Strong Female Lead explores the gender politics during Julia Gillard's term as Australia's first and still only female Prime Minister. Looking back at Ms Gillard's time as Prime Minister, the film examines the response and tone from media commentators, the Australian public and within Parliament itself.
A personal exploration into a national crisis, popular media personality Osher Günsberg investigates how new science, innovative thinking and technology are helping prevent suicide. Through the prism of Günsberg's own mental health experience, he examines why suicide rates remain high in Australia, and looks at what is being done across the country to try and make a difference.
The Bowraville Murders investigates one of Australia's most prominent unsolved serial murder cases – the murder of three Aboriginal children between September 1990 and February 1991 – and the 30-year battle for justice by the victims' families.
Celia Pacquola is an award-winning actor and comedian. She also suffers from anxiety. She wants to help millions of Australians through their battle with anxiety by telling her story, challenging stigma and showing a way through it. She will meet those suffering from the condition, those on the road to recovery and those who are helping with the journey.
The Department takes us inside the never-before-seen child protection system at work in NSW. With unprecedented access across the department, this observational documentary follows caseworkers as they navigate the complexities of keeping children safe in families experiencing domestic violence, addiction, mental health issues and intergenerational trauma.
Author and journalist Santilla Chingaipe unearths Australia's forgotten Black African history and reveals the role people of African descent played in events that shaped the nation, from the First Fleet to the Eureka Rebellion, and beyond.
For the first time, The Children in the Pictures goes inside Queensland Police's Task Force Argos, the world-leading investigative team dedicated to rescuing children from online sexual exploitation.
Incarceration Nation lays bare the story of the continued systemic injustice and oppression of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples on their own land, told by Indigenous Australians. With 474 Indigenous deaths in custody in Australia from 1991 to 2021,* and no criminal convictions for the accused, Incarceration Nation puts First Nations voices front and centre, as they fight for visibility.
Follows three young people who, diagnosed with Tourette syndrome, are about to embark on a life-changing journey at a specialised camp.
Journalist Sarah Dingle goes on a journey where she digs through hospital files, chases leads, and takes a DNA test to uncover the truth about who made her and how, but the discoveries are more disturbing the deeper she delves.
Trauma cleaner’s clean spaces that no one else will touch – hoarder sites, meth-labs, murder scenes, deaths, and suicides. They clean the homes of some of society’s most vulnerable people – the neglected, the lonely, the addicted, and the mentally unwell. When illness forces her away from her beloved trauma cleaning business, Sandra Pankhurst faces up to her traumatic past and begins a search for her birth mother. Meanwhile, her workers approach this difficult work with camaraderie and humour, bringing hope to their clients despite carrying trauma of their own.
School is a challenge for many teenagers, but for some, the stakes are even higher. Kids Raising Kids gives audiences exclusive insight inside a one-of-a kind high school for teen parents in Canberra. - but our characters’ lessons are not confined to the classroom. Many of the students are single parents, some are overcoming family trauma and drug dependency, and all are navigating a complex system. What unites them is a will to transform their lives - to get an education, stay on the right side of the law, and be the best parents they can be. Can they overcome the immense challenges in their lives to make it to graduation and a new future?
A Jewish boy witnesses the murder of his family and survives the Holocaust by becoming Hitler's youngest soldier. He has had four false names, and is now on the cusp of discovering his true identity after 30 years of searching.
Follows patients, doctors and scientists in nail-biting real time to discover the power and challenges of `phage therapy', a strange and elusive 100-year-old treatment that promises to not only save patients' lives but give hope to the world.
The Bells have been hauling their convoy of carnival rides and workers across Australia for six generations. Now, facing shutdowns and bushfires, and a dwindling economy, the family battle to keep their show, and their legacy alive.
Dr Paul Liknaitzky, head of Australia's first clinical psychedelic laboratory, investigates if psychedelic-assisted therapy can effectively treat General Anxiety Disorder in a two-year-long clinical trial.
