Yes “A 60 MINUTES SPECIAL EDITION”
Hopefully they did deeper into the real issues behind the story which largely include the FAA/1960s design/Southwest Pressure.
SUNDAY, MAY 12, AT 8.40PM
WHY?
Eighteen-year-old Christopher Cassaniti’s beaming smile perfectly matched his generous spirit and love of life. They were qualities he inherited from his mum and dad, Patrizia and Rob. Six weeks ago Christopher happily headed off to his job as an apprentice on a building site in Sydney. But by lunchtime he was dead, pinned under 17 metres of twisted metal scaffolding that had collapsed on him and a workmate. Patrizia and Rob will never be able to comprehend the loss of their beautiful son, but they feel compelled to talk about it. In a remarkably courageous interview, they tell Tara Brown they don’t want others to suffer like they are, and they’re doing all they can to ensure every worksite around Australia is safe.
Reporter: Tara Brown
Producers: Naomi Shivaraman, Joel Tozer
IN TOO DEEP
When it comes to climate change Australian politicians are masters at dilly-dallying.
They try to convince us they’re concerned about the issue, but when called to act there seems to be very little unity in parliament. Perhaps they should do what Liam Bartlett has just done and take a trip to one of the most isolated – and breathtakingly beautiful – parts of the Pacific: the northern Solomon Islands. There they’ll see how much deep water we’re all in. With the world heating up, drastic rises in sea level mean whole islands are literally disappearing. It’s an extraordinary sight, and proof positive we must do more, right now.
Reporter: Liam Bartlett
Producer: Nick Greenaway
WORK STRIFE BALANCE
For a nation that prides itself on giving everyone a fair go, it’s alarming how many Australian families feel like they’re missing out. The reason is simple: costs keep rising but wages don’t. With an election six days away, many candidates are promising to fix the problem. Their pledges play well on the nightly news, but before you give them your vote, think hard. On assignment for 60 MINUTES, Nine’s finance editor, Ross Greenwood, reports that Australian workers are already among the highest paid in the world, which means the push for even bigger pay packets is likely to have dire consequences. Greenwood warns local jobs will go overseas, and unemployment here will increase.
Reporter: Ross Greenwood
Producer: Nick Greenaway
SUNDAY, MAY 19, AT 8.30PM ON NINE AFTER THE VOICE
DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS
It started with a dream to create a patch of heaven in Fiji, a surfer’s paradise right near one of the world’s most legendary waves, Cloudbreak. Two Aussie mates, Navrin Fox and Woody Jack, obtained a 99-year lease on land on Malolo Island and planned a small and environmentally friendly resort. But then, to their horror and disgust, right next door bulldozers rolled in and started clearing everything in sight. The spectacular reef, sandy beach and pristine rainforest were all destroyed by Chinese developers determined to build, of all things, a $100 million casino. But as Liam Bartlett reports, far from being wiped out, the Aussie surfers refused to let the dirty rotten scoundrels get away with it.
Reporter: Liam Bartlett
Producer: Nick Greenaway
CHILDREN OF THE REVOLUTION
These days that old saying, “Children should be seen and not heard”, is just that: old. Young people have had enough of the way the adults are running the world and they want everyone to know they can do better. The latest global protest phenomenon has school kids going on strike, abandoning the classroom and taking to the streets to demand action on climate change. It’s a campaign that started with one teenager in Sweden, and it has grown to include 1.4 million angry and noisy students from 125 countries. And they’re not just loud, they’re also very smart. So perhaps we all need to be reminded that the times really are a-changin’.
Reporter: Sarah Abo
Producers: Laura Sparkes, Naomi Shivaraman
AND I’M BOB HAWKE
Since his death on Thursday, much has been written and said about the life of Bob Hawke. The ALP’s most successful and longest-serving prime minister was many things: a larrikin bloke, a uniting leader, and a social and economic reformer. Charles Wooley knew him for close to 50 years and looks back on Hawke’s brilliant career, which after politics even included a stint as a globetrotting 60 MINUTES reporter.
Reporter: Charles Wooley
While Mehajer largely ignored the waiting media pack on Tuesday morning, he was swept away by a waiting van which PS can reveal was carrying a crew from 60 Minutes . Mehajer was taken to an undisclosed location to be interviewed.
60 minutes referred to someone as a bastard in their recent promo. What was that about? lol
A SPECIAL EDITION OF 60 MINUTES
SUNDAY, MAY 26, AT 8.30PM ON NINE AFTER THE VOICE
JENI’S ARMY
As clever as we think we are, there’s one thing that can outsmart us all. The human brain. But as mighty as it is, it’s also mysterious. Just ask Jeni Haynes. How her mind worked to save her life is one of the most incredible things you’ll ever see. As a young girl, Jeni was subjected to extreme and unimaginable horror. To withstand it, her brain conjured up multiple personalities. In one body lived two and a half thousand different characters, who stepped in at various times to help Jeni deal with the unbearable pain she was suffering. As this remarkable woman explains to Liz Hayes in a special edition of 60 MINUTES , “I didn’t realise that having lots of voices in your head is abnormal.” But that’s not all. Jeni’s army of strangers decided to take on her enemy, fighting extraordinary battles to convince the world she wasn’t crazy, and then bringing the man responsible for all her torment to justice.
