There's some nasty business going down in Australia's island state. A feral intruder is on the loose. He's cunning, deadly and a master of stealth, so expert at flying under the radar that some believe he doesn't even exist.
When death is at your door, how will you view the world and your place in it? Four terminally ill Australians from vastly different backgrounds take us on a confronting, uplifting and surprisingly humorous journey as they look back on their lives and consider their final words.
Told through the personal family story of its celebrated and longstanding artistic director, Stephen Page. Head of the family before his time, Odin Freeburn is being pulled in all directions. One brother is in jail, another brother is in love with the daughter of a family enemy and his wife has run away, leaving him to raise two daughters.
His sister-in-law is in love with him, his car repair shop is about to go under and his mother is giving him advice, despite the fact that she died in Can he find a way to honour his promise to her that he will keep the family together?
The story of a heroic Australian pilot murdered by the Nazis and of the post-war manhunt to not only find his killer, but those responsible for executing 50 Allied airmen in the aftermath of the Great Escape of World War II. The two shark-loving heroes will use an array of cutting-edge camera technology including custom-built time slice rigs and bite-cam techniques, which will allow them to analyse every move, muscle and tooth of the great white shark.
Charlie Company is one of four companies from the 51st Battalion based in the Torres Strait. It is the most racially integrated unit in the Australian Defence Force: the soldiers, both black and white, are proudly united by the green of their camouflage uniforms. It's their job to detect threats before they can penetrate our vast and often remote coastline. Prepare yourself for battle alongside the Green Warriors. Part of Message Stick series. In the 's and 70's a small group of Australians agitated for the end of conscription of young men to serve in the Vietnam War.
This documentary looks at the personal cost of the activists by resisting conscription. He invites former PM Bob Hawke, author Clive James and many others to challenge his opinion and, in the process, reveals an enormous amount about how the game of politics is played. The definitive television record of the Howard Government The four-part series documents the life and times of Australia's second longest serving Prime Minister and the key events, achievements and controversies of his government.
From a rehearsal room in Sydney through to opening night in New York, a company of actors reveals the magic and struggle of creating theatre. It surged to life through the persistence and resolve of the independent politician John Hatton.
IT'S A DATE is a narrative comedy series which explores the tensions that erupt when two people get together and focus solely on each other.
IT'S A DATE is an eight part narrative comedy series which explores the tensions that erupt when two people get together and focus solely on each other.
Each episode follows two self-contained dates which address dating questions such as, should you have sex on the first date?
How important is a sense of humour? Should you go on first impressions? Jack's back in this six-part thriller which takes us from the cultural atoll of Fitzroy to the bustling city of Manila, where Jack's on-again-off-again lover Linda Hillier Marta Dusseldorp has landed a job as a foreign correspondent.
In the wake of Linda's departure, Jack is engaged to track down a missing man, Wayne Dilthey Dan Hamill , but the investigation goes pear-shaped when his quarry is killed before his eyes. The client becomes an enigma and the job is revealed to be an elaborate set up - one that now has Jack prime suspect for murder. When a high profile Judge, Justice Loder commissions him to locate a mysterious red book, Jack is thrown into a world of sexy club owners, dodgy drug dealers, blackmailers, and unhinged killers.
Anyone who touches the red book turns up dead. Instead he finds himself chasing the red book in a dangerous race to a remote coastal property with an ominous name: Dead Point. This series follows Jonathon Welch as he attempts to audition, rehearse, conduct and arrange a new choir of female prisoners. Jonathon's aim is to use choral and community singing as a force for social good among the disadvantaged. Singing connects people, it builds self-esteem, it helps build social skills and encourages greater psychological well-being.
His spectacular photographs and videos reach hundreds of millions of people online and he has been interviewed by media organisations across the world. Unbeknown to most he is confined to a wheelchair. Jaimen has an ambition to take his talents to a new level and pursue childhood dream of filming underwater. Struggling against the constraints of his disability and the concerns of those around him, Jaimen sets out to prove to himself and the world that nothing will keep him from achieving his dreams.
