ABC Rewind

01 | A Grave Matter

16 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The man who stole the atomic bomb. And why he did it. Klaus Fuchs was a talented scientist - but he was also a Soviet spy. He worked on the British ...

02 | A Split Life

16 Dec 2025

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The world’s most dangerous spy? A young scientist’s journey into espionage. From a German pacifist family to a Soviet spy ring. Physicist Klaus ...

03 | Unstable Elements

16 Dec 2025

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The fate of the world is decided: Klaus Fuchs joins a top-secret atomic mission. The race to build the bomb is on. In Birmingham, England, Klaus Fuch...

04 | A stable bond

16 Dec 2025

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The spy meets his spymaster - presenter Rosa Ellis' great-aunt Ursula. She's a housewife and mother living in the English countryside. And she also w...

05 | An irreversible reaction

16 Dec 2025

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A double life gets more dangerous. Fuchs joins America's bomb project and the race with Russia is on. But as the nuclear mission ramps up, security t...

06 | Camp Y

16 Dec 2025

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Lives are on the line. The Fuchs family is drawn into the espionage as the atomic bomb project takes a deadly turn. Klaus is at the covert Manhattan ...

07 | Critical Mass

16 Dec 2025

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The interrogation of a spymaster. Ursula is questioned as Klaus Fuchs returns to England. Secrets threaten to be spilled and loyalties are tested. Th...

08 | The uncertainty principle

16 Dec 2025

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The spy catchers close in. Klaus Fuchs is caught in the crosshairs. Spymaster Ursula has outwitted the interrogators - but can he? As he settles down...

09 | Dead cat, live cat

16 Dec 2025

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A double life implodes. Klaus Fuchs faces judge and jury, but will he confess? A future as an eminent physicist is slipping away. And the friends who...

10 | Fallout

16 Dec 2025

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Jail awaits - Klaus Fuchs is going down. But will he take his spy handler Ursula with him? British intelligence wants names. As Fuchs is forced to fa...

02 | Florence: a murder still unsolved

13 Dec 2025

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In a shocking and brutal end to a colourful life, Australian wallpaper designer Florence Broadhurst was murdered in her Paddington studio on the 15th...

01 | Florence - a life papered over

06 Dec 2025

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She’s one of Australia’s most prolific and popular designers, and yet not many people know her name, let alone her audacious life story.   Flor...

Presents — Unravel: Huntsman

05 Dec 2025

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The ABC's biggest investigative true crime podcast Unravel has just dropped their new season, Huntsman, and it's already rocketing up the podcast cha...

01 | The Buried Tea Chests

30 Nov 2025

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When journalist Annika Blau learns of the discovery of two tea chests of highly valuable letters under the floorboards of an old Sydney home, she beg...

02 | The Buried Tea Chests

29 Nov 2025

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When two tea chests full of letters are found under a house in Sydney, they're identified as one of the most important finds in Australia's postal hi...

The paralympic journey | Money, media and ethics | Part 2

28 Nov 2025

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Gold medal winning Paralympian and coach Louise Sauvage tells the controversial story of classification at the Paralympics and the fallout from Spani...

The paralympic journey | From rehab to elite | Part 1

28 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Join wheelchair racing legend Louise Sauvage for the intriguing history of The Paralympics. The games had their beginnings back in 1948 as life-savin...

03 | Anzac Massacre - the story of Surafend

15 Nov 2025

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In the final episode of Anzac Massacre,  host William Ray delves into the unanswered questions surrounding the killings at Surafend, in Southern Pal...

02 | Anzac Massacre - after Surafend

08 Nov 2025

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In part two of this series, host William Ray unravels the story of the Surafend massacre in December 1918, and the events which followed it - includi...

01 | Anzac Massacre

01 Nov 2025

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The story of the Surafend massacre of December 1918, an event described by one historian as the worst war crime ever committed by  New Zealand and A...

