Season 9

Two sisters headed off for a day at the beach. With them were eleven children aged between two and seventeen. In fifteen minutes all their lives were changed forever.

Australian Story concludes the story on the shaping of serial killer Ivan Milat, and the cracks opening up in his family. Also, we hear from Ivan Milat.

Ivan Milat was convicted of Australia's worst serial killings and is presently held in Goulburn Jail, but speculation about his crimes continues. Key members of his family speak out in this first of a two part story.

Endemic corruption had reduced the Solomon Islands to failed state status. This is the story of Operation 'Help Em Fren' told through the eyes of Ben McDevitt, the AFP Assistant Commissioner responsible for the police side of the mission.

Australian Story concludes its story on Shirley Strickland de la Hunty, the Australian Olympian acknowledged as one of the greatest athletes of all time, documenting the later years of her life, after the devastating death of her husband.

Shirley Strickland de la Hunty was Australia's golden girl of the track, loved and honoured all over the world as a multi Olympic medallist and world record holder.

The primary school at Cherbourg was 'a disaster area'. Chris Sarra changed all this with his unique program of rewarding children for attendance, encouraging them to be proud of being aboriginal and 'growling' misbehaving children.

One thousand volunteers, a million missing fragments, a ten year worldwide search. Finally a B24 Liberator, a World War II legend rises from the dead.

One of 200 works selected for the International VSA arts Festival in Washington DC. Rex Gilroy spent half a century in pursuit of the yowie and other legendary creatures.

A girl who threw caution to the wind and ended up changing history. She's Lady Carol Kidu, Papua New Guinea's Minister for Community Development.

Brett and Wendy Whiteley were the golden couple of Australian art for 30 years. Their fame came as much from their controversial personal life as from Brett's internationally acclaimed paintings.

Bringing together famous and not so famous people who have featured on the show.

With disarming frankness, Hazel Hawke and her family describe the effects of Alzheimer's on their lives and explain their reasons for going public.

Arron Wood is best known as the founder of the International River Health Conference, which brings hundreds of school children to Mildura every other year to study ways of saving the environment.

Nineteen year old Regina Humphries has been on an extraordinary voyage of discovery into her family's history. What she has gradually uncovered is an unthinkable tragedy of almost Shakespearean proportions.

Captain Glenn Todhunter, a bi-lateral amputee, has returned to the cockpit of Army Blackhawk helicopters and fixed wing aircraft and is believed to be the only serviceman in the world currently flying on artificial legs.

The son of an Indian farmer, Barry Singh spent his formative years hoeing, cutting and packing on his family's banana farm, all the while nurturing the ambition of playing in and conducting a professional orchestra.

Diane Cilento was among the first internationally acclaimed Australian actors and was married for a time to Sean Connery. She bought land in north Queensland and created her own open-air rainforest theatre, called Karnak.

Ten years ago as Ann O'Neill slept with her two children beside her, her estranged husband Norm broke into her home and turned a gun on all of them. She was the only one to survive. Hours later her leg was amputated.

Celebrity stockbroker Rene Rivkin was convicted of insider trading and sentenced to weekend detention in jail. His wife Gayle Rivkin and two of her sons speak out for the first time with an account of life inside the Rivkin compound.

Documents the final weeks of Jim Bacon, the much-admired former Premier of Tasmania.

To the Test: Cheryl Dobbie is having an amazing impact on the cricket world with her invention of the "bat mat". A Small World: Some of the people who have been appearing on Australian Story have formed an inspiring support network.

What started out as a medical study into the effects of upper body exercise on the incidence of lymphedema has grown into a worldwide movement of dragon boat teams for women with breast cancer.

A group of exiled Tibetan monks from the Gyuto monastery in India, travels thousands of kilometres around Australia in an old mini-bus. Famous for their chanting, the monks are brought here by former corporate high-flyer, Maureen Fallon.

The plight of the historic lighthouse on Bustard Head would have been tragic if not for the crusade of passionate former lighthouse keepers Stuart and Shirley Buchanan.

A unique insight into the increasingly frightening world of Melbourne's gangland killings and rampant police corruption.

Fourteen years ago, Kevin Lindeberg was sacked from his job as a trade union organiser after accusing Queensland's new Labor Government of illegally shredding documents.

Ian and his mother, Shirley Skiller, have taken Dr Abdul Nasiry and a group of Afghani refugees into their family, providing them with work and campaigning for them to be allowed to stay in Australia permanently.

In 1977, 22-year-old Grant "John" Cadoret walked out of his bank job and disappeared without trace. Out of the blue, 25 years later, he's found. For the last quarter of a century he'd been walking on the road, living the life of a swagman.

Successful artist Greg Wilson once saw life as a series of browns and black. Suffering the agonies of depression from adolescence, he sought escape from its demons by speeding on motorcycles and with other high-risk activities.

"Into Thin Air" looks at the huge police and community operation dovetailing to help find Daniel Morcombe, who disappeared from the highway near his Sunshine Coast hinterland home, north of Brisbane, last December.

Behind the robes, wig and formalities of life as a judge of the New South Wales Supreme Court, Justice George Palmer has been working for 40 years on his 'other life' as a composer.

In 2004 three generations of the Uechtritz family travelled from all over Australia on a pilgrimage to remote PNG to finally lay to rest the remains of their legendary ancestor, a woman called Phebe Parkinson.

Following last week's story of Kathleen Folbigg, who found herself accused of killing all four of her own small children, part 2 reveals the investigation which led to her conviction and 40 year jail sentence.

The first of a special two-part program, revealing the untold story of the investigation that brought Kathleen Folbigg to justice for the murder of her four children.

Amateur musicologist, Charles Smith stumbled upon references to an unknown composer who in the early 1920's provided inspiration to the great Australian artist, Norman Lindsay.

Institutionalised at 14, a mother at 17, in a violent relationship and jailed for drug dealing at 28, Debbie Kilroy went from one disaster to another.

This is the story of Jeno Kirsh, a Jewish tailor who hasn't changed his methods, equipment or workshop in 45 years.

The story of Dr. Michael Holt who was brought back to earth after an accident which nearly cost him his life.