This is his story. A new mockumentary comedy series that sees Jonah Takalua in the midst of island life but still experiencing the familiar frustrations of a bored teenage delinquent. The series will take six children and their families through a range of evidence-based assessments, treatments and confronting interventions in an attempt to improve their lives for good.
The Kokoda Campaign of A 6 x half hour TV series about a woman whose sexual history catches up with her in the most unusual of ways. In the second series, the world of our heroine Roo, is turned upside down when she is introduced to somebody stricken with a vaguely similar set of mysterious circumstances to the ones plaguing her - although this person is very different from Roo. With his curious quasi-scientific research and somewhat ludicrous real-life experiments Leung takes pot shots at our own misconceptions and tests the limits of our beliefs.
The extraordinary trilogy of The Tampa, The Siev X and the 'children overboard' is a tale about democracy and how power works amidst an inconsolable paranoia that is the national inheritance of the most laid back people on earth.
The story continues for the children of the LIFE series, now they are three, as they reveal what it takes to give a child the best chance at life. LIFE AT 7 continues the stories of 11 Australian children against the backdrop of the largest-ever longitudinal study on child development in this country, looking this time at peers and temperament.
The fifth instalment in the longitudinal series, examining what it is that gives a child the best chance at life. The Great Barrier Reef is one of the richest and most complex natural ecosystems on earth. Home to a stunning array of animals, from microscopic plankton to tonne whales, it is one of the Seven Wonders of the Natural World. They look like dragons, man-eating, fire-spitting monsters.
To their victims, they are powerful enemies, armed with sharp teeth, tearing claws, a whip-like tail - and, it turns out, an extraordinary intelligence. Thousands of Baby Boomers are living in fear of what may lie ahead. On the eve of a dementia epidemic, three couples reveal how love and humour can balance despair for those living the long goodbye.
The story of an unsung Australian genius whose inventions, 50 years ahead of their time, could now revolutionise the modern world. Unaccountably, these brilliant tools had all but disappeared until a recent discovery brought some of them to light.
Henry Hoke was an Australian inventor whose many astonishing achievements have never received acknowledgment, but as climate change forces us to reinvent our world, Henry's time has finally arrived. This show is a crash course in great sex.
Each week Luke McGregor takes on a new challenge with the help therapists, sex coaches and scientists, proving if someone as anxious as Luke can get better at sex, then anyone can! Tells the story of one of Australia's national heroes: 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 fiction of terra nullius.
What are the secrets to a happy family? What makes some families pull together in a crisis while others seem to fall apart? In the past few decades, science has revealed surprising truths about the qualities happy families share.
But how will the research stack up when it's put to the test in the lives of ordinary Australian families? This third series, as a follow up to the popular ABC1 series, 'Making Australia Happy' and 'Making Couples Happy', takes three unhappy families on the brink and attempts to transform their relationships using the latest science.
With research consistently linking family difficulties with a range of problems - from anxiety and depression to substance abuse and social breakdown - making families happy is more urgent than ever.
The Douglas Mawson Antarctic Expedition of is one of the most amazing feats of endurance of all time. Although his two companions perished, Douglas Mawson survived, but how? In a bold historical experiment, adventurer Tim Jarvis retraces the gruelling experience, with similar meagre rations, primitive clothing and equipment to uncover what happened to Mawson physically—and mentally—as a man hanging on the precipice of life and death.
A murder mystery series based on the novels of Australian author Kerry Greenwood. Our lady sleuth sashays through the back lanes and jazz clubs of late 's Melbourne, fighting injustice with her pearl handled pistol and her dagger sharp wit. Leaving a trail of admirers in her wake, our thoroughly modern heroine makes sure she enjoys every moment of her lucky life. The Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher is back! One of the most brilliant generals of World War I and an architect of Anzac Day, Sir John Monash helped create the Anzac legend by ensuring the courage of his men was enshrined in Australian history.
Once a year we visit the Moodys as they come together to share this universally celebrated holiday, stuffed full of all the fun, fights, bad gifts, boring uncles, overbearing in-laws, shocking family secrets and bizarre eccentricities that any family who has experienced the melting pot of Christmas Day will relate to.
