In The Family
Episode 34: The Big Picture Man
Episode 35: A Sea Of Troubles
Episode 36: Fruit Of The Vine
Episode 37: A Letter From Richard Flanagan
Episode 38: All The Boys In Town
Episode 1: The Heat Of The Moment
Episode 33: Her Beauty and Her Terror
Twins Patrick and Bronwyn O'Gorman lost their parents and younger brother on Black Saturday. The two...
Episode 37: A Fatal Attraction Part 1
When young trainee nurse Kylie Labouchardiere disappeared from Sydney five years ago, the lives of t...
Episode 38: A Fatal Attraction Part 2
The conclusion reveals the devastating impact of one man's crime and manipulations on Kylie Laboucha...
Episode 1: Summer Series Edition - Doctor In The House
Dr Michael Buist is an intensive care specialist with a unique perspective from both sides of the ho...
Episode 2: Summer Series Edition - My Name Is Jack
Radio and TV personality Ian 'Dano' Rogerson and his wife Nicole gave up their home, careers and an...
Episode 3: Summer Series Edition - The Big Deal
Ric Richardson is an inventor who took on the might of Microsoft and scored a remarkable victory.
Episode 4: Summer Series Edition - Fly With Me
Dylan Parker makes and flies paper planes and he has become one of the very best in the world.
Episode 5: Summer Series Edition - Unfinished Business
Ian Conway is a man determined to make a difference. Twenty years ago he made a promise to an Aborig...
Episode 6: The Story of Samuel
Behind the scenes Red Symons and his family have been on a journey with their eldest son Samuel that...
Episode 7: Something In The Water (Part 1)
A GP, a group of oyster farmers and a Sydney scientist banded together to investigate mysterious wat...
Episode 8: Something In The Water (Part 2)
The compelling conclusion to our story about a GP and a Sydney scientist who teamed up to investigat...
Episode 9: Watch Over Me
As a little boy, Glenn Scott dreamed of becoming a motorcycle champion… just like his heroes Mick Do...
Episode 10: When Words Fail
Young Sydney musician Lachlan McCarthy's determination to escape the twin demons of poverty and a tr...
Episode 11: Becoming Jangala
From Perth policeman to a life of high fashion and celebrity in New York, Russell James is one of th...
Episode 12: Call Of The Wild
Emerging from a troubled childhood, self-made coffee millionaire, Kenton Campbell has led a life of...
Episode 13: The Night Before Christmas
Graham Stafford served almost fifteen years in jail for a crime he has always claimed he did not com...
Episode 14: Children Of A Lesser God
Tara Winkler was just twenty-two when she established the Cambodian Children's Trust in Cambodia. Sh...
Episode 15: Dumb And Dumber
It was hailed as possibly the most inept bank robbery of all time and it made headlines around the w...
Episode 16: In My Little Town
Two years ago the harmony of rural life in a small township in Central Victoria was ripped apart aft...
Episode 17: Woman On A Mission
Until last year, Meagen Nay was known as the 19 year old swimmer treading the same path as her Olymp...
Episode 18: Mad World
Chris 'Douggs' McDougall - free spirit, thrill-seeker or lawbreaker? This BASE jumping pioneer chall...
Episode 19: Proof Of Life
In August 2008, Bundaberg photojournalist Nigel Brennan was kidnapped in Somalia, along with Canadia...
Episode 20: Sting in the Tale
The murder of one of Australia’s foremost bee experts, Tony Knight, baffled police until a fortuitou...
Episode 21: The Blue Beret (Part 1)
Part One charts the remarkable in combat experiences of highly decorated female soldier, Matina Jewe...
Episode 22: The Blue Beret (Part 2)
Part Two explores the ongoing battle Matina Jewell faced at home in Australia once it became clear h...
Episode 23: The Company of Men
When Dianne Brimble died mysteriously aboard the Pacific Sky cruise liner in 2002, her family was le...
Episode 24: Heaven Sent
Peter Roberts, an accomplished musician, gave up a lucrative career as a businessman to retrain over...
Episode 25: She Who Waits
With prescient timing, an in depth look at the woman who has just made history by becoming Australia...
Episode 26: Pay it Forward
'Pay it Forward' is a marvellously inspirational tale of sportsmanship, mentoring and redemption acr...
Episode 27: Ticket to Tigray
Wanting to build a better world and keen to offer his skills as a water technician, Shane Dolan sign...
Episode 28: Blowing In The Wind
Kiff Saunders had spent most of his professional life airborne at the helm of a hot air balloon. But...
Episode 29: Mum's The Word
After her oldest son announced that he was gay, Shelley Argent was spurred to action. Now she's the...
Episode 30: It's a Long Way There
Glenn Wheatley is an undisputed legend of the entertainment industry. He's guided the careers of hug...
Episode 31: Unfathomable (Part 1)
It's seven years since a young American bride, Tina Watson, died during a honeymoon scuba dive on th...
Episode 32: Unfathomable (Part 2)
The conclusion to our story about young American bride Tina Watson who died seven years ago during a...
Episode 33: Our New Selection
Van Rudd is an artist who ran in Julia Gillard's seat as an independent backed by the new but tiny S...
Episode 34: Labor Of Love
From homeless teenager to the youngest ever leader of Australia's oldest union, Paul Howes is living...
Episode 35: Hit the Road Jack
Jack Heath shocked his family and friends by turning his back on a promising political career to est...
Episode 36: Into the Forest
Fourteen years ago Ivan Milat was convicted of one of Australia's most infamous serial killings. His...
Episode 37: Prisoner of War (Part 1)
Working in Afghanistan and Iraq for Time Magazine and then CNN, Michael Ware willingly went where no...
Episode 38: Prisoner of War (Part 2)
In this compelling conclusion, Michael Ware reveals the real cost to his psyche of all that he's wit...
Episode 39: The Wronged Man (Part 1)
Andrew Mallard was a young man living homeless on the streets of Perth when he was charged with the...
Episode 40: The Wronged Man (Part 2)
The conclusion to the story of Andrew Mallard who was wrongfully convicted of the murder of Perth wo...
Episode 41: Animal Farm
Jan Cameron has channelled her formidable energies and bank balance towards a new cause in the hope...
Episode 42: Woman On A Mission
Fresh off the plane from the Delhi, Meagen Nay updates our original program to explain how success h...
Episode 43: You're The Voice
An intimate profile of the enigmatic Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu featuring behind the scenes footage...
Episode 44: The Farmer Wants a Life
After coming out on a national TV reality show in 2006, David Graham is attempting to reconcile his...
Episode 45: The Graduate
When Kerry Tucker was jailed for seven years for theft and fraud she turned incarceration into an op...
Episode 1: The Man On The Mantelpiece
Maggie MacKellar was a city dweller who seemed to have it all – a successful academic career, a devo...
Episode 2: On Your Bike
When Doug Sunderland succumbed to the blues after losing his wife and being diagnosed with cancer, h...
Episode 3: The Third Act
For the last 48 years Jacki Weaver has been one of Australia's best loved actors. Now 63, she has ac...
Episode 4: Dogs Of War
Wildlife photographer Jennifer Parkhurst's passion for dingos set her at odds with park rangers - an...
Episode 5: Take No Prisoners
On the eve of his retirement from public office, the nation's longest serving Director of Public Pro...
Episode 6: Girl Most Likely
Jade Hopper is a young woman on the cusp of the toughest decision of her life - to pursue her dream...
Episode 7: The Terminator
Two years ago, former Navy clearance diver Paul de Gelder was testing new sonar equipment in Sydney...
Episode 8: Across The Night Sky
Last year a Victorian court sentenced Robert Farquharson to a minimum 33 years jail for deliberately...
Episode 9: Mr Quigley's Quandary (Part 1)
Part 1 of the program about lawyer and politician John Quigley whose three decades in the public spo...
Episode 10: Mr Quigley's Quandary (Part 2)
The conclusion to our story on Western Australian lawyer and politician John Quigley.
Episode 11: Under Her Wing
Eight years ago Elizabeth Clayton was living in Fiji when she rescued a young man known as the 'chic...
Episode 12: In The Jet Stream
Band manager David Powell took the Melbourne rock band JET from obscurity to ARIA triumph and then o...
Episode 13: Shattered
On 22 July 2007, Peter Hodgkins threw a rock at a car from an overpass at Kiama, NSW, smashing the s...
Episode 14: 15th Anniversary Special (Part 1)
Part 1 of our celebration of 15 years of Australian Story featuring Ric Birch, Gina Rinehart, John B...
Episode 15: 15th Anniversary Special (Part 2)
The conclusion to our celebration of 15 years of Australian Story featuring Gayle Shann, Chris Sarra...
Episode 16: Hearts Of Gold
Brian Sherman rose to great wealth and success as a businessman. His son Emile is a co-producer of '...
Episode 17: Mind Of His Own
Charlie Teo is a Sydney neurosurgeon, loved by patients but unpopular with some in the medical estab...
Episode 18: The Girl From Boryslaw
Sabina Wolanski was left alone in the world at 17 when her family were killed in the Holocaust. In 2...
Episode 19: Conviction (Part 1)
For three and a half years, Newcastle pathologist Dr Simon Palfreeman has been shuttling between Aus...
Episode 20: Conviction (Part 2)
The conclusion of our story on Dr Simon Palfreeman, the Newcastle pathologist on a mission to help h...
Episode 21: Love and Other Drugs
When Sally Nielsen's fiance Sam Goddard suffered a catastrophic stroke, she ignored the advice of so...
Episode 22: Desperate Remedies (Part 1)
Penelope Dingle was a former model and actor married to TV science guru Peter Dingle. At the age of...
Episode 23: Desperate Remedies (Part 2)
The conclusion to the story of Penelope Dingle whose untimely death had shattering and unexpected re...
Episode 24: City of Angels
Alisa Latto was born with a life threatening genetic condition – one shared by her two siblings and...