Reporter: Liz Hayes
Producers: Gareth Harvey, Madeleine Apps
THIS WEEK ON 60 MINUTES
SUNDAY, JUNE 2, AT 8.30PM ON NINE
THE DINGO DID IT
If Azaria Chamberlain was still alive, she’d be about to celebrate her 39th birthday. Tragically though, no one thinks of Azaria as an adult. Instead she is marked in Australia’s psyche as the two-month-old baby who was killed by a dingo at Ayers Rock, or Uluru as it’s now called. But the manner of her death still grips people with horror. The cunning dingo entered the tent where tiny Azaria was sleeping and brazenly snatched her away. In fact what the dingo did was so improbable many thought it was impossible. But six weeks ago, on Queensland’s Fraser Island, there was a near identical attack. As Charles Wooley reveals in this 60 MINUTES exclusive, a dingo grabbed a 14-month-old baby boy from inside the camper trailer where he was sleeping. As the child was being carried away in the jaws of the wild animal, his crying woke his parents who, in the nick of time, were able to rescue their son as he was being dragged away into the bush. Wooley’s story is an extraordinary account of the terrifying ingenuity of dingoes and the heroics of a desperate mum and dad.
Reporter: Charles Wooley
Producers: Steve Jackson, Naomi Shivaraman
MOON TALKER
Here’s a question likely to cause arguments: what is humankind’s greatest achievement? The Age of Enlightenment? Music? What about the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza? For many it doesn’t get more glorious than the day Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. This year marks the 50th anniversary of that remarkable feat of technology and daring. And while the moonwalkers, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, dominate our memories of the moon landing, there’s a third astronaut who deserves his place in history. Michael Collins piloted the Apollo 11 command module spacecraft in lunar orbit while his two colleagues collected moon rocks. In a rare interview he tells Sarah Abo if it wasn’t for him, one of our greatest successes would have been a monumental failure.
Reporter: Sarah Abo
Producers: Laura Sparkes, Naomi Shivaraman
Or did he? Will there be a fake Moon landing conspiracy theory story soon on Sunday Night? That’s their kind of story.
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According to Annette Sharp in The Sunday Telegraph, Karl Stefanovic will possibly make a couple of appearances on 60 Minutes later this year, helping him to earn his $50,000 per week pay from Nine.
I wonder if 60 minutes exclusively filmed today’s arrest. It seems he is going back to prison.
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Interview or Cross Promotion?
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THIS WEEK ON 60 MINUTES
SUNDAY, JUNE 9, AT 8.30PM ON NINE AFTER THE VOICE
WHAT A GUY
Anyone who believes in the saying “good guys finish last” doesn’t know Guy Sebastian. The enormously successful Aussie pop artist thrives on not having any of the often-seen fundamentals of show business. There’s no out-of-control ego, no temper tantrums and no sycophantic entourage. Instead, Guy relies on hard work and a loving family. Being decent though hasn’t been without its challenges. When he was starting out, he had to ignore the industry experts who said the young man with a very distinct afro hairdo didn’t have the look to be successful. But there was one thing they couldn’t deny: Guy’s extraordinary voice.
Reporter: Tom Steinfort
Producer: Nick Greenaway
SUGAR AND OLD SPICE
Incredibly, right now in Australia there are more than 200,000 young women who have either become, or are trying to be, “sugar babies”. Their ambition is for a sweet life of pampered luxury, paid for by older, sometimes much older, men. For the so-called “sugar daddies”, the equation is simple: the wealthier they are, the more attractive they are. But as Sarah Abo finds out, it’s not hard to read between the lines here. The term sugar baby is often code for sex worker, and the male moneybags are often crinkled-up creeps. And that leads to a very important question: is this sugar baby phenomenon about empowering women or exploiting them?
Reporter: Sarah Abo
Producers: Alice Dalley, Gareth Harvey
60 MINUTES
WORLD EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
SUNDAY, JUNE 16, AT 8.30PM AFTER THE VOICE ON NINE
CAPTIVE
To his family and friends Gene Bristow was an unassuming, hardworking hobby farmer. But his life was a façade. In truth, Bristow, 54, was a monster, consumed with thoughts of depravity. It seems he craved sexual gratification, and he devised an evil plan to lure a young woman to his remote South Australian property and keep her as his captive. As Tara Brown reports, his scheme was as meticulous as it was wicked, except for one thing. He picked the wrong target. The ingenuity of the Belgian backpacker (who is now 26) and her sheer will to live meant that when evil collided with good there would only be one winner. On 60 MINUTES, for the first time, she speaks publicly about her ordeal and inspiring bravery.
