Season 12

E1. Losing Private Kovco

Feb 12, 2007 · 30m

E2. Man Of The Century

Feb 19, 2007 · 30m

The extraordinary story of Behrouz Boochani, the man who won Australia’s richest literary award but remains unable to set foot in this country. The stateless refugee, who’s in detention on Manus Island, smuggled out his entire book text by text on a smuggled mobile phone. In January, No Friend But the Mountains won the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature, Born during the Iran-Iraq war and suffering persecution as a Kurd in his homeland, Boochani fled Iran, seeking refuge in Australia. Arriving on Christmas Island four days after the government toughened its stance on refugees arriving by boat, he was taken to Manus Island where he has remained for five years. This is the story of determination to celebrate life, even when virtually all hope of escaping a hellish situation has been dashed.

E3. No Stone Unturned

Feb 26, 2007 · 30m

E4. A Red Hot Go

Mar 5, 2007 · 30m

Craig Lowndes is the first driver to win the Australian Touring Car Championship on debut, the youngest ever winner and the only driver apart from Peter Brock to win the Triple Crown of Australian Motor Sport - the Australian Touring Car championship, the Sandown 500 and the Bathurst 1000 - in the one year.

E5. Million to One - Part 1

Mar 12, 2007 · 30m

E6. Million to One - Part 2

Mar 19, 2007 · 30m

E7. Down to Earth

Mar 26, 2007 · 30m

E8. An Uncomfortable Truth

Apr 2, 2007 · 30m

E9. The Peacemaker

Apr 9, 2007 · 30m

As we celebrate NAIDOC Week, Australian Story delves into the largely untold story of Uncle Ossie Cruse, a driving force for Aboriginal rights for more than 50 years. With only a primary school education and having lived as an itinerant worker for years, Uncle Ossie stepped into the world of politics after the 1967 referendum, which saw Indigenous Australians counted in the census for the first time. He was a quiet but persistent negotiator with a knack for getting politicians to come to the table and to listen to the concerns of his people. He took his advocacy all the way to the United Nations and became a member of the World Council of Indigenous People. Now, at 83, Uncle Ossie is seeing a long-held dream come to fruition – the re-establishment of an ancient Aboriginal pathway stretching from the Snowy Mountains to the coast at Eden. It was where Aboriginal people first showed white settlers the safest way to the high country. Uncle Ossie describes it as a shared pathway that will bring divided cultures together in reconciliation – something he has been fighting for all his life.

E10. Men of Ore

Apr 16, 2007 · 30m

E11. The More Things Change - Part 1

Apr 23, 2007 · 30m

E12. The More Things Change - Part 2

Apr 30, 2007 · 30m

E13. William the Conqueror

May 10, 2007 · 30m

E14. Windmills of Your Mind

May 21, 2007 · 30m

E15. Cry Me a River

May 28, 2007 · 30m

When 21-year-old Menindee farmer Kate McBride came across thousands of dying fish in her beloved Darling River she was determined to tell the country what was happening. She posted the pictures on her family’s Facebook page and the images went viral. "I don't think there’s a way to put into words what seeing millions of dead fish on the river that you've called home for your whole life is," she remembers. "It was just pure devastation… these animals were suffering." By the time truckloads of fish were disposed of at the town dump, Kate was emerging as a fierce advocate for the health of the Darling River and a leader to watch. She’s been documenting local health concerns about water supplies from the river and is pushing for a Federal Royal Commission.

E16. Ash's Anatomy

Jun 4, 2007 · 30m

E17. The Peter Principle

Jun 11, 2007 · 30m

Concluding the story of Dassi Erlich and her two sisters, who are fighting to extradite their former headmistress from Israel to face sexual abuse charges. After the alleged abuse against the three sisters came to light in 2008, principal Malka Leifer was stood down by the Adass Israel school which facilitated her immediate departure to Israel. Although Australian authorities have been trying to extradite her for several years Malka Leifer convinced the Israeli courts she was too mentally unwell to face a hearing. That prompted an undercover operation to prove her mental fitness which recently resulted in Malka Leifer’s return to jail. For Dassi and her two sisters — Nicole and Elly — justice finally seems closer than ever before.

E18. Comes a Time

Jun 18, 2007 · 30m

E19. A Wealth of Friends

Jun 25, 2007 · 30m

E20. The Biggest Winner

Jul 2, 2007 · 30m

E21. The Fault Zone

Jul 9, 2007 · 30m

E22. Their Day In Court

Jul 16, 2007 · 30m

E23. Some Meaning In This Life

Jul 23, 2007 · 30m

A repeat of the Logie Award winning story of much admired singer and actor Belinda Emmett told through the eyes of her closest circle of family and friends.

E24. In Her Father's Eyes

Jul 30, 2007 · 30m

E25. For The Holy Grail

Aug 6, 2007 · 30m

A repeat of the program about Australian scientists Dr Jennifer MacDiarmid and Dr Himanshu Brahmbhatt and one of medicine's holy grails finding a way to treat cancer without toxic side effects and avoiding drug resistance.

E26. The Acquittal

Aug 13, 2007 · 30m

E27. Body of Evidence - Part 1

Aug 20, 2007 · 30m

E28. Body of Evidence - Part 2

Aug 27, 2007 · 30m

E29. An Ever-fixed Mark

Sep 3, 2007 · 30m

E30. The War Zone

Sep 10, 2007 · 30m

Quaden Bayles is no stranger to public attention. He was only nine when a video of him crying after being bullied over his dwarfism went viral and captured international concern and condemnation. Now four years later, 13-year-old Quaden is back in the spotlight, this time for a happy reason. Legendary Mad Max director George Miller reached out after seeing the video and gave him the opportunity of a lifetime.