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News
Start the day with quality news and analysis on ABC News Breakfast hosted by Michael Rowland, Virginia Trioli and Beverley O'Connor. Paul Kennedy brings you the latest from the sporting world and Vanessa O'Hanlon provides comprehensive coverage of the weather.
Sport
This program features highlights from the action packed previous week of the Australian Football League.
Sport
Catch all the action from the Australian Football League's 2013 premiership season.
Documentary
Whether it's a pelican wounded by an arrow, a lone cow stranded in a river, or a horse stuck in a ditch, the inspectors and veterinarians of Australia's RSPCA do everything they can to save the day.
Current Affairs
A weekly analysis of the biggest stories affecting Asia and the Pacific, featuring interviews with key decision-makers from across the region. Asia Pacific Focus is also shown in Australia on ABC1.
Documentary
Australia on Trial is a thought-provoking new series that provides snapshots of colonial Australia through the prism of three pivotal and controversial criminal trials. At stake were not just the lives of the defendants, but the very morals and identity of Australia and its people. Combining courtroom drama with stylised flashbacks of the crimes, the series provides a unique take on how Australia's national identity has evolved - and how the moral, social and political questions raised by these three trials still resonate in the present day.
Documentary
The program aims to present a varied and contrasting picture of contemporary Australia and Australians from many different perspectives and to contribute to the wider spectrum of coverage of issues and individuals.
Drama
Louisa is in love, the new co-owner of the Echo and surrounded by her affectionate family - everything is perfect - if only it would stay that way...
Education/Knowledge
Behind the News is a high-energy, fun way for upper primary and secondary students to learn about current issues and events in their world.
Documentary
Discover the rich history of China's capital from its nomadic beginnings through its iconic dynasties to today's modern, thriving metropolis.
Current Affairs
Big Ideas brings you the best of talks, forums, debates, and festivals held in Australia and around the world. From major public speeches to intimate bookshop conversations, Big Ideas puts you in the front row.
Factual Entertainment
Featuring charismatic and energetic Sydney Veterinarians, Dr. Chris Brown and Dr. Lisa Chimes in the breathtaking backdrop of one of Australia's most famous landmarks, Bondi Beach. Chronicling the adventures of Dr. Chris, BONDI VET allows viewers a unique insight into the world of one of Sydney's busiest vets and the animals he devotes his days to caring for and treating.
Factual Entertainment
Featuring charismatic and energetic Sydney Veterinarians, Dr. Chris Brown and Dr. Lisa Chimes in the breathtaking backdrop of one of Australia's most famous landmarks, Bondi Beach. We see the clinic save the lives of much loved animals.
Current Affairs
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott, live from Parliament House Canberra with the Opposition's right of reply to the Federal Budget.
Current Affairs
Live from Parliament House Canberra, Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan delivers his sixth federal budget in the House of Representatives.
Current Affairs
Business news from Australia and Asia
Documentary
At Catalyst we know that science is a dynamic force for change. Each week Catalyst brings you stories from Australia and around the world. Our passion to meet scientists at the forefront of discovery is matched by our fascination with science breakthroughs however big or small. Science changes all our lives. For better or worse, we are committed to showing you what our future holds.
Drama
City Homicide is a gripping Australian drama starring Noni Hazlehurst, Shane Bourne, Nadine Garner and Aaron Pedersen.
Drama
Hold on as you watch the thrilling next series of City Homicide. As long as there's greed and lust and passion, there's murder. Join Dective Senior Constables Jennifer Mapplethorpe (Nadine Gardner) and Duncan Freedman (Aaron Pedersen) and their colleagues here on Australia Network, bringing you the best of Australian drama.
Documentary
Country Town Rescue is the compelling story of how ordinary Australians come together to save a small rural town whose falling population threatens its very existence. Filmed over twelve months, this series follows five families who 'up sticks' with their kids and move to Trundle, a small town in central western NSW. They are welcomed by a passionate group of locals determined to see the small town not only survive but prosper.
Current Affairs
Dateline is a multi-award winning international current affairs program from SBS Australia, presented by Anjali Rao.
