Jack Thompson looms large in the Australian imagination from such iconic films as Breaker Morant and...

Kate Ceberano made her name as a pop princess in the 1980s. She has sustained her singing career sin...

Geoffrey Robertson is one of Australia’s best-known expatriates. The UK-based human rights advocate...

Catherine Freeman represented her people and her country as an athlete and, on the most memorable ni...

Dennis Cometti is the best known and most authoritative Australian Rules football commentator in Aus...

Ita Buttrose is a trail-blazer – the first female editor of a major newspaper in Australia, a publis...

Footy legend and latter day ‘Knight in Shining Armour’ Ron Barassi has always believed that actions...

Australian film and TV industry luminary, actress Sigrid Thornton has cornered the market in feisty...

Bad boy larrikin actor Ben Mendelsohn embarks on a journey into his ancestry to find out if he reall...

Singer Christine Anu's ancestry is from the Torres Straits Islands. She’d like to understand why mus...

Celebrity “Country Cook" Maggie Beer is probably best known for being half of the TV duo The Cook an...

Rock star and activist John Butler is searching for his heritage hoping to find poets, musicians and...

Magda Szubanski is the actor behind many of Australia’s most loved comic characters. Magda has alway...

Cricketer Rod Marsh trawls the records, to overturn long-held secrets and piece together the dramati...

Singer Tina Arena has always wanted to find out more about where her Italian-born parents came from,...

Actor and comedian is probably best known for his roles in City Homicide and Thank God You’re Here....

Actor, dancer and TV chef Paul Mercurio is probably best known for his role in Strictly Ballroom. In...

Georgie Parker has created some of the most memorable women in Australian television. The women in h...

Comedian Shaun Micallef unravels his father’s childhood war-time story in Malta, and discovers other...

Television journalist Kerry O’Brien embarks on a journey to uncover his Irish roots. He discovers a...

Actress Melissa George uncovers the heartbreaking truth behind a story of child migrants and investi...

Actor Vince Colosimo unravels the truth about his grandfather’s extraordinary war experience and tri...

Actor John Wood discovers the secrets behind his father’s tragic capture and imprisonment in World W...

Aboriginal footballer Michael O’Loughlin traces the bloodlines of his family, discovering an ancesto...

Comedian Adam Hills retraces the desperate journeys of his migrant ancestors, torn apart by war and...

Actress Asher Keddie sets out to find the origins of her creative passions, discovering a story from...

On the trail of his ancestors, actor Don Hany journeys to the heart of Europe to investigate his con...

By retracing his history, iconic actor Michael Caton will uncover a family tragedy and an ancestor’s...

On the trail of his ancestors, actor Lex Marinos journeys into Australia’s colonial past to investig...

Actor Susie Porter's family story charts dramatic advances in the field of mental health treatment i...

Entertainer Rove McManus discovers his Great Grandfather’s role in the violent Kimberley frontier, a...

Actor John Howard follows his Grandfather’s trail through the horrors of the Great War, finding a pr...

A generation ago Andrew Denton’s family anglicised their name from Ditkofsky to Denton, in an effort...

Rebecca Gibney attempts to find out more about her past and travels to New Zealand. The journey take...

After Jacki Weaver became a grandmother, she has had the burning ambition to discover about her fath...

Richard Roxburgh has become well known for playing different complicated characters, but knows littl...

Amanda Keller finds out that her bloodline has survived against all odds as she discovers that an an...

Adam Goodes learns more about his aboriginal heritage, journeying into the remote Flinders Ranges fi...

Lisa discovers the man she thought was her biological Grandfather, wasn't in fact related to her Dad...

Paul McDermott's mother Betty, was adopted and raised by relatives but mystery surrounds the circums...

Internationally celebrated actor Geoffrey Rush believes he hails from a long line of farmers but an...

Actor Toni Collette delves into the enigma of her grandparents and uncovers a tale of abandonment an...

Successful Chef and Restaurateur, Luke Nguyen discovers his Grandfather had a wife and child in Chin...

Actor David Wenham rose to fame as ‘Diver Dan’ in the long-running TV series SeaChange. He has inhab...

Sporting legend Dawn Fraser is a hands-on grandmother who wants to know more about her own grandpare...

Comedian Peter Rowsthorn turns his humour on his first Australian family – finding ancestors with a...

Iconic entertainer Greig Pickhaver, known for his comedic alter ego HG Nelson, investigates the lead...

A lifetime spent in journalism has seen Ray Martin witness some of the defining moments of his time....

The program brings together the best moments of this award winning genealogical series combined with...

In this new season, eight of Australia's most respected and recognisable faces retrace the footsteps...

In one of Sydney's great convict buildings, Peter Garrett discovers an ancestor at the forefront of...

Singer-songwriter Delta Goodrem has searched for the creative connection in her ancestry - some link...

