Sunday Night

Sunday 22 October at 7.00pm

BOOTED OUT
Dustin Martin is now one of the AFL greats. A grand final victory and Brownlow Medal this season, and Dusty’s only just beginning. But he’d gladly give it all away just to have his dad back home with him in Australia. His father was deported to New Zealand last year as part of a blitz against foreign-born criminals and bikies. While Shane Martin has never been jailed for any offence, a convicted killer who’s been jailed 16 times has been allowed to stay. Sunday Night’s Alex Cullen asks why, as Dusty and his family prepare to take their case all the way to the High Court.

WORKING CLASS MAN
We’ve always known he was a wild one. As wild as they come. Since the 70s, Jimmy Barnes has been singing his heart out, belting out hit after hit that in some ways told the story of our lives. But only recently has he found the will and the courage to confront his own life – his own demons. The drugs. The booze. And the darkest night of his life, when he almost ended it all. Rahni Sadler reports.

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Congratulations to Matt Doran who is a Walkleys finalist for his investigation into the child slave trade that aired on Sunday Night.

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On Telethon last night, Alex Cullen was promoting tonight’s Dustin Martin interview on the panel even though tonight’s Sunday Night is not airing in Perth at all :confused:

Edit: Melissa Doyle was on the panel on the Sunday night of Telethon (pun intended) and made somewhat of a mockery of this situation; saying that she was supposedly appearing in 2 places at once in different parts of Australia but she tried to not to draw much attention to it so Perth people may not be annoyed they are missing it!!

I’m sure those in wa can watch Sunday Night on plus 7 if they wish to

It’s still not the same as actually showing it on TV; what about people who don’t have internet? I’m sure there might have been some interest; particularly in the Jimmy Barnes story from last night. I thought that surely they have some sort of legal requirement to still show it here. I imagine this whole episode might be included as part of Sunday Night Summer in 2 months or so time then in the non-ratings period, just so WA can still see these two stories at some stage.

I’m pretty sure a yearly/ 50th anniversary of an event that is used for a good cause takes precedent over Sunday night. If there is a real need there is plus 7 or they can edit and combine two shows next week.

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Legal requirement from who?

Of course that damn well takes precedence over Sunday Night, I’m not being disrespectful there at all. I’m just saying that they have like three other multichannels they still could have shown it on for the people who may have wanted to see it, like they have done with it on Telethon Sunday in the past. And I thought Seven must surely have to show something like Sunday Night in all markets, no matter what. Shows like Border Security, The Force, Highway Patrol etc I can understand them not showing them at all but Sunday Night; their main national current affairs program? It seems wrong to me, particularly when in most other instances where there are alternate schedules happening in some places because of something or other, all programs are normally still shown, either on a multichannel or at a different time or day.

WA will survive without one episode of Sunday Night. We good.

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You didn’t miss Denham Hitchcock :drooling_face:cause he wasn’t on last night, so that’s good.:blush:

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Mind you we saw a lot of him on the panel at Telethon though :smirk:

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Paragraphs are your friend. Don’t be afraid of them.

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Sunday 29 October at 7.00pm

LOST
Earlier this month, Michelle Small and her son, Dylan, set out on what was meant to be a short bushwalk in the Hunter Valley’s rugged Mount Royal National Park. But they very quickly found themselves hopelessly lost. They had no food, no water, no phone - nothing - just an incredible will to live. For 10 days, as their chances of survival began to fade, Michelle’s only thought was to protect her boy. Incredibly, they were rescued from certain death. They’re alive today thanks largely to the power of a mother’s love, and a little practical help from Dylan’s idol, Bear Grylls. Sunday Night’s Angela Cox has this amazing tale of survival.

ALL OF ME
La’Tecia Thomas lights up the screen. She shatters all stereotypes and re-writes the rules on how a top model should look. She’s bold, beautiful, vivacious… and big. La’Tecia used be a size 10. Now she’s a size 16 and more successful as a model that she’s ever been. La’Tecia has carved out a career as one of Australia’s top plus-size models, with a massive global following. And as Sunday Night’s Steve Pennells discovers, she doesn’t give a damn what the fat-shamers think.

