Australian Story

  • Premiered: Jul 1997
  • Episodes: 664
  • Followers: 2
  • Running
  • ABC1
  • Monday at 20
  • Documentary

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Season 17
17x1
The Best
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Jan 25, 2012
The Story of Black Caviar and the people who were inspired by her.
17x2
Road to Nowhere (1)
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Feb 06, 2012
Part 1 of our story on Di Gicrist, the woman taking on the big end of town and changing the face of justice in South Australia after her husband was killed in a hit-and-run cyclist incident.
17x3
Road to Nowhere (2)
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Feb 13, 2012
The conclusion to our story on Di Gilcrist and her fight for justice after her husband was killed in a hit-and-run cyclist incident.
17x4
Mary and Me
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Feb 20, 2012
Kath Evans was diagnosed with lung cancer that had spread to her brain and given only weeks to live. She attributes her sudden, extraordinary recovery to the then Blessed Mary MacKillop and the event was accepted by the Vatican as a miracle.
17x5
By the Light of Stars
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Feb 27, 2012
Yaron Lifschitz took a small, troubled circus company and turned it into an artistic triumph that now has the world applauding its daring and glamour.
17x6
Half a Million Acres
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Mar 05, 2012
David Pollock, a young man from remote Western Australia and Frances Jones, a young woman from the Melbourne suburbs, battle to save the historic grazing property Wooleen.
17x7
The Book of Daniel
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Mar 12, 2012
Daniel Clarke at the age of ten, inspired by the late Steve Irwin, set out to raise funds to conserve habitat for orangutans in Indonesia.
17x8
Woman from Snowy River
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Mar 19, 2012
Leigh Woodgate's journey from young mountain girl to shining racing star, through dark days of hospital and recovery to the triumphant joy of riding a horse for early morning track work.
17x9
Going Troppo
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Mar 26, 2012
From teenage years marked by delinquency, expulsions from school and several brushes with the law, John Polson became a successful actor and went on to direct some of the world's best known TV dramas.
17x10
House of Hancock
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Apr 02, 2012
Another look at the 1997 classic story on Australia's richest person, Gina Rinehart.
17x11
A Done Deal
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Apr 09, 2012
Ric Richardson is an inventor who took on the might of Microsoft and scored a remarkable victory.
17x12
Streets with No Names
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Apr 16, 2012
Scott Neeson built a career as a top Hollywood movie executive but after a holiday in Cambodia, gave it all up and now works to help some of the poorest children there.
17x13
The Razor's Edge
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Apr 23, 2012
Risktaker, investigator and troublemaker: animal advocate Lyn White and the images that shocked a nation.
17x14
Return to Wooleen
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Apr 30, 2012
Since Half a Million Acres aired, the Pollock's battle to save their property has attracted powerful supporters and a visit by natural landscape ecologist, Peter Andrews who has previously featured on Australian Story.
17x15
Larger Than Life
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May 07, 2012
Clive Palmer has been described as a generous giver, a national treasure and a major political force. He's also been labelled a billionaire mining magnate who has never mined, a human headline and a manipulator of the media.
17x16
When We Were Racers
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May 14, 2012
Triple world champion, Sir Jack Brabham became the first driver to be knighted for services to motorsport and the only Formula One driver to win a world title in a car of his own construction.
17x17
According to Her Cloth
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May 21, 2012
From international model via prison to toast of Australian fashion week as a new generation designer: Tovah Cottle.
17x18
Turning the Tables
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May 28, 2012
Jack Manning Bancroft, was just 19 when he started a plan to help disadvantaged kids finish school. Now at 26 he's one of Australia's youngest CEO's.
17x19
Walking with Kate Mulvany
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Jun 04, 2012
Actress and playwright Kate Mulvany has experienced more than most people do in a lifetime and speaks candidly about life's many challenges and explains how she found the energy and determination to return to the public spotlight.
17x20
The Voice
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Jun 11, 2012
Gurrumul Yunupingu's haunting voice has captivated global audiences, most recently in London for Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee celebrations.
17x21
To Set Before a Queen
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Jun 18, 2012
In the early hours of Sunday June 24, the unbeaten Black Caviar will take on Europe's best at Royal Ascot, in front of the Queen. This is the fascinating inside story of the making of Black Caviar, stretching back across the generations.
17x22
Her Hour Upon the Stage (1)