Episode 25: Trust Me Mr Chandler
International banker Sascha Chandler had a secret he'd been harbouring since childhood. Two years ag...
Episode 26: A Measure of Courage
Captain Hec Waller and Ordinary Seaman Teddy Sheean both saw service during the darkest days of the...
Episode 27: A Plague On All Their Houses
An encore edition of our bittersweet story of Queensland vet Ben Cunneen and his co-worker, Natalie...
Episode 28: Ita Tells Me So (Part 1)
Ita Buttrose and those closest to her go on the record with their recollections of a trail blazing c...
Episode 29: Ita Tells Me So (Part 2)
In Part Two Ita Buttrose talks candidly about men, dating, loneliness, family, media ethics and grab...
Episode 30: The Trials of Jonty Bush
In the space of a few years Jonty Bush lost two of her closest family members in separate and unrela...
Episode 31: Paint the Town Black
Not since the mighty Phar Lap has a horse captured the public imagination like Black Caviar. She rem...
Episode 32: Brand New Day
Three years ago Gavin Larkin used his marketing nous and high profile contacts to create a national...
Episode 33: The Courage of Her Convictions
When Catherine Smith was found not guilty of attempting to murder her own husband it was a turning p...
Episode 34: Scared Straight
TV Drama legend Sue Masters teamed up with 'Bra Boys' Maccario de Souza and his friends Mark Matthew...
Episode 35: For the Holy Grail
A repeat of the program about Australian scientists Dr Jennifer MacDiarmid and Dr Himanshu Brahmbhat...
Episode 36: Under Her Spell
Zelie Bullen is stepping into the international spotlight as the woman who trained 'Abraham', the le...
Episode 37: Bad Blood (Part 1)
Part one of the program that centres on the notorious case of Jeffrey Gilham, in jail for life for t...
Episode 38: Bad Blood (Part 2)
The conclusion to the program about the notorious case of Jeffrey Gilham, currently serving a life s...
Episode 39: Something About Me
Kristina Keneally made history by becoming the first female Premier of NSW. What few realise is the...
Episode 40: The Planet They're On
Nazeem Hussain and Aamer Rahman have become two of the hottest young comedians on the Australian com...
Episode 41: When William Met Sarah
Film critic Margaret Pomeranz introduces this encore edition on the very special personal and profes...
Episode 1: Road to Nowhere (Part 1)
Part 1 of our story on Di Gicrist, the woman taking on the big end of town and changing the face of...
Episode 2: Road to Nowhere (Part 2)
The conclusion to our story on Di Gilcrist and her fight for justice after her husband was killed in...
Episode 3: Mary and Me
Kath Evans was diagnosed with lung cancer that had spread to her brain and given only weeks to live....
Episode 4: By the Light of Stars
Yaron Lifschitz took a small, troubled circus company and turned it into an artistic triumph that no...
Episode 5: Half a Million Acres
David Pollock, a young man from remote Western Australia and Frances Jones, a young woman from the M...
Episode 6: The Book of Daniel
Daniel Clarke at the age of ten, inspired by the late Steve Irwin, set out to raise funds to conserv...
Episode 7: Woman from Snowy River
Leigh Woodgate's journey from young mountain girl to shining racing star, through dark days of hospi...
Episode 8: Going Troppo
From teenage years marked by delinquency, expulsions from school and several brushes with the law, J...
Episode 9: House Of Hancock
Another look at the 1997 classic story on Australia's richest person, Gina Rinehart.
Episode 10: A Done Deal
Ric Richardson is an inventor who took on the might of Microsoft and scored a remarkable victory.
Episode 11: Streets with No Names
Scott Neeson built a career as a top Hollywood movie executive but after a holiday in Cambodia, gave...
Episode 12: The Razor's Edge
Risktaker, investigator and troublemaker: animal advocate Lyn White and the images that shocked a na...
Episode 13: Return to Wooleen
Since Half a Million Acres aired, the Pollock's battle to save their property has attracted powerful...
Episode 14: Larger Than Life
Clive Palmer has been described as a generous giver, a national treasure and a major political force...
Episode 15: When We Were Racers
Triple world champion, Sir Jack Brabham became the first driver to be knighted for services to motor...
Episode 16: According to Her Cloth
From international model via prison to toast of Australian fashion week as a new generation designer...
Episode 17: Turning the Tables
Jack Manning Bancroft, was just 19 when he started a plan to help disadvantaged kids finish school....
Episode 18: Walking with Kate Mulvany
Actress and playwright Kate Mulvany has experienced more than most people do in a lifetime and speak...
Episode 19: The Voice
Gurrumul Yunupingu's haunting voice has captivated global audiences, most recently in London for Que...
Episode 20: To Set Before a Queen
In the early hours of Sunday June 24, the unbeaten Black Caviar will take on Europe's best at Royal...
Episode 21: Her Hour Upon the Stage (Part 1)
Part One of our two part special where friends and family of Diana Bliss tell her story and reveal t...
Episode 22: Her Hour Upon the Stage (Part 2)
This week, the conclusion to our story about Diana Bliss whose death earlier this year was reported...
Episode 23: Letters to the Editor
It's a time of unprecedented crisis in the newspaper industry. But this week's Australian Story is a...
Episode 24: Stranger on the Shore
Next week's program tells the story of a young woman unsettling her middle class Melbourne family by...
Episode 25: Foolin' Around
Popular Country singer Beccy Cole has decided she is ready to tell audiences about a personal dilemm...
Episode 26: It Takes a Village
In 2001 Ian and Sandy Johnson adopted two orphaned children, Tigi and Frazer, from Ethiopia. Now wit...
Episode 27: Her Natural Life
This program documents Annabelle Sandes' unlikely pathway from the fine art auction rooms of inner S...
Episode 28: Tatiana Is Dancing
Tanya Pearson has shaped the careers of hundreds of aspiring Australian dancers and at 75 continues...
Episode 29: The Queen of Extreme
Torah Bright has lived in the United States since she was fifteen years old when she turned professi...
Episode 30: Kicking the Habit
A recent High Court ruling all but ended the branding of cigarette packets in Australia. The decisio...
Episode 31: War Paint
Ben Quilty is an Archibald prize winning artist with a lifelong interest in concepts of masculinity...
Episode 32: On Bicheno Beach
It's forty years since a 15 year old Shane Gould created a sporting sensation by winning three indiv...
Episode 33: Alaska and Me
Twenty-seven year old John Cantor has devoted the past six years to trying to complete one of the to...
Episode 34: Life After Puberty
Nell Schofield and Jad Capelja, the two young girls who starred in the 1981 Bruce Beresford film 'Pu...
Episode 35: Leap of Faith
Li Cunxin - once one of the world's best known dancers - embarks on a high stakes return to the ball...
Episode 36: The Slam
Exclusive with Rod Laver: the tennis legend is joined by family, friends and a line up of greats inc...
Episode 37: The Slam (Part 2)
Part two follows Laver through his marriage to an older American divorcee, raising children, battlin...
Episode 38: The Year of Living Famously
Ben Lewin and Judi Levine are two film-makers whose latest film 'The Sessions' has received consider...
Episode 39: A Man of His Word
Veteran print reporter Malcolm Brown has covered some of the biggest stories of the last four decade...
Episode 40: Dreams from My Mother
Oscar-nominated actress Diane Cilento left Hollywood at the height of her fame to pursue more creati...
Episode 41: Under Her Spell
Zelie Bullen is a former stunt woman, turned world renowned animal trainer who trained Abraham, the...
Episode 1: The Light of Day
In 2004 Sam Cullen and his wife Janet bought a rare collection of photographs at a London auction. T...
Episode 2: On the Precipice
Scott Johnson was a young man with everything going for him - a maths genius with a bright future. B...
Episode 3: So Much to Say
Stevie Wright became a superstar at the age of sixteen, with the iconic 1960s rock band The Easybeat...
Episode 4: The First Word
This week's program is about a man who's become an international pioneer in a significant but unlike...
Episode 5: The Chosen One
This week, the story of three young Australians and their mission to rescue an orphaned elephant cal...
Episode 6: Suddenly Last Summer (1)
This week's program has the untold personal story of an Australian cricket captain through the eyes...
Episode 7: Suddenly Last Summer (2)
Monday night's program has the emotional conclusion to our story about former Australian cricket cap...
Episode 8: On the Warpath
We first profiled official war artist Ben Quilty last September as he worked on portraits of Austral...
Episode 9: Letters to the Editor
This week we're returning to Cunnamulla in outback Queensland and the story of a newspaper, an unlik...
Episode 10: Down by the Sea (1)
If you are a certain age chances are you remember exactly where you were in the early hours of Septe...
Episode 11: Down by the Sea (2)
This week's program concludes the story of Australia II's epic quest to win the America's Cup and en...
Episode 12: Fade to Black
Monday's Australian Story provides new insights into a saga that's captured the imaginations of all...
Episode 13: Call of Duty
In a 35-year career, Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox has forged a reputation as an officer who g...
Episode 14: Know Thy Enemy (1)
This week's program is about a woman who provided some of Australia's most memorable moments at the...
Episode 15: Know Thy Enemy (2)
This week's program concludes the dramatic story of Olympic cyclist Anna Meares. Meares has dominate...
Episode 16: Listen to Me
This week's program is about a man recently named by The Australian newspaper as the most influentia...
Episode 17: The Hazel Effect
Australian Story on May 27 will feature an updated edition of the Logie awarding winning episode on...
Episode 18: A Life Laid Bare
When Lisa Poulos stepped into a Melbourne taxi six years ago, she had no idea how her life was about...
Episode 19: Northam Exposure
Sami Shah has been in Australia for less than one year but he's already making a name for himself on...
Episode 20: When Blood Runs Cold
Monday's Australian Story centres on a crime that has been described as one of the 'top five' unsolv...
Episode 21: The Men Who Fell to Earth
This week's program is about a fatal plane crash and the disturbing facts that emerged in the afterm...
