Kirstin Murray

Michelle Brasier makes audiences cry one minute and laugh out loud the next.  She started comedy because it’s less scary than what she’s facing in life.  

Michelle Brasier was told she had a 97 per cent chance of getting cancer. She chose to laugh about it.

The inside story of why Senator Fatima Payman broke ranks with the Labor Party and the fallout that followed in the Capital and at home.

Rock legend Nick Cave sits down with Leigh Sales for a wide-ranging and deeply personal conversation.

When the Citipointe Christian College issued an enrolment contract asking parents to agree homosexuality was a sin, the protests of students sparked a political firestorm around the rights of religious schools to practise their beliefs.

As students at a religious school, they thought they were the only ones battling the shame of being queer. But when they came out they sparked a political firestorm.

Over 25 years, Australian Story has told a thousand stories, but there is one that audiences always rate as their favourite. Why did a "normal couple" from the bush capture the public's imagination?

The heartwarming next chapter of Australian Story's most popular program ever proves love really does conquer all. Checking in with Gayle and Mac Shann.

Behind the scenes of how police cracked Australia's largest insider trading case.

As Australia faces an unprecedented pandemic, Australian Story tracks the experience of five Australians on five different days to give a unique insight into a week that changed the nation.

Justine Barwick was the first victim in a cluster of shark attacks in the Whitsundays. This is the dramatic story of how she survived and faced her fears to eventually return to the ocean.

Jessica and JP had a dilemma — what to do with embryos left over from IVF. Emma and Richard had a different problem — how to fall pregnant. Could you give a potential baby to people you’d only just met?

Could you give away your surplus embryos? For two couples, a baby boy was the wonderful answer for both their families.

Australian Story producer Kirstin Murray recaps her day interviewing singer-songwriter Kate Miller-Heidke, as the musician talks about her career and personal life highs and lows in the lead-up to her Eurovision performances in Tel Aviv.

Haunted by the experience of childbirth, Kate Miller-Heidke feared she would never find the strength to sing again. Now she's reached the pinnacle of pop and in a few days will be competing on the biggest stage of her career at Eurovision.

An exhilarating backstage pass as Australia's Kate Miller-Heidke prepares for Eurovision and looks back on an extraordinary career.

It took lying by the side of the road, his life ebbing away, for a disenchanted young doctor to realise he did want to save lives. In the shadow of death, Dr Tim Duncan finds his true calling.

The outback doctor who cheated death and found his true calling in life — to serve rural communities.

Is this the solution to reviving Australia's water-starved landscape?

When Jodi Keough traded in her journalism career for love and a life on the land, she never imagined she would find herself at the centre of a devastating and alarming story. But then the unimaginable happened. Her one-year-old son Cash died after playing with a garden hose on the family's cattle station.

When Michael Cox and Taylor Anderton became an item their parents were delighted their adult children, who both have Down syndrome, had found love. But now the families question if the couple is ready for marriage and children.

Something in the water — When Queensland mum Jodi Keough gave her children hoses to cool down with on a hot day, she had no clue it would lead to the death of her baby boy.

Regional communities are being advised to chlorinate their house water after a third child death from a parasite that thrives in warm, fresh water across inland Australia.

Love really can conquer all, with the successful marriage of one of Australia's "most popular couples" proof a strong bond can weather any storm.

The story of historic 'Wooleen' and the young couple who live there drew a big reaction from viewers three years ago. Since that time, the big challenges of the property have increased for David Pollock and Frances Jones.