Australian Story
Season 19 Episode 30 - Before the Storm
This week’s program goes behind the scenes with a tenacious regional newspaper reporter who last year won Australia’s top journalism award. Joanne McCarthy’s exposure of a national scandal emerging in the Newcastle and Hunter Valley region played a large part in the establishment of one of Australia’s biggest-ever Royal Commissions. Her efforts so impressed former Prime Minister Julia Gillard that one of her last acts in office was to send a personal note to Ms McCarthy. As this program reveals, it’s been a marathon effort for both Joanne McCarthy and some of those closest to her, including her parents and ten siblings....
Episodes in Season 19
The Other Side
30 min
The Back of His Mind
30 min
No Half Measures
30 min
Call Me Cate
30 min
His Driving Force
30 min
An Unnatural History
30 min
The House of Tara
30 min
Out of the Box
30 min
Set in Stone
30 min
A Complicated Life: Kerry Packer , Part 1
30 min
A Complicated Life: Kerry Packer , Part 2
30 min
A Man Called Boy
30 min
A Very Good Rascal
30 min
The Edge of the Mountain
30 min
In Tracy's Corner
30 min
All the Right Moves: Kieren Perkins , Part 1
30 min
All the Right Moves: Kieren Perkins , Part 2
30 min
Out of the Kitchen
30 min
The Last Commando , Part 1
30 min
The Last Commando , Part 2
30 min
Driving Miss Davis
30 min
Forget Me Not
30 min
Talk of the Town
30 min
The Game Changer
30 min
Leaps and Bounds
30 min
Divide and Conquer
30 min
Lock Me Away
30 min
Searching for C11
30 min
Searching for C11 (2)
30 min
Before the Storm
30 min
Out of the Shoebox
30 min
Getting the Hang of It
30 min
The Past Is a Foreign Country
30 min
The Past Is a Foreign Country (2)
30 min
The Pursuit of Happiness
30 min
I Am Jack
30 min
Vanishing Act
30 min
The Innocent
30 min
The Innocent (2)
30 min
How I Met Your Father
30 min
Just Call Me Bob
30 min
Just Call Me Bob (2)
30 min
Letter from Wooleen
30 min