Episode 22: No More Than a Ghost
This week, the story of a young Adelaide student and the obsession that's made her an international...
Episode 23: The Music Lesson
Singer Jessica Mauboy introduces this updated program on the life of Yothu Yindi frontman Mr Yunupin...
Episode 24: Irons in the Fire
It's said there’s nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come... This week's program is a...
Episode 25: There but for Fortune
This week's program is about a man who's made a big name in London but is little known back in Austr...
Episode 26: Too Good to Refuse
August marks the 50th anniversary of one of Britain's most infamous crimes – the Great Train Robbery...
Episode 27: Corridors of Power
This week we visit a scenic valley where best selling author Di Morrissey and a determined group of...
Episode 28: A Place for Us
Award winning television journalist Sara James was living the dream as an anchor and foreign corresp...
Episode 29: Long Walk Back
Chloe Palmer-Simpson was just 18 when she was involved in a head-on car crash near her home in Bargo...
Episode 30: A Voice in the Wilderness
Retiring independent MP Tony Windsor offers a unique insider's account on Australian Story of the la...
Episode 31: Driving Greg Norman (1)
Includes interviews with President Bill Clinton, Jack Nicklaus, Peter FitzSimons, Morgan-Leigh Norma...
Episode 32: Driving Greg Norman (2)
Australian Story concludes the epic tale of Greg Norman, recognised as one of Australia's best and m...
Episode 33: In Your Face
In a world obsessed with physical beauty, Robert Hoge is a man embracing 'ugly'. Hoge was born 41 ye...
Episode 34: Turning the Gaze
Melbourne schoolgirl Olympia Nelson is only sixteen, but she's no stranger to controversy. She's gro...
Episode 35: Count On Clive
Much has changed since Australian Story first explored the private and professional worlds of Clive...
Episode 36: A Sapper's Lullaby
Fred Smith has been described as 'Australia's secret weapon' in international diplomacy. As a caree...
Episode 37: On Maggies Farm
Three years ago Maggie MacKellar, daughter of a former Federal Cabinet Minister, was living on the f...
Episode 38: Cracking the Code
The Damiani family's story has been described as a breathtaking example of how medicine can be trans...
Episode 39: Letters From Elizabeth
They say every family has its secrets, but in Susan Swingler's case those secrets were buried more d...
Episode 40: Think Big
As a fatherless child, Johnson Maker-Adeng fled from war-ravaged Sudan with the remnants of his fami...
Episode 41: A Feeling for the Water (1)
Murray Rose was an inspiration for generations of Australians, in and out of the swimming pool where...
Episode 42: A Feeling for the Water (2)
Part two of the top rating 'A Feeling For The Water' opens with Murray Rose's move to California to...
Episode 43: Taking Flight
Annabel Blake grew up with a mother who, as a young athlete, had hoped to represent Australia in the...
Episode 1: The Other Side
In 1996 Matthew Reilly, aged 22, self-published his first book. Now he has a list of international b...
Episode 2: The Back of His Mind
Three years ago, 35 year old fashion photographer David Murrell was told he had just months to live....
Episode 3: No Half Measures
This week's Australian Story charts Torah Bright's remarkable comeback from a year of setbacks and s...
Episode 4: Call Me Cate
Lt.Col. Cate McGregor AM has been a participant in some of the most significant chapters in recent A...
Episode 5: His Driving Force
Monday night's program centres on a remarkable friendship between a top scientist and a coach driver...
Episode 6: An Unnatural History
David Rennie fell in love with photography seven years ago when he was lured from his car by the sig...
Episode 7: The House of Tara
Tara Winkler was just 19 when she set off on the trip to Cambodia that would change her life. After...
Episode 8: Out of the Box
Adam Boland was just 26 years old when he was handed the reins of the ailing Sunrise program on Chan...
Episode 9: Set in Stone
Introduced by Australian of the Year, Adam Goodes. Explorer and airline pilot Percy Trezise was cap...
Episode 10: A Complicated Life: Kerry Packer , Part 1
Getting on for a decade after his death, the legendary businessman Kerry Packer remains an intriguin...
Episode 11: A Complicated Life: Kerry Packer , Part 2
This week, the conclusion of our story about the legendary businessman Kerry Packer... Beneath the...
Episode 12: A Man Called Boy
Introduced by Amanda Shalala from ABC Grandstand This week's program tells the story of an Olympic...
Episode 13: A Very Good Rascal
Introduced by international music star Leo Sayer. This week's program tells the bitter sweet person...
Episode 14: The Edge of the Mountain
Introduced by Caroline Jones. It was supposed to be the adventure of a lifetime but when Australian...
Episode 15: In Tracy's Corner
Introduced by actor and St Kilda resident, Rachel Griffiths. Monday night's program tells the story...
Episode 16: All the Right Moves: Kieren Perkins , Part 1
Introduced by Grant Hackett Includes interviews with Grant Hackett, Jared Perkins (brother), Daniel...
Episode 17: All the Right Moves: Kieren Perkins , Part 2
Introduced by Grant Hackett Monday’s program concludes the epic tale of Kieren Perkins and the insi...
Episode 18: Out of the Kitchen
This week's program provides an intriguing glimpse behind the scenes of the reality TV phenomenon th...
Episode 19: The Last Commando , Part 1
This week's Australian Story provides a rare insight into the mysterious world of Australia's elite...
Episode 20: The Last Commando , Part 2
This week's program goes to the 'tip of the spear' with elite commandos trapped in a lethal and prot...
Episode 21: Driving Miss Davis
This week the quirky, life affirming story of a young Australian from country Victoria, a car with a...
Episode 22: Forget Me Not
How many people with a diagnosis of dementia join a dating agency? How many more find true love? Th...
Episode 23: Talk of the Town
Popular singer songwriter Megan Washington performs on stage for huge audiences. But as Australian...
Episode 24: The Game Changer
This week's program tells the story of an unlikely friendship between a former wildlife ranger and t...
Episode 25: Leaps and Bounds
This week Australian Story returns to the story of one the world's best known dancers, Li Cunxin, as...
Episode 26: Divide and Conquer
This week's Australian Story is proof that from little things big things can grow. Three years ago...
Episode 27: Lock Me Away
This week we meet an 'ageing' activist who admits he's spent close to fifty years tilting at windmil...
Episode 28: Searching for C11
At the age of 21, aeronautical engineer Lauren Burns was told a family secret that turned her world...
Episode 29: Searching for C11 (2)
In this week's program, aeronautical engineer Dr Lauren Burns finally finds out the identity of her...
Episode 30: Before the Storm
This week’s program goes behind the scenes with a tenacious regional newspaper reporter who last yea...
Episode 31: Out of the Shoebox
This week's program looks at the unlikely evolution of an unexpected global comedy hit. Christiaan...
Episode 32: Getting the Hang of It
What happens when a former soldier from Tasmania arrives in Canberra with a potentially vital role t...
Episode 33: The Past Is a Foreign Country
This week’s program looks at the untold stranger than fiction life of a woman well recognised in the...
Episode 34: The Past Is a Foreign Country (2)
This week’s program concludes the family saga of the woman credited as the ‘silent operator’ of the...
Episode 35: The Pursuit of Happiness
Fiona O'Loughlin emerged out of Alice Springs some thirteen years ago as a 'fully formed' 36 year ol...
Episode 36: I Am Jack
This Monday, we find out what's been happening in the lives of a family who featured in one of our m...
Episode 37: Vanishing Act
More than three-million viewers watched Karise Eden named as 'The Voice Australia' in 2012. One wee...
Episode 38: The Innocent
On a summer's day in 1992 a thirteen year old schoolgirl called Prue Bird vanished without a trace....
Episode 39: The Innocent (2)
This week's program concludes the astonishing family crime saga behind the disappearance of Melbourn...
Episode 40: How I Met Your Father
This week's program reveals the improbable saga of the making of a very modern family. It's a narra...
Episode 41: Just Call Me Bob
It's been a while since the words popular and politician appeared credibly in the same sentence. Bu...
Episode 42: Just Call Me Bob (2)
This week's program concludes the story of former Prime Minister Bob Hawke. A generation ago he bas...
Episode 43: Letter from Wooleen
In this final program for 2014, Australian Story visits a remote West Australian cattle station. Th...
Episode 1: Life In A Northern Town
From her high-end advertising agency in Sydney, Dof Dickinson committed her resources to make a film...
Episode 2: The Good Wife
Looks back at the life and loves of Lady Susan Renouf. For decades she was known as a famous wife an...
Episode 3: Ask The Leyland Brother
The inside story of iconic outback adventurers, the Leyland Brothers. Pioneering young stars, to ban...
Episode 4: The Meaning Of Life
Looks at how the feature film Paper Planes unfolded and updates the stories of the two young men who...
Episode 5: How I Met My Daughter
A mind bending tale from the frontline of the reproduction revolution. "The family court has not eve...
Episode 6: Just Call Jamal
How a popular Sydney GP, Dr Jamal Rifi, became the 'go to' man in a time of crisis.
Episode 7: The Seeds Of Wrath (Part 1)
The first in a two-part special. What happens when a neighbours' dispute in a rural community sudden...
Episode 8: The Seeds Of Wrath (Part 2)
Final in a two-part special. What happens when a neighbours' dispute in a rural community suddenly g...
Episode 9: Educating Miss Siobhan
The inspiring story of a young family and the death of a beloved sporting legend.
Episode 10: Into The Lion's Den
An audacious WWII attack behind enemy lines achieved by 14 men and a fishing boat: will the efforts...
Episode 11: The Fault In Our Stars
When lightning strikes twice...one family's inspiring survival story.
Episode 12: The Fresh Start
Reinventing Sergeant Simon Illingworth - a corruption busting cop finds a new life and love on the l...
Episode 13: Mrs Gimblett's Silver Linings
Saving Yaraka. What happens when a former head teacher buys an outback pub.
Episode 14: The Battle For Tarwyn Park (Part 1)
This episode revisits one of Australian Story's most popular programs ever. The iconic rural propert...