As often happens at the Moodys Each episode takes place on Christmas Day, or during the Christmas period, and 12 months passes between every episode. Lawrence Mooney loves a party. His ability to smooth a social faux pas with boisterous hi jinks has dug him out of the deepest holes, but life has caught him napping. Fifteen months later, at the Sydney Opera House, this extraordinary educational program comes to fruition, and we celebrate the making of music and what it can give us.
It's and when the famous aunt she never knew goes missing over the highlands of New Guinea, the gorgeously reckless Peregrine Fisher inherits a windfall and must prove herself brilliant enough to become a world class Private Detective in her own right. Two men get into a hansom cab one murky night in Melbourne. The other rides on to St Kilda. There, the driver finds the second man murdered….
At a time of heightened tension and increasing security risks throughout the world, NAVY DIVERS is a timely exploration of life at the front line of national defence with unprecedented access to the Navy's most extreme training course. The world's favourite scaredy pants is ready to take on the world in a series of hilarious and charming adventures.
With his trusty robotic dog companion Rivet by his side, and his quirky new friends Snotty Ronald, obsessive Prudence and skaterboy Rudy, Figaro will step out and face his fears head on. Securing a role could launch their international careers and prove to be an opportunity of a lifetime. It will be the biggest challenge of their careers so there is a lot at stake. Murray Fredericks is an award-winning artist renowned for his photographs of the vast empty space of Lake Eyre, South Australia.
When he relocates his work to the Greenland Icecap - atop a melting glacier and under the solar storms of Aurora Borealis - he finds himself alone in a landscape he's never been, in a place he doesn't understand, hoping this time he hasn't taken his quest too far. What begins as an artistic odyssey, becomes an adventure of extremes in one of the most breathtaking environments on Earth. Unbeknown to him Luke is the fourth element —Water. A natural history documentary featuring previously unknown underwater behaviour, and a passionate and engaging scientist whose mission it is to unlock the secrets of the most devoted of all marine mothers — the Australian Sea Lion.
Young Australian lone adventurer Tim Cope, follows the trail of Genghis 10, kms across Eurasia, with 3 horses and a dog. Despite vastly different lives, hopes and dreams, one thing remains the same for all these children: to believe in themselves, they all need someone to believe in them. OUTLAND is a comedy about a gay science fiction fan club, and the lives, loves and never-ending dramas of its members.
In Australia everyone has a possum story. Forced out of their bushland habitats over the past decade these mischievous marsupials have swarmed into the cities.
Each night countless possums scamper across power lines, rooftops, fences and trees in a never-ending quest for food and shelter. But have the possums of one inner-city park finally met their match? With Australia at war in Vietnam in , suddenly Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared without a trace - an event unparalleled in the history of western democracy. Gem Coll and Tag Anaton, two teenagers from different worlds, join the mysterious Prisoner Zero and his crew aboard the spaceship Rogue.
Across 26 x 24 minute action packed episodes, our heroes battle against the evil Imperium, travel to alien worlds to fight monsters from ancient times and try to find out just who Prisoner Zero is, and why the Imperium took away his memories. A transplant patient becomes a doctor in the life and death world of the cardio-thoracic ward of a major teaching hospital, where she and her colleagues have to face the political, personal and professional realities of working at the coalface of an ailing medical system.
One might be forgiven for thinking prison is as low as things can sink for Criminal Barrister Cleaver Greene. But when we rejoin our silver-tongued hero things are heading south again as he emerges a legal pariah.
This series shows Cleaver fighting to re-establish himself, and despite himself. Before long, there is corruption at corporate and government levels; a faux heist, a faux cancer and two very real Royal Commissions. And, of course, the constant fear Greene will mess up the whole thing royally. Fleeing certain revenge, Cleaver hightails it to a quiet country town, the reluctant member of a congregation led by a stern, decent reverend and his flirtatious daughter.
But Sydney has become a dark place: terrorist threats and a loss of faith in authority have seen it take a turn towards the dystopian. When Cleaver finally emerges, he will be accompanied by a Mistress of the Black Arts, navigating a yellow brick road leading straight to our dark corridors of power. After a long battle with depression, Queensland rare chicken breeder Mark Tully is now on a mission to protect the endangered chickens to which he owes his life.
