Australian Story

Australian Story

"Australian Story" is a weekly biography program, produced and broadcast on ABC Television. "Australian Story" has covered many people from diverse backgrounds and reputations. Examples include Ivan Milat, Dick Smith, Wayne Bennett and Hazem El Masri.

The stories are 'narrated' by the profile subjects and other individuals such as friends and family members. The program aims to present a varied and contrasting picture of contemporary Australia and Australians, both known and unknown.

In recent times the program has come under attack for creating "shameless puff pieces" that feature little criticism of the person profiled.

But on the whole, the personal approach to story telling has been very well received with the program winning many professional awards including seven Walkley Awards for excellence in journalism and four consecutive Logie Awards.

Distinguished broadcaster Caroline Jones is a specialist contributor and occasional presenter.

See also

* List of Australian television series
* List of Australian Broadcasting Corporation programs

External links

* [http://www.abc.net.au/austory/ Official website]
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* [http://colsearch.nfsa.afc.gov.au/nfsa/search/display/display.w3p;adv=yes;group=;groupequals=;holdingType=;page=0;parentid=;query=Number%3A417431;querytype=;rec=0;resCount=10 Australian Story at the National Film and Sound Archive]


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