We witness a heroic effort by a young Indigenous man back in World War II.
In 1936 The John Of God Sisters took over ccontrol of the Bungarum Leprosarium for Aboriginals near Derby in WA.
In 1937, in the hills of the Musgrave Ranges, the Australian Presbyterian Board of Missions established Ernabella Mission - a small community in the remote far north of South Australia.
In the first years of settlement in Australia there were more than 250 recorded Indigenous languages.
Covering over a century of scientific detective work by a combination of eminent Chinese, French and American archaeologists and paleoanthropologists, The Mystery of Remote Ancestors tells the stor
This series for primary students looks at aspects of Australian life today and in the past.
This series for primary students looks at aspects of Australian life today and in the past.
In September 1915 a patriotic young Australian journalist named Keith Murdoch visited the Anzac battlefield at the Dardanelles where, just weeks before, thousands of Australian and British soldiers
Bill Peach retraces the steps of the Australian Explorers in a ten part documentary series with re-enactments, the difficult feats and the proudest moments of these famous early Australians.
Robert Hughes presents an insight into the work of Joseph Banks, the botanist who accompanied Captain James Cook on his first voyage of circumnavigation.
Fire Talker traces the life of Charlie Perkins from his humble beginnings to becoming one of the most influential Indigenous figures in Australia’s history.
Race seems such an obvious, natural part of human life. But where does the idea come from? How has it come to be weighed down with the baggage of hatred, prejudice and fear?
Live coverage from Canberra of the ceremony at the Australian War Memorial when the body of an unknown Australian serviceman is interred with full military ceremony in a redesigned part of the Memo
We explore the Snowy Scheme both as an engineering wonder and an epic human saga.
War changes everything and everyone. Each year on April 25 thousands of Australian men and women commemorate Anzac Day, each carrying with them memories as vivid now as the day they happened.
This program is about a woman who transfixed a nation with her story of courage and humanity.
Gold Logie winner and star of 'Sea Patrol' Lisa McCune introduces this Australian Story on two unsung Australian naval heroes.
The Anzac Day Dawn Service broadcast from the Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux.
In 1768 King George III of England orders an ambitious expedition to the Pacific Ocean to observe the Transit of Venus, and see the mythical southern continent.
MABO tells the story of Eddie Koiki Mabo, the Torres Strait Islander who left school at fifteen, yet spearheaded the High Court challenge that once and for all overthrew the notion of terra nullius