Reporter: Tara Brown
Producer: Garry McNab
THIS WEEK ON 60 MINUTES
SUNDAY, JULY 7, ON NINE AFTER THE VOICE GRAND FINALE
GET SMART
As any parent knows, every child is a gift. But a rare few are also gifted . These are the children born with genetic quirks giving them extraordinary talents which far exceed their tender years. Of course, they have to work long and hard to hone their genius, and as Tom Steinfort discovers, it’s here where the subject of child prodigies gets tricky and controversial. What role do parents play in nurturing their kids’ abilities? And how far should they push them in the pursuit of perfection?
Reporter: Tom Steinfort
Producer: Steve Jackson
PARADISE LOST
Close your eyes and cast your mind back to another time. A simpler age when the dream holiday destination for many Australians was a tropical island on the Great Barrier Reef. Think Dunk, Great Keppel, South Molle and Hayman, and think swaying palm trees, frolicking families and loved-up honeymooners. There was nothing better. But then a few years ago there was, quite literally, a sea change. A strange mix of global warming, low-cost airlines and our indulgent obsession for selfies in far-flung parts of the world saw the sun set on these local attractions. Today, almost half the resorts on and off the Queensland coast are closed; silent and decaying shells of their former glory. On 60 MINUTES, Charles Wooley finds out if they can be saved.
Reporter: Charles Wooley
Producer: Bryce Corbett
KEEP OUT
Anyone who has watched the television news in the last few weeks will almost certainly remember the tragic images of the young father and his two-year-old daughter who drowned in the Rio Grande River while trying to enter the United States illegally. The pictures are distressing, but the deaths of these people fleeing from El Salvador are ammunition for the critics of President Donald Trump and his obsession with building a fifteen-billion-dollar wall on the US border with Mexico. He says it’s the best way to keep unwanted refugees out of America, but his opponents scream it’s an obscene waste of money that won’t work. Fair enough, except why have so many other countries built very similar walls?
Reporter: Sarah Abo
Producer: Laura Sparkes
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A 60 MINUTES EXCLUSIVE
SUNDAY, JULY 14, AT 8.45PM AFTER NINJA WARRIOR ON NINE
JOHN JARRATT: INSIDE THE TRIAL
Like all great TV and movie stars, John Jarratt plays a vast range of different characters. But he has one standout role. On-screen psychopaths don’t get any more menacing or memorable than Jarratt’s Mick Taylor in “Wolf Creek”. But in 2017, at the height of his success, the veteran actor received a surprising – and unwelcome – blast from the past. A woman he’d known decades before, someone he thought of then as a friend, suddenly claimed he was a monster in real life. She said one night back in 1976, Jarratt raped her. With that damning allegation his career and reputation instantly disintegrated. Jarratt vehemently denied the accusation but was charged by police. His life went on hold as he waited for the case to be heard in court and his fate determined by the deliberations of a jury. But while he contemplated the possibility of a very bleak future, Jarratt made an incredible decision. He agreed to let 60 MINUTES record every moment of the fight to clear his name. For this extraordinarily revealing story, reporter Tara Brown spent months with John Jarratt, his family and legal team, in the lead-up to and during the most tumultuous time of his life.
Reporter: Tara Brown
Producers: Gareth Harvey, Bryce Corbett
SUNDAY, JULY 21, AT 8:30PM ON NINE
BATTLE ROYALE
In London an intriguing royal saga is unfolding. But it’s not the House of Windsor at the centre of this astonishing drama. Rather, it’s Dubai’s royal family, and it concerns the high-profile Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein, one of the wives of the all-powerful ruler and multi-billionaire, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. The Princess has fled to England with the couple’s two young children and is now reportedly holed up in the family’s $150 million London mansion. The Sheikh is said to be furious with his wife, accusing her of treachery and betrayal. As to the cause of this marital contretemps there’s much whispering, but as Tom Steinfort reports, it’s probably linked to another mysterious family scandal. Last year one of Sheikh Mohammed’s daughters, 33-year-old Princess Latifa, also tried to escape from Dubai, but failed. In an exclusive interview with 60 MINUTES, a former palace insider explains the complicated and captivating machinations of this privileged – and troubled – royal family.
Reporter: Tom Steinfort
Producers: Steve Jackson, Madeleine Apps
ON OUR DOORSTEP
Anyone who thinks ISIS and its reign of barbarity is over is sadly mistaken. Sure, allied forces have been effective in wiping out the extremists in Syria and Iraq, but many of its fighters have escaped and are relocating. The worrying news is that they’re moving into our region, specifically into areas of Indonesia and the Philippines. The re-emergence of ISIS fighters, and their sympathisers, on Australia’s doorstep is such a threat that our armed services have been given a vital and until now largely unrecognised mission: deployed to the remote jungles of the Philippines to make sure this evil menace is stopped in its tracks. But as defiant ISIS soldiers tell Liam Bartlett in chilling, secretly recorded interviews, the extremists don’t fear their Aussie foes.
Reporter: Liam Bartlett
Producer: Joel Tozer
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