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Stories include, 'Ian Ramsay joins The 7.30 Report', 'Russia bans roo meat', 'Historic Arnhem Land expedition celebrated'.

Stories include, 'Stem cell research takes off', 'Teachers and parents oppose school leagues tables', 'Fury over freddo charges', 'Olympic funding threat'.

Stories include, 'Oceanic Viking stand-off appears ended', 'Xenophon attacks Scientology while under privilege', 'Twins recovering, separately, after surgery', 'Obama discusses climate, economy with Hu Jintao', 'Economist correspondent discusses Obama's China visit', 'Australia's Olympic expectations may get downgrade', 'Stolen-freddo charges against boy dropped', 'Actor Edward Woodward dies at 79', 'Catastrophic fire danger in South Australia'.

On 8th May 1989, Stuart Littlemore, a journalist turned barrister, was unleashed on the Australian media. Newsrooms all around the country often stopped for 15 minutes at 9:15pm on Monday nights to see who would be the latest target of Littlemore's attention on Media Watch. No one was safe. This program tracks the colourful history of the program over two decades.

Stories include, 'Rudd and Turnbull apologise to Forgotten Australians', 'Rees thrown a life line', 'New Afghan Government under fire', 'Ricky Ponting joins The 7.30 Report'.

Stories include, 'Rudd apologises to Forgotten Australians', 'Obama in China for climate discussion', 'Turnbull loses ground in poll', 'Julie Bishop discusses today's apology', 'World-first carbon-capture facility unveiled', 'Boy appears in court over stolen freddo'.

Coverage of the Forgotten Australians Apology.

'In Defence of God' former federal treasurer Joe Hockey gives a speech on religion at The Sydney Institute. Julian Morrow gives the annual Andrew Olle lecture. 'A very Australian conversation' lecture by Peter Cosgrove. Princeton Professor Cornel West discusses war time presidents.

After eight years locked up in the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, six Uighur men have arrived in the remote Pacific nation of Palau. You may have been to Hollywood, you're familiar with Bollywood, and if you saw Evan William's Pakistan story earlier this year, you may have even heard of Lollywood... But how much do you know about Nollywood? Plus an interview with Jeremy Leggett on the upcoming Copenhagen summit.

Stories include, 'The good life', 'Fat chance', 'Hope at last', and 'The shadow of Uluru'.

This film shows the transformation of the holiest place in the Islamic world into a real estate business for religious tourism.

Join Pria Viswalingam for the new six-part documentary series, Decadence, as he considers whether we are now completely bogged down in a mire of meaningless self-indulgence, and whether we do really need iPods, plasma screen TVs, Brazilian waxes and self-navigating 4WDs to achieve happiness. He asks if family incomes have never been higher in the western world, property values are soaring, if conspicuous consumption and material wealth have never been so evident, why are we so unhappy?

Stories include, '22 asylum seekers disembark Viking', 'Sri Lanka opens detention camps to media', 'Greenland ice melting at accelerating rate', 'ABC correspondent with an Obama update', 'US senior official discusses Obama's Asia tour', 'ATO chasing former Myer owner', 'Stephen Long with the week in economics', 'New abortion laws cause debate in East Timor'.

Stories include, 'Emotional apology to Forgotten Australians', 'Asylum seekers offered deal', 'Heat wave bakes south eastern Australia', 'Clarke and Dawe with Mr No'.

‘Policing Our Minds’ speech by David Mutton, Senior Lecturer of Forensic Psychology at the Festival of Dangerous ideas on organised crime.

On June 6, 1944, the Allies mounted a massive invasion on the beaches of Normandy in what was known as Operation Overlord. In the Pacific, Japan was struggling and resorted to the suicide tactics of the Kamikaze. In Europe, the Nazis were being rolled back, but a series of Allied defeats in badly planned battles meant that the war continued into yet another year.

News from outside the loop.

Stories include, 'Garrett stops Traveston Dam project', 'More college closures predicted', 'David Attenborough joins The 7.30 Report', 'Athenaeum building celebrates 170 years'.