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This is the story about the crippling health affects of diabetes and obesity in Indigenous communities throughout Australia and one man’s love for life battling to stay alive and fight against the demon called obesity and diabetes.
Since records began in 1900, the frequency and impact of natural disasters has increased. This documentary looks at six different potential natural disasters in six different vulnerable cities, analysing their preparedness and plans, and talking to the new breed of hazard scientists whose job it is to ask could it happen here?
Up to 80 murders, 30 unsolved cases, thousands of assaults. In the 1980s and 1990s a murderous epidemic grips Sydney. The attackers are united by contempt. Their targets united by their sexual identity. All are gay. For the first time, Deep Water - The Real Story presents the full account of the gay hate crime epidemic that bloodied Sydney’s coastline. It stirs up old cases in the hope that new evidence will rise to the surface. So that maybe, after all these years, there will be peace for the dead, and justice for their loved ones.
This is the shocking inside story of a family’s fight to free their 15-year-old son after he is wrongly accused of rape. A horrifying tale of lies, deception and the high cost of justice, EVERY FAMILY's NIGHTMARE exposes serious systemic, procedural and cultural flaws in Australia’s criminal justice system by investigating the case of Perth schoolboy Patrick Waring. Patrick was jailed for a year while his family battled to prove his innocence.
IF ONLY is a documentary magazine series about something we've all thought about at one point in our lives, 'if only' we'd done or said something else, perhaps things would have turned out differently. Featuring people telling their personal stories about an event or decision in their past that they now regret. The series achieves a unique intimacy by allowing people to tell their stories of regret without the use of a narrator and with the use of reenactments.
This series follows the varied and highly unpredictable lives of six Australian journalists reporting from around the world, often from situations of great conflict. Journalists, those covering the big stories of earthquake, famine or wars are often complex people whose job requires a degree of stamina, obsessiveness and intellectual rigor. They must be highly adaptable, thick-skinned, persistent and able to manage their fears and frustrations in difficult and sometimes dangerous situations. In one of the most volatile times in modern history these are their stories.
In 1961, a young Australian medical researcher, Michael Alpers, puts up his hand to work on a new and strange disease in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea. For Michael it is the beginning of a lifelong obsession. It is the story of the Fore, a people immersed in a culture of cannibalistic mortuary practices and sorcery in one of the most remote and last known regions on the planet, and the tragic disease that threatened to wipe out their entire population. KURU: THE SCIENCE AND THE SORCERY is one of the most incredible and challenging medical detective stories of the 20th century.
NIN'S BROTHER is the story of a family’s love as they journey from NSW to South Australia, to unravel the fate of their brother and uncle, and to bring him home to a proper resting place next to the grave of his mother.
SKYFIGHTERS follows fighter pilots from around the world as they take part in Canada's Maple Flag event to experience what war is really like.
SPEED DYNASTIES explores why there are so many family dynasties in motor racing, examining the importance of father-son relationships, and in one case a father-daughter relationship. How important is competitive spirit? Is it nature or nurture? And which dynasties are likely to continue?
Amidst the heart of a nation struggling to survive is a man and a program bringing hope to those most in need. On the streets of Harare, Zimbabwe, a young optimist, Tawanda, leads a program for orphans and homeless young people that sees them gathering each day to play street soccer. There's one thing they all have in common - the love of the round ball. In 2008 the team prepares to travel to Melbourne, Australia to take on over 50 other nations at the Homeless World Cup.
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