05 | In sickness and in health

17 Oct 2025

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It’s 1994 and fugitive billionaire tycoon Christopher Skase lies in a Majorcan hospital bed under police guard. A Spanish court has ordered he is w...

04 | The Chase for Skase

10 Oct 2025

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In June 1993, the Australian Federal Police get a call. Someone from Christopher Skase’s inner sanctum, someone who knows all the ins and outs of h...

03 | Flying too close to the sun

03 Oct 2025

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It’s April 1989 and Christopher Skase is reclining on his private jet, sipping a flute of champagne as he flies home from Hollywood. He's just made...

02 | Building a Mirage

26 Sep 2025

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In the 1980s, Christopher and Pixie Skase are headline news, right on top of the billionaire food chain. Australia can’t get enough of them. Skase ...

01 | The Confidence Man

19 Sep 2025

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Christopher Skase wants to be a corporate cowboy. He’s handsome and elegant, with Hermes ties and flowing locks. His wife Pixie is beautiful, in a ...

INTRODUCING — Skase: Fall of a Tycoon

05 Sep 2025

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It's 1980s Australia and everyone wants to be seen with billionaire power couple Christopher and Pixie Skase. They have it all — money, power, fame...

Great Aussie Cons - My Mother the Spy

03 Sep 2025

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Mercia Masson is one of Australia’s longest serving undercover spies in Cold War era Australia. But her double life remains a secret to those close...

Great Aussie Cons | The Lady Imposter

01 Sep 2025

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Young Alexandrina Grant is an audacious liar. Host Richard Roxburgh follows this clever and ambitious crook as she travels from the alleys of Aberde...

Great Aussie Cons | The Qantas Hoax

30 Aug 2025

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It's May 1971, and Qantas flight 755 takes off from Sydney on a routine flight to Hong Kong. Then a man calls the airline, saying he wants a half a ...

Great Aussie Cons | The Tichborne Claimant

23 Aug 2025

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Is he a baronet or a butcher from Wagga Wagga? Can he claim the estate of an English aristocrat thought to be lost at sea?Throughout the 1870s, this ...

Great Aussie Cons | The Flying Forger

16 Aug 2025

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One of Australia’s craftiest counterfeiters forges two million dollars in his suburban basement in the 1950s. Richard Roxburgh, renowned for playin...

06 | Legacies

09 Aug 2025

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After help from the Greenpeace ship, Rainbow Warrior, the people of Rongelap atoll, in the Marshall Islands, have a new, safer place to live. But at ...

05 | Operation Satanique

02 Aug 2025

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It’s July 1985, and public anger is at its peak in New Zealand, as the hunt begins for those responsible for bombing the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Wa...

04 | The Land and the Soul

26 Jul 2025

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By 1985, nearly four decades after the US nuclear testing in the Pacific's Marshall Islands,  advocate Jeton Anjain has had enough. He decides to ac...

03 | Project 4.1

19 Jul 2025

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In the days following the 1954 Castle Bravo nuclear detonation, the people of Rongelap, in the Marshall Islands,  desperately need help.  But when ...

02 | The Day of the two suns

12 Jul 2025

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The Atomic age arrives in the Marshall Islands as the US turns the region into a nuclear testing ground. But after one massive detonation, nothing wi...

01 | The Other Cold War

05 Jul 2025

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The crew of the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior should have felt safe and welcome when they arrived in Auckland, New Zealand in July 1985. Instead th...

03 The Loveday Trilogy | Miyakatsu Koike

28 Jun 2025

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Miyakatsu Koike was a mild-mannered Japanese bank official who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. He was working in Surabaya in Indonesia whe...

02 The Loveday Trilogy | Francesco Fantin

21 Jun 2025

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Italian anarchist Francesco Fantin fled Mussolini's Italy for the freedom of the Queensland cane-fields, only to find himself locked up in a detentio...

01 The Loveday Trilogy | Oskar Speck

14 Jun 2025

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The extraordinary tale of one man's mind-bendingly long kayak journey that begins in Germany and ends up in an Australian Detention camp during World...

