Australian Story

Australian Story - In the Pink (Michelle Hanton)

An ancient sport that started in China more than 2000 years ago is breathing new life into survivors of a deadly disease. Australian Story follows the inspiring story of how women with breast cancer...

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Australian Story - Paint the Town Black (Black Caviar)

Not since the mighty Phar Lap has a horse captured the public imagination like Black Caviar. She remains unbeaten after thirteen runs and has been declared the best racehorse in the world. She's the f...

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Australian Story - Stranger on the Shore (Jessie Taylor)

Jessie Taylor is a human rights barrister who grew up in a comfortable 'right wing' middle class Melbourne family. Her mother Jillian was opposed to asylum seekers who she saw as queue jumpers. But w...

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Australian Story - Half a Million Acres/Return to Wooleen

This program is an epic story of droughts and flooding rains and a young pastoralist's dream to restore his beloved landscape. David Pollock was just twenty-seven when his father chose him ahead of hi...

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Australian Story - Turning the Tables (Jack Manning Bancroft)

This program is about a dynamic young indigenous man who's emerged as one of Australia's youngest CEOs. He's Jack Manning Bancroft and he is as comfortable in a hoodie as he is in a suit. As a sevent...

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Australian Story - To Set Before a Queen (Black Caviar)

In the early hours of Sunday June 24 tens of thousands of Australians set their alarms to watch a horse race in England. The unbeaten Black Caviar took on Europe's best at Royal Ascot, in front of the...

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Australian Story - Trust Me, Mr Chandler (Sascha Chandler)

This program tells the story of international banker Sascha Chandler and a secret he'd harboured since childhood. Two years ago he decided to deal with his demons and joined forces with a dogged New...

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Australian Story - Mary & Me (Kath Evans)

This program is about a grandmother whose recovery from terminal illness became central to the declaration of Australia's first saint. Kath Evans was diagnosed with lung cancer that had spread to her...

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Australian Story - Children of a Lesser God

Tara Winkler was just twenty-two when she established the Cambodian Children's Trust in Cambodia. She is now 'mother', mentor and older sister to twenty-seven orphans, some as young as two. Her grandm...

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Australian Story - City of Angels (Alisa Latto)

If you could die at any moment, how would you live your life? Would you attempt to have children? These were the dilemmas that confronted Alisa Latto and her husband Alastair. Alisa, who is 36, was...

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