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A depressed man is the only one who can see his girlfriend's dog as a full-grown man in a dog suit.

Hosted by Julia Zemiro, a quiz program where the topic is rock music. More than a quiz show: each episode features well known musical guests who perform songs of theirs with the house band and also compete in the show.

Widower and outsider have a special and unusual relationship in rural community.

A Chinese erotic dancer and an Aboriginal farmhand in the 1920s.

This insightful documentary investigates how and why Australia became the first country in the world to give women full political rights. Beautifully shot, with drama tic re-enactments and interviews with leading historians, this one hour special brings to life the rowdy and exciting world of the pioneers of democracy for women.

A character portrait of the enigmatic comedian Barry Humphries on his most recent Australian tour and an examination of the connections to his two most famous alter egos, Dame Edna and Sir Les Patterson. Interviews include Bruce Beresford and Geoffrey Rush.

British actor, author and presenter Tony Robinson (Blackadder, Time Team, The Worst Jobs in History) takes us on an archaeological dig to unearth details of Ned Kelly's infamous last gun battle in 1880. Ned Kelly Uncovered follows the first ever excavation of the Glenrowan Inn site where the iconic Australian bush-ranger and his gang holed up for a showdown with police. The dramatic siege lasted over 24 hours and ended with Ned Kelly's capture and the death of gang members Joe Byrne, Dan Kelly and Steve Hart. Nearly 130 years later, can a team of archaeologists and historians reveal new insight into Ned Kelly's final moments?

Can the traumatised survivors of a bushfire-ravaged coastal community seize control of their own destiny, overcome their differences, and save their town from dying?

This is the untold story of an immigration nation. A century long struggle to create a truly multicultural Australia.

Training guru Craig Michael runs a Back to Work course designed specifically to help troubled individuals develop their talents, find jobs and stick with them. His course is demanding of its participants, preparing them for the harsh realities and expectations of the world at work. The series follows the progress and subsequent transformation of a range of individuals enduring his training course as they strive towards success and achieving their life changing goals and getting a job.

The story of Australia's worst peacetime disaster On 7th February 2009, Australia suffered its worst peacetime disaster. 'Black Saturday' claimed 173 lives, left more than 7,000 homeless and destroyed close to half a million hectares of Victorian bushland. One year on, this is the story of what happened Inside the Firestorm.Using never before seen footage, this documentary is a social record, a film that commemorates a catastrophe as seen through the eyes of those who were there.

Ten years after the deadliest bushfires in modern Australian history ripped through Victoria killing 173 people, this landmark documentary reveals how the survivors of Black Saturday found the strength to rebuild their lives. Out of the ashes of one of Australia's worst natural disasters, emerges a film not about death and destruction but about the tenacity of life and the extraordinary resilience of the human spirit.

Dirty Business: How Mining Made Australia is the history of Australian mining. It portrays how over the last 150 years mining has made Australia rich, yet created an unending struggle over who shares in the wealth. It reveals how mining helped forge democracy yet has repeatedly plotted to influence politics and even overthrow democratically elected leaders. Whilst mining has also been deeply damaging to Aboriginal society, ironically in the 21st century, it may be aboriginal people's best hope of economic self-determination.

In 1984, American artist Keith Haring visited Australia and created a mural in Collingwood, Melbourne. This is the story of the mural which is now one of only 31 known murals by Haring that are still in existence worldwide.

Subtopia profiles Adrian Doyle, an artist and bohemian businessman born on the wrong side of the tracks, who encapsulates Melbourne's world-renowned street art scene. Doyle is the dynamic face of the urban art world in the city. The artist, academic, entrepreneur and social activist runs the Blender Studios which houses some of Australia's finest practitioners of metropolitan art. The ambitious artist is just holding it all together as he struggles to juggle various projects that both frustrate and excite the art establishments. With so much hanging in the air, can Doyle manage to balance his bohemian lifestyle with his super strict girlfriend and the absolute maelstrom of his fractured existence?

Three remarkable men, John Denton, Bill Corker and Barrie Marshall have created Australia's most internationally renowned architecture firm. We explore what has made these men so renowned and look at some of their unique buildings, as we follow the construction of the new Australian Pavilion for the Venice Biennale.

Australian Local Hero Award winner and star of the Choir of Hard Knocks, Jonathon Welch, believes that music can change lives. However, when he enters Tarrengower Women's Prison claiming he can rehabilitate the inmates by creating a choir, he has his work cut out for him. Will his unique brand of offering hope through song, work among the female prisoners?

Four Days In Sing Sing documents exactly that. Joe and The Sorrows over four days in Melbourne's legendary Sing Sing Studios, the birthplace of classic Sorrows' albums such as Hold On To Me and Harley and Rose.

'Asylum FC' follows nine young Zimbabwean soccer players from the slums of Harare in their quest to seek asylum and establish new lives in Australia.