02 Ray Denning - the stitch up

07 Jun 2025

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The story of one of Australia's most misunderstood criminals. With nothing to lose, Raymond Denning escapes Grafton prison in a rubbish bin. He has h...

01 Ray Denning - breaking out

31 May 2025

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The story of one of Australia's most misunderstood criminals. After a traumatic childhood, Raymond Denning jumps from 'juvie' to jail. When an escap...

03 | Dusted - the human cost of mining in Australia

24 May 2025

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Asbestos was once known as the wonder mineral. It's now banned in Australia. But before that happened, companies kept making asbestos products despit...

02| Dusted - the human cost of mining in Australia

17 May 2025

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When a vast coal seam was found running through the escarpment around the NSW town of Wollongong it seemed that this beautiful part of Australia had ...

01| Dusted - the human cost of mining in Australia

10 May 2025

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Van Badham explores the human cost of mining in Australia across the past 2 centuries. Gold may have made Australia rich, but historians are now digg...

04 Where the bloody hell were you! When the tobacco ads came down

03 May 2025

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It's the early 1970s and the power of good is unleashed. In the Age of Aquarius the public get wise to being hoodwinked by advertising. Health campai...

03 Where the bloody hell were you! When TV marketing went mad

26 Apr 2025

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The hunt is on for the winning TV ad — the one that keeps the client happy and the consumers consuming. What's the right method for making the pe...

02 Where the bloody hell were you! The jingle reigns supreme

19 Apr 2025

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It’s the 1970s and we're entering Australia's golden age of advertising. The Aussie larrikin makes his TV appearance and liquid lunches get longe...

01 Where the bloody hell were you! Television comes to Australia

12 Apr 2025

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Join host Dee Madigan for a wild ride through the golden days of Australian advertising. When TV arrived in Australia in 1956,  it brought American...

07 Conspiracy? We're still feeling it

06 Apr 2025

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In this bonus episode Jan Fran and historian Dr Geraldine Fela discuss how the waterfront dispute has shaped the way we work in Australia today. 27 y...

06 Conspiracy? All the way to the top

02 Apr 2025

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Was the Howard government the puppet master of the Waterfront dispute? Host Jan Fran reveals new evidence that provides some answers to questions tha...

05 Conspiracy? Judgement Day

29 Mar 2025

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After Patrick Stevedores sacks its 1,400 maritime union workers the waterfront dispute turns into a courtroom drama as the legal teams battle it out ...

04 Conspiracy? Who Let the Dogs Out

22 Mar 2025

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The Maritime Union knows Patrick Stevedores is building up to a dramatic move. But it’s shocked when the company sends in balaclava-clad security g...

03 Conspiracy? The farmers come to town

14 Mar 2025

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After the collapse of the Dubai plan Patrick Stevedore's boss Chris Corrigan turns to Plan B, training fresh-faced farmers to work as wharfies. The M...

02 Conspiracy? Bosom Buddies

08 Mar 2025

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When the Opposition Labor Party breaks the news in Parliament about a secret group of ‘industrial mercenaries’ training in Dubai to take over the...

01 Conspiracy? If it quacks like a duck

01 Mar 2025

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When Patrick Stevedores locks out and fires 1400 wharfies overnight on April 8, 1998, it divides the country. But behind all this is a story of high ...

Conspiracy? War on the waterfront

26 Feb 2025

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On 8 April 1998 Australians woke up to the startling news that dogs and men in balaclavas were invading the docks around the country, locking out wor...

Anzac Massacre - the story of Surafend (part 3)

23 Feb 2025

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In the final episode of Anzac Massacre, Black Sheep podcast host William Ray delves into the unanswered questions surrounding the killings at Surafen...

Anzac Massacre - the story of Surafend (part 2)

15 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Radio New Zealand podcast Black Sheep  brings us the story of the Surafend massacre of December 1918, an event described by one historian as the wor...

