Geraldine Doogue investigates the child sexual abuse crisis in Australian churches from the groundbreaking 1992 Compass program The Ultimate Betrayal to Julia Gillard's Royal Commission announcement.
MARGARET OLLEY: A LIFE IN PAINT is an intimate one-hour documentary about one of Australia's best-loved painters. A well-known figure from the time she was painted by William Dobell in 1948, Olley's celebrity status tended to overshadow her life as a painter. This film puts Margaret OIley the...
Life is one epic adventure and in any Great Big Adventure there are fun bits and hard bits. The cool bits are a breeze, but what about the tough time? This series, aimed at lower to upper secondary student, tackles life's hard bits such as bullying, body image, family friction, identity, winning...
Closing The Gap is a landmark television program that explores the way forward between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia. Geoffrey Robertson leads a panel of decision makers and stakeholders made up of lawyers, cultural brokers, politicians, community representatives and other practitioners,...
The Party of Reagan is a documentary about the increasing conservatism of the Republican Party and what it could mean for the world's biggest economy. Once led by the iconic Ronald Reagan, the GOP is facing an uncertain future, even as it puts up a spirited fight for the White House against incumbent Democratic President, Barack Obama.
A cemetery with lights...the world’s most boring city. Nothing much happens in Canberra, never has. That’s what most people think. ABC presenter Annabel Crabb is set to change your mind in Canberra Confidential, a revealing and whimsical rummage through a century of secrets in our nation’s capital. It’s the history Canberra has tried to hide.
**Warning - Coarse Language and violence**
Australians love a drink, and some see no problem at all with drinking to excess. But now doctors, police and paramedics have called "time", warning that alcohol-fuelled violence has reached crisis levels.
Have you noticed any weird weather round your place lately? And do you ever wonder if it's normal... or not? Earlier this year, as Catalyst reporter Dr Jonica Newby's home flooded for the tenth time in two years, she found herself wondering exactly that - and figured if a science reporter has trouble sorting fact from conjecture, then others may...
Mawson the Survivor is the epic and relatively untold story of one of the Antarctic’s most incredible stories of survival – the remarkable ill-fated trek of Douglas Mawson in 1912-13. Sir Douglas Mawson is Australia’s greatest ever Polar explorer and the establishment of three scientific bases in the Antarctic and a fourth in the sub-Antarctic on...
