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Australian Story: The Courage Of Her Convictions
When Catherine Smith was found not guilty of attempting to murder her own husband it was a turning point in one of the most extraordinary cases in Australian criminal history. Ms Smith and her six children had suffered twenty years of terror at the hands of her husband, Kevin. The authorities see...
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Australian Story: The Farmer Wants A Life
What happens when you come out on a national TV reality show in front of more than a million people? For David Graham, the family fallout from such a public confession has been full of drama. Destined for a life on the land, he was born and bred to take over the family property in rural Queensl...
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Australian Story: The First Word
This week's program is about a man who's become an international pioneer in a significant but unlikely field. A failed medical school student turned journalist, Peter Ford hit the big time in the US as a CNN anchorman. He travelled extensively and covered many big stories around the world. But be...
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Australian Story: The Girl From Boryslaw
This week's program is about a woman who transfixed a nation with her story of courage and humanity. She's Sabina Wolanski and when she addressed a gathering of state dignitaries in Berlin in 2005, she received a standing ovation and reduced journalists to tears. Mrs Wolanski was left alone in th...
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Australian Story: The Graduate
When 41 year old Kerry Tucker was sentenced to seven years in a maximum security prison for company fraud offences, amidst the despair of her fall from grace, she faced a critical decision. She could relent to the hopelessness of her incarceration and inevitably become institutionalised. Or, she...
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Australian Story: The Heart of the Matter
Karen Carey is a Perth woman who grew up with a relatively simple heart problem. But when it came time for an operation to install an artificial heart valve, everything that could go wrong did. At the age of thirty-four, Karen had a stroke after taking her twin sons to school. The valve was rem...
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Australian Story: The Heat Of The Moment
Prof. Ove Hoegh-Guldberg is waking up the world to the impact of climate change on the Great Barrier Reef. This summer has seen unprecedented high ocean temperatures across the region; a strong indicator of another coral bleaching event. If we don't act to drastically lower carbon emissions, Ove ...
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Australian Story: The Man on the Mantlepiece
Maggie MacKellar was a city dweller who seemed to have it all - a successful academic career, a devoted husband, a young daughter and another baby on the way. But there was a secret she hadn't been told. And when the truth emerged the consequences were devastating. At her lowest ebb, Maggie Mac...
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Australian Story: The Night Before Christmas
Graham Stafford served almost fifteen years in jail for murdering a 12 year old girl - a crime he has always claimed he did not commit. Instead of quietly merging back into society upon his release four years ago, he has continued to argue his innocence and seek redress from the legal system tha...
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Australian Story: The Planet They're On
Nazeem Hussain and Aamer Rahman have become two of the hottest young comedians on the Australian comedy scene. They first met seven years ago as a result of their support for asylum seekers and for anti racism activism. But they quickly found their forte was comedy. In the space of five years the...
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Australian Story: The Queen Of Extreme
Torah Bright has lived in the United States since she was fifteen years old when she turned professional as a snowboarder. Since then, she's flown under the radar of many Australians. Her specialty is the half pipe - a winter Olympic event with a huge international following. It's a dangerous and...
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Australian Story: The Razor's Edge
In a complex modern world, there aren't too many people who can galvanize the nation on a single issue. Lyn White is one such person. She first featured on Australian Story 10 years ago. Back then she was a former South Australian police officer embarking on a new career as an advocate for animal...
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Australian Story: The Slam - Ep 1 of 2
In this fiftieth anniversary year of Rod Laver's first tennis Grand Slam, Australian Story revisits a golden era in the sport when Australia ruled the courts, manners mattered and Rod Laver was king of them all.
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Australian Story: The Terminator
Paul de Gelder was a Navy clearance diver with a reputation as one of the toughest of the tough. It was routine for him to swim long distances in the middle of the night, often in shark infested waters. Two years ago he was testing new sonar equipment in Sydney Harbour when he was attacked by a s...
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Australian Story: The Third Act
For the last 30 years Jacki Weaver has been one of Australia's best loved actors. But as she revealed in a rare and candid interview with Australian Story some years ago, the passion and tragedy on screen have sometimes been eclipsed by the dramas in her private life. In this updated profile, Aus...