Current Affairs
Camel racing, often called the Sport of Kings, is one of the most popular sports in the Middle East. Desert Riders is the story of some of the thousands of boys, as young as two years old, that have been trafficked or sold by their parents and taken to the Middle East to work as camel jockeys from Bangladesh, Pakistan, Mauritania and Sudan.
Documentary
The Khmer Rouge ran what is regarded as one of the twentieth century's most brutal regimes. Yet the Killing Fields of Cambodia remain unexplained. Until now. In 'Enemies of the People' the men and women who perpetrated the massacres - from the foot-soldiers who slit throats to the party's ideological leader, Nuon Chea aka Brother Number Two - break a 30-year silence to give testimony never before heard or seen. Unprecedented access from top to bottom of the Khmer Rouge has been achieved through a decade of work by one of Cambodia's best investigative journalists, Thet Sambath. Sambath is on a personal quest: he lost his own family in the Killing Fields.
English Learning
English Bites is an informative and entertaining way to improve your knowledge of the English language.
Children
A collection of children's programs for pre-school ages, hosted by two best mates Jimmy Giggle and Hoot the Owl.
Documentary
Go Back To Where You Came From brings the hottest debate in Australia from the front page of the newspaper into living rooms. Six Australians, who agree to challenge their preconceived notions about refugees and asylum seekers, go on a confronting 25 day journey tracing in reverse the journeys that real refugees have taken to reach Australia.
Education/Knowledge
Go Lingo! is an exciting new high energy game show where contestants aged 11 to 12 years-old battle it out during games focusing on spelling, grammar and Australia's Indigenous culture.
Factual Entertainment
Good Game is a program by gamers for gamers. Each week it will be jam-packed with the latest gaming news and events, top gaming tips, reviews and interviews with game developers and the people behind the scenes.
Education/Knowledge
Current Affairs
Peter Wilkins presents the latest sports news, features and discussion with contributions from the ABC's popular radio and television sporting commentators and leading sports figures.
Documentary
Current Affairs
Alan Kohler with analysis and comment on the events and issues driving investors, entrepreneurs and big business.
Current Affairs
Current Affairs
Hosted by Barrie Cassidy, Insiders is a fast-moving treatment of Australian national affairs with interviews, discussion, and analysis.
Current Affairs
ABC's rural affairs program which has a weekly round up of commodities, rainfall reports and rural stories which reflect life on the land in Australia.
Documentary
The challenge to complete the Sagrada Familia Church is told by kiwi architect Mark Burry and the dedicated team of architects and artisans who have spent years of their lives immersed in unlocking the secrets of Gaudi's liquid stone. Using cutting-edge 21st century technology hand in hand with traditional artisan techniques, for the first time in its history, this famously 'unfinishable' building is close to being realised.
Children
What chance have you got when your dad's a cop, your mum's a frighteningly understanding parent, your brother wets the bed, your best friend's a heavy metal devotee and then you fall in love at 12 and three quarters years old? It can only mean trouble, worry, mega-embarrassment and some wild, wild times. Lockie Leonard, hot surf-rat, and his family have just moved to the most remote town on earth, Angelus. For Lockie this is a TOTAL LIFE DISASTER: no friends, new school and a house that is truly in danger of disappearing into a swamp... but then Lockie spots the one thing that makes it all okay, this weird little town has the best surf he has ever seen.
Through the eyes of Lockie Leonard we view the truly mixed-up, yet very normal life of Lockie, his family and friends.
Lifestyle
From an international career in movies and television as one of Australia's favourite personalities, Paul Mercurio now turns his attention to another of his passions - food. In Mercurio's Menu, Paul is tour host and resident cook, as he escorts viewers around Australia. Food production in all of its diversity will feature in the series, as Paul visits farms and producers of fresh food.
Lifestyle
Australia's favourite home-cooking show is state versus state, plate against plate, as 12 teams-of-two from NSW, Victoria, Western Australia, South Australia, Queensland and, for the first time, Tasmania attempt to out-dine and out-wine each other to see whose kitchen rules.
