Season 4

The story of an epic journey of discovery by a group of high school students from regional Australia.

Kimberly O'Sullivan has stunned the gay community by falling in love and deciding to marry a man.

HMAS Perth is a dying ship. After 34 years service, the oldest and most senior ship in the RAN is being decommissioned and with it will die nearly a century of tradition.

How did a Gold Coast schoolboy with an eye for a fast buck and a deep cleavage end up pursued on two continents as one of the most notorious conmen of our times?

Janet Stumbo was once the woman who had it all. She was a successful veterinary surgeon with a thriving practice in the beautiful NSW coastal town but she lost the lot in an instant in a calamitous road accident 15 years ago.

The story of a community's seemingly impossible battle to save their local football club - a David and Goliath struggle of the battlers versus big business.

Dr John Crozier is a Sydney surgeon with a wife and two children and a Lieut. Colonel in the Army Reserve, and at any time of the day or night a phone call may summon him to a global crisis spot to provide urgent humanitarian aid.

Hayden Kenny, 63, nowadays jumps out of the Sunshine Coast rescue helicopter, rescuing sailors, surfers and road trauma victims. To date he has performed more than 1,000 rescues, some in dangerous cyclonic seas.

If you walk down the main street of Guyra 'at the top of the range', inland from Coffs Harbour, you are more than likely to bump into someone related to the world famous pianist, Roger Woodward.

He finally made it No.1 in the world, but Pat Rafter didn't make it there alone.

The Mango Tree is the story of a teenage prank which ended in murder.

David Brill is one of Australia's best known news event cinematographers.

Simon Tedeschi is famous as Australia's pint-sized piano prodigy.

It's a legend that began when an elderly man with a small flute visited a primary school and inspired a dream in the heart of an eight year old baker's son. The elderly man was Vic McMahon. The boy was Don Burrows. It was 1936.

Referred to by Opposition Leader Kim Beazely as "one of the nicest blokes" in politics Australian Story goes on the road with Deputy Prime Minister Tim Fischer and his family during a whirlwind final few days in office.

Born to Buck is a story about a family who are the "Rodeo Dynasty" of one of the toughest sports in the land.

In the heroes and villains of professional sport, 27-year-old Julian O'Neill has been portrayed as representing everything that's wrong with rugby league.

While most people might dabble in a bit of family history, Melbourne sports writer, Tony de Bolfo's interest in his family's migration from Italy, has led him on an incredible journey through the lives of hundreds of migrant families.

A woman abandoned on the streets of Sydney as a newborn baby in 1919.

A lawyer and host broadcaster Susanna Lobez, well known in the legal fraternity as the host of ABC Radio National's "Law Report".

How does an ex-detective from Victoria's elite Armed Robbery Squad end up in charge of Melbourne's newest big time brothel? That's the extraordinary career change Dale McMillan has chosen for himself after fourteen years with the police.

Every Breath You Take is an inspiring story of an individual - Helen Hamilton - and a community winning back their public voice and public rights against what they see as a dominating and insensitive government.

Jenifer Eddy is the amazing and dynamic 65-year-old behind some of the world's best known international opera stars.

The Long Day's Task follows the journey of Australian volunteers in Kosovo as they progress from eager and excited new recruits to haggard and exhausted veterans within the space of a few days.

Wayne Bennett is coach of the Rugby League Premiers, the Brisbane Broncos and is generally regarded as one of the most interesting and enigmatic figures in Australian sport.

Two stories: Dame Rachel Cleland and one of the last drive-in theatres in Australia - The Heddon Greta Drive-In, outside Newcastle.

The Fishmonger's Son is the stranger than fiction story of a broadcaster and author Sandy McCutcheon. It is the story of one man's search for his real identity - and his eventual reunion with his long lost family.

Former US President Jimmy Carter introduces the story of the young Australian skier, Amanda Boxtel, who's earned the admiration of the rich and famous in the glitzy resort town of Aspen, Colorado.

This week's Australian Story centres on Robert Hood, a successful writer of horror fiction, living in Wollongong, New South Wales.

In 1997 a manuscript turned up at Penguin Australia in Melbourne. Penguin editor, Claire Forster expected to scan and discard it in a few minutes but she found she couldn't put it down and three hours later she was still reading it.

When she was just 18-years-old, Dame Elisabeth met and married a legendary newspaper journalist 24 years her senior, leaving Melbourne society aghast.

For two decades the Halvagis family worked hard to get everything they ever wished for, four happy and healthy children and a thriving business. But in a few frenzied moments, it all came crashing down.

A young man who has been cutting million dollar business deals since he was in short pants.

Ben's Gift is a story about giving and receiving the greatest gift - the gift of life. It is also about the unravelling of a mystery and about a unique friendship forged out of tragedy.

Australian Story this week revisits the man whose story launched the issue of the "stolen generation" of Aboriginal children almost 30 years ago.

Pauline Hanson changed the face of Australian politics. She has been demonised and deified, ridiculed and revered.