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BLUE is a provocative journey into the ocean realm, witnessing this critical moment in time when the marine world is on a precipice.
CHANGING MINDS SERIES 2 will continue to challenge the stigmas, taboos and myths around mental illness as it meets the patients living with mental health problems and follows the staff who are helping them get back to their everyday lives.
For the first time in Australian television history, a documentary series has been filmed inside one of the busiest mental health units in the country. Brave, raw and sometimes funny, the three-part series CHANGING MINDS goes behind the locked doors of Liverpool Hospital’s Mental Health Unit to meet the patients and staff who are challenging the stigma and taboos that exist around mental illness. Patients agreed to be filmed while mentally unwell and then consented formally once they recovered their health. Their stories reveal the realities of 21st century psychiatric care.
On Sunday December 4, 2005, 3 Cronulla lifesavers were coming off duty when they passed a group of 8 Lebanese young men. They stared at each other, a heated verbal exchange turned quickly into a violent brawl, resulting in 3 lifesavers being beaten up. This event was to spark 10 days of violent mob attacks and retaliations, the likes of which Australia had never witnessed. 10 DAYS THAT SHOCKED THE NATION tells the story of the dramatic events covering the lead up to and the 10 days between 4th and 13th December 2005 known as the Cronulla Riots.
Following people with neuro-diverse conditions such as autism, OCD & Tourette syndrome as they search for meaningful employment. This uplifting & insightful series draws on science & experts to uncover people's hidden skills.
This uplifting, warm, and insightful documentary series draws on science to uncover the hidden skills of people with Autism, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Tourette’s; helping these extraordinary jobseekers find roles that can finally harness their strengths.
This series takes us to the front line of those fighting the war against ice. Through unprecedented access with police and other agencies, we follow the stories of meth lab busts, importation, decontamination of suburbs by clean up crews, forensic teams tracing precursors and toxicologists investigating human impact from passive meth cooking. This is a series about the drug that is impacting us all.
The Great Barrier Reef is one of the richest and most complex natural ecosystems on earth. Home to a stunning array of animals, from microscopic plankton to 100-tonne whales, it is one of the Seven Wonders of the Natural World. LIFE ON THE REEF combines the strongest elements of observational documentary storytelling with blue chip natural history, presenting unique, fresh and authentic stories of Australia’s greatest natural icon, through the eyes, actions, challenges and adventures of the rangers, Traditional Owners, police and scientists.
A four-part series that looks at relationships and dating for those with an Autism Spectrum Disorder. The uplifting series draws on relationship coaching to help young people with neuro-diverse conditions find love and shift the public perception of disability.
This show is a crash course in great sex. Each week Luke McGregor takes on a new challenge with the help therapists, sex coaches and scientists, proving if someone as anxious as Luke can get better at sex, then anyone can!
Magical Land of Oz offers a blue-chip, continent-wide series ranging from the land’s highest snow peaks to the depths of the frigid and wild southern seas; from its last populations of wild numbats to its largest diorama of giant cuttlefish. It’s a land of diverse beauty that delights and surprises. The series both entertains and deepens our understanding of how the natural world is made up of not just unique species, but distinct individuals, whose lives are far from predictable.
The Melbourne suburb of Carlton – Australia’s Italian heartland comes into the spotlight as we delve further into Australia’s multicultural history and evolution with this third instalment in the critically acclaimed social documentary series – ONCE UPON A TIME... The series traverses the themes of migrant settlement, divided loyalties, identity, family, racism and organised crime. A revealing portrait of an important chapter in Australia’s immigration history.
ONCE UPON A TIME IN PUNCHBOWL is a landmark television series about Lebanese migrant settlement in Western Sydney from 1975 when the Lebanese Civil War and the abandonment of the White Australia policy introduces a new wave of immigrants.
Andrew Ettinghausen is going to discover what it takes to make it as a commercial fisherman in a country known for its tough land, rough sea and rugged people. He will travel to every dirty, deadly, slimy and smelly nook across the expanse of Australia to join the fisher folk and work alongside the waterproofed warriors of our nations marine industry, whilst experiencing first-hand why people are willing to risk their lives on a daily basis. Plus he’ll reveal some Australian-first hi-tech aquaculture solutions that are poised to not only solve some of our oceans’ biggest problems, but save declining fish stocks around the world as well. Thousands depend on the oceans for their livelihood, but are facing unprecedented pressures to survive: poachers, disease, climate change all threaten the only way of life they know. This is a series about our toughest folk and a disappearing way of life on the oceans across 8 million square kilometers of our island continent.