Anzac Massacre - the story of Surafend (part 1)

08 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The story of the Surafend massacre of December 1918, an event described by one historian as the worst war crime ever committed by New Zealand and Aus...

Inside the Big day Out: flying too close to the sun

01 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Come on a wild ride through the extraordinary story of the Big Day Out; the festival which, for over two decades, was a summertime rite of passage fo...

Introducing Rewind

31 Jan 2025

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We''ve got news! The History Listen has been given a makeover. Our new show,  ABC Rewind,  is still your home for gripping audio storytelling, and ...

Inside the Big Day Out: from Nirvana to nightmare

25 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Come on a wild ride through the extraordinary story of the Big Day Out; the festival which, for over two decades, was a summertime rite of passage fo...

Sam Poo: A Chinese bushranger?

19 Jan 2025

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It's 1865 in remote central west NSW. A police office is fatally shot by a man he believes is a Chinese bushranger. The story of Sam Poo is a bushran...

Secrets and Lies | A year behind the Iron Curtain

11 Jan 2025

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At the height of the Cold War a New Zealand teenager is sent to a hospital in the Soviet Union to grow new fingers on her left hand. Sounds like fict...

Friedrich the Fraud

04 Jan 2025

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Was he Australia's greatest con artist?  That was the title given to John Friedrich, the former head of the Victorian Division of National Safety Co...

Finding Fanny Finch

28 Dec 2024

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When Bill Garner began exploring his family history, a puzzling gap in the family tree led him to discover a most extraordinary ancestor: Fanny Finch...

Laya's Way Home - part 2

22 Dec 2024

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Laya Semler was the last Jew sent to a concentration camp from Wennigsen, Germany, in 1945. Her non-Jewish husband Adolf was sent to slave labour for...

Laja's Way Home part 1

14 Dec 2024

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In 1945, Laya Semler became the last Jew sent to a concentration camp from Wennigsen, Germany.  Her non-Jewish husband Adolf chose slave labour rath...

Cyclone Tracy: survivor stories

07 Dec 2024

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Fifty years ago, in the early hours of Christmas Day 1974, Cyclone Tracy killed 66 people and decimated the city of Garramilla/Darwin. Afterwards mor...

The Crutchy Push

30 Nov 2024

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It’s the early 1900s and a gang of men moves through the gritty streets of inner-city North Melbourne: they dress sharp and inspire fear wherever t...

A Good Honest Criminal

26 Nov 2024

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It’s March 25th, 1999, and Australia’s most remarkable prison escape has just taken place, after a helicopter hovers above the recreation ground...

Florence: A murder still unsolved – Part 2

16 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In a shocking and brutal end to a colourful life, Australian wallpaper designer Florence Broadhurst was murdered in her Paddington studio on the 15th...

Florence: A life papered over – Part 1

09 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

She’s one of Australia’s most prolific and popular designers, and yet not many people know her name, let alone her audacious life story.   Flor...

The Mavis Files

02 Nov 2024

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When superannuation pioneer Mavis Robertson was in her seventies, she was showered with awards and honours. But something was missing from the life s...

Day 9 at Wooreen: the school that was kidnapped

26 Oct 2024

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An entire school is kidnapped at gunpoint. 9 students and their teacher are taken hostage by a prison escapee who demands a ransom of 7 million dolla...

My Grandmother is a Japanese war bride

19 Oct 2024

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After World War Two, around 650 Japanese war brides crossed once enemy lines to make a home in Australia, at a time when the  White Australia Policy...

The Martha Plan

12 Oct 2024

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The Martha Plan was a secret scheme created  in the early 1960's to bring unmarried Spanish women to Australia, in the hope that they'd stay and pop...

Ep 2: The buried tea chest

05 Oct 2024

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Hidden for nearly a century, two chests of mail found under a Sydney home was declared to be one of the most important hauls in Australia’s posta...

