Australian Story

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17x01 Road to Nowhere (1)

February 6, 2012 8:00 pm
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.
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17x02 Road to Nowhere (2)

February 13, 2012 8:00 pm
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.
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17x03 Mary and Me

February 20, 2012 8:00 pm
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.
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17x04 By the Light of Stars

February 27, 2012 8:00 pm
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.
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17x05 Half a Million Acres

March 5, 2012 8:00 pm
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.
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17x06 The Book of Daniel

March 12, 2012 8:00 pm
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.
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17x07 Woman from Snowy River

March 19, 2012 8:00 pm
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.
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17x08 Going Troppo

March 26, 2012 8:00 pm
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.
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17x09 House of Hancock

April 2, 2012 8:00 pm
Another look at the 1997 classic story on Australia's richest person, Gina Rinehart.
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17x10 A Done Deal

April 9, 2012 8:00 pm
Ric Richardson is an inventor who took on the might of Microsoft and scored a remarkable victory.
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17x11 Streets with No Names

April 16, 2012 8:00 pm
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.
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17x12 The Razor's Edge

April 23, 2012 8:00 pm
Risktaker, investigator and troublemaker: animal advocate Lyn White and the images that shocked a nation.
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17x13 Return to Wooleen

April 30, 2012 8:00 pm
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.
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17x14 Larger Than Life

May 7, 2012 8:00 pm
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.
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17x15 When We Were Racers

May 14, 2012 8:00 pm
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.
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17x16 According to Her Cloth

May 21, 2012 8:00 pm
From international model via prison to toast of Australian fashion week as a new generation designer: Tovah Cottle.
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17x17 Turning the Tables

May 28, 2012 8:00 pm
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.
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17x18 Walking with Kate Mulvany

June 4, 2012 8:00 pm
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.
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17x19 The Voice

June 11, 2012 8:00 pm
Gurrumul Yunupingu's haunting voice has captivated global audiences, most recently in London for Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee celebrations.
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17x20 To Set Before a Queen

June 18, 2012 8:00 pm
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.
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17x21 Her Hour Upon the Stage (1)

June 25, 2012 8:00 pm
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.
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17x22 Her Hour Upon the Stage (2)

July 2, 2012 8:00 pm
This week, the conclusion to our story about Diana Bliss whose death earlier this year was reported around the world.
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17x23 Letters to the Editor

July 9, 2012 8:00 pm
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 the dream in Paris when he decided to put his future, his relationship and the family sheep station on the line to chase his dream of running a little local newspaper in outback Cunnamulla.
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17x24 Stranger on the Shore

July 16, 2012 8:00 pm
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.
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17x25 Foolin' Around

July 23, 2012 8:00 pm
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.
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17x26 It Takes a Village

July 30, 2012 8:00 pm
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.
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17x27 Her Natural Life

August 6, 2012 8:00 pm
This program documents Annabelle Sandes' unlikely pathway from the fine art auction rooms of inner Sydney to whale conservation in the Kimberley.
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17x28 Tatiana Is Dancing

August 13, 2012 8:00 pm
Tanya Pearson has shaped the careers of hundreds of aspiring Australian dancers and at 75 continues to teach classical ballet full time.
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17x29 The Queen of Extreme

August 20, 2012 8:00 pm
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. Her specialty is the half pipe – a winter Olympic event with a huge international following.
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17x30 Kicking the Habit

August 27, 2012 8:00 pm
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.
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17x31 War Paint

September 3, 2012 8:00 pm
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.
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17x32 On Bicheno Beach

September 10, 2012 8:00 pm
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.
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17x33 Alaska and Me

September 17, 2012 8:00 pm
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.
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17x34 Life After Puberty

September 24, 2012 8:00 pm
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...
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17x35 Leap of Faith

October 1, 2012 8:00 pm
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.
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17x36 The Slam (1)

October 8, 2012 8:00 pm
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.
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17x37 The Slam (2)

October 15, 2012 8:00 pm
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.
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17x38 The Year of Living Famously

October 22, 2012 8:00 pm
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.
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17x39 A Man of His Word

October 29, 2012 8:00 pm
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.
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17x40 Dreams from My Mother

November 5, 2012 8:00 pm
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.
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17x41 Under Her Spell

November 12, 2012 8:00 pm
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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