Australian Story Season 20

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20x01 Life in a Northern Town aired Feb 02, 2015

This week's series return of Australian Story is about an unlikely love affair between a successful advertising executive and one of the world's more endange... read more

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20x02 The Good Wife aired Feb 09, 2015

Long before celebrity culture assumed its current dizzy dimensions, there was a young politician's wife whose every move seemed to create a headline. She'... read more

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20x03 Ask the Leyland Brother aired Feb 16, 2015

Long before Steve Irwin and decades before the Bush Tucker Man, a pair of brothers called the Leylands bestrode the continent as pioneers of outback film mak... read more

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20x04 The Meaning of Life aired Feb 23, 2015

It's been a while since an Australian made family movie really resonated at the box office. But Paper Planes based on a true story has been a hit with the... read more

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20x05 How I Met My Daughter aired Mar 02, 2015

This week's program explores another mind bending tale from the front line of the revolution in human reproduction – the making of yet another unlikely moder... read more

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20x06 Just Call Jamal aired Mar 09, 2015

Dr Jamal Rifi is the sort of GP many of us think no longer exists. He runs a single practice, still does house calls, and cheerfully sees his patients out... read more

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20x07 The Seeds of Wrath - Part 1 aired Mar 16, 2015

Good neighbours are worth having whether you live in an apartment or a suburban block or the bush. This week's program features an epic saga of former sch... read more

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20x08 The Seeds of Wrath - Part 2 aired Mar 23, 2015

This week's program concludes the powerful story of childhood friends caught up in an epic neighbours' dispute in a small community in rural WA. Kojonup i... read more

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20x09 Educating Miss Siobhan aired Mar 30, 2015

This week's program leaps across decades and geography to tell the inspiring story of a young family and the death of a beloved sporting legend. Peter Jac... read more

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20x10 Into the Lion's Den aired Apr 06, 2015

This week’s program is about a rickety old fishing boat. But appearances can be deceiving. The inconspicuous MV Krait ferried 14 special operatives thousa... read more

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20x11 The Fault in Our Stars aired Apr 13, 2015

This week's program takes us into the world of a family called the Newlings. On the face of it, their lives seemed perfect. Phil Newling recalls lookin... read more

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20x12 The Fresh Start aired Apr 20, 2015

This week's program has the happiest of endings - one nobody would have predicted a decade ago. When Australian Story first met young Detective Sergeant S... read more

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20x13 Mrs Gimblett's Silver Linings aired Apr 27, 2015

Until recently, Gerry Gimblett was the popular principal of a large South East Queensland high school. When she was considering retirement, she took a pat... read more

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20x14 The Battle for Tarwyn Park - Part 1 aired May 04, 2015

This week's program returns to the spectacular Hunter Valley property at the heart of a story that's become the most popular in the history of Australian Sto... read more

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20x15 The Battle for Tarwyn Park - Part 2 aired May 11, 2015

In this week's program Stuart Andrews and his family finally make their decision about the future of the rural property at the heart of a spectacular tug of ... read more

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20x16 The Irwin Encounters aired May 18, 2015

Most Australians still remember exactly where they were when they heard about the death of the Crocodile Hunter. Steve Irwin was mourned publicly by milli... read more

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20x17 Boots and All aired May 25, 2015

It's not often an Australian military leader finds instant worldwide fame. But that's what happened to Lieutenant General David Morrison when he made a dr... read more

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20x18 Battling the Blues aired Jun 01, 2015

It's a story from the pages of Boy's Own magazine. A teenager with a troubled background breaks into his state's biggest and most successful NRL team and ... read more

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20x19 Suddenly One Summer aired Jun 08, 2015

How far would you go to help a family member facing sudden disgrace and jail in the very worst of circumstances? Former teacher Josephine Greensill believ... read more

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20x20 Weekend at Weetalaba aired Jun 15, 2015

It is a love story that captivated millions. Mac and Gayle Shann remain Australian Story's most popular couple and after much demand from viewers the prog... read more

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20x21 In Your Face aired Jun 22, 2015

In a world obsessed with physical beauty, Robert Hoge is a man embracing 'ugly'. Hoge was born 42 years ago with a massive tumour in the middle of his fac... read more

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20x22 Driven aired Jun 29, 2015

