ABC Rewind

How did the largest deaths in custody site in Australia become a tourist mecca?

The dark history of Western Australia’s idyllic holiday playground.

In 1979 a man named Vico Virkez gave a surprise tip off that would lead to one of the longest criminal trials, and some say, the greatest miscarriage of justice, in Australian history.

The story of six Croatian Australian men who were incarcerated for 15 years for crimes they say they never committed.

40 years later, new evidence has been found in their favour.

Diaries from two voyages to Sydney aboard the famous Scottish clipper, Samuel Plimsoll.

It was a perilous time to be at sea. Disease and fever spread through the ship.

Both journeys ended prematurely at Sydney's North Head quarantine station.

The Australian instrument that shaped the sound of the 1980s and forever changed how popular music was made

Sister Edith Blake’s gripping story, from her training in Sydney to nursing Australian soldiers in Gallipoli, to her tragic death in English waters where Germany had promised the safe passage of hospital ships.

Lake Pedder, in Tasmania’s vast south-west region, was known for its pink quartzite beach, its pristine waters, and its rugged beauty. 50 years ago, it became the site for one of the fiercest conservation battles ever seen in Australia

Australia's least remembered migrant camp for 'unsupported' mothers.

Working on the Sydney Harbour Bridge isn't for the fainthearted.  Angela Heathcote’s dad Kelly told her adventurous tales of working up high on the famous arches. Years after his passing she meets more of the men and women who brave; the elements, the larrikinism, the fireworks and the brushes with death to maintain this Sydney icon.