News
News from Australia, Pacific, Asia, and India including local reports from Australia Network News reporters in the region.
Current Affairs
Australia Network's flagship current affairs program, providing analysis of major news events around the region and the world. Hosted by Jim Middleton, Newsline features interviews, in-depth reports and insights into the issues affecting your world.
Children
Two teenagers find each other from opposite sides of the globe, and change each other's lives. By projecting their ideal selves in a virtual world, they get a little closer to reaching their ideals in the real one.
Current Affairs
A show for anyone who's serious about sport, Offsiders will provide challenging, insightful, humorous debate about the topic that dominates weekends - sport. Hosted by Barrie Cassidy.
Drama
Nina Proudman has a messy family, crazy ex, intense job & in her quest for love a tendency to over think it! In Offspring starring Asher Keddie.
Drama
Offspring, the exuberant drama set in Melbourne's Fitzroy, centres on Nina Proudman (Asher Keddie). The story follows Nina's struggle to deal with her fabulously messy family, her hunt for a decent love life and her tendency to over-think and fly off into fantasy.
Drama
Is there ever a happy ever after? Nina wonders this in season 3 of loveable Aussie drama Offspring.
Documentary
For the first time cameras have been granted full access to the Supreme Court of Western Australia and the District Court of NSW where criminal cases are dealt with before judge and jury. The series features a controversial murder trial and a major assault. If justice is best served when it is seen to be done, then On Trial is a major step towards a fully transparent judicial system.
Current Affairs
This weekly interview program is hosted by Jane Hutcheon with contributors from around the world. One Plus One talks to news-makers and news-breakers for the stories behind the news.
Documentary
'Outback Kids' is a 3-part documentary series following the work of the Brahminy Group as it attempts to rehabilitate seven profoundly troubled young kids. The Brahminy Group treats a wide variety of kids at its facility deep in isolated bush in the Northern Territory. It's a place of last-resort for chronic drug-abusers, juvenile offenders, petrol-sniffers, gang members, child prostitutes and the emotionally traumatized. Aged between 12 and 16, the kids are a mixture of boys and girls, black and white, rich and poor; some are funded privately others by state government welfare departments. But what unites these kids is the severity of their problems: they are at the end of the line and this place, far from the toxic temptations and traumas of their usual lives, represents the kids' last chance of salvation.
Drama
Meet the Rafters, an Australian family everyone can relate to. Starring Rebecca Gibney, Erik Thompson and Michael Caton.
Drama
Meet the Rafters, an Australian family everyone can relate to. Starring Rebecca Gibney, Erik Thompson and Michael Caton.
Documentary
In this science documentary three sisters, young, vibrant and genetically flawed, need to make a decision that could potentially save their lives and yet cuts to the very core of their femininity. Follow their personal journey and life altering decision making process after being diagnosed with the BRCA2 breast cancer gene. It is an intimate discovery through diagnosis and decisions about the future. The film provides information regarding genetics and breast cancer. It also explores the social and ethical implications of owning the knowledge of a genetic pre-disposition to a disease.
Children
Join the playschool team to learn a little, while singing songs, listening to stories, making things, and going on adventures with Big Ted, Jemima and all the other toys, on this all time favourite children's show.
Children
Join the playschool team to learn a little, while singing songs, listening to stories, making things, and going on adventures with Big Ted, Jemima and all the other toys, on this all time favourite children's show.
Children
Join the playschool team to learn a little, while singing songs, listening to stories, making things, and going on adventures with Big Ted, Jemima and all the other toys, on this all time favourite children's show.
Children
Join the playschool team to learn a little, while singing songs, listening to stories, making things, and going on adventures with Big Ted, Jemima and all the other toys, on this all time favourite children's show.
