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.
-
Episode 1 - The Devil Wears Dior
Release Date: 2021-01-312021 season premiere of 60 Minutes. Where’s Melissa Caddick? And where are the millions of dollars she took from her own family and friends?
-
Episode 2 - Straight to the Point, Power of Attorney, W.H.O in Wuhan, The Devil wears Dior Update
Release Date: 2021-02-07The first pictures of Australia’s COVID vaccines being manufactured; inside China’s cover up of the pandemic; and lawyer Michael Cohen reveals Donald Trump’s secrets.
-
Episode 3 - The Princess diaries, Out of control
Release Date: 2021-02-28The secret video diaries of Dubai’s Princess Latifa from her palace prison. Plus, Britney Spears’ fight to reclaim her life.
-
Episode 4 - The money trail, Risque business
Release Date: 2021-03-07A 60 MINUTES investigation: Following the money trail in the Melissa Caddick case. Plus, why X-rated social media is proving so lucrative for young Australian women.
-
Episode 5 - Mind Games, Tasmanian Devil
Release Date: 2021-03-14Inside the doomsday QAnon cult, tearing Australian families apart with outlandish conspiracy theories; plus, fighting to be heard: a brave victim's campaign to get a violent murderer and rapist back behind bars.
-
Episode 6 - Murder in paradise, Minds matter
Release Date: 2021-03-21Murder in paradise. A mother's desperate plea for answers about her beautiful daughter's killer, as a global search continues for the runaway suspect; plus, how sporting legends of yesterday are helping to fix football's biggest headache.
-
Episode 7 - The empire strikes back, Rogue one
Release Date: 2021-03-28Australia's leading current affairs program with a 42 year history. Liz Hayes, Tara Brown, Tom Steinfort, Liam Bartlett and Sarah Abo investigate the issues affecting Australia.
-
Episode 8 - No Joke, The Hidden Pandemic, Unforgiven
Release Date: 2021-04-04The truth about Robin Williams’ tragic demise; The dangers of working from home during the COVID pandemic; & a timeless Royal scandal like no other.
-
Episode 9 - Secrets of War, License to Kill
Release Date: 2021-04-11A special investigation by Nick McKenzie exposing one of the nation’s dirtiest secrets; plus, how an inexcusable failure of the justice system led to a father’s shocking crimes against his own children.
-
Episode 10 - Of menace and men, Faking it
Release Date: 2021-04-18Tom Steinfort confronts a disgraceful love rat whose menacing ways have destroyed women's lives; plus, how ripping off the rich turned super-scammer Anna Sorokin into a star.
-
Episode 11 - Rage of Consent, Blokes of Influence
Release Date: 2021-04-25Courageous teenagers talking tough about sex, determined to end the confusion over the meaning of consent. Plus, social media's newest and most powerful influencers.
-
Episode 12 - Crazy Rich, Great Bright Shark
Release Date: 2021-05-02Why making billions of dollars from cryptocurrencies is not enough for the tech-boffins, who think they’ve now invented the next ‘big’ thing; plus, how 15 years of heartbreaking rejection turned Amy Shark into an overnight music sensation.
-
Episode 13 - The Samurai Killing
Release Date: 2021-05-09The bizarre story of a home invasion gone fatally wrong. How the intended victims of the attack, ended up on the wrong side of the law in what they say was an act of self-defence.
-
Episode 14 - Beauty and the Creep
Release Date: 2021-05-16A global 60 MINUTES investigation exposes the depravity of one of the icons of modelling, agent Gérald Marie, accused of decades of shocking sexual abuse against supermodels.
-
Episode 15 - Kate the Great, Neighbours, Sugar Hit
Release Date: 2021-05-23How Kate Middleton has become Catherine the Great, the jewel in the crown of the royal family; the Aussie neighbours who became billionaires with one simple idea; plus, not so sweet, Lord Sugar, the toughest boss in the world.
-
Episode 16 - Kiwis might fly, Sing or swim, The Veronicas
Release Date: 2021-05-30While Australia suffers for criticising China, New Zealand is cozying up to the Communist regime. Plus, Superstar singer to Olympic swimmer, Cody Simpson’s career U-turn.
