Australian Story Season 28

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28x01 The Transformer - Saul Griffith aired Feb 27, 2023

His ideas caught the eye of the US President. Now engineer Saul Griffith is making waves at home, joining his local community in an ambitious project to elec... read more

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28x02 Game Changer aired Mar 06, 2023

Australian Story profiles psychologist Wayne Warburton, here to help parents with kids who are addicted to video gaming.Many parents will tell you they're wo... read more

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28x03 Diving in Deep: Part 1 aired Mar 13, 2023

Valerie Taylor burst onto our TV screens in the 60s, stunning viewers by diving with dangerous sharks. She shares home movies, recalls acting in Skippy and r... read more

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28x04 Diving in Deep: Part 2 aired Mar 20, 2023

Shark legend Valerie Taylor takes us behind the scenes of the hit film Jaws and inside her campaign to save the grey nurse shark. Still diving at 87, she's i... read more

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28x05 Making a Scene - Claudia Karvan aired Mar 27, 2023

Actor and producer Claudia Karvan speaks openly about her chaotic childhood and the challenges of managing her late father's mental illness. And she reveals ... read more

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28x06 After the Fall - Mahboba Rawi and Sourosh Cina aired Apr 03, 2023

From a Sydney loungeroom, a mother and son take on a perilous mission to evacuate children and staff from their Afghan orphanages following the Taliban's ret... read more

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28x07 A Matter of Minutes - Mick and Katharine O'Dowd aired Apr 10, 2023

Monday's Australian Story is an update on a previous story profiling Mick O'Dowd.Mick O'Dowd has survived the unthinkable. Four years ago, he contracted a se... read more

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28x08 Charting Her Course - Jessica Watson aired Apr 17, 2023

Love, loss and sailing the world solo: Jessica Watson takes us inside her amazing voyage as a teenage sailor, speaks about the grief of losing her partner, a... read more

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28x09 Call of the River - Kate Mcbride aired Apr 24, 2023

Introduced by Leigh Sales, "Call of the River" is an update to the 2019 episode: "Cry Me a River".From accidental activist to Parliamentary liaison, young fa... read more

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28x10 Taking the Lead - Heather Mitchell aired May 01, 2023

Actor Heather Mitchell's life has been as dramatic off screen as it has on. And she's channelling those experiences into some of the greatest performances of... read more

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28x11 After the Storm - Beth Heinrich aired May 08, 2023

One woman's decades-long quest for justice. Beth Heinrich was permanently changed by what she experienced as a teenager. Now in her 80s, she's spent almost h... read more

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28x12 Labour of Love - Michelle and Jono Harley aired May 15, 2023

How a 52-year-old woman gave birth to her grandson. When Michelle couldn't have children, her mother offered to be a surrogate. Her sister-in-law did too. No... read more

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28x13 Changing Minds aired May 22, 2023

The remarkable story of a woman taking part in Australia's first psychedelic-assisted therapy trial. For Lindy Bok, it's a profound and deeply emotional expe... read more

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28x14 A Brilliant Canvas - John Olsen aired May 29, 2023

A story of art, fame and family. The late John Olsen, one of our most beloved painters, had an obsessive focus on his work, often casting a shadow on those a... read more

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28x15 Blind Leading The Blind - Mick Curran and Jamie Teh aired Jun 05, 2023

Mick and Jamie bonded over coding as teenagers. Now their brilliant tech idea is transforming lives around the world. Their software could have made them ric... read more

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28x16 Fight For Freedom - Kathleen Folbigg aired Jun 12, 2023

Australian Story's coverage of Kathleen Folbigg's case helped kickstart the scientific research that ultimately freed her. Watch the updated story of her fig... read more

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28x17 The Getting of Wisdom - Hugh van Cuylenburg aired Jun 19, 2023

Buried memories and family secrets - how hit podcaster Hugh van Cuylenburg's quest to help people gain a positive mindset took him on his own path of self-di... read more

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28x18 A Voice From the Heart - Megan Davis aired Jun 26, 2023

As a child, Megan Davis fell in love with the Constitution. Now she's a lawyer and a driving force behind the Voice referendum. She wants to change the natio... read more

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28x19 Force of Nature - Gina Chick aired Aug 28, 2023

Her unconventional approach to surviving in the wild captured the public imagination. Now reality TV star Gina Chick shares how connecting with nature helped... read more

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28x20 A Family Legacy aired Sep 04, 2023

Erica Packer, former wife of billionaire James Packer, opens up about the deadly genetic mystery shadowing her family and the scientists working to crack the... read more

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28x21 Atonement aired Sep 11, 2023

War correspondent Dean Yates thought he was indestructible but when two of his staff were gunned down by the US military in Iraq, he & his family reached bre... read more

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28x22 A Silver Lining (Part 1) aired Sep 18, 2023

When three Newcastle teens became overnight rock stars, their world exploded; huge concerts and crowds, intense fame and scrutiny. Ben and Chris from Silverc... read more

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28x23 A Silver Lining (Part 2) aired Sep 25, 2023

Rockband Silverchair makes a comeback with its fifth album and a massive hit. But backstage, the wheels are falling off and the band finally fizzles out. For... read more

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28x24 Sea Change aired Oct 02, 2023

Designer Sam Elsom shocked friends and family when he ditched fashion to farm seaweed. Now he has developed a product that radically reduces methane emission... read more

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28x25 The Big Lap - Fiona MacDonald aired Oct 09, 2023

Once a popular kids' TV host, Fiona MacDonald is on the trip of a lifetime. Since being diagnosed with motor neurone disease two years ago, she's driving aro... read more

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28x26 His Brilliant Careers (Update) - Sam Neill aired Oct 16, 2023

When beloved film and TV star Sam Neill received a shock diagnosis, it forced him to take stock of his life. Now the actor is living with a rare disease, but... read more

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28x27 When Kylie Met Sami - Kylie Moore-Gilbert and Sami Shah aired Oct 23, 2023

When Kylie Met Sami: She was released from an Iranian prison only to find her husband had left her. He was reeling from the loss of his job and the end of hi... read more

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28x28 Never Too Late (Update) - Gregory Smith aired Oct 30, 2023

Five years after his first appearance on Australian Story, Dr Gregory Smith continues his astonishing transformation. Homeless and an addict for many years, ... read more

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28x29 To Elle and Back - Libbi Gorr aired Nov 06, 2023

What ever happened to Elle McFeast? She wowed TV audiences in the 90s with her bold and brassy satire. Then a live interview derailed it all. McFeast's creat... read more

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28x30 Taking a Bow aired Nov 13, 2023

Meet the violin virtuosos from Brisbane who ditched a classical career to create an online music comedy act. Now Brett Yang and Eddy Chen have gone viral and... read more

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28x31 Stepping Up - Elly-May Barnes aired Nov 20, 2023

Singer Elly-May Barnes on stepping out of her famous father Jimmy's musical shadow, on the long road to the spotlight and how she channels her physical chall... read more

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28x32 Big Talk - Annie Louey aired Nov 27, 2023

With little more than a briefcase full of old photos for clues, comedian Annie Louey unravels decades-old secrets in a bid to understand who her father reall... read more

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28x33 An Open Mind - Professor Richard Scolyer aired Dec 04, 2023

A doctor puts his life on the line to try and cure his own brain cancer, using the very treatment he helped pioneer to save melanoma patients.

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