Ep 1: The buried tea chests

28 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When journalist Annika Blau learnt of the discovery of two tea chests of very valuable mail under the floorboards of an old Sydney home, she uncovere...

A succulent Chinese meal - Part 2

21 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Where did Jack Karlson learn the lines he delivers in his famous viral video? This moving story of the prison playwright and the performer unravels w...

A succulent Chinese meal - Part 1

14 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Who is the man behind Australia’s most iconic internet meme, who famously said “This is democracy manifest”?

The strange life of Ingrid von Oelhafen - Part 2

07 Sep 2024

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59-year-old Ingrid was in her office one day when her phone rang.  It was the German Red Cross. They asked if she was Ingrid von Oelhafen? Also know...

The strange life of Ingrid von Oelhafen - Part 1

31 Aug 2024

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Ingrid von Oelhafen’s childhood in post-WW2 Germany was full of strange events - her mother inexplicably left her in a children’s home for five y...

Kangaroo dog

24 Aug 2024

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The Kangaroo dog is unique to Australia. It's a mystery dog with a big story.Born in the early Sydney colony, this deerhound-greyhound mongrel dog wa...

The paralympic journey | money, media and ethics

17 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Swimmer Siobahn Paton won multiple medals at the Sydney 2000 games but her dreams were shattered when athletes in a different sport cheated spectacul...

The paralympic journey | From rehab to elite

10 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Join wheelchair racing legend Louise Sauvage for the fascinating evolution of The Paralympics, from life-saving rehabilitation for World War 2 soldie...

The Lady of the Swamp

03 Aug 2024

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The mysterious tale of rich socialite Margaret Clement,  who lived alone in the Gippsland bush in a decaying mansion encircled by waist-deep water. ...

The Great Australian Camel Race (part 2)

27 Jul 2024

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The story of an epic 3300-kilometre adventure from the Australian desert to the coast.  Half way through the race, Illness, flood, fatigue and flies...

The Great Australian Camel Race (part 1)

20 Jul 2024

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It’s April 1988, somewhere near Uluru, and the starter gun fires off one of the strangest, most audacious events to mark Australia's bicentennial y...

Monarto | Lost city of the future

13 Jul 2024

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Don Dunstan had a dream - a futuristic city to rise out of The Mallee. What went wrong? After years of planning and designing why was it never built?...

Blood, prejudice and nursing | Barry’s story

06 Jul 2024

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It's the 1980s, and the first devastating decade of the AIDS pandemic. A young student nurse tests positive for the virus. and this information ends ...

Great Aussie Cons | My Mother The Spy

29 Jun 2024

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Mercia Masson, one of Australia’s longest serving undercover ASIO agents, spied on her communist friends, while her only daughter remained in the d...

Great Aussie Cons | The Lady Imposter

22 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A clever young street urchin disguises herself as aristocracy.  She inconveniently finds herself in a convict cell in Tasmania - but only temporaril...

Great Aussie Cons | The Qantas Con

15 Jun 2024

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The public watch the sky above Sydney as a Boeing 707 circles for hours.  Fuel running dangerously low. Qantas flight 755 from Sydney to Hong Kong, ...

Great Aussie Cons | The Tichborne Claimant

08 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Is he a baronet or a butcher from Wagga Wagga? Can he claim the estate of an English aristocrat who has been lost at sea?

Great Aussie Cons | The Flying Forger

01 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

One of Australia’s craftiest counterfeiters forges two million dollars in his suburban basement in the 1950s. Richard Roxburgh, renowned for playin...

INTRODUCING — Great Aussie Cons

30 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Australian history’s littered with con artists. Renowned Australian actor Richard Roxburgh tells the stories of these brazen and downright deviant ...

Fight for the forest

28 May 2024

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In an unprecedented political move, the Western Australian state government will end logging of native forest. Meet the people who have dedicated the...

Partition's children

21 May 2024

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When India was divided to create Pakistan more than a million people lost their lives. People who were there remember the chaos, violence and moment...