-
Episode 17 - The Facebook Gangster, Woke Up, Renovator's Delight
Release Date: 2021-06-06Nick McKenzie tracks down Australia’s most wanted criminal fugitive and Piers Morgan responds after being targeted by the cancel culture movement for criticising Meghan Markle.
-
Episode 18 - Lilibet's Granddad, Boom and Doom
Release Date: 2021-06-13An exclusive interview with Thomas Markle, who wants the Duke and Duchess of Sussex to forgive him before it's too late; & making sense of Australia's trillion dollar housing boom.
-
Episode 19 - At War, The Life of Brain
Release Date: 2021-06-20Tara Brown at the frontline of the war to defeat cybercrime, the most powerful threat the world has ever faced. Plus, the baffling medical mystery of ‘Foreign Accent Syndrome’. Meet the women who are Aussies one minute, but Irish the next.
-
Episode 20 - Test of Patience, Swindle of the Century?
Release Date: 2021-07-04Experts on the frontline of the COVID-19 battle tell Tom Steinfort the secrets to making our country safe from the virus.
-
Episode 21 - Inside Story, The Great Gamble
Release Date: 2021-07-11The incredible story of a fisherman who was swallowed by a humpback whale. How Michael Packard escaped the giant of the deep is heroic and truly remarkable. Plus, looking overseas for vital clues to beat the COVID pandemic.
-
Episode 22 - Adrift, Wanted, Out of Control: Update
Release Date: 2021-07-18Adrift, injured and clinging to life. A father & his young daughter’s terrifying ordeal after their yacht capsized and they were stranded in the ocean; The desperation of Aussie women trying to be mums; & Britney Spears demands her freedom.
-
Episode 23 - Unforgettable & Unforgivable
Release Date: 2021-07-25Unforgettable and unforgivable: the unthinkable crime that continues to haunt the world. How could two ten-year-old boys abduct and brutally murder two-year-old toddler.
-
Episode 24 - Just Do It, Pause for Thought, The White Island Disaster
Release Date: 2021-08-01The push to jab as many Australians as quickly as possible, and what will happen if we don’t succeed; Change for good – why menopause doesn’t have to mean misery for women; & volcano survivor Stephanie Browitt says thanks to unsung heroes.
-
Episode 25 - Blood Money, The Young Ones.
Release Date: 2021-08-08Elizabeth Holmes was the darling of Silicon Valley, until it was discovered her success was really a $9 billion fraud. Plus, how and why COVID is now targeting young Australians.
-
Episode 26 - Nazis Next Door
Release Date: 2021-08-15The clandestine operation to infiltrate and expose a toxic and rotting world of hate. Reporter Nick McKenzie’s eight-month long special investigation will outrage Australia!
-
Episode 27 - Nazis Next Door, Capitulation
Release Date: 2021-08-22Award winning reporter Nick McKenzie's investigation unmasking members of Australia's neo-Nazi movement and their links to international terror networks; & the Taliban tells what their victory in Afghanistan means for the rest of the world?
-
Episode 28 - Murder Under The Microscope
Release Date: 2021-08-29When Kathleen Folbigg’s four babies died unexpectedly, the law said she was a killer and locked her up. But now eminent scientists have discovered a genetic mutation which they say proves she’s a victim, not a villain and should be freed.
-
Episode 29 - Cashing In, The Miracle Man.
Release Date: 2021-09-05How did $13 billion of JobKeeper money end up going to thriving businesses that didn’t need the help, and why don’t they have to repay the cash?
-
Episode 30 - Not So Secret, Point of Order, The Plane People
Release Date: 2021-09-12The Aussie supermodel exposing the ugly secrets of an iconic fashion brand; the price all Australians must pay for COVID freedom; and the tiny town that rescued 7000 stranded plane passengers in the aftermath of the 9/11 terror attacks.
-
Episode 31 - Hillsong Hell, Game Over
Release Date: 2021-09-19The celebrity church rocked by revelations of evil. Brave victims of assault explain why they’ll never forgive Hillsong; plus, Beijing’s brutal takeover of Hong Kong. Is it the end of freedom in one of the great cities of the world?