Episode 15: The Battle For Tarwyn Park (Part 2)
In 2005 Peter Andrews, a racehorse breeder and farmer had succeeded in converting degraded land into...
Episode 16: The Irwin Encounters
Breaking the silence: the untold story of Steve Irwin's original Croc Hunter Team.
Episode 17: Boots And All
The untold inside story of how David Morrison became a crusader for cultural change in the Army and...
Episode 18: Battling The Blues
In a candid interview, Darius Boyd speaks about his mother's battle with mental illness, his own bat...
Episode 19: Suddenly One Summer
After being convicted of sexual abuse Josephine Greensill might well have languished in prison for t...
Episode 20: Weekend At Weetalaba
We revisit Australian Story's most popular couple, Mac and Gayle Shann. Back in 2003 cameras followe...
Episode 21: In Your Face
In a world obsessed with physical beauty, Robert Hoge is a man embracing 'ugly'. He's on a mission t...
Episode 22: Driven
How a boy from an ordinary Queanbeyan family made it to the top of Formula One; How he succeeded whe...
Episode 23: Iron, Iron, Iron - The Hancock Dynasty (Part 1)
In an exclusive interview, the media-shy Gina Rinehart talks about her pioneering ancestors, her fat...
Episode 24: Iron, Iron, Iron - The Hancock Dynasty (Part 2)
In Part 2, Gina Rinehart reflects on the pioneering exploits of her early ancestors, her pride in th...
Episode 25: The Man Behind The Morcombes
Solicitor Peter Boyce acted for the Morcombe family during the inquest into the disappearance of the...
Episode 26: Being Bradman (Part 1)
As Don Bradman's cherished granddaughter Greta prepares to shine on the world stage as an operatic s...
Episode 27: Being Bradman (Part 2)
In part two of Being Bradman, as granddaughter Greta takes to the international stage as an opera si...
Episode 28: From Daddy's Tummy
'From Daddy's Tummy' tells the story of AJ, partner Zu and their two children and reveals a stunning...
Episode 29: Big Mum
Life at a crossroads: At 70, Australian Geraldine Cox weighs up the future of the 400 children under...
Episode 30: Seriously Funny
An up and coming comedian transforms a harrowing family back story into unforgettable comedy.
Episode 31: Grand Designs
Inside fashion designer Collette Dinnigan's private world and her decision to pull back from her glo...
Episode 32: Wendy's Way
From rubbish dump to a garden masterpiece. The quest to preserve Wendy Whiteley's magnificent Secret...
Episode 33: The Making Of Malcolm
An intimate portrait of Malcolm Turnbull and his family, told by those closest to him.
Episode 34: Lexie's Village
Sydney woman Natalie Lovett tells the story of her daughter's conception using a donor egg & sperm....
Episode 35: All In The Mind
Unmasking the comic genius of actor, Garry McDonald. Airing as part of Mental As... ABC's week long...
Episode 36: Raise Your Voice
Singer Jenny Morris makes a dramatic personal revelation. The ARIA-award winning performer has been...
Episode 37: Doing It For Dan
Lucy Haslam is a woman in a hurry. Since losing her son Daniel to cancer, the Tamworth resident has...
Episode 38: Going With The Flow
Cedar and Stuart Anderson have revolutionised the humble beehive. From living off the smell of an oi...
Episode 39: Stayin' Alive
A young Kimberley tour guide beats the odds, to follow in the footsteps of a distinguished ancestor.
Episode 40: Out Of The Water
What one mother uncovered on her rural property after her family was dealt the most terrible blow.
Episode 41: The Age Of Ange
The man who's taken football from the forgotten game to unforgettable glory - Ange Postecoglou.
Episode 42: A Force Of Nature
Margot Spalding: The colourful Bendigo business woman who's campaigning against intolerance and hate...
Celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2016, Australian Story returns with more unique stories that provide an insight into Australian life with all its complexities and challenges.
Episode 1: Phantom Of The Opera House
The forgotten man: Peter Hall completed the Sydney Opera House after Danish architect Jorn Utzon res...
Episode 2: Sea Of Doubt
Mystery at sea: Two men leave on the trip of a lifetime, but only one returns. Now family and friend...
Episode 3: Nugget Of Gold
The remarkable story of Barry 'Nugget' Rees, who rose from the most unlikely circumstances to become...
Episode 4: True Grit (Part 1)
Inside the private life of international rugby star David Pocock. We travel back to his homeland Zim...
Episode 5: True Grit (Part 2)
In the concluding episode of this television exclusive, David Pocock, his partner Emma and his famil...
Episode 6: My Conscience Tells Me
Eighty-year-old Dr. Rodney Syme is prepared to defy the law to help a terminally ill man die, even i...
Episode 7: How I Met Your Father
Former advertising executive Aminah Hart always wanted to be a mother, but no one expected the back-...
Episode 8: The Beauty Myth
The woman on a mission to change the face of fashion: Model agent Chelsea Bonner is the daughter of...
Episode 9: The Minister's Secret
The surprising personal revelations of Australia's first Minister for the Prevention of Family Viole...
Episode 10: Whitey's Way
Paul White, or 'Whitey' to his mates, is an unstoppable force. He's the bush copper turned CEO of on...
Episode 11: Port Arthur
The legacy of the Port Arthur massacre and the impact it had on survivors and witnesses.
Episode 12: Building Bridges
For the first time on TV, Michelle Bridges and her family talk about her becoming a mum at 45, her r...
Episode 13: Abby's Road
Ten years ago, two-year-old Abby Walker was diagnosed with a life-threatening illness and her parent...
Episode 14: A Kind Of Medicine
Music as medicine: one of Australia's first Indigenous doctors, Mark Wenitong, pioneers music for he...
Episode 15: Your Money Or Your Life
After cheating death in her early twenties, Danielle Tindle is on a mission to improve treatment and...
Episode 16: Dare To Dream
The remarkable untold story behind the creation of Australia's newest opera and its composer George...
Episode 17: Into The Fog Of War (Part 1)
The exclusive inside story of an elite Australian army commando charged with the manslaughter of fiv...
Episode 18: Into The Fog Of War (Part 2)
Continuing the exclusive story of an elite Australian Army Commando charged with the manslaughter of...
Episode 19: 20th Anniversary Special (Part 1)
This two-part anniversary special looks back over Australian Story's key themes, with participants a...
Episode 20: 20th Anniversary Special (Part 2)
Celebrating 20 Years On Air, ABC's multi-award-winning program looks back on some of the most memora...
Episode 21: When The Call Comes
This week's episode focuses on Michele Perry's quest for justice and to understand why her homeless...
Episode 22: Limbo Land
Actor John Wood introduces the story of Pat Murphy, a farmer who's doing it tough after a coal mine...
Episode 23: One Of The Mob
Filmmaker David Batty has been a White man in a Black world for 40 years. He struck gold with cult s...
Episode 24: The Longest Expedition
Renowned climber Paul Pritchard returns to Tasmania's notorious Totem Pole to tackle the climb that...
Episode 25: The Heart Bus
Travel to the outback with innovative engineer-turned-cardiologist Dr Rolf Gomes who takes life-savi...
Episode 26: Gone Girl
Gone Girl: Two young people fall in love and marry, but are torn apart when one of them is taken int...
Episode 27: The Two Of Us
A heart-warming story of friendship between legendary jazz musician Don Burrows and the star he ment...
Episode 28: The Olympic Spirit
With all eyes on Rio, Ian Thorpe introduces a program marking the 60th anniversary of Australia's gr...
Episode 29: About A Girl
Battling prejudice and legal challenges, 16-year-old transgender teenager Georgie Stone takes on the...
Episode 30: What A Wonderful World
What A Wonderful World: Fifty years on, Patricia Amphlett (Little Pattie) returns to Vietnam where a...
Episode 31: A League Of Their Own
Businesswoman Susan Alberti could only dream of playing AFL. Now she's supporting a new Women's Leag...
Episode 32: The Sugar Trip
Filmmaker and actor Damon Gameau repays a debt of knowledge when he returns to Central Australia to...
Episode 33: The Flow On Effect
A year on, what's happening with Australia's most unlikely millionaires? Revisit Byron Bay's father...
Episode 34: When Beccy Met Libby
An old fashioned love story with a modern day twist. Country singer Beccy Cole wants to tie the knot...
Episode 35: Shadow Of Doubt
When two cousins set out to find the truth about their grandfather, they uncover family secrets, a s...
Episode 36: Tough Love
Taylor & Michael have Down syndrome. They plan to marry & have children, but their parents d...
Episode 37: The Big Dry
For years TV newsreader Talitha Cummins masked her alcoholism, until her drinking spiralled out of c...
Episode 38: When Plans Change (Part 1)
Brisbane mother Sally Faulkner reveals for the first time the story behind a desperate attempt to ge...
Episode 39: When Plans Change (Part 2)
The story of Brisbane mother Sally Faulkner continues, as she describes her desperate attempt to get...
Episode 40: The New Black
Black Caviar captured the nation's imagination like no other horse since Phar Lap. Now her first off...
Episode 41: A Field Of Dreams
In a bold social experiment, the tiny rural community of Mingoola on the NSW-Queensland border is lo...
Episode 42: Out Of The Water
With summer fast approaching, the experience of a Queensland family is a timely warning of a hidden...
Episode 43: The Road From Damascus
Medico Khaled Naanaa caused a global outcry by exposing the deliberate starvation of civilians in Sy...
Episode 1: Adrenaline Brush
Sophie Cape, a former elite downhill skier and track cyclist, survived death-defying injuries and ex...
Episode 2: The Hardest Choice
The Hardest Choice: After a series of heartbreaking decisions, Claudine and Dave Fitzgibbon take a l...
Episode 3: Unchained Melody
Australian singer-songwriter Melody Pool's journey through young love and heartbreak takes a surpris...
