Season 5

Denise Brailey has been described as an Australian version of Erin Brokovich, after the battling single mother and corporate giant killer whose story was immortalised in the hit movie of the same name.

Three country-town university lawyers who, together with their students, have been shaking up the legal system.

Karen Richards is the Ric Birch of the Paralympics. It's her job to deliver the ceremony which will be watched by a full house at Stadium Australia and an estimated worldwide TV audience of 1.5 billion.

Leesa Meldrum lives her life twenty eight days at a time. Leesa is the "straight, single woman" who made legal and political history when she went to court for the right to receive IVF treatment in her home state of Victoria.

Michael Keenan is the NSW bushman whose epic adventures on a droving trek through Western Queensland became one of the surprise best sellers of 1998 The Horses Too Are Gone.

John Warner was a high-profile campaigner against the sexual abuse of children in Queensland but daughters from his first marriage reveal the self-proclaimed 'white knight' had a very dark past.

Sophie Cresswell is slowly rebuilding her career as a nurse in the remote Darling River region of New South Wales.

Mike O'Dwyer is the 56 year old former Queensland shopkeeper whose invention of a revolutionary weapons system "Metal Storm" has made him the darling of the Pentagon.

Queensland is famous for the maverick streak in its business identities but Vaughan Bullivant may be the most unusual multi millionaire the Sunshine State has ever produced.

One thousand volunteers, a million missing fragments, a ten year worldwide search. Finally, a World War Two legend rises from the dead.

Matt Ponsoby is blind. He's only got one leg. And he's dying. But that hasn't stopped him from working in the highly competitive field of voice over production in Sydney.

If thirty six year old Brett Godfrey hadn't been feeling a bit homesick in the middle of 1999, Virgin airlines would not have been created in Australia.

Lt. General Peter Cosgrove introduces "Wives Tales", the story of the families left behind when the men of the Army's 5/7 Mechanised Battalion were deployed in East Timor.

Twenty years ago a young woman called Helen Barnacle received the longest drug related prison term ever handed down to a woman in Victoria. But before her case was even heard she discovered that she was five months pregnant.

Nene King is the Elizabeth Taylor of the Australian magazine scene.

Sam Newman has become the man Australians either love or hate - a walking one man soap opera sometimes known as "Mr Controversy".

How does a former Melbourne real estate agent and rebel priest become the mentor and friend of one of the most powerful men in the western world?

Richard Arnot came to Australia to start a new life and to escape a terrible past.

Karenne Gregory is a sidecar rider, one of the few women in the macho world of motorcycle racing.

Syd and Les Howard are brothers - and rivals - in one of the world's most spectacular industries - fireworks.

Patrick Johnson has landed like a shooting star on the Australian athletics scene. He didn't even set foot on a competitive athletics track until three years ago. Now he's an almost certain selection for the Australian Olympic team.

Marian Watson was a respected and high profile Canberra professional. She had been awarded the Order of Australia medal for her work as a drugs rehabilitation campaigner and administrator. But Marian Watson was living a double life.

The man credited with pioneering a new approach to crime and justice, in Australia - and increasingly around the rest of the world.

Lake Eyre is a touchstone of the Australian identity. We may not have been there,may never go, but it's not just another outback hellhole, it is part of the national imagination.

Frank Hargrave is one of Australia's wealthiest men. According to BRW's "Top 100 Rich List", he has a personal fortune of $150 million.

Randall Clinch didn't even learn to read and write until he was thirty-two. It was then he discovered he had a natural talent for communicating with people, especially children, and helping them to change destructive attitudes.

One of Australia's most notorious murder cases has been rocked by new evidence - eighty years after a young man was hanged for the crime.

Ross Bastiaan is a Victorian dentist who's been on the war path for ten years. Mr Bastiaan has single handedly taken on the task of commemorating Australia's war dead at obscure and well known battlefields all around the world.

Two miracles in the life of one man.

The Sydney born son of Asian migrants, Jason Li graduated from law school in 1995 and headed to Europe as a Judge's Associate at the UN Balkans War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague.

Kevan Gosper speaks openly about his sometimes controversial career as Australia's most senior Olympic official.

Agony, ecstasy and unintended hilarity as a group of ordinary policeman are driven to the limits of endurance. They are attempting to become members of the Special Operations Group.

Tim Watson-Munro is Australia's best known forensic psychologist. His clients have included Hoddle Street killer Julian Knight and disgraced tycoon Alan Bond.

At eighteen Sam Bailey was the local heart-throb. Six feet tall, handsome and superb at sport. At nineteen he was a quadriplegic, paralysed from the neck down and confined to a wheelchair after severing his spinal cord in a road accident.

Mike Wille is one of Queensland's top businessmen, a former CEO of the year, however corporate life no longer excites him, so he is now going to try to climb Everest.

Johnny Young, legendary figure of Australian show business attempts to "start over" at the age of 53 with a new career, a new marriage and a new candour about the past.