His search covers almost 10, kilometres and five Australian states as he tracks down rare heritage breeds and meets others who share his passion. Commissioned by the ABC, the documentary examines the real life relationship between Pamela Travers and Walt Disney and the inevitable friction between the two arising out of the adaptation of Mary Poppins for the silver screen.
The deep connection between Pamela Travers and her Mary Poppins character is the foundation for the movie but in reality this connection bordered on the obsessive. Just why was Mary Poppins so important and more importantly where did she come from? Sydney, the early fifties. All the ingredients for a murder epidemic were in place. What followed was a real-life crime wave that mirrored the cinematic style of film noir. The femme fatale was alive and killing.
Between the years of and , women were murdering their nearest and dearest with rat poison! The highly celebrated and multi award winning drama is back for one last story. A powerful, heartbreaking and uplifting telemovie that explores the impact of a violent crime on two women, and the fight for justice that ensues. Over six episodes we join the households of six different families whose lives are changed by a seemingly insignificant incident.
Extraordinary events in ordinary lives. Over six stand-alone episodes, with interlinking secondary characters, we join the households of six ordinary families whose lives are changed by a seemingly insignificant incident. This series follows the trials and tribulations of Australians restoring buildings to their former glory. Across the country, thousands of old buildings and historic items lie forgotten and neglected, tangled up by red tape and development restrictions, or just slowly moldering into decay on the landscape.
Many of these orphaned properties are of outstanding historical interest. At a time when we are falling behind in the international education rankings, it tells the story of Kambrya College, a typical outer suburban high school in Melbourne.
A musical comedy about two mismatched housemates from the acclaimed comedic duo, Sammy J and Randy. Sammy J is a hopeless, down-and-out divorce lawyer who, six years into his legal career, is yet to win a case. And Randy is a cheating, gambling, drinking divorcee who also happens to be a purple puppet.
Randy hit rock bottom after his divorce lawyer, Sammy J, managed to lose him everything. So Sammy J offered his spare room to Randy for a fortnight. That was twelve months ago. Now Sammy J and Randy are inseparable - loyal, eccentric, and prone to bursting into song at any given moment.
An electronic tracking device attached to the great white records a high-speed underwater chase six hundred meters deep before the shark and its tag are savagely devoured. In , emancipated English convict William Thornhill stakes a claim on acres of land on the remote Hawkesbury River in New South Wales, only to find that a clan of Aboriginal people also lay claim to the land, as they have done since time immemorial.
A psychological mystery told from the shifting perspective of seven characters following a convoluted chain of events triggered when a child is taken and relationships are thrown into crisis. Compass investigates the rules about sex within three different faiths. For Muslims sex within marriage is seen as an act of worship, although in the public arena the emphasis is on de-sexualising the body. For many Jewish women, the Mikvah or ritual immersion in pure water is a monthly pre-requisite before sex.
And with many Hindus, although sex is not expressed openly in everyday life, the worshipping of a god represented as a phallic symbol is. We also uncover the facts behind some popular myths.
Do Orthodox Jews really have sex through a hole in the sheet? What do modern Hindus think about the Kama Sutra? And reef sharks are disappearing at an alarming rate, with devastating impact on the entire marine system.
Written in the colors of our skin is the story of an epic journey - one with extraordinary implications for our survival. From Australia to Africa and from Darwinian theory to current science, we shed new light on the human rainbow that is challenging traditional notions of 'race'. SOUL MATES is a toxic bromance that follows the story of a couple of buddies who are continually drawn together across the course of human history, past and future.
These views affect how people respond in their relationships. And different factors like this interact with each other to make the relationship more than the sum of the two people in it. Some of these factors have a direct effect on relationship satisfaction, some have indirect effects, and some alter the relationship between two other factors.
These complexities and others, like being unemployed or the gendered nature of housework make every relationship unique. So whether a relationship will or will not be maintained is difficult to predict — even when people are happy. The four couples are brave, and especially so for baring their souls and lives for the camera. I think this series is worth watching. Portsmouth Climate Festival — Portsmouth, Portsmouth. Edition: Available editions United Kingdom.
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