How did a teenager from an ordinary Queanbeyan family make it to the top of Formula One racing? What was it about Mark Webber that saw him succeed when many ... read more

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20x23 'Iron, Iron, Iron': The Hancock Dynasty - Part 1 aired Jul 06, 2015

When Gina Rinehart opens the Roy Hill iron ore mine in the Pilbara later this year she'll be fulfilling a long held dream. It will be a crowning moment bu... read more

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20x24 'Iron, Iron, Iron': The Hancock Dynasty - Part 2 aired Jul 13, 2015

This week's program concludes the story of six generations of the Hancock family. Gina Rinehart is about to fulfil a long held dream by opening and runnin... read more

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20x25 The Man Behind The Morcombes aired Jul 20, 2015

This week's program is about a small town lawyer who helped solve the biggest criminal investigation in Queensland's history. Peter Boyce is a family man ... read more

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20x26 Being Bradman - Part 1 aired Jul 27, 2015

It’s been fourteen years since millions of people around the world mourned the death of cricketing legend Sir Donald Bradman. It was a form of fame that d... read more

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20x27 Being Bradman - Part 2 aired Aug 03, 2015

This week's program concludes the story of cricketing legend Sir Donald Bradman and his family. The intensity of Sir Donald Bradman's worldwide fame as a ... read more

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20x28 From Daddy's Tummy aired Aug 10, 2015

Melbourne man AJ Kearns describes himself as just an ordinary father living in the suburbs with his two children. But there are many who would disagree. ... read more

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20x29 Big Mum aired Aug 17, 2015

When Geraldine Cox first arrived in Cambodia in 1970 she was a fun-loving twenty-five year old with no idea of the role the country would play in her future.... read more

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20x30 Seriously Funny aired Aug 24, 2015

This week's program is about a resilient young man called Corey White. It's a name you won't forget after you've seen his story... Corey White won the bes... read more

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20x31 Grand Designs aired Aug 31, 2015

When designer Collette Dinnigan shut down her global fashion empire it shocked not only the fashion world but also her closest friends. The self-titled 'o... read more

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20x32 Wendy's Way aired Sep 07, 2015

Brett and Wendy Whiteley were icons of Australian art – he the internationally acclaimed “rockstar” artist, and she his glamorous wife and muse. But then ... read more

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20x33 The Making of Malcolm aired Sep 21, 2015

The road to the Prime Ministership was set early in Malcolm Turnbull’s life. "Trying to meet the expectations that were placed upon his shoulders as a chi... read more

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20x34 Lexie's Village aired Sep 28, 2015

Natalie Lovett was 46 and childless when she flew to the United States to create a baby. She’d exhausted all her other options to become pregnant and was ... read more

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20x35 All in the Mind aired Oct 05, 2015

Acting legend Garry McDonald is a man on a mission. He wants to educate the public about an urgent and poorly understood mental health problem. McDonald h... read more

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20x36 Raise Your Voice aired Oct 12, 2015

What would you do if you lost something that’s been the essence of you for most of your life? Something that’s given you joy, a vocation, even fame – and ... read more

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20x37 Doing It for Dan aired Oct 19, 2015

Lucy Haslam is a woman in a hurry. Since losing her son Daniel in February this year to cancer, the Tamworth resident has stepped up her campaign to legalise... read more

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20x38 Going With the Flow aired Oct 26, 2015

Ten years ago Byron Bay inventor, Cedar Anderson, looked at a beehive and thought there must be an easier way to extract honey straight from the hive that wa... read more

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20x39 Stayin' Alive aired Nov 02, 2015

Ronald "Ronno" Morgan is a young tour guide from Wyndham in Western Australia's spectacular Kimberley region. But he's lucky to be alive, having twice fac... read more

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20x40 Out of the Water aired Nov 09, 2015

When Jodi Keough traded her journalism career and modelling business for love and life on the land she never thought she’d need her investigative skills agai... read more

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20x41 The Age of Ange aired Nov 16, 2015

As the Socceroos march towards qualification for the 2018 World Cup, it's hard to believe that not so long ago there were serious question marks on the team'... read more

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20x42 A Force of Nature aired Nov 23, 2015

In our final story for 2015, Australian Story goes to the Victorian city of Bendigo, which has been the flash point for a series of protests against the buil... read more

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