A Four Corners team investigates both the merits and the risks of the "kill-capture" campaign. Its proponents claim that the strategy has been successful in killing enemy commanders, but several missions involving elite Australian soldiers have gone horribly wrong, killing "friendly" local leaders and civilians...
He has been a hero to his people, an icon of their long and bloody struggle for independence. As their President, he walked freely among the people and allowed refugees to camp in his backyard, so when he was shot twice in the back outside his home by a rebel soldier, this February, and nearly killed, it was hard to fathom the damage that had been done to his nation...
The seeds of love can grow in the most unlikely soil. Shahin Shafaei and Gaby Schultz met in a detention centre. He was an asylum seeker from Iran, she was a guard from country New South Wales. They were two people from completely different backgrounds thrown together in the strangest and most trying of circumstances. Theirs is a story that has to be heard to be belie...
Ciaron O'Reilly is a devout Brisbane-born Christian pacifist. In a life dedicated to protest, he's been jailed for disarming warplanes, dismantling uranium mining machinery and performing exorcisms of warships. To some he's an inspiration, to others a criminal. Currently awaiting trial for an attack on a US bomber in Ireland in 2003, please welcome Ciaron O'Reilly...
During night exercises in January 1964 the flagship of the RAN, the aircraft carrier Melbourne, collided with the destroyer Voyager 20 miles off Jervis Bay in NSW. Voyager was cut in half and sank, and 82 lives were lost, including the Captain Duncan Stevens, 67 ships company and one civilian - many of them teenagers and at sea for the first time. The scandal that...
To its backers, Woomera detention centre played a humane yet crucial role in housing the growing numbers of boat people landing on Australia's shores. To its critics, this heavily guarded cluster of buildings, ringed by red desert and razor wire, represented the dead heart of asylum-seeker policy...
Non-violent public resistance has toppled dictators, foiled military invaders and overcome oppression by liberating people and establishing democratic human rights across the globe throughout the 20th Century. This series is an examination of how the theories of Mahatma Gandhi have been used by Martin Luther King, Lech Walesa, Desmond Tutu, and many others to oppose o...
This moving personal story about the sexual abuse of a 14-year old altar boy in 1960s America examines the personal cost to one family and their faith. Thirty years on the boy is now a man, struggling to confront his past. He reveals his secret to his devout Catholic migrant Italian family whose lives have revolved around the church...
From Iraq to Solomon Islands and Afghanistan to East Timor, Australia's Army is stretched tight. The burden of overseas deployments weighs like a straining kitbag on the back of each of Australia's 22,443 regular soldiers. Every year, one in eight soldiers quits...