Current Affairs
Energetic and opinionated, Q&A brings Australia's egalitarian and larrikin spirit to current affairs as a panel of politicians and key opinion makers debate the hot issues of the week. It's about democracy in action - the audience gets to ask the questions. It doesn't matter who you are, or where you're from, anyone can have a go. Register here: http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/ask-question.htm You can watch Q&A live on Monday nights here on our website: http://australianetwork.com/video/live.htm Q&A is also broadcast on Australia Network at the times below:
Documentary
Rainmakers is an investigative documentary about the decline of China's environment. The story is told from the perspective of four civil activists who refuse to accept the ongoing ecological destruction of their homeland. On the border of heroism and stubbornness, four diverse and remarkable Chinese civilians explain why they have the courage to fight the pettish and aggressive local authorities, against all odds. In a film that takes the natural cycle of water as its visual framework, the polluted air of Beijing and Changsha, the filthy water of the Qiantang river and the advancing sand of the Tengger desert, serve as symbols for an environmental battle with many losers and occasionally some winners.
Drama
When a container of illegal weapons is broken into, TR races to save the life a security guard and attempt to find the men responsible.
Drama
This drama series is based on the real-life Critical Incident Response Team, a branch of the Victorian Police Force, the members of Tactical Response aren't your average police officers.
Education/Knowledge
Get ready for the rush as the adrenalin pumps through your body in this fast-paced blur of action sports and urban culture. Rush TV will profile the most prolific people in the world of action sports including snowboarding, bmx, skating, surfing and motocross
Education/Knowledge
A youthful science show that explains the science that's all around us. Each week SCOPE explores a different theme to discover the science behind everything. Hosted by CSIRO's zany and energetic scientist, Dr Robert Bell, and joined by a hand-picked team of junior scientists, SCOPE looks at the world from a child's point-of-view. Leading scientists present stories about their research and discoveries in a direct-to-audience style that engages the viewer.
Current Affairs
In Pakistan veils hide one of the country's most terrible secrets. Driven by revenge, jealousy or sexual non-co-operation some men subject their wives to horrific attacks with acid that is freely available in the street. Completely disfigured, the victims are often ostracised by their families and become prisoners in their own home. This chilling doc is a terrifying insight into the shattered lives of these women.
Children
Snake Park is home to several residents, one of which is Tiger, daughter of the snake park owner Jake.
Current Affairs
The most important regional stories from the Australian state bureaus reported by flagship current affairs program 7.30.
English Learning
Test your English reading, writing, listening and speaking skills with the help of this new series from the producers of Nexus and pass your IELTS test with ease.
Arts
Sunday Lights presents how over 70 years ago, an extraordinary company of dancers made a deep impact on Australian cultural heritage. In 1936, the celebrated Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo stepped off the boat into the bright Australian sunshine and awoke a nation. Despite Australia's conservative climate at the time, with its focus more on sport than high art, the Ballet Russes' radical and exotic sets, avant-garde music by great composers lik Stravinsky, and costumes of European modernist artists like Miro, Picasso, and Di Chirico, inspired a generation of Australia's greatest artists - including Grace Cossington Smith, Jeffrey Smart and Sidney Nolan - sowing the seeds for Australian ballet today.
Arts
A star that shone brightly but sadly for not long enough join us for a tribute to Australian actor Heath Ledger.
Arts
In Sunday Lights today we present Mad as Hell: The Peter Finch story, best remembered for Network (1976).
Arts
Fashion designer Collette Dinnigan's garments, with luxurious fabrics, beading and lace are worn by the world's rich and famous. On Talking Heads Collette discloses that as a teenager she was shocked to discover she had enrolled in a fashion course by mistake!
Arts
Aussie music legend Michael Gudinski, talks about his extraordinary career in Sunday Lights Talking Heads today.
Current Affairs
The ABC's Anne Maria Nicholson and Adrian Raschella take a look at the latest events in the world of arts and entertainment.
Lifestyle
The Block is an adventure packed home renovation competition series. There are four houses and eight teams across Australia who want to move into them, however only four teams will make it. We see couples competing in a tense 24 hour, do or die 'Elimination Challenge' to see how make it through to the major thrill ride: the full property renovation. With little more than what they're wearing the 'final four teams' will be taken out of their comfort zones and dropped into a frantic 8 week contest to renovate equally dilapidated houses in the inner Melbourne suburb of Richmond.
