60 Minutes Australia (1979)
60 Minutes, an Australian version of the U.S. television newsmagazine 60 Minutes, airs on Sunday nights on the Nine Network and is presented in much the same way as the American program on which it is based. The New Zealand version of the show has also featured segments of the Australian version. Gerald Stone, the founding executive producer, was given the job by Kerry Packer and was told: "I don't give a f... what it takes. Just do it and get it right." After the first episode was broadcast on 11 February 1979, Packer was less than impressed, telling Stone: "You've blown it, son. You better fix it fast." Over the years, Stone's award winning 60 Minutes revolutionised Australian current affairs reporting and enhanced the careers of Ray Martin, Ian Leslie, George Negus, and later Jana Wendt. Since it was first broadcast, 60 Minutes has won five Silver Logies, one Special Achievement Logie, and received nominations for a further six Logie awards.
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- 1 1. 2011-02-132011-02-13Features current affairs stories from across Australia and the globe. Join the team of reporters as they investigate, analyse and uncover the issues affecting all Australians.
- 2 2. 2011-02-202011-02-20Features current affairs stories from across Australia and the globe. Join the team of reporters as they investigate, analyse and uncover the issues affecting all Australians.
- 3 3. 2011-02-272011-02-27Features current affairs stories from across Australia and the globe. Join the team of reporters as they investigate, analyse and uncover the issues affecting all Australians.
- 5 5. 2011-03-132011-03-13Features current affairs stories from across Australia and the globe. Join the team of reporters as they investigate, analyse and uncover the issues affecting all Australians.
- 6 6. 2011-03-202011-03-20Features current affairs stories from across Australia and the globe. Join the team of reporters as they investigate, analyse and uncover the issues affecting all Australians.
- 7 7. 2011-03-272011-03-27Features current affairs stories from across Australia and the globe. Join the team of reporters as they investigate, analyse and uncover the issues affecting all Australians.
- 8 8. 2011-04-032011-04-03Features current affairs stories from across Australia and the globe. Join the team of reporters as they investigate, analyse and uncover the issues affecting all Australians.
- 9 9. 2011-04-102011-04-10Features current affairs stories from across Australia and the globe. Join the team of reporters as they investigate, analyse and uncover the issues affecting all Australians.
- 10 10. 2011-04-172011-04-17Tonight, Liam Bartlett revists QLD after the floods and how the insurance companies arnt paying up. Ray Martin looks at lap-banding and how children as young as 13 are opting for t
- 11 11. 2011-04-242011-04-24Features current affairs stories from across Australia and the globe. Join the team of reporters as they investigate, analyse and uncover the issues affecting all Australians.
- 12 12. 2011-05-012011-05-01Victorian plumber Peter Walsh was struck down with the dreaded pneumococcal bug and lost his hands and feet, but that was til an extraordinary micro-surgeon decided to give him a h
- 13 13. 2011-05-082011-05-08Features current affairs stories from across Australia and the globe. Join the team of reporters as they investigate, analyse and uncover the issues affecting all Australians.
- 14 14. 2011-05-152011-05-15Liam Bartlett looks at our immigration system at breaking point and the influx of asylum seekers. Ali Langdon examines how our Asian students are topping the class and Michael Ushe
- 15 15. 2011-05-222011-05-22Olympic champion Alisa Camplin tells of her son Finnan's congenital heart disease. Liz Hayes goes deep into the American South to meet the folk of Westboro Baptist Church who hate
- 16 16. 2011-05-292011-05-29Tonight Alison Langdon investigates the very dangerous sport of cave diving. Liam is with a band of bushies and backpaers in the Kimberley to take out the ugly and unstoppable cane
- 17 17. 2011-06-052011-06-05Features current affairs stories from across Australia and the globe. Join the team of reporters as they investigate, analyse and uncover the issues affecting all Australians.
- 19 19. 2011-06-192011-06-19Features current affairs stories from across Australia and the globe. Join the team of reporters as they investigate, analyse and uncover the issues affecting all Australians.
- 20 20. 2011-06-262011-06-26Just one click. That's all it takes to wreck a young life forever. Liz Hayes explores the dangers of sexting and explains how it can destroy your life forever. Plus, who could ever
- 21 21. 2011-07-032011-07-03It was the most sickening and cruellest of crimes. Last year, Rachelle D'Argent's estranged partner kidnapped their three-year-old daughter, Yazmina and did the unthinkable. Tonigh
- 22 22. 2011-07-102011-07-10There really is magic in the story of Harry Potter. Almost 15 years since J.K. Rowling published that first Potter novel, Harry is finally packing up his wand for good and Charles
- 23 23. 2011-07-172011-07-17Kidnapped and held captive for 18 years, Jaycee Lee Dugard not only had her youth stolen from her but was forced to mother children to her captor. 60 Minutes presents a compelling
- 24 24. 2011-07-242011-07-24Just last Thursday, Derryn Hinch was sentenced to five months home detention. A fortnight before that, he was on an operating table, receiving a life-saving liver transplant. We've
- 25 25. 2011-07-312011-07-31Imagine the shock, 50-years-old and staring down at two blue lines on a pregnancy test. Plus, Charles Wooley catches up with music legend, Rod Stewart at his home in London.
- 26 26. 2011-08-072011-08-07Meet two young Australians who refuse to accept the doctor's verdict that they 'will never walk again'. Plus, every year, hundreds try it, all determined to conquer swimming's Mt E
- 27 27. 2011-08-142011-08-14Michael Usher has just returned from an extraordinary encounter with Sarah Ferguson, Liam Bartlett is on the ground in England to make sense of the madness of late, and for two dec
- 28 28. 2011-08-282011-08-28According to the latest research, when it comes to binge drinking, young women are now doing their best to match the blokes. What was once considered embarrassing and outrageous be
- 30 30. 2011-09-112011-09-11Eight years ago, Bruce and Denise Morcombe were like any other parents. Then their 13-year-old son, Daniel, was abducted. Now they're trying to protect other children in the hope t
- 31 31. 2011-09-182011-09-18Marathon runner Heather Scott recounts the moments she and her fellow competitors stared death in the face - trapped in a narrow gorge, a raging fire bearing down and no escape in
- 32 32. 2011-09-252011-09-25Allison Langdon’s report ‘The Awakening’ will prove that true love and devotion can produce miracles. This story follows brain injured Sam Goddard who would be unable to walk and t
- 34 34. 2011-10-092011-10-09Features current affairs stories from across Australia and the globe. Dr Hellfried Sartori claims he can cure terminal cancer. It isn't true, of course. But what makes Dr Sartori's
- 35 35. 2011-10-302011-10-30The Love Trap Most of us have figured out by now, that transferring our life savings into a Nigerian bank account is a mug’s game. We know there’s no royal fortune. No multi-milli
- 36 36. 2011-11-062011-11-06The Empty Nesters It had to happen, eventually. That generation of stay-at-home kids has finally grown up and flown the coop. Peter Overton first met these coddled twenty and thir
- 37 37. 2011-11-132011-11-13High Stakes Everyone knows it. Even police admit they’re fighting a losing battle against the illegal drug industry. But the war just got even harder. Right now, in Australia, you
- 38 38. 2011-11-202011-11-20Trouble in Paradise It’s Australia’s playground. Tourists from all over the country and around the globe, are drawn by the Gold Coast’s glittering image of surf, sand and sun-dren
- 39 39. 2011-11-272011-11-27Broken Hearts Who could forget that smile? Or the amazing tale of bravery that went with it? Alisa Camplin stole our hearts when she won gold at the 2002 Winter Olympics. Only lat
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