Episode 4: Into Hot Water
Underwater adventurer Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg leads a team that believes some of the world's gr...
Episode 5: Getting Away With Murder
Could one of Australia's most notorious cold cases finally be solved? Two women investigate a chilli...
Episode 6: On Borrowed Time
A young asylum seeker is released from immigration detention to return to her married life in the co...
Episode 7: My Mother's Secret
Blindsided by her mother's shock suicide, newspaper columnist Nikki Gemmell's search for answers tak...
Episode 8: All For The Family
Reigning world surfing champion Tyler Wright reveals how her campaign for the title was almost derai...
Episode 9: Two Brothers
Two brothers Mal and Mike Leyland were pioneers of outback documentary-making, first setting off to...
Episode 10: Breaking Good
Peter Lyndon-James is a former ice addict and criminal now running Australia's strictest drug rehabi...
Episode 11: The Story Of The Krait
A veteran's campaign to preserve a rickety little fishing boat, in which fourteen "Z Special" comman...
Episode 12: Channeling Mr Woo
Channeling Mr Woo: From a humble migrant background to internet stardom, maths teacher Eddie Woo is...
Episode 13: Splendour In The Grass
As they work to regenerate their historic property of Wooleen in WA, newlyweds David Pollock and Fra...
Episode 14: Candy Man (Part 1)
With his award-winning script for Lion, Luke Davies has become one of Hollywood's most celebrated sc...
Episode 15: Candy Man (Part 2)
Part 2 of the story of Luke Davies - poet, novelist & Oscar-nominated screenwriter of the hit movie...
Episode 16: The Beat Goes On
With country people dying of heart disease at a rate far greater than their city cousins Dr Rolf Gom...
Episode 17: Murder By The Sea
The brutal murder of young Sydney mother Lynette White in 1973 has baffled police for decades. Join...
Episode 18: I Am Sam
The story of Sam Goddard and his family's efforts to help him following a series of strokes. They de...
Episode 19: Sins Of The Father
Two years ago Vincent Shin became the first school-based lawyer in Australia, the job of his dreams....
Episode 20: Shooting For The Stars
As a child fleeing civil war in Africa, Mayor Chagai found solace in basketball. Now he's coaching a...
Episode 21: The Peacemaker
Ossie Cruse has been healing divisions in this country for 50 years. Now in his 80s he's inspiring h...
Episode 22: Long Way From Home
When a 20-year-old backpacker is murdered during a working holiday in rural Australia her grieving m...
Episode 23: Long Way From Home (Part 2)
After her daughter is brutally murdered while on the 88-day farm-work scheme, English woman Rosie Ay...
Episode 24: My Son Sam
The Sydney dad who defied convention and took his autistic teenage son backpacking across Africa. Th...
Episode 25: Playing With Fire
Sam Dastyari was the ALP's rising star until he was forced to resign from the Shadow Ministry last y...
Episode 26: The Bridge
She jumped off a bridge to end her life only to wake up in the ER after a miracle survival. One woma...
Episode 27: The Shape Shifters
Supermodel Robyn Lawley and her agent Chelsea Bonner take on the fashion industry to challenge its p...
Episode 28: The Strong Man
Grant Edwards was once Australia's strongest man. But what he was exposed to as a top Federal Police...
Episode 29: The Minister's Secret
Remembering Fiona Richardson, the Victorian Minister who passed away from breast cancer last week. T...
Episode 30: Beyond OK
The extraordinary story behind R U OK? Day. After advertising executive Gavin Larkin started the sui...
Episode 31: Modern Family
When partners John Guthrie & Dennis Cash decided to foster traumatised teenage girls, their friends...
Episode 32: All The World's A Stage
Standing at just over a metre tall, Kiruna Stamell has knocked down every barrier in her way to forg...
Episode 33: Found In Translation
Professor Tony Attwood has revolutionised our approach to Asperger's syndrome, credited with being a...
Episode 34: Call Of The Wild
Former Miss World Belinda Green found new meaning in life when she met veterinary surgeon Dr Howard...
Episode 35: Paying It Forward
Forty years ago, Waverley Stanley's life changed when a teacher saw something special in the young i...
Episode 36: A Gentle Man
Go behind-the-scenes with boxing's Mr Nice Guy Jeff Horn, charting his meteoric rise from bullied te...
Episode 37: End Game
Socceroos Coach Ange Postecoglou speaks his mind ahead of Australia's do-or-die World Cup qualifying...
Episode 38: Balancing The Scales
For 20 years, Elisha Rose has lived with the secret shame of having a multiple murderer for a father...
Episode 39: Behind The Mask - Mike Willesee (Part 1)
Part One of an exclusive look back at the life of legendary broadcaster Mike Willesee as he faces hi...
Episode 40: Behind The Mask - Mike Willesee (Part 2)
The conclusion to the two-part special on broadcaster Mike Willesee as he faces his greatest challen...
Episode 41: Without Rhyme Or Reason
An exclusive Australian Story investigation into the death of Justine Damond Ruszczyk, the Australia...
Episode 1: Here Come the Brides
Australian Story returns with an exclusive behind-the-scenes invitation to the wedding not everyone...
Episode 2: Long Journey Home
When scientist Jim Bowler discovered an ancient skeleton in outback New South Wales 44 years ago, he...
Episode 3: Leap of Faith
From Sydney's Western Suburbs all the way to London's Covent Garden, Australian dancers Steven McRae...
Episode 4: The Man in Bed 10
When medical student Dinesh Palipana was left a quadriplegic after a horrific car accident, he was t...
Episode 5: Final Call
Outback nurse Gayle Woodford was working alone at night in the remote community of Fregon when she v...
Episode 6: Pitch Perfect
The Matildas women's football team is riding high after a year of headline-grabbing wins. But the te...
Episode 7: Channelling Mr Woo²
Eddie Woo first came to prominence with "Wootube" - his free YouTube maths channel. In the year sinc...
Episode 8: The Enemy Within
Justin Yerbury's family history of motor neurone disease inspired him to swap a basketball career fo...
Episode 9: When The War Is Over
When a war-torn commando takes on an uncaring defence establishment he has little idea of the backla...
Episode 10: Dear Emma
A young woman grapples with a deadly diagnosis while waging a campaign against the biggest cancer ki...
Episode 11: The Justice Principle (Part 1)
It's a decade since Dassi Erlich and her two sisters began campaigning to bring their former headmis...
Episode 12: The Justice Principle (Part 2)
Dassi Erlich and her sisters' campaign to extradite their former headmistress from Israel to Austral...
Episode 13: Baby Steps
Twenty months after Claudine Fitzgibbon underwent groundbreaking surgery to help her unborn child, A...
Episode 14: The Choirmaster
A charismatic choirmaster takes a group of women from central Australia to Germany on an unlikely an...
Episode 15: The Massimo Mission
When baby Massimo Damiani was struck down by a mystery disease, his father set out to discover its g...
Episode 16: Blood on the Tracks (Part 1)
When the body of Mark Haines was found on the train tracks near Tamworth in 1988, police quickly dis...
Episode 17: Blood on the Tracks (Part 2)
As journalist Allan Clarke digs deeper into events on the night Mark Haines died he discovers more a...
Episode 18: Running From Empty
For the first time, celebrity chef Matt Golinski speaks about overcoming the unthinkable - the loss...
Episode 19: From Behind Bars
Serving a 30-year prison sentence for killing four of her young children, Kathleen Folbigg speaks fo...
Episode 20: Leading the Way
One of the toughest jobs in town comes up for grabs at Sydney's Wayside Chapel when pastor Graham Lo...
Episode 21: Meet You in Paris
Mark and Julie Wallace faced every parent's worst nightmare when their 21-year-old daughter Sara Zel...
Episode 22: Out of the Woods
From a homeless alcoholic living in the wild to academic success and a book deal - the amazing comeb...
Episode 23: The Teacher's Wife
The case of missing Sydney mother Lyn Dawson has captivated audiences around the world since the rel...
Episode 24: The Show Must Go On
Yellow Wiggle Emma Watkins looks back over the most challenging year of her life and speaks exclusiv...
Episode 25: The Town that Saved Itself
The town of Whyalla, SA was facing extinction when the owner of the local steelworks went bust. Desp...
Episode 26: The Skin You're In
Taryn Brumfitt is behind a global movement inspiring women to make peace with their bodies. Tired of...
Episode 27: The Story of Samuel
Samuel Symons, son of TV personality Red Symons, inspired everyone around him during his courageous...
Episode 28: Unbreakable
Prince Harry spoke exclusively to Australian Story ahead of the Invictus Games which will open in Sy...
Episode 29: Hope Springs
For over a decade, Australian Story has followed farmer Peter Andrews and his controversial methods...
Episode 30: No Surrender
The extraordinary ongoing story of Justin Yerbury, a world expert on motor neurone disease who has d...
Episode 31: Call Me Harrison
As former Deputy PM Tim Fischer battles a life-threatening illness, he takes solace in knowing his a...
Episode 32: Close Contact
Two boys from rival schools suffer catastrophic spinal damage on the Rugby field, ending up in hospi...
Episode 33: Hell's Angel
Perth woman Ann O'Neill suffered an unimaginable loss 24 years ago. Since then she's devoted her lif...
Episode 34: Independent's Day
When celebrity TV doctor Kerryn Phelps first spoke about her same-sex relationship on Australian Sto...
Episode 35: The Burning Question
As another terrible bushfire season approaches, Australian Story looks at the tragic case of Black S...
Episode 1: Back on Track
Legendary actor Jack Thompson was 48 hours away from death when his kidneys failed, forcing him into...
Episode 2: Call the Doctor
A disillusioned young outback doctor experiences a series of traumatic events that lead to the most...
Episode 3: Behind the Mask: Mike Willesee
Remember the life of legendary broadcaster Mike Willesee who died of throat cancer in March 2019. Mi...
Episode 4: A Bitter Pill
Survivors of the morning sickness drug Thalidomide take their fight for justice to Canberra's Parlia...