Current Affairs
Join Simon Palan for a look at the latest consumer news and issues.
Current Affairs
Join Siobhan Heanue from Canberra for a look at some of the latest events taking place at Australia's cultural institutions.
Current Affairs
The ABC's environment reporter Sarah Clarke, takes a look at the latest green issues and stories affecting the planet.
Current Affairs
Join Andrew Robertson for a look at issues in the world of money and business.
Documentary
They were just teenagers. Boys of 17, 18, 19. They are the Singaporeans who fought against the Japanese invasion in WW2. When their country needed them, they fought against an invader. They fought for their people's freedom. They died. In the hundreds of thousands.
Current Affairs
The ABC's medical reporter Sophie Scott takes a look at the latest issues in health and wellbeing.
Current Affairs
Join Miriam Corowa for a look at the latest Indigenous news.
Children
Princess Neri returns to Oceana after a three year visit to Earth. She is accompanied by her loyal protector, Neanda of the Cave Dweller Clan, and her dog-like droid, Micro, a present she received on Earth. On her journey home, Mandrool sends Neri a vision to warn her that the evil Galiel has returned.
Documentary
With unprecedented access to the NSW Police Academy and police on the beat, Recruits follows the fascinating and often confronting journey, from fresh faced, naive civilian, to hardened, skilled, and assertive constable on the street. To make the grade, the students will undergo a personal transformation greater than any other profession. They soon discover policing is more than a job, it's a calling. Not everybody wants to do it, and not many can.
Current Affairs
A quick snapshot of the latest stories from rural Australia from the ABC's team of reporters across the country.
Drama
Based on Christos Tsiolkas' best selling novel, The Slap traces the shattering repercussions of a single event on a group of family and friends when at a summer BBQ a man slaps a child who is not his son.
Current Affairs
Jake Sturmer explores the latest developments in the world of technology.
Current Affairs
Join Jenny Woodward in Brisbane, for a look at the stories behind the nightly weather forecast.
Current Affairs
A review of the ABC's best international news stories.
Factual Entertainment
Dr Norman Swan leads a team of reporters who cover all aspects of health, from lifestyle to complementary medicines to the most recent medical discoveries.
Factual Entertainment
Travel Wild is a positive exploration of our beautiful environment, the places and the animals that make eco-travel one of the fastest growing sectors in the leisure and travel industry. It features the best in eco-travel adventure. It takes the audience to places they have never dreamed of going, and once there, they can see how locals fight to keep their destination so special.
Documentary
Two In A Tinnie is an entertaining five-part series in which our two present day pioneers, John Doyle and Tim Flannery, unravel the secrets of Australia's greatest river system.
Education/Knowledge
Underwater World for Kids is an underwater adventure - a journey that takes in the many natural wonders and magical sea creatures above and below our oceans.
News
ABC News 24 weekend breakfast, hosted by Andrew Geoghegan and Miriam Corowa, rounds up the latest news, current affairs and sport as it breaks.
Children
Kids join all The Wiggles fun on Australia Network. Watch Sam (Yellow), Murray (Red), Jeff (Purple) and Anthony (Blue) and their friends Dorothy the Dinosaur, Wags the Dog, Henry the Octopus and Captain Feathersword the friendly Pirate.
Drama
Australia 1860s, Wild Boys follows a gang of bushrangers as they stage hold-ups determined to keep ahead of the troopers or wind up at the end of a noose. Starring Daniel MacPherson, Zoe Ventura and Jeremy Sims.
Sport
The M7 Multisport TV is jam packed with plenty of action and adventure satisfying the huge demand for the contemporary adventure sports market in Australasia and around the rest of the world.
Current Affairs
The ABC's national flagship current affairs program led by two of Australia's most respected journalists - Leigh Sales and Chris Uhlmann.
Entertainment
Join us for two hours of Australia's favourite chart hits each Saturday morning.
Entertainment
Two hours of the best new release music loved by Australians programmed by rage, each Sunday morning.
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