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Discover Australia's hidden cultures through three revealing documentaries.

Indian Wedding Race

Two Indian Aussies navigate the remarkable world of online dating, astrologers, matchmakers and their traditional parents in a race to be married by 30.

 

Aired Wednesday 13 April 

Indian Wedding Race

Indian Wedding Race

Indian Wedding Race follows the trials and tribulations of these two young Indian Australians in their search for love.
Indian Wedding Race

Meet the participants

Two Indian Aussies navigate the remarkable world of online dating, astrologers, matchmakers, and their traditional parents in a race to be married by 30.
Indian Wedding Race

Meet the young Indian Australians returning to India in search of love

In the the race to get married before turning 30, many young Indian-Australians are returning to their homeland and actively seeking their parents’ help in search...
Indian Wedding Race

Interview with the Director of Indian Wedding Race, Sean Cousins

The Director of Indian Wedding Race, Sean Cousins, speaks to us about the character-driven documentary.
Indian Wedding Race

What goes on at a Punjabi wedding?

We join an Indian couple for some of the seven events that make up their Punjabi Sikh wedding, filled with family, rituals, fun and food.
Indian Wedding Race

12 burning questions we have about arranged marriages

And now they're all answered.
Feature story By Malcolm Knox

Caste acts

What if people refused to touch you because of your ancestry? India’s outlawed caste system is alive and well in Australia, say those once considered ‘untouchable’.

A Modern Mutiny

Norfolk Islanders are fiercely independent – but recent help from Australia came with strings attached, and now a modern day mutiny is brewing offshore.

 

Aired Wednesday 20 April 

A Modern Mutiny

A Modern Mutiny

With their own language, and their own hidden culture, many Norfolk Islanders don't see themselves as Australian – that it says so on their passport is merely ‘a...
A Modern Mutiny

Meet the characters of Norfolk: Leilani

16 year-old Leilani was born and raised in the Norfolk community, but as she finishes her schooling, she makes plans to see more of the world.
21 Apr 2016 - 9:14am

21 words you'll hear on Norfolk Island, and what they mean

Although English is Norfolk Island's official language, residents also speak a local language called "Norf'k".
A Modern Mutiny

Ten things you might not know about Norfolk Island

This tiny rocky outcrop in the middle of the Pacific Ocean is still technically a territory under Australian control, but its home to its own highly distinctive...
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Schools pack and study guide

Find out more about Norfolk Island and use the study guide to start a conversation in your classroom.
A Modern Mutiny

Preserving the Norf'k Language

The Norf'k language is on UNESCO's endangered language list, but the locals are doing their best to keep it alive.
A Modern Mutiny

Bounty Day: Bringing ancestors to life

Every year on the 8th June, Norfolk Islanders gather at Kingston to commemorate Bounty Day: the anniversary of their ancestors’ 1856 arrival to the island on...

Strictly Jewish: The Secret World of Adass Israel

Australia’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish subculture, the reclusive and secretive Adass Israel community in Melbourne, battle to maintain its millennia-old traditions in the face of modernity.

 

Aired Wednesday 27 April 

Strictly Jewish

Strictly Jewish

The Adass Israel community, the most ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect in Australia, have never been filmed for television before.
Strictly Jewish

Meet the Adass Israel community

In Strictly Jewish, Shlomo Abelesz, Raizel Fogel and Rabbi Aryeh Goldman reveal a community steeped in ancient rites and rituals.
Strictly Jewish

Hatzolah: the private ambulance network servicing one of Melbourne’s most reclusive communities

The Melbourne Adass Jewish community is so ultra-reclusive and self-sufficient it even founded its own private ambulance service.
Strictly Jewish

Rabbi Goldman gets a rare opportunity to do something shunned

While in Israel, Rabbi Aryeh Goldman gets the opportunity of a lifetime.
Strictly Jewish

Why Adass are experts at pastry making

Charity is a core tenet of Judaism, but Adass practice it every day of the year.
Strictly Jewish

Celebrate Jewish Shabbat

Shabbat is a day of rest which begins at sunset on Friday, when Jewish families cease all forms of work and enjoy a meal together. We join the Horwitz family as...

True Stories podcast: Untold Australian stories

Listen to True 'Untold' Stories

True Stories is a podcast written and read by Australia’s best emerging and award-wining writers.

 

In Season Two: Untold Australia, discover true stories that reflect the diversity and uniqueness of Australia today.

 

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By Nakkiah Lui

True Stories podcast S2 Ep1: Late night in a car park

Listed as iTunes Best Podcasts of 2015, True Stories returns with Season Two, ‘Untold Australia’. In Season Two, discover True Stories that reflect the diversity and...
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True Stories podcast S2 Ep2: Greyhound

Listed as iTunes Best Podcasts of 2015, True Stories returns with Season Two, ‘Untold Australia’. In Season Two, discover True Stories that reflect the diversity...
By Sofija Stefanovic

True Stories podcast S2 Ep3: Ex-Yugos

Born in a country that no longer exists, Sofija arrives in Australia as a child who has escaped a civil-war. Her home country Yugoslavia is divided, but as she...
By Osamah Sami

True Stories podcast S2 Ep4: Mosque, Mourning & Girls

Osamah is 19, and his main aim during Ashura, a ten-day Islamic ritual, is to score the chat-room nickname of Houda, the girl whose long eyelashes feed his new...
By Abigail Ulman

True Stories podcast S2 Ep5: Diary of a Tumbleweed

Living in Melbourne and struggling to become a writer, Abigail quits her job, grabs a backpack, and a buys a one-way ticket to Paris.
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Eurovision Song Contest Stockholm 2016 - CD

All 43 songs from Europe's favourite TV show, including Dami Im's entry for Australia.
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Destination Flavour Scandinavia - DVD/Download

Follow Adam as he immerses himself in Scandinavian / Nordic culture, history and cuisine.
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Mummies Alive - DVD/Download

The world’s best-preserved mummies are brought back to life through exquisite CGI.
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Rise Of The Machines, Volume 2 - DVD/Download

Learn how the inventions behind the world’s most extreme machines have enabled them to evolve beyond humanity’s wildest imagination.
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1916: The Irish Rebellion - DVD/Download

This series commemorates the 100th anniversary of this seminal event that led to the establishment of an independent Irish State.
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