NaN/100 votes#1 - Road to Nowhere (Part 1)
Season 17 Episode 1 - Aired 2/6/2012
Part 1 of our story on Di Gicrist, the woman taking on the big end of town and changing the face of justice in South Australia after her husband was killed in a hit-and-run cyclist incident.
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#2 - Road to Nowhere (Part 2)
Season 17 Episode 2 - Aired 2/13/2012
The conclusion to our story on Di Gilcrist and her fight for justice after her husband was killed in a hit-and-run cyclist incident.
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#3 - Mary and Me
Season 17 Episode 3 - Aired 2/20/2012
Kath Evans was diagnosed with lung cancer that had spread to her brain and given only weeks to live. She attributes her sudden, extraordinary recovery to the then Blessed Mary MacKillop and the event was accepted by the Vatican as a miracle.
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#4 - By the Light of Stars
Season 17 Episode 4 - Aired 2/27/2012
Yaron Lifschitz took a small, troubled circus company and turned it into an artistic triumph that now has the world applauding its daring and glamour.
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#5 - Half a Million Acres
Season 17 Episode 5 - Aired 3/5/2012
David Pollock, a young man from remote Western Australia and Frances Jones, a young woman from the Melbourne suburbs, battle to save the historic grazing property Wooleen.
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#6 - The Book of Daniel
Season 17 Episode 6 - Aired 3/12/2012
Daniel Clarke at the age of ten, inspired by the late Steve Irwin, set out to raise funds to conserve habitat for orangutans in Indonesia.
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#7 - Woman from Snowy River
Season 17 Episode 7 - Aired 3/19/2012
Leigh Woodgate's journey from young mountain girl to shining racing star, through dark days of hospital and recovery to the triumphant joy of riding a horse for early morning track work.
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#8 - Going Troppo
Season 17 Episode 8 - Aired 3/26/2012
From teenage years marked by delinquency, expulsions from school and several brushes with the law, John Polson became a successful actor and went on to direct some of the world's best known TV dramas.
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#9 - House Of Hancock
Season 17 Episode 9 - Aired 4/2/2012
Another look at the 1997 classic story on Australia's richest person, Gina Rinehart.
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#10 - A Done Deal
Season 17 Episode 10 - Aired 4/9/2012
Ric Richardson is an inventor who took on the might of Microsoft and scored a remarkable victory.
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#11 - Streets with No Names
Season 17 Episode 11 - Aired 4/16/2012
Scott Neeson built a career as a top Hollywood movie executive but after a holiday in Cambodia, gave it all up and now works to help some of the poorest children there.
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#12 - The Razor's Edge
Season 17 Episode 12 - Aired 4/23/2012
Risktaker, investigator and troublemaker: animal advocate Lyn White and the images that shocked a nation.
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#13 - Return to Wooleen
Season 17 Episode 13 - Aired 4/30/2012
Since Half a Million Acres aired, the Pollock's battle to save their property has attracted powerful supporters and a visit by natural landscape ecologist, Peter Andrews who has previously featured on Australian Story.
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#14 - Larger Than Life
Season 17 Episode 14 - Aired 5/7/2012
Clive Palmer has been described as a generous giver, a national treasure and a major political force. He's also been labelled a billionaire mining magnate who has never mined, a human headline and a manipulator of the media.
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#15 - When We Were Racers
Season 17 Episode 15 - Aired 5/14/2012
Triple world champion, Sir Jack Brabham became the first driver to be knighted for services to motorsport and the only Formula One driver to win a world title in a car of his own construction.
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#16 - According to Her Cloth
Season 17 Episode 16 - Aired 5/21/2012
From international model via prison to toast of Australian fashion week as a new generation designer: Tovah Cottle.
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#17 - Turning the Tables
Season 17 Episode 17 - Aired 5/28/2012
Jack Manning Bancroft, was just 19 when he started a plan to help disadvantaged kids finish school. Now at 26 he's one of Australia's youngest CEO's.
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#18 - Walking with Kate Mulvany
Season 17 Episode 18 - Aired 6/4/2012
Actress and playwright Kate Mulvany has experienced more than most people do in a lifetime and speaks candidly about life's many challenges and explains how she found the energy and determination to return to the public spotlight.
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#19 - The Voice
Season 17 Episode 19 - Aired 6/11/2012
Gurrumul Yunupingu's haunting voice has captivated global audiences, most recently in London for Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee celebrations.
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#20 - To Set Before a Queen
Season 17 Episode 20 - Aired 6/18/2012
In the early hours of Sunday June 24, the unbeaten Black Caviar will take on Europe's best at Royal Ascot, in front of the Queen. This is the fascinating inside story of the making of Black Caviar, stretching back across the generations.
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#21 - Her Hour Upon the Stage (Part 1)
Season 17 Episode 21 - Aired 6/25/2012
Part One of our two part special where friends and family of Diana Bliss tell her story and reveal the extent of the private torment behind the glittering existence.
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#22 - Her Hour Upon the Stage (Part 2)
Season 17 Episode 22 - Aired 7/2/2012
This week, the conclusion to our story about Diana Bliss whose death earlier this year was reported around the world.
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#23 - Letters to the Editor
Season 17 Episode 23 - Aired 7/9/2012
It's a time of unprecedented crisis in the newspaper industry. But this week's Australian Story is about a former big city journalist who's bucking the trend. James Clark had been living the dream in Paris when he decided to put his future, his relationship and the family sheep station on the line to chase his dream of running a little local newspaper in outback Cunnamulla.
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#24 - Stranger on the Shore
Season 17 Episode 24 - Aired 7/16/2012
Next week's program tells the story of a young woman unsettling her middle class Melbourne family by going out on a limb to 'adopt' a fourteen year old Afghan asylum seeker.
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#25 - Foolin' Around
Season 17 Episode 25 - Aired 7/23/2012
Popular Country singer Beccy Cole has decided she is ready to tell audiences about a personal dilemma which has dogged her for more than ten years.
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The Best Episodes of Australian Story Season 17
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Season 17 Ratings Summary
"Road to Nowhere (Part 1)" is the best rated episode of "Australian Story" season 17. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 2/6/2012. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Road to Nowhere (Part 2)".