Episode 5: It Takes a Village
Follow the triumphant story of Bhutanese conjoined twins Nima and Dawa after the ground-breaking Aus...
Episode 6: Telling Tales
Writer and comedian Rosie Waterland has made a successful career out of seeing the funny side of her...
Episode 7: The Invisible Man
The extraordinary story of Behrouz Boochani, the stateless refugee who won Australia's richest liter...
Episode 8: The Seekers: A World of Their Own
The Seekers blazed a trail for Australian music during the 1960's. In a television first, all four m...
Episode 9: The Kids Are Alright
In an intimate portrait movie directors Jocelyn Moorhouse and PJ Hogan speak candidly about the chal...
Episode 10: Mina Guli: Running on Empty
How far would you push yourself for a cause you believe in? Mina Guli attempted 100 marathons in 100...
Episode 11: Cry Me A River
When 21-year-old Menindee farmer Kate McBride found thousands of dying fish in the Darling River she...
Episode 12: Out of the Box
Vocal gymnast Kate Miller-Heidke opens up to Australian Story about the private pain behind the very...
Episode 13: Just Call Me Bob - Hawke Remembered
Australian Story celebrates the extraordinary life of former PM Bob Hawke, who died aged 89. Featuri...
Episode 14: The Wronged Man
The victim of a miscarriage of justice, Andrew Mallard spent 12 years in jail for murder. His convic...
Episode 15: Lady Justice
The history-making fall and rise of Debbie Kilroy, from high security prisoner to high profile lawye...
Episode 16: After the World Ended
When Malaysian airlines flight MH17 was shot down over the Ukraine, the loss of Perth children Mo, E...
Episode 17: An Innocent Abroad (Part 1)
Australian Story returns with a two-part exclusive program on the shocking story of Yoshe Taylor - a...
Episode 18: An Innocent Abroad (Part 2)
Part 2 of Yoshe Taylor's incredible fight for justice as she speaks out for the first time since bei...
Episode 19: Last Train to Boree Creek
We look at the life of Former Deputy PM Tim Fischer, who inspired deep affection from the public and...
Episode 20: The Last Bow
The Choir of Hard Knocks took homeless people and turned them into a choir. Charismatic choirmaster...
Episode 21: The Good Fight
When ABC broadcaster Jill Emberson was told she had ovarian cancer, she opted to go public and go lo...
Episode 22: A Fortunate Life - Paul Hogan (Part 1)
As Paul Hogan prepares to celebrate his 80th birthday next month, he sits down with Australian Story...
Episode 23: A Fortunate Life - Paul Hogan (Part 2)
After the success of Crocodile Dundee, Paul Hogan had the world at his feet. But when he left his wi...
Episode 24: Perfect Strangers
Emma and Richard Austin endured ten years of gruelling fertility treatment in their quest for a baby...
Episode 25: Getting Away with Murder
Brothel madam Shirley Finn was shot through the head on a Perth golf course in 1975. After her daugh...
Episode 26: Somerton Man
More than 70 years after an unidentified body was found on an Adelaide beach, a solution may be in s...
Episode 27: Crime and Punishment
Released on parole after 12 years incarcerated in Bulgaria for murder, Jock Palfreeman's fight for j...
Episode 28: Boots and All
Craig Foster built a formidable reputation as a football player and broadcaster. But when Bahraini f...
Episode 29: Eye of the Storm
In the NSW mid-north coast town of Kempsey, principal Mark Morrison brushes close to the rules to gi...
Episode 30: Art of the Possible
Vincent Fantauzzo went from menial jobs and petty crime to painting portraits of Heath Ledger, Julia...
Episode 31: Last Drinks
After almost killing herself through alcohol abuse, Shanna Whan started a movement to change the per...
Episode 32: Forever Young
17-year-old Ursula Barwick vanished without a trace in 1987, leaving her family in limbo for three d...
Episode 33: What Doesn't Kill You
A catastrophic workplace accident brings together a labourer and a renowned surgeon in a world-first...
Episode 34: Out of the Blue
Minutes after entering the water in the Whitsundays, Tasmanian woman Justine Barwick was fighting fo...
Episode 35: Out of the Woods
From a homeless alcoholic living in the wild to academic success and a book deal, the next chapter i...
Episode 1: The Only Witness (Part 1)
A cyclist found dead on a country road with very few clues as to who hit him. Against all odds, two...
Episode 2: The Only Witness (Part 2)
Concluding the two-part story about one man who has killed two people. The man was convicted of kill...
Episode 3: Making his Mark
When Marlion Pickett took to the field in the 2019 AFL Grand Final, it set the scene for one of the...
Episode 4: When Worlds Collide
The journalist and comedian paying a high price for dissent. Vicky Xu is an outspoken critic of Chin...
Episode 5: Caught in the Act
Shane Jenek is the man behind drag queen superstar Courtney Act. It hasn’t always been easy for Shan...
Episode 6: The Justice Principle
Three sisters from Melbourne's insular Jewish Adass community return to Israel to investigate why it...
Episode 7: One Day at a Time
As Australia faces an unprecedented pandemic, we track five Australians on five different days: a ch...
Episode 8: The Two of Us
The touching friendship between jazz musician James Morrison and his long-term mentor Don Burrows, w...
Episode 9: Fighting Fire with Fire
Two elders from Cape York entrusted Victor Steffensen with the ancient knowledge of cultural burning...
Episode 10: His Brilliant Careers
Actor Sam Neill is a Kiwi but has done much of his best work in Australia. He talks life, love and h...
Episode 11: Forged by Fire
During the worst bushfire season in Australia's history, NSW fire chief Shane Fitzsimmons stood out....
Episode 12: Mother and Son
When Tim Sharp was three, his mother Judy was told he had severe autism and should be put in an inst...
Episode 13: The Odd Couple
John Doyle and Greig Pickhaver, better known as Rampaging Roy Slaven and HG Nelson, provide a rare i...
Episode 14: Performers and the Pandemic
From his carport-turned-studio in Melbourne, Adam Hills introduces this story about the novel, posit...
Episode 15: Lest We Forget
For the first time on TV, an in-depth look at how Australia survived the influenza pandemic of 1918....
Episode 16: Growing Pains
Nathan Cavaleri was seven years old when he found international fame as a prodigy on the blues guita...
Episode 17: The Long Game (Part 1)
Actor Joel Edgerton gives a candid account of the challenges he's faced on his long road to Hollywoo...
Episode 18: The Long Game (Part 2)
In Part 2 of this candid account of the actor and filmmaker's 25-year career, we focus on Joel Edger...
Episode 19: Beating the Blues
Rugby league legend Greg Inglis reveals the real story behind his mental health struggles and how he...
Episode 20: Team Scott
The inside story of the campaign to solve an enduring crime mystery. The body of Scott Johnson was f...
Episode 21: The Great Escape
After nearly seven years in limbo on Manus Island, an audacious plan was hatched to get Kurdish refu...
Episode 22: Beenham Valley Road (Part 1)
When Jamie Pultz left the police, there was one case he couldn't drop: the suspicious death of young...
Episode 23: Beenham Valley Road (Part 2)
When Jamie Pultz left the police, there was one case he couldn't drop: the suspicious death of young...
Episode 24: Breaking New Ground
When drought almost sent him broke, fifth generation Cooma sheep farmer Charles Massy converted to r...
Episode 25: Keeping Up Appearances
Rory O'Donoghue starred in iconic TV comedy The Aunty Jack Show as the hugely popular tights-wearing...
Episode 26: To Catch a Stalker (Part 1)
Di McDonald was told Max Gardiner was 'a good catch'. But when she ended their short relationship, h...
Episode 27: To Catch a Stalker (Part 2)
Desperate and alone in a 3-year battle against an obsessive stalker, Di McDonald meets policewoman B...
Episode 28: About a Boy
Quaden is a nine-year-old with dwarfism who just wants to fit in. When his Mum posted a video of Qua...
Episode 29: Finding Her Voice
Singer Megan Washington went public with a 'shameful' secret six years ago and then stopped making m...
Episode 30: Fight for the Truth
An outback town, a newspaper in trouble and an unlikely saviour. Broken Hill is fighting to keep its...
Episode 31: To His Door
Serial killer Bradley Edwards hid in plain sight for nearly 25 years. Australian Story reveals the e...
Episode 32: A Matter of Minutes
On Christmas Day two years ago Mick O'Dowd was feeling unwell. 24 hours later he was battling for hi...
Episode 33: Lest We Forget: The Australian Experience of Spanish Flu
In the midst of the COVID lockdown, Australian Story undertook the ambitious task of delving through...
Episode 34: Cradle of Life / To Russia with Love
In the season finale, Australian Story meets an 81-year-old inventor who's saved the lives of hundre...
Episode 1: Surviving Turbulence
16-year-old teen Bob Bramley takes to the skies to break a solo flying record and shine a light on y...
Episode 2: Sisters in Arms
There's a hidden danger lurking in every home and these are the two mothers who've achieved a world...
Episode 3: The Tipping Point
Scientist Veena Sahajwalla is a recycling revolutionary whose bold new ideas are helping reduce land...
Episode 4: I Dream of Jeanne
Unique and outrageous, Jeanne Little was the comedy dah-ling of daytime television in the 70s and 80...
Episode 5: Fish Out of Water
Promising young swimmer Shayna Jack was destined for the Olympics until she failed a routine drug te...
Episode 6: An Unlikely Match
Drawing on her own experience of trauma, comedian Magda Szubanski forms an unlikely alliance with te...
Episode 7: Raising the Bar
She's the glamorous lawyer representing high-profile clients like Julian Assange and Amber Heard. Je...
Episode 8: Chamber of Silence
Sexual slurs, baseless rumours, harassment and abuse - former Federal Labor minister Kate Ellis look...
Episode 9: Sophie's Choice
Mao's Last Dancer Li Cunxin and his wife and daughter's dramatic story of sacrifice, questioning and...
