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Todd Sampson puts his faith in science to the ultimate test in a series of epic experiments, trusting his life to the laws of physics.

Come on a journey to a hidden world that's right under our noses, where the impossible is possible & even the tiniest things can be epic! Hosted by Kamil Ellis & featuring ten kids who love bugs, this is a mini-Bushwhacked!

The world has changed profoundly in the past 30 years. From the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, to now, with new walls going up in Europe and the U.S. This series explores how we went from hope to our uncertain present.

This remarkable science-history series investigates the blistering pace of human endeavour in space exploration, computing, energy, resources, Earth science and our understanding of the evolution of life itself.

When you work on the Police Rescue squad, trouble finds you. There are no slow days. No easy jobs. Every time the phone rings, it's a new emergency!

The Assembly offers an opportunity to include diverse voices and their perspectives in conversations of national interest, while providing audiences with a fresh, funny and poignant take on the traditional interview format to reveal the real person behind the public figure.

From the red earth of Broken Hill comes this eight x half hour observational documentary series looking at one of the most unique emergency departments in the country, the Broken Hill Base Hospital.

Join openly gay but closeted geeks, Toby, Rae, Andy, Fab and Max as their lives, loves and never-ending dramas play out with hilarious consequences. Outland is a show about belonging, no matter who you are, and how everyone searches to find a place to fit in.

Charlie Pickering and Annabel Crabb dive into tomorrow's headlines. Each episode a panel of experts have to survive a ground-breaking news story as it unfolds. Can they solve the world's problems before they even happen?

A 13 part series which follows the successful sci-fi series Escape from Jupiter. Reuniting on Earth Station Two, a large space platform hovering above Earth, five children - gerard, Michael, Kumiko, Abraham and Anna - are preparing to return to a newly established mining colony on Ganymede, another of Jupiter's moons. With jealousy among the crew, a disaster-predicting stowaways and a malfunctioning computer system that has sent them spiralling towards a crash landing on Mars - it is easy to see they face many dangers on their voyage through space.

MUSTANGS FC is a goal kicking comedy drama about girls who are abandoning the sidelines and starting their local football club's first all female team. Against the odds, they'll stand united and overcome any challenge the club, the boys or the opposition can throw at them, all while wrestling with what it means to be a girl today. As well as playing great soccer, this girl squad have got to work out how to be a friend. A sister. A daughter. A girlfriend. And how all that may be hard or sad or ridiculously crazy or laugh out loud funny. But when you've got your team mates behind you, there's no better feeling than playing like a girl.

The Warriors is set in the world of Australian Rules Football. It explores the elite world of professional sport through the eyes of two new recruits - plucked from obscurity to fame and fortune - and two established players as they are thrown together in a share house in Melbourne.

Nature journalist and self-confessed bird-nerd, Dr Ann Jones, heads out on an urban safari through Sydney and Brisbane to uncover the secret lives of the city's feathery friends.

Anne conducts further examination of Giselle's body and fights to stay part of the investigation. Tom tries to tamp down panic at the university about the serial rapist.

A series about how to parent in the rapidly changing world using a Sitcom family to play out parenting challenges which are then explored in the real world.

ABC's beloved nature nerd, Dr Ann gets hands on as she joins scientists researching some of the world's most elusive and sometimes dangerous animals, all in a bid to uncover their secrets.

Following the runaway success of Muster Dogs, we check in on our human and canine stars to delve a little deeper into their lives and see what they've been up to since they competed to be crowned Champion Muster Dog.

Devil's Dust is a thriller of David & Goliath proportions ripping the cloak of secrecy from a huge corporate scandal that exposes how asbestos multi - national company James Hardie oversaw a strategy that by ignoring the dangers of asbestos for decades was responsible for the deaths of thousands of people.

This show steps inside the Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages (BDM), for an intimate look at the milestones that unite us all.

Shaun Micallef goes on a personal journey around the nation to discover the new face of alcohol in Australia. He is confronted by the highs and lows of alcohol consumption and the changing shape of our national pastime.

Revered critic David Stratton tells the glorious story of Australian cinema, focusing in on the films that capture the nation's true nature with candour, emotion and humour.

Dreaming about escaping the major cities has become a national pastime. Supercharged by a global pandemic, brave entrepreneurs, innovators, small business operators and treechangers are creating new opportunities on the land.

Claudia Karvan embarks on a literary journey to celebrate our love of books, meet some of our most beloved and brilliant writers, and explore our Australian identity through the place, its people and the power of our stories.

Breakthroughs in brain imaging and genetics has made it possible to understand how the interplay of genes and environment affect the mind, and ultimately, tell us how to live better.

Tony Armstrong takes us into the incredible world of our four-legged friends, revealing the fascinating evolutionary journey of dogs, their amazing super senses, and the science behind their well-being.