Australian Story Season 24

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24x01 Back on Track aired Feb 18, 2019

When screen legend Jack Thompson checked himself into Sydney's St Vincent's Hospital last year, he had no idea how sick he was. Unbeknown to Jack, his kid... read more

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24x02 Call the Doctor aired Feb 25, 2019

Tim Duncan was a junior doctor, on the brink of leaving medicine for a filmmaking career, when he found himself in desperate need of medical care. Lying b... read more

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24x03 Remembering Mike Willesee aired Mar 04, 2019

It’s widely accepted nowadays that pregnant women shouldn’t take any medication unless it’s absolutely necessary. But in the early 1960s that wasn’t the... read more

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24x04 A Bitter Pill aired Mar 11, 2019

This week’s Australian Story takes viewers behind the scenes of the Australian effort to separate Bhutanese conjoined twins Nima and Dawa. It took a villa... read more

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24x05 It Takes a Village aired Mar 18, 2019

Writer and comedian Rosie Waterland has made a successful career out of seeing the funny side of her traumatic childhood. Whether it’s growing up with a... read more

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24x06 Telling Tales aired Mar 25, 2019

The extraordinary story of Behrouz Boochani, the man who won Australia’s richest literary award but remains unable to set foot in this country. The statel... read more

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24x07 The Invisible Man aired Apr 01, 2019

The Seekers were the trailblazers of Australian music in the 1960s, knocking heavy hitters such as the Beatles off the top of the charts in the UK and taking... read more

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24x08 The Seekers aired Apr 08, 2019

Jocelyn Moorhouse and PJ Hogan are two of this country’s most celebrated movie directors. The success of their debut films had Hollywood calling and they hav... read more

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24x09 The Kids are Alright aired Apr 15, 2019

How far would you push yourself for a cause you believe in? Australian CEO Mina Guli, 48, is on a mission to draw attention to the global water crisis. In... read more

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24x10 Running On Empty aired Apr 29, 2019

When 21-year-old Menindee farmer Kate McBride came across thousands of dying fish in her beloved Darling River she was determined to tell the country what wa... read more

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24x11 Cry Me a River aired May 06, 2019

Kate Miller-Heidke opens up to Australian Story about the private pain behind the very personal song she is performing at the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest. ... read more

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24x12 Out of the Box aired May 13, 2019

Australian Story celebrates the extraordinary life and career of Bob Hawke, Australia’s most popular prime minister, who died aged 89. Hawke won four elec... read more

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24x13 Just Call Me Bob (RJL Hawke Remembered) aired May 20, 2019

When Pamela Lawrence was brutally murdered in her Perth shop in 1994 police focused their investigation around one suspect, Andrew Mallard. He quickly bec... read more

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24x14 The Wronged Man: Andrew Mallard aired May 27, 2019

This week's story tracks the fall and rise of Debbie Kilroy — from high security women’s prisoner to high-profile crusading lawyer. Debbie was sentenced t... read more

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24x15 Lady Justice aired Jun 03, 2019

Anthony Maslin (Maz) and Marite Norris (Rin) faced the unimaginable when their "whole family was shot out of the sky”. Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 was ... read more

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24x16 After the World Ended aired Jun 10, 2019

Encouraged by her friends to look for love online, Queensland teacher and mother-of-two Yoshe Taylor swiftly found herself immersed in the stuff of nightmare... read more

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24x17 An Innocent Abroad - Part 1 aired Aug 12, 2019

Left alone in a Cambodian prison, Australian mother-of-two Yoshe Taylor had all but given up fighting for her release. "I actually thought the death penal... read more

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24x18 An Innocent Abroad - Part 2 aired Aug 19, 2019

Remembering the late Tim Fischer, who died on August 21, 2019, age 73. A widely respected and quirky political figure, Mr Fischer's remarkable career bega... read more

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24x19 Last Train to Boree Creek aired Aug 26, 2019

The Choir of Hard Knocks became a household name when it burst onto television screens in 2007, making rock stars out of 50 of the most unlikely people. F... read more

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24x20 The Final Bow aired Sep 02, 2019

When Newcastle radio host Jill Emberson was told she had terminal ovarian cancer, she opted to go public and go loud. She discovered her disease was the m... read more

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24x21 The Good Fight aired Sep 09, 2019

As he prepares to celebrate his 80th birthday, an uncharacteristically reflective Paul Hogan looks back over his remarkable life and career. In the first ... read more

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24x22 A Fortunate Life - Part 1 aired Sep 16, 2019

This episode concludes the two-part exploration of comedian Paul Hogan’s remarkable life and career. Following the success of the movie Crocodile Dundee, ... read more

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24x23 A Fortunate Life - Part 2 aired Sep 23, 2019

Emma and Richard Austin endured ten years of gruelling fertility treatments in their unsuccessful quest for a baby. Two months after making the difficult ... read more

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24x24 Perfect Strangers aired Sep 30, 2019

We go behind the scenes at the inquest into one of Australia’s most chilling cold cases, the 1975 murder of Perth brothel madam Shirley Finn From the outs... read more

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24x25 Getting Away with Murder aired Oct 07, 2019

When the body of a well-dressed man was found on Adelaide's Somerton Beach in 1948, police assumed that somebody would soon come forward to identify him. But... read more

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24x26 Dancing with the Dead aired Oct 14, 2019

For the past decade, Australian Story producer Belinda Hawkins has been following the case of Jock Palfreeman, a young Australian man convicted in Bulgaria f... read more

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24x27 Crime and Punishment aired Oct 21, 2019

Former Socceroos captain and respected football analyst Craig Foster has been an outspoken, sometimes controversial public broadcaster, driven by an unrivall... read more

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24x28 Boots and All aired Oct 28, 2019

In the NSW mid-coast town of Kempsey, principal Mark Morrison brushes close to the rules to give troubled teens their last chance at a high school education.... read more

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24x29 Eye of the Storm aired Nov 04, 2019

Award-winning Melbourne artist Vincent Fantauzzo doesn’t hold with the idea of the starving artist. Instead, he's made a spectacular life for himself despite... read more

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24x30 Art of the Possible aired Nov 11, 2019

When Shanna Whan realised she was an alcoholic, she didn’t just decide to give up drinking. She drew on her experience to start a one-woman campaign to st... read more

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24x31 Last Drinks aired Nov 18, 2019

Ursula Barwick was 17 years old when she vanished without a trace. Her family dropped her to the train station on the NSW Central Coast in Spring 1987. Sh... read more

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24x32 Forever Young aired Nov 25, 2019

Late last year Ghanim Al Shnen was working on a building site when a metal bar he was holding struck overhead wires. He suffered catastrophic injuries that r... read more

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24x33 What Doesn't Kill You aired Dec 02, 2019

When Justine Barwick went for a swim off her yacht in Queensland’s iconic Whitsundays region last year, she had no idea her life would change in minutes. ... read more

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24x34 Out of the Blue aired Dec 09, 2019

From a homeless alcoholic living in the wild to academic success, this is the next chapter in the inspiring comeback story of forest-dweller Gregory Smith. ... read more

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24x35 Out of the Woods aired Dec 16, 2019

From a homeless alcoholic living in the wild to academic success and a book deal, the next chapter in the amazing comeback story of forest dweller Gregory Sm... read more

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