Episode 10: Birds of a Feather
Identical twins Brigette and Paula Powers are so close they live and work together and even speak in...
Episode 11: Forever Young
A recent coronial inquest reveals the catastrophic errors made by NSW Police which left teenager Urs...
Episode 12: Children of the Brush (Part 1)
He's one of Australia's most successful and famous painters. But what has been the cost of fame for...
Episode 13: Children of the Brush (Part 2)
Part two of an inside look at one of Australia's greatest artistic dynasties. In this concluding epi...
Episode 14: A World of their Own
The Seekers blazed a trail for Australian music in the 1960s with a number of chart topping internat...
Episode 15: A Balancing Act
Dr Michelle Telfer is a world leader in providing treatment for children and teens with gender dysph...
Episode 16: A Good Match
When women's soccer star Rhali Dobson received an on-field marriage proposal, the pictures went vira...
Episode 17: Final Call
After his wife was murdered while working on call as a nurse in South Australia's remote APY Lands,...
Episode 18: Bouncing Back
An unlikely friendship forged on the tennis court between a homeless man and famous tennis pro leads...
Episode 19: Luc Longley: One Giant Leap (Part 1)
In the first of a two part special, we find out how a gentle kid from Fremantle ended up playing alo...
Episode 20: Luc Longley: One Giant Leap (Part 2)
From running with the Chicago Bulls to his omission from The Last Dance documentary, Luc Longley set...
Episode 21: The Road to Justice
A mother's battle to bring her daughter's killer to account pays off when a coroner's inquest leads...
Episode 22: Saving MG99
A daring sea rescue led by the Australian Navy saved 99 people from certain death. Forty years later...
Episode 23: Home Straight
In a case of life imitating art, iconic Aussie actor Michael Caton channels his beloved character fr...
Episode 24: Beyond the Grave
One of the nation's biggest cold case mysteries takes a new turn when 'Somerton Man' is unearthed fr...
Episode 25: The Good Doctor
Dr Jamal Rifi has given up his retirement dreams to fight COVID from his front yard in the middle of...
Episode 26: No Place Like Home
The story behind the story of the family at the centre of a tug of war between a small country town...
Episode 27: The Accomplice
Behind the scenes of the AFP investigation into Australia's biggest insider trading case, where two...
Episode 28: The Godfather of Coral
Charlie Veron has spent his career underwater charting the world's coral wonderlands. Now, as the Gr...
Episode 29: California Dreaming
Like the characters in his blockbuster novels, author Matthew Reilly is no stranger to persevering t...
Episode 30: Unmasking Max
Funnyman Max Gillies has been making people laugh all his life. Now at almost 80, he reveals the hid...
Episode 31: Happy Days
The heartwarming next chapter of Australian Story's most popular program ever proves love really doe...
Episode 32: The Final Hurdle
Athlete, mother of four and reality TV star Jana Pittman talks about her new life as a doctor and he...
Episode 33: Justice for Justine
A Sydney family takes on the Minneapolis police department in a long-running court battle to hold of...
Episode 34: In the Name of the Child
Lauren Burns fought to find her anonymous sperm donor father. As she becomes a parent, she's back ca...
Episode 35: Grace Under Fire
Outspoken Australian of the Year Grace Tame looks back over a tumultuous and life-changing 12 months...
Episode 1: Glenn McGrath: Bowled Over
At home with Aussie cricket legend Glenn McGrath as he and his growing family continue to honour the...
Episode 2: Fakes
After falling for a man whose life was a carefully constructed web of lies, journalist Stephanie Woo...
Episode 3: The Great Escapes
Magician Arthur Coghlan's death-defying escapes in the 1970s earned him the title of Australia's Hou...
Episode 4: Trials and Tribulations (Part 1)
Having spent more than 12 years in jail for murder, Scott Austic was acquitted after revelations of...
Episode 5: Trials and Tribulations (Part 2)
Having spent more than 12 years in jail for murder, Scott Austic was acquitted after sensational rev...
Episode 6: Into the Wild
A young couple brave extreme weather and isolation to tackle Australia's extinction crisis, successf...
Episode 7: Nicola Forrest: The Undercover Billionaire
How the loss of her stillborn daughter set billionaire philanthropist Nicola Forrest and her husband...
Episode 8: Lisa Curry: The Deep End
Former golden girl of the pool Lisa Curry has lived in the spotlight for decades. We've seen her wed...
Episode 9: Bon Scott: On the Brink
Bon Scott was set to become an international rock star with AC/DC when he died suddenly in 1980. Now...
Episode 10: Cathy McGowan: An Independent Woman
Cathy McGowan is considered the "godmother" of the Independents movement that's dominating the elect...
Episode 11: Kathy Lette: Letting Loose
Co-author of Puberty Blues Kathy Lette has mined her life for stories since her teens. Now post-meno...
Episode 12: Breaking Free
A notorious bank robber destined for a life in prison discovers a new path when he confronts his hid...
Episode 13: Shanna Whan: Last Drinks
The story of how self-described 'small town drunk' Shanna Whan transformed her life to become Austra...
Episode 14: The Songlines of Leah Purcell
From dirt poor beginnings, actor, writer and director Leah Purcell is now at the top of her game, we...
Episode 15: A Community Undertaking
In the working-class town of Port Kembla, a small funeral home is transforming the way we deal with...
Episode 16: Jumping the Gun (Part 1)
A devoted aunt investigates the mysterious death of her niece Amy Wensley, throwing doubt on the pol...
Episode 17: Jumping the Gun (Part 2)
Concluding the story about the mysterious death of Amy Wensley. As her family fights for justice, th...
Episode 18: Lyn Dawson: Vanished
Missing for 40 years, Lyn Dawson's sister and brother never gave up hope they'd find justice. Behind...
Episode 19: David Pocock: A Whole New Ball Game
Senate powerbroker of the moment David Pocock on the forces that drew him to politics and why his ba...
Episode 20: Fire Fight: Mick Tisbury
One man's decade-long mission to expose the extent of an alarming chemical contamination scandal. Th...
Episode 21: If You Build It - Greg Donovan
When middle-aged insurance executive Greg Donovan was made redundant, he was told to play it safe. I...
Episode 22: In a Different League - Michael Cheika
Controversial rugby coach Michael Cheika has never been in greater international demand. So why is h...
Episode 23: Getting Heavy - Parkway Drive
How five surfers from Byron Bay, in one of the biggest heavy metal bands in the world, turned to the...
Episode 24: A World of Their Own - The Seekers
Remembering singing legend Judith Durham and the trailblazing band who put Australian music on the m...
Episode 25: Losing Faith
When Citipointe Christian College issued an enrolment contract asking parents to agree homosexuality...
Episode 26: A Star Is Torn - Tim Minchin
After his dazzling career comes unstuck, musician, actor and provocateur Tim Minchin reassesses his...
Episode 27: Life of Poh
From a "nerd" named Sharon to one of Australia's most loved celebrity chefs - how Poh Ling Yeow has...
Episode 28: My Name is Charles - The Somerton Man
After more than 70 years, one of Australia's most enduring mysteries - the identity of the "Somerton...
Episode 29: Leaning In - Ita Buttrose
As the ABC's 90th year draws to a close, Chair Ita Buttrose reflects on a life in the spotlight and...
Episode 1: The Transformer - Saul Griffith
His ideas caught the eye of the US President. Now engineer Saul Griffith is making waves at home, jo...
Episode 2: Game Changer
Many parents worry their children are gaming to excess and don't know how to deal with it. Psycholog...
Episode 3: Diving in Deep (Part 1) - Valerie Taylor
Valerie Taylor burst onto our TV screens in the '60s, stunning viewers by diving with dangerous shar...
Episode 4: Diving in Deep (Part 2) - Valerie Taylor
Shark legend Valerie Taylor takes us behind the scenes of the hit film Jaws and inside her campaign...
Episode 5: Making a Scene - Claudia Karvan
Actor and producer Claudia Karvan speaks openly about her chaotic childhood and the challenges of ma...
Episode 6: After The Fall - Mahboba Rawi and Sourosh Cina
From a Sydney loungeroom, a mother and son take on a perilous mission to evacuate children and staff...
Episode 7: A Matter of Minutes - Mick and Katharine O'Dowd
Mick O'Dowd has survived the unimaginable. He came close to death but lived. Three years after first...
Episode 8: Charting Her Course - Jessica Watson
Love, loss and sailing the world solo: Jessica Watson takes us inside her amazing voyage as a teenag...
Episode 9: Call of the River (Update) - Kate McBride
Four years after alerting the world to mass fish kills in the Darling River, young farmer Kate McBri...
Episode 10: Taking the Lead - Heather Mitchell
Actor Heather Mitchell's life has been as dramatic off screen as it has on. And she's channelling th...
Episode 11: After the Storm (Update) - Beth Heinrich
One woman's decades-long quest for justice. Beth Heinrich was permanently changed by what she experi...
Episode 12: Labour of Love - Michelle and Jono Harley
How a 52-year-old woman gave birth to her grandson. When Michelle couldn't have children, her mother...
Episode 13: Changing Minds
The remarkable story of a woman taking part in Australia's first psychedelic-assisted therapy trial....
Episode 14: A Brilliant Canvas - John Olsen
A story of art, fame and family. The late John Olsen, one of our most beloved painters, had an obses...
Episode 15: Blind Leading The Blind - Mick Curran and Jamie Teh
Mick and Jamie bonded over coding as teenagers. Now their brilliant tech idea is transforming lives...
Episode 16: Fight For Freedom - Kathleen Folbigg
Australian Story's coverage of Kathleen Folbigg's case helped kickstart the scientific research that...
Episode 17: The Getting of Wisdom - Hugh van Cuylenburg
Buried memories and family secrets - how hit podcaster Hugh van Cuylenburg's quest to help people ga...
Episode 18: A Voice from the Heart - Megan Davis
As a child, Megan Davis fell in love with the Constitution. Now she's a lawyer and a driving force b...