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Australian Story: The Trials Of Jonty Bush
This week's program is about Jonty Bush who's a recent winner of the Young Australian of the Year title. The title's familiar but Jonty Bush's astonishing personal story is much less well known. At the age of only 32 violent death has been her constant companion. In the space of a few years she l...
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Australian Story: The Voice
In this update to our original program on Gurrumul Yunupingu, his producer and friend Michael Hohnen reveals that Gurrumul nearly died from a complex set of medical ailments in 2011 but that after receiving treatment he's now a 'changed person'.
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Australian Story: The Wronged Man
Andrew Mallard was a young man living homeless on the streets of Perth when he was charged with the murder of Pamela Lawrence. Despite his protestations of innocence, he was convicted of her murder in 1995. He served twelve years in prison before the combined efforts of a journalist, a politici...
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Australian Story: The Wronged Man - Ep 2 of 2
This week, the conclusion of 'The Wronged Man', which explores the case of Andrew Mallard, who was convicted of the murder of Perth jeweller Pamela Lawrence in 1995. Mallard served twelve years in prison before the combined efforts of a journalist, a politician and a team of high profile lawyers...
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Australian Story: The Year Of Living Famously
This week's Australian Story is about two filmmakers who've suddenly hit the big time in Hollywood. Ben Lewin and Judi Levine made a number of successful films in Australia and Europe before moving to Los Angeles seventeen years ago. But their rise to the top was not easy and for many years they ...
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Australian Story: Ticket to Tigray
After returning safely from three years of Community Aid Abroad relief missions to the Ethiopian province, Shane Dolan believed he had left the horrors of famine and war behind. But at home he began experiencing a kind of shellshock which was eventually identified as Post Traumatic Stress Disord...
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Australian Story: To Set Before A Queen
In the early hours of Sunday June 24 tens of thousands of Australians are expected to set their alarms to watch a horse race in England. The unbeaten Black Caviar will take on Europe's best at Royal Ascot, in front of the Queen. It's a success story in which many have played a part. That becomes ...
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Australian Story: Trust Me Mr Chandler
This week's 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 South Wales detective to bring to justice one of the country's most elusive and dangerous p...
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Australian Story: Turning The Tables
This week's 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.
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Australian Story: Under Her Spell
This week's program tells the story of the Australian woman at the heart of Steven Spielberg's much anticipated Christmas blockbuster. Zelie Bullen is a former stunt woman, turned world renowned animal trainer. She is stepping into the international spotlight as the woman who trained 'Abraham', t...
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Australian Story: Under Her Spell
A recent and near fatal incident involving an elephant handler at Sydney's Taronga Zoo has been a reminder of the hazards faced by people working with large animals. Zelie Bullen is based on Queensland's Gold Coast but she is recognised around the world as an animal trainer. Australian Story firs...
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Australian Story: Under Her Wing
This week's program is about an Australian businesswoman who came to the rescue of a young man who seemed beyond hope and beyond help. Eight years ago Elizabeth Clayton was living in Fiji when she encountered a young man known as the 'chicken boy'. He'd been kept in a hen house as a child and the...
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Australian Story: Unfathomable - Ep 1 of 2
The mysterious death of a bride during a honeymoon SCUBA dive - new evidence and unanswered questions. Seven years ago, a young American bride, Tina Watson, died during a honeymoon SCUBA dive on the Great Barrier Reef. Tina's husband Gabe was charged with murder but eventually convicted and jai...
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Australian Story: Unfathomable - Ep 2 of 2
This week's program continues our story about young American bride Tina Watson who died seven years ago during a honeymoon dive trip on the Great Barrier Reef. Her husband Gabe Watson was charged with murder but convicted only of manslaughter, sparking controversy about the role of Queensland pr...
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Australian Story: Walking with Kate Mulvany
At just 35, actress and playwright Kate Mulvany has experienced more than most people do in a lifetime. As a young child she battled an illness that confined her to hospital for long periods, an experience she describes as 'exploding my imagination'. This early interest in writing (she experiment...
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