ABC Rewind

Join wheelchair racing legend Louise Sauvage for the fascinating evolution of The Paralympics, from life-saving rehabilitation for World War 2 soldiers to today’s elite sporting event.

The mysterious tale of rich socialite Margaret Clement,  who lived alone in the Gippsland bush in a decaying mansion encircled by waist-deep water. She was known to locals as 'the lady of the swamp' until  one day in 1952 Margaret simply vanished.

The story of an epic 3300-kilometre adventure from the Australian desert to the coast.  Half way through the race, Illness, flood, fatigue and flies are all taking their toll,  as camels and riders push through to the finish line.

It’s April 1988, somewhere near Uluru, and the starter gun fires off one of the strangest, most audacious events to mark Australia's bicentennial year, the Great Australian Camel Race. People came from all around the world to take part in a feat which spanned over 3000km, as camels and humans endured scorching heat, flooding rains and serious sickness that almost sent the race belly-up.

Don Dunstan had a dream - a futuristic city to rise out of The Mallee. What went wrong? After years of planning and designing why was it never built?

It's the 1980s, and the first devastating decade of the AIDS pandemic. A young student nurse tests positive for the virus. and this information ends up on the front page of his local newspaper. A tale of fear and prejudice. but also of great courage, and love. 

Mercia Masson, one of Australia’s longest serving undercover ASIO agents, spied on her communist friends, while her only daughter remained in the dark. 

A clever young street urchin disguises herself as aristocracy.  She inconveniently finds herself in a convict cell in Tasmania - but only temporarily.  Then it's onto the streets of 1850’s Melbourne to continue her deception. 

The public watch the sky above Sydney as a Boeing 707 circles for hours.  Fuel running dangerously low. Qantas flight 755 from Sydney to Hong Kong, is threatened by a terrifying phone call. 

Richard Roxburgh takes a deep dive into the events of that fateful day.

On May 26th, Qantas flight 755 takes off on a routine flight from Sydney to Hong Kong. 

A man called Mr Brown telephones. He wants half a million dollars – or else 'the plane will blow up'.

The public watches the sky above Sydney as a 707 circles in a holding pattern for hours. 

Bomb experts are called in as QF 755’s fuel runs dangerously low.

Is he a baronet or a butcher from Wagga Wagga? Can he claim the estate of an English aristocrat who has been lost at sea?