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We all know Bea Smith ruled Wentworth Detention Centre. She was gutsy and fearless. But who was Bea Smith before prison? How did a wife and mother from the suburbs become a top dog without rival? Where did the confidence and fortitude come from that enabled her to get there, and what injustices and misadventures fuelled her determination to do it?

Journalist Harriet Dunkley uncovers a secret city of conspiracies beneath the placid facade of Canberra, putting innocent lives - including her own - in danger. As tensions rise between China and America, Harriet must navigate a web of interlocked conspiracies in this thrilling political drama.

Picnic at Hanging Rock will plunge viewers into the mysterious disappearances of three schoolgirls and one teacher on Valentine's Day 1900, taking the audience on a new journey into the revered Australian novel through the six part drama.

Set in Northern New South Wales in the period following World War II, the show follows Sarah Adams, who has returned to Australia after twenty years abroad to start a new life and ends up clashing with wealthy matriarch Elizabeth Bligh.

Set in a high class brothel this series creates a hyper reality whereby we are privy to the private lives and emotions of five beautiful young women.

The show focuses on two different families, the Williams' and the Kovac's. The show stars some of Australia's most talented actors including Catherine McClements, Ben Mendelsohn, Justine Clarke, Matt Day, Joel Tobeck and Kat Stewart.

Ben Sullivan is a tough, smart homicide detective with Dissociative Identity Disorder, also known as Multiple Personality Disorder. Ben copes with the fascinating complexities of his secret disorder, and the uncertainty of never knowing which alternate personality will surface, or when.

The story is a six-part event drama that surrounds the invisible men and women who fight for their country (Australia), what they bring home from the war, discovering what of themselves they've left behind, the secrets that must remain hidden; With a compelling mystery regarding a possible cover-up where the lines cross between killer and family man, hero and victim, truth and imagination or fantasy, are constantly changing.

The year is 1988. It is 35 years after the events of Fred Schepisi's classic film, The Devil's Playground. Tom Allen, now in his 40s and recently widowed, is a respected Sydney psychiatrist and father of two children. A practising Catholic, Tom accepts an offer by the Bishop of Sydney to become a counsellor of priests. During these sessions, he will uncover a scandal and become embroiled in the Church's attempts to cover it up. Tom's quest for justice will push him to his limits, and reveal a side of Church power and official corruption he could never have imagined.

Intense, compelling and confrontational, Blackstone is an unmuted exploration of First Nations' power and politics, unfolding over nine one-hour episodes.

Adapted from Tim Winton's novel of the same name, Cloudstreet follows two Australian working-class families who come to live together at 1 Cloud Street over a period of twenty years between 1943 and 1963.