In the life of all Prime Ministers, comes the moment that tests the mettle of the man. In the life of every nation, comes the moment that tests the mettle of its people.
The story of Australia's Messiah, his wife, his lover and the man who would bring him down.
The 1991 trial of former Queensland State Premier, Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen, created Australia-wide attention and a controversy that continues to make front page headlines.
These are the love letters of John and Josie Johnson, a typical Australian family who with their eight children struggled to survive until John went to war to earn enough to feed them.
Exclusive to ABC Commercial, this is a special package of the telemovie Hawke (Network Ten) and the classic ABC documentary series, Labor in Power.
Labor in Power
Exclusive to ABC Commercial, this is a special package of the telemovie Hawke (Network Ten) and the classic ABC documentary series, Labor in Power.
Labor in Power
Follow the journey of Bert and Lily, two English children uprooted from their beloved Liverpool dockside to a life of deprivation and extreme hardship in the alien environment of Australia in the y
Ten Pound Poms follows the journeys of nine Britons who took the gamble of migrating to Australia in the post-war years.
Miracles is a series of epic tales of survival.
An epic tragedy in which a good man is compelled by desperation, fear, ambition and love for his family to participate in a crime of inhuman savagery.
This lecture is named in honour of Andrew Olle, the well-known ABC broadcaster who died of a brain tumour in 1995.
When Nicole Kidman gave birth to a baby girl in Nashville in 2008, she may have been relieved to be several thousand kilometres away from the long lens of Sydney paparazzo Jamie Fawcett.
Jane Hansen lived a charmed life. She channelled all the opportunities of her generation - education, challenge and adventure - into a successful career as a television journalist.
Have you ever wondered how the television news is made? Who decides what is news and what is not? Take a behind-the-scenes look at the world of television news.
Many would argue that few have contributed more to our thinking about ourselves than David Williamson.
The program begins with a look at some of the career highlights of one of this country's most influential newspaper cartoonists.
Geoffrey Robertson, QC, hosts and orchestrates a series of discussions on social issues, using a "hypothetical" format - i.e., an imaginary situation is created, and a selected panel of experts dis
John Macumba was born with cerebral Palsy in the remote central desert of the Pitjanjatjara Lands.
Acclaimed film maker Richard Frankland talks about his career in the film and television industry and his latest feature film, 'To Hell and Back'.
Considered one of the most significant voices of 1960s London, Lewis Morley took one of the most singular iconic images of this period - a naked Christine Keeler on an Arne Jacobson chair.