-
Episode 32 - American Tragedy, Back to School, Revenge of the Tycoon
Release Date: 2021-09-26Inside the Gabby Petito murder investigation, an American tragedy played out on social media and police body cameras.
-
Episode 33 - Failing Star, All The President’s Venom
Release Date: 2021-10-10A major investigation by journalist Nick McKenzie exposing shameful behaviour at a prominent Australian company; & why legendary Watergate reporter Bob Woodward says Donald Trump’s antics as a bad loser might actually make him a big winner.
-
Episode 34 - American Tragedy, Thumbs Down
Release Date: 2021-10-17How did a great adventure become a shocking murder? Gabby Petito’s heartbroken parents promise to find the truth about their precious daughter’s death.
-
Episode 35 - Cash for Cachet, Jet Star, Beauty and the Creep
Release Date: 2021-10-24The dodgy deals rocking the British Royal family. How much more embarrassment must the Queen endure? Plus, the real-life Aussie Iron Man who says his incredible jetpack flying machine is a blast-filled glimpse into the future of travel.
-
Episode 36 - Saving the ‘Roo, Collateral Damage, No Time to Waste
Release Date: 2021-10-31Winning the fight for flight. How the flying kangaroo was saved from extinction; The Aussie building engineer wrongly jailed in Baghdad, pleading to be rescued; James Bond is back, but what happens when Daniel Craig meets a 007 imposter?
-
Episode 37 - Breakthrough, Dirty Work, Party Time
Release Date: 2021-11-07A major police breakthrough in Australia’s most baffling mystery, the case of the missing high-country campers; Nick McKenzie investigates serious political rorting.
-
Episode 38 - The Deafening Silence, Poking the Panda
Release Date: 2021-11-14Sarah Abo investigates the horrific abuse of Australian women at Qatar airport; plus, the blunt warning from China – prepare for a Cold War!
-
Episode 39 - Close Encounters, Going Back, The Folbigg Tapes
Release Date: 2021-11-21A warning for Australians visiting the beach this summer; Hollywood director Peter Jackson's latest blockbuster – the real story of the breakup of the Beatles.
-
Episode 40 - Dirty Money, Assassinated!, Breakthrough
Release Date: 2021-11-28A Nick McKenzie special investigation: Criminal gangs caught on camera laundering millions of dollars of dirty money in Australian pubs and clubs; plus, the world’s most ruthless tyrant, silencing his critics with savagery beyond belief.
-
Episode 41 - Kate The Great, Mind Games, The Labradorables
Release Date: 2021-12-05How Kate Middleton has become Catherine the Great, the shiniest jewel in the crown of the royal family; Inside the doomsday QAnon cult; and, meet the Labradorables, the internet superstars guaranteed to make everyone smile.
-
Episode 42 - The Samurai Killing
Release Date: 2021-12-12The Samurai Killing: The bizarre story of a home invasion gone fatally wrong. How the intended victims of the attack, ended up on the wrong side of the law after killing the violent intruder, in what they say was an act of self-defence.
-
Episode 44 - Inside Story, Risqué Business
Release Date: 2021-12-19The incredible story of a fisherman who was swallowed by a humpback whale. Plus, why X-rated social media is proving so lucrative for young Australian women.
-
Episode 45 - Rogue One, No Joke
Release Date: 2021-12-26The world's most petulant rogue regime caught out in a hidden camera sting, which reveals the extent of its evil. Robin Williams' wife and friends explain the truth about the comedian's death.
-
Episode 46 - Rage of Consent, Woke Up
Release Date: 2022-01-02Courageous teenagers talking tough about sex, determined to end the confusion over the meaning of consent. Plus, outspoken British TV star Piers Morgan takes on the cancel culture movement.
-
Episode 47 - Hillsong Hell, Great Bright Shark
Release Date: 2022-01-09The celebrity church rocked by revelations of evil. Brave victims of assault explain why they'll never forgive Hillsong; plus, how 15 years of heartbreaking rejection turned Amy Shark into an overnight music sensation.
-
Episode 48 - The Life of Brain, The Miracle Man
Release Date: 2022-01-16The baffling medical mystery of 'Foreign Accent Syndrome'. Meet the women who are Aussies one minute, but Irish the next; plus, the New York miracle man of 9/11.