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Seven’s Sunday Night receives United Nations award for promotion of gender equality

Channel Seven’s Sunday Night has been recognised with the 2017 United Nations Association of Australia Media Award for Promotion of Gender Equality: Empowerment of Women and Girls for its collaborative multi-platform investigation ‘The Hunting Grounds’, which exposed the prevalence and handling of sexual assaults at Australian universities.

The team behind the landmark investigation – Seven’s Freedom of Information editor Alison Sandy, Sunday Night reporter PJ Madam and producer Penny McWhirter, and News.com.au journalist Nina Funnell – uncovered unprecedented statistics of the rates of rape and sexual misconduct at universities. At its core, the largest ever Freedom of Information investigation targeting all 39 Australian universities.

The sustained and ongoing coverage has also been used as the basis for a submission to the Australian Human Rights Commission’s inquiry into sexual assault.

Sunday Night Executive Producer, Hamish Thomson said: “We are extremely proud our team has been recognised with this award. It was a powerful investigation exposing what can only be described as an epidemic of rape and sexual abuse on university campuses around the nation. Through dozens of FOI applications, Alison and Nina worked tenaciously to lay the factual foundations for the report, creating for the first time a true national picture of just how widespread the problem is. Working with PJ and Penny, the team was then able to bring a human face to these alarming statistics, interviewing brave young woman who spoke out about their shocking experiences.”

The UNAA Media Awards recognise journalists and media organisations who have excelled in their promotion of human rights and issues, while seeking to promote understanding about humanitarian and social justice issues.

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Sunday 5 November at 8.00pm

A SUNDAY NIGHT EXCLUSIVE INVESTIGATION

Brittney Jade Dwyer and her teenage friends were obsessed with the gruesome, the macabre – and worse. An obsession with deadly games that would see 19-year-old Brittney grab a knife, stab her grandfather and then calmly wash the dishes as he sat dying on a couch.

A crime so horrific, it’s almost beyond belief.
Eighty-one-year-old Robert Whitwell was a gentle man who loved his family. Moments before his granddaughter murdered him, he sat showing Brittney family photos of her as a baby.

And after the murder came the crocodile tears and the heartless pretence. As her family mourned, Brittney mourned with them, knowing all the while who killed her ‘poor Poppa’.

For the first time on Sunday Night, Brittney’s family break their silence.

So, what drove Brittney to kill her grandfather in cold blood? And will her accomplice and childhood friend Shelby Lee Holmes finally come clean? Only now that she has been convicted will the truth finally come out.
Sunday Night’s Melissa Doyle has this major investigation.

Promo

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Postscript to Sunday’s episode on the murder of Robert Whitwell: Brittney Dwyer was today sentenced to life by SA Supreme Court Justice Kevin Nicholson. She will serve a non-parole period of 20.5 years. She also received an additional six months for the home invasion, bringing her total minimum imprisonment to 21 years. Her friend, Bernadette Burns, was sentenced to life imprisonment with a non-parole period of 13.5 years for the murder as she was found not to have murderous intent. Both Dwyer and Burns’ sentences were backdated to mid-2016.

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Sunday 12 November at 8.00pm

CATCHING PREDATORS

A SUNDAY NIGHT MAJOR INVESTIGATION

They’re responsible for catching those who commit some of the most horrific crimes against children.

This Sunday, meet these extraordinary men and women; members of a highly secretive police unit whose mission is to protect our kids…at any cost.

Being mums and dads themselves only makes them more devoted to the job of tracking and arresting the predators lurking out there online.

In this Sunday Night major investigation, reporter Denham Hitchcock takes us inside Strike Force Trawler.

Embedded with this specialist police unit for six months as several major operations unfold, step-by-step see the tactics used by these dedicated detectives to snare and catch predators before they can do any more harm.

Sunday Night’s cameras are there for the moment police strike, and capture the eye-opening admissions of these sick and twisted predators.

According to a promo shown tonight, next Sunday Seven will show an ITV documentary on Prince Harry and his girlfriend, Suits star Meghan Markle, as a Sunday Night royal special. It aired in Britain last week as Prince Harry and Meghan: Truly, Madly, Deeply.

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What a load of crap !

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Why have Sunday Night recently been repackaging overseas documentaries as “specials”?