Episode 19: Force of Nature - Gina Chick
Her unconventional approach to surviving in the wild captured the public imagination. Now reality TV...
Episode 20: A Family Legacy - Erica Packer
Erica Packer, former wife of billionaire James Packer, opens up about the deadly genetic mystery sha...
Episode 21: Atonement - Dean Yates
War correspondent Dean Yates thought he was indestructible but when two of his staff were gunned dow...
Episode 22: A Silver Lining (Part 1)
When three Newcastle teens became overnight rock stars, their world exploded; huge concerts and crow...
Episode 23: A Silver Lining (Part 2)
Rockband Silverchair makes a comeback with its fifth album and a massive hit. But backstage, the whe...
Episode 24: Sea Change - Sam Elsom
Designer Sam Elsom shocked friends and family when he ditched fashion to farm seaweed. Now he has de...
Episode 25: The Big Lap - Fiona MacDonald
Once a popular kids' TV host, Fiona MacDonald is on the trip of a lifetime. Since being diagnosed wi...
Episode 26: His Brilliant Careers (Update) - Sam Neill
When beloved film and TV star Sam Neill received a shock diagnosis, it forced him to take stock of h...
Episode 27: When Kylie Met Sami - Kylie Moore-Gilbert and Sami Shah
When Kylie Met Sami: She was released from an Iranian prison only to find her husband had left her....
Episode 28: Never Too Late (Update) - Gregory Smith
Five years after his first appearance on Australian Story, Dr Gregory Smith continues his astonishin...
Episode 29: To Elle and Back - Libbi Gorr
What ever happened to Elle McFeast? She wowed TV audiences in the 90s with her bold and brassy satir...
Episode 30: Taking A Bow - Brett Yang and Eddy Chen
Meet the violin virtuosos from Brisbane who ditched a classical career to create an online music com...
Episode 31: Stepping Up - Elly-May Barnes
Singer Elly-May Barnes on stepping out of her famous father Jimmy's musical shadow, on the long road...
Episode 32: Big Talk - Annie Louey
With little more than a briefcase full of old photos for clues, comedian Annie Louey unravels decade...
Episode 33: An Open Mind - Professor Richard Scolyer
A doctor puts his life on the line to try and cure his own brain cancer, using the very treatment he...
The power of the personal. Compelling stories about real people that illuminate, entertain and inspire. Presented by Leigh Sales.
Episode 1: The Making of Mini - Katrina Gorry
After the Matildas' World Cup glory, star midfielder Katrina Gorry introduces us to the tiny secret...
Episode 2: Mama's on a Mission - Mechelle Turvey
When the senseless death of teenager Cassius Turvey ignited fury across the nation, his mother Meche...
Episode 3: Driven - Minjee and Min Woo Lee
Sibling golf superstars Minjee and Min Woo Lee are like chalk and cheese, but they share the same go...
Episode 4: Call of Duty - Anjali Sharma
School striker Anjali Sharma sued the government at 16. Now she's taking her fight for an end to fos...
Episode 5: Peter Garrett
In an Australian Story special, former politician and Midnight Oil frontman Peter Garrett opens up t...
Episode 6: On the Brink - Bon Scott
Australian Story revisits the remarkable life of the late Bon Scott to celebrate the 50th anniversar...
Episode 7: Patient Zero - Richard Scolyer
Australian Story checks in on 2024 Australian of the Year Professor Richard Scolyer as he reaches a...
Episode 8: Out of the Wild - Gina Chick
How life has changed for inaugural Alone Australia winner Gina Chick. In conversation with Leigh Sal...
Episode 9: Man Underground - Arnold Dix
Locals know him as a flower farmer but Arnold Dix shot to global fame when he helped rescue 41 India...
Episode 10: Out of the Chaos - Anna Coutts-Trotter
When Federal Labor Minister Tanya Plibersek learned her daughter Anna had been abused during a high...
Episode 11: One in Seven Trillion - Leila McDougall
Leila McDougall has been defying the odds since childhood. She's overcome dyslexia, beaten cancer, a...
Episode 12: Face to Fake - Chelsea Bonner
Modelling agent Chelsea Bonner has spent her career fighting to change perceptions of beauty but now...
Episode 13: Off Menu - Josh Niland
Josh Niland's arguably Australia's hottest chef right now with his revolutionary approach to fish. T...
Episode 14: Off Menu - Shaun Christie-David
He can't cook, he's not after money but Shaun Christie-David is building a restaurant empire that's...
Episode 15: Off Menu - Kylie Kwong
Kylie Kwong has been at the top of the Australian food scene for three decades. Now she reveals her...
Episode 16: On The Outside Looking In - Cold Chisel
As rock band Cold Chisel marks its 50th anniversary, we explore why the iconic group has made such a...
Episode 17: The War Pup - Quaden Bayles
When Quaden Bayles was nine, he was bullied and trolled for having dwarfism. But he also caught the...
Episode 18: Nick Cave with Leigh Sales
Rock legend Nick Cave sits down with Leigh Sales for a wide-ranging and deeply personal conversation...
Episode 19: Flashpoint - Senator Fatima Payman
A matter of conscience or act of betrayal? Former Labor Senator Fatima Payman reveals the inner torm...
Episode 20: Dead Funny - Michelle Brasier
Comedian Michelle Brasier was told she had a 97 per cent chance of getting cancer. She chose to laug...
Episode 21: This is How It Goes - Missy Higgins
Singer-songwriter Missy Higgins says she's never felt more vulnerable in her life. One of our most a...
Episode 22: Making Lachlan Murdoch - Part 1: Blood
The first of three episodes examines the forces that shaped the media heir and the roots of the Murd...
Episode 23: Making Lachlan Murdoch - Part 2: Money
In Part 2, Lachlan Murdoch feels the push and pull of the family business as he proves himself to hi...
Episode 24: Making Lachlan Murdoch - Part 3: Power
In the final chapter, Lachlan Murdoch finally wins the long struggle to take over the family empire....
Episode 25: Leading Man - Michael Theo
How Love on the Spectrum and Austin's Michael Theo found his voice and became a global star.
Episode 26: Holding On - Gus Taylor
Two rock climbing accidents dealt Gus Taylor devastating blows. But now he realises climbing is the...
Episode 27: Betrayal - Hannah Grundy
A mysterious email. Shocking revelations. And the ultimate betrayal. How teacher Hannah Grundy was f...
Episode 28: The Two of Us - Yael Stone and Jack Manning Bancroft
When Orange Is the New Black star Yael Stone turned her back on Hollywood, everyone thought she was...
Episode 29: The Big Lap - Remembering Fiona MacDonald
In memory of TV host Fiona MacDonald, who died this month from MND, we revisit her story, filmed as...
Episode 30: Holding Ground - Chris Henggeler
In one of the toughest parts of Australia, renegade pastoralist Chris Henggeler is trialling a bold...
Episode 31: Comeback - Shayna Jack
From vilified 'drug cheat' to Olympic gold, Shayna Jack's extraordinary return to the pool.
Episode 1: Unfiltered - Celeste Barber
Celeste Barber went from unemployed actor to social media sensation for her celebrity parodies. But...
Episode 2: Outspoken - Jacinta Nampijinpa Price
Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price is a rising political star who helped defeat the Voice referendum....
Episode 3: Heartfelt - Colin Clausen and Laura Aisbett
When Col and Laura met, they were both grieving the sudden death of a cherished spouse. They soon ha...
Episode 4: Second Innings - Bharat Sundaresan
On the brink of death in India, Bharat Sundaresan turned to cricket, gathering millions of followers...
Episode 5: Home Truths - Vincent Fantauzzo
When celebrated artist Vincent Fantauzzo first appeared on Australian Story, he held something back...
Episode 6: Hooked - Dave Hughes
Comedian Dave Hughes thought his struggle with addiction was over when he gave up alcohol in his 20s...
Episode 7: Born to Run - Cliff Young
The enduring legend of Cliff Young, the 61-year-old potato farmer who became an accidental hero when...
Episode 8: The Shoot Out - Race Around The World
Untold stories from behind the scenes of Race Around the World, the show that launched John Safran a...
Episode 9: Class Wars - Murat Dizdar
Murat Dizdar is a proud working-class man who's made it his mission to win back private school stude...
Episode 10: Herding Katter - Bob Katter
A portrait of maverick MP Bob Katter, the eccentric 79-year-old TikTok star who could soon even hold...
Episode 11: Duped - Donna Nelson
How an online love scam landed West Australian grandmother Donna Nelson in solitary confinement in J...
Episode 12: Birds of a Feather - The Twinnies
Quirky identical twins Paula and Bridgette Powers were in the process of sharing some exciting news...
Episode 13: Better Angels - Samuel Johnson
Actor Samuel Johnson has led a rollercoaster life, dealing with successive tragedies and a self-dest...
Episode 14: Missing Pieces - Sue-Yen Luiten
Adopted by an Australian couple 50 years ago, Sue-Yen Luiten is cycling through Vietnam with DNA kit...
Episode 15: Game Of His Life - Ange Postecoglou
At the peak of his career, legendary Australian football manager Ange Postecoglou speaks exclusively...
Episode 16: Nick Cave with Leigh Sales
In an encore screening, rock legend Nick Cave talks candidly about grief, addiction, religion and wh...
Episode 17: Forget Me Not - Jim Rogers
Jim Rogers has always been a big personality so when he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's at 55, he was...
Episode 18: Break It Down - The Raygun Phenomenon
Rachael "Raygun" Gunn broke the internet with her Olympic routine, sparking countless memes and vitr...
Episode 19: The River - Franklin River Rescue (Part 1)
When Lithuanian rafter Valdas Bieliauskas became trapped in rapids on the Franklin River, it set in...
Episode 20: The River - Franklin River Rescue (Part 2)
The dramatic conclusion to Australian Story's two-part account of the extraordinary 24-hour rescue e...
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