Asher Keddie

In 1972, 30-year-old journalist and editor, Ita Buttrose and 35-year-old Kerry Packer, scion of what was then Australias most ruthlessly powerful and influential publishing families, got together to create a magazine that became one of the most dramatic sensations in Australian publishing history. Cleo Magazine begun in a fit of pique went on to help define women, Australia and the relationship between the two.

Four strangers — a woman on the run, a brave refugee, a driven bureaucrat and a struggling dad — intersect at an Australian immigration detention center.

“Kate Ballard (Asher Keddie) is facing her first election for State Premier. Committed and rigorous, her victory seems assured… until the opposition announces a shock new candidate: David McLeod (Rodger Corser), a popular media identity… and a man Kate had a secret, tumultuous affair with several years ago. To the world at large, David and Kate present as compelling, evenly matched adversaries… But a paranoid Kate fears that their complicated history is a trump card waiting to be played. Told in six parts, building to an election-night finale, this is a cat-and-mouse game, played out on a grand scale.”

A shocking discovery made by a pair of idealistic high school teachers thrusts four families into a nude photo scandal involving underage teens.

Despite herself, a grieving young woman becomes lost in ten tales of terror when she inherits from her mother the Book of Dark Whispers.

When disaster strikes both their flocks, two sheep farming brothers in Western Australia have to set aside a decades-long feud to save their herds.

In 1970s Australia, a 200-ton blue whale washes up on a local beach in a community filled with boxed wine, bad hair and good times.