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Jun 25, 2012
Part One of our two part special where friends and family of Diana Bliss tell her story and reveal the extent of the private torment behind the glittering existence.
17x23
Her Hour Upon the Stage (2)
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Jul 02, 2012
This week, the conclusion to our story about Diana Bliss whose death earlier this year was reported around the world.
17x24
Letters to the Editor
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Jul 09, 2012
It's a time of unprecedented crisis in the newspaper industry. But this week's Australian Story is about a former big city journalist who's bucking the trend. James Clark had been living .. show full overview
17x25
Stranger on the Shore
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Jul 16, 2012
Next week's program tells the story of a young woman unsettling her middle class Melbourne family by going out on a limb to 'adopt' a fourteen year old Afghan asylum seeker.
17x26
Foolin' Around
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Jul 23, 2012
Popular Country singer Beccy Cole has decided she is ready to tell audiences about a personal dilemma which has dogged her for more than ten years.
17x27
It Takes a Village
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Jul 30, 2012
In 2001 Ian and Sandy Johnson adopted two orphaned children, Tigi and Frazer, from Ethiopia. Now with the children 12 and 15, we returned to find out how it's all worked out.
17x28
Her Natural Life
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Aug 06, 2012
This program documents Annabelle Sandes' unlikely pathway from the fine art auction rooms of inner Sydney to whale conservation in the Kimberley.
17x29
Tatiana Is Dancing
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Aug 13, 2012
Tanya Pearson has shaped the careers of hundreds of aspiring Australian dancers and at 75 continues to teach classical ballet full time.
17x30
The Queen of Extreme
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Aug 20, 2012
Torah Bright has lived in the United States since she was fifteen years old when she turned professional as a snowboarder. Since then, she's flown under the radar of many Australians. .. show full overview
17x31
Kicking the Habit
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Aug 27, 2012
A recent High Court ruling all but ended the branding of cigarette packets in Australia. The decision and the woman behind it, Federal-Attorney General Nicola Roxon, have generated news headlines around the world.
17x32
War Paint
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Sep 03, 2012
Ben Quilty is an Archibald prize winning artist with a lifelong interest in concepts of masculinity - from youthful excesses with drugs, alcohol and fast cars to soldiers on the front line.
17x33
On Bicheno Beach
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Sep 10, 2012
It's forty years since a 15 year old Shane Gould created a sporting sensation by winning three individual gold medals at the Munich Olympics.
17x34
Alaska and Me
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Sep 17, 2012
Twenty-seven year old John Cantor has devoted the past six years to trying to complete one of the toughest solo expeditions on earth - Brooks Range in Alaska.
17x35
Life After Puberty
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Sep 24, 2012
Nell Schofield and Jad Capelja, the two young girls who starred in the 1981 Bruce Beresford film 'Puberty Blues', found fame and celebrity and looked set for big careers on screen...
17x36
Leap of Faith
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Oct 01, 2012
Li Cunxin - once one of the world's best known dancers - embarks on a high stakes return to the ballet world after 15 years as a stockbroker.
17x37
The Slam (1)
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Oct 08, 2012
Rod Laver, the 'Rockhampton Rocket' remains the player most revered by today's top professionals. His record of twice winning the Grand Slam (all four major singles titles in one year) remains unsurpassed.
17x38
The Slam (2)
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Oct 15, 2012
Part two follows Laver through his marriage to an older American divorcee, raising children, battling a near catastrophic stroke and his return to Australia in circumstances he describes as the supreme highlight of his life.
17x39
The Year of Living Famously
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Oct 22, 2012
Ben Lewin and Judi Levine are two film-makers whose latest film 'The Sessions' has received considerable acclaim and is now being tipped as an Academy Awards contender.
17x40
A Man of His Word
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Oct 29, 2012
Veteran print reporter Malcolm Brown has covered some of the biggest stories of the last four decades, but now finds himself somewhat out of step with the times in an industry caught on the cutting edge of the digital revolution.
17x41
Dreams from My Mother
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Nov 05, 2012
Oscar-nominated actress Diane Cilento left Hollywood at the height of her fame to pursue more creative and spiritual endeavours. Her most enduring love was a theatre she created in the middle of the North Queensland rainforest.
17x42 Season finale
Under Her Spell
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Nov 12, 2012
Zelie Bullen is a former stunt woman, turned world renowned animal trainer who trained Abraham, the lead horse in Steven Spielberg's movie 'War Horse'.

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