Mal Meninga goes on a deeply personal quest to discover if he's descended from an indentured laboure...

Actor Rachel Griffiths's journey into the past takes her back to the re-emergence of Judaism in 17th...

Shane Jacobson's father, Ron, was born into a family of carnival workers and lived in a tent until h...

Best known for her alter ego Kath Day-Knight from the hugely popular Kath and Kim series, Jane Turne...

John Newcombe's search will propel him back to a pivotal time in NSW when the penal colony was trans...

Veteran performer, Noni Hazlehurst, goes in search of the secrets her parents held so tightly. This...

Having always struggled to understand culturally who he is, renowned neurosurgeon Charlie Teo is loo...

Natalie Imbruglia has always taken pride in her father’s Italian ancestry, but she knows very little...

From his portrayal of bushranger Ned Kelly to the sinister Mick Taylor in Wolf Creek, actor John Jar...

Actor and performer, Justine Clarke, was raised almost entirely by her mother Beverley after her par...

Perth born entertainer and performer Todd McKenney is keen to know where the McKenney name comes fro...

All his life, Ernie Dingo has been estranged from his father’s family, on account of feeling abandon...

Patti Newton is one of Australia’s most recognisable faces. She’s been performing since the age of f...

TV personality Scott Cam reveals his paternal family changed their surname from Caminiti to Cam duri...

Traumatised by the scandal of her parents' public divorce, investigative journalist, Jennifer Byrne,...

Actress Marta Dusseldorp has become a household name on Australian television screens, playing stron...

Australia's favourite scientist Dr Karl Kruszelnicki, is a qualified medical doctor, engineer, and p...

Singer Casey Donovan shot to fame at the tender age of 16 when she won 'Australian Idol'. But her su...

Four-time Paralympian Kurt Fearnley wants to find out if the fighting spirit that propelled him to s...

Daytime TV host Kerri-Anne Kennerley's upbeat personality, can-do attitude, and general optimism has...

Actor Rodger Corser rose to fame for his roles in the award-winning crime series Underbelly and the...

Journalist and television personality, Lisa Wilkinson, is on a deeply personal quest to unearth the...

Veteran entertainer Bert Newton discovers the father he never knew was a true patriot who devoted hi...

Long intrigued by the origins of his surname, actor Cameron Daddo travels across the globe to the Ch...

When swimmer Lisa Curry delves into her maternal family past, she finds hard working German immigran...

Comedian Denise Scott’s search to find the truth about a dark family secret brings surprising result...

Kat Stewart’s stable and loving upbringing instilled in her a strong sense of ethics, and it’s with...

Australia’s first female Foreign Minister, Julie Bishop, has always had a love for the world, and sh...

On a quest to to find his ancestral homeland, country music icon Troy Cassar-Daley will finally brid...

When Celia Pacquola digs into her beloved mum's family, she finds her three times Scottish great gra...

When Former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull opens the book on his family history, curiosity turns to...

Denise Drysdale takes a DNA test, and it’s no surprise to find her family hails from Scotland. But i...

Jeff Fatt, famous as the Purple Wiggle, knows his Chinese roots go back four generations into Austra...

Actor, former self-described 'serial pest', and member of the Stolen Generation, Uncle Jack Charles...

Actor and director Simon Baker learns about a legacy left by his three-times great grandfather, and...

Myf Warhurst sets out to learn the truth about a 'handshake adoption' in her paternal line, and is s...

Rugby league footballer Justin Hodges is determined to learn more about his Indigenous family histor...

Television personality and veterinarian Dr Chris Brown attempts to figure out a longstanding family...

Actor and philanthropist Paula Duncan looks into her ancestry and finds a tale of hardship turned on...

Chef Matt Moran discovers a convict lineage hailing from Ireland, a criminal heritage that is broken...

Netball champion Liz Ellis investigates the truth around the identity of her dad's father, and digs...

Sandra Sully hopes to learn more about her family's reverence for war service, and discovers her mat...

The late comedian Barry Humphries investigates a royal scandal from his father's ancestry, and unrav...

Journalist Jenny Brockie uncovers her mother's family history and learns her distant relatives were...

Journalist Derryn Hinch uncovers the truth about the identity of his mother's father and investigate...

Entertainer Rhonda Burchmore finds out about the maternal grandfather she never knew, and a fascinat...

Artistic director and choreographer Stephen Page uncovers the truth about his Aboriginal ancestry, a...

Comedian Peter Helliar discovers a maternal ancestor's traumatic experience in Gallipoli, and a pate...

Television and stage actor Kerry Armstrong discovers a lineage of rebellious and free-spirited women...

Actor and musician John Waters discovers a paternal heritage of working class radicals, and a matern...

As she traces elusive ancestors from London to Cyprus to New Zealand, actor and producer Claudia Kar...

Actor Patrick Brammall uncovers a long-held maternal family secret and is deeply impressed by his pa...