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Australian Story

Season 17 2012

  • 2012-01-25T09:00:00Z on ABC
  • 30m
  • 21h (42 episodes)
  • Australia
  • English
  • Documentary, News
Australian Story is a weekly biography program, produced and broadcast on ABC Television. Australian Story has covered many people from diverse backgrounds and reputations. The stories are 'narrated' by the profile subjects and those who know them best. The program aims to present a varied and contrasting picture of contemporary Australia and Australians, both known and unknown.

42 episodes

Season Premiere

2012-01-25T09:00:00Z

17x01 The Best

Season Premiere

17x01 The Best

  • 2012-01-25T09:00:00Z30m

The Story of Black Caviar and the people who were inspired by her.

2012-02-06T09:00:00Z

17x02 Road to Nowhere (1)

17x02 Road to Nowhere (1)

  • 2012-02-06T09:00:00Z30m

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.

2012-02-13T09:00:00Z

17x03 Road to Nowhere (2)

17x03 Road to Nowhere (2)

  • 2012-02-13T09:00:00Z30m

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.

2012-02-20T09:00:00Z

17x04 Mary and Me

17x04 Mary and Me

  • 2012-02-20T09:00:00Z30m

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.

2012-02-27T09:00:00Z

17x05 By the Light of Stars

17x05 By the Light of Stars

  • 2012-02-27T09:00:00Z30m

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.

2012-03-05T09:00:00Z

17x06 Half a Million Acres

17x06 Half a Million Acres

  • 2012-03-05T09:00:00Z30m

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.

2012-03-12T09:00:00Z

17x07 The Book of Daniel

17x07 The Book of Daniel

  • 2012-03-12T09:00:00Z30m

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.

2012-03-19T09:00:00Z

17x08 Woman from Snowy River

17x08 Woman from Snowy River

  • 2012-03-19T09:00:00Z30m

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.

2012-03-26T09:00:00Z

17x09 Going Troppo

17x09 Going Troppo

  • 2012-03-26T09:00:00Z30m

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.

2012-04-02T09:30:00Z

17x10 House of Hancock

17x10 House of Hancock

  • 2012-04-02T09:30:00Z30m

Another look at the 1997 classic story on Australia's richest person, Gina Rinehart.

2012-04-09T09:30:00Z

17x11 A Done Deal

17x11 A Done Deal

  • 2012-04-09T09:30:00Z30m

Ric Richardson is an inventor who took on the might of Microsoft and scored a remarkable victory.

2012-04-16T09:30:00Z

17x12 Streets with No Names

17x12 Streets with No Names

  • 2012-04-16T09:30:00Z30m

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.

2012-04-23T09:30:00Z

17x13 The Razor's Edge

17x13 The Razor's Edge

  • 2012-04-23T09:30:00Z30m

Risktaker, investigator and troublemaker: animal advocate Lyn White and the images that shocked a nation.

2012-04-30T09:30:00Z

17x14 Return to Wooleen

17x14 Return to Wooleen

  • 2012-04-30T09:30:00Z30m

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.

2012-05-07T09:30:00Z

17x15 Larger Than Life

17x15 Larger Than Life

  • 2012-05-07T09:30:00Z30m

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.

2012-05-14T09:30:00Z

17x16 When We Were Racers

17x16 When We Were Racers

  • 2012-05-14T09:30:00Z30m

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.

2012-05-21T09:30:00Z

17x17 According to Her Cloth

17x17 According to Her Cloth

  • 2012-05-21T09:30:00Z30m

From international model via prison to toast of Australian fashion week as a new generation designer: Tovah Cottle.

2012-05-28T09:30:00Z

17x18 Turning the Tables

17x18 Turning the Tables

  • 2012-05-28T09:30:00Z30m

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

  • 2012-06-04T09:30:00Z30m

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.

2012-06-11T09:30:00Z

17x20 The Voice

17x20 The Voice

  • 2012-06-11T09:30:00Z30m

Gurrumul Yunupingu's haunting voice has captivated global audiences, most recently in London for Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee celebrations.

2012-06-18T09:30:00Z

17x21 To Set Before a Queen

17x21 To Set Before a Queen

  • 2012-06-18T09:30:00Z30m

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)

  • 2012-06-25T09:30:00Z30m

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)

  • 2012-07-02T09:30:00Z30m

This week, the conclusion to our story about Diana Bliss whose death earlier this year was reported around the world.

2012-07-09T09:30:00Z

17x24 Letters to the Editor

17x24 Letters to the Editor

  • 2012-07-09T09:30:00Z30m

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.

2012-07-16T09:30:00Z

17x25 Stranger on the Shore

17x25 Stranger on the Shore

  • 2012-07-16T09:30:00Z30m

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.

2012-07-23T09:30:00Z

17x26 Foolin' Around

17x26 Foolin' Around

  • 2012-07-23T09:30:00Z30m

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.

2012-07-30T09:30:00Z

17x27 It Takes a Village

17x27 It Takes a Village

  • 2012-07-30T09:30:00Z30m

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.

2012-08-06T09:30:00Z

17x28 Her Natural Life

17x28 Her Natural Life

  • 2012-08-06T09:30:00Z30m

This program documents Annabelle Sandes' unlikely pathway from the fine art auction rooms of inner Sydney to whale conservation in the Kimberley.

2012-08-13T09:30:00Z

17x29 Tatiana Is Dancing

17x29 Tatiana Is Dancing

  • 2012-08-13T09:30:00Z30m

Tanya Pearson has shaped the careers of hundreds of aspiring Australian dancers and at 75 continues to teach classical ballet full time.

2012-08-20T09:30:00Z

17x30 The Queen of Extreme

17x30 The Queen of Extreme

  • 2012-08-20T09:30:00Z30m

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.

2012-08-27T09:30:00Z

17x31 Kicking the Habit

17x31 Kicking the Habit

  • 2012-08-27T09:30:00Z30m

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.

2012-09-03T09:30:00Z

17x32 War Paint

17x32 War Paint

  • 2012-09-03T09:30:00Z30m

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.

2012-09-10T09:30:00Z

17x33 On Bicheno Beach

17x33 On Bicheno Beach

  • 2012-09-10T09:30:00Z30m

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.

2012-09-17T09:30:00Z

17x34 Alaska and Me

17x34 Alaska and Me

  • 2012-09-17T09:30:00Z30m

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.

2012-09-24T09:30:00Z

17x35 Life After Puberty

17x35 Life After Puberty

  • 2012-09-24T09:30:00Z30m

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...

2012-10-01T09:30:00Z

17x36 Leap of Faith

17x36 Leap of Faith

  • 2012-10-01T09:30:00Z30m

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.

2012-10-08T09:00:00Z

17x37 The Slam (1)

17x37 The Slam (1)

  • 2012-10-08T09:00:00Z30m

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.

2012-10-15T09:00:00Z

17x38 The Slam (2)

17x38 The Slam (2)

  • 2012-10-15T09:00:00Z30m

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

  • 2012-10-22T09:00:00Z30m

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.

2012-10-29T09:00:00Z

17x40 A Man of His Word

17x40 A Man of His Word

  • 2012-10-29T09:00:00Z30m

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.

Season Finale

2012-11-05T09:00:00Z

17x41 Dreams from My Mother

Season Finale

17x41 Dreams from My Mother

  • 2012-11-05T09:00:00Z30m

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.

2012-11-12T09:00:00Z

17x42 Under Her Spell

17x42 Under Her Spell

  • 2012-11-12T09:00:00Z30m

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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