Series 1 (2013)

Bob Hawke and Frank Sinatra 1974
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July 30, 2013 • 3m

Presented with humour & verve, Australian Encounters celebrates historic encounters between a renowned Australian & an internation...Read more

Billy Hughes and Woodrow Wilson 1919
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August 6, 2013 • 3m

It was 1919 and the world's statesmen were gathered at Versailles to redraw the map of the world. Australia had sacrificed much bl...Read more

Isabel Letham and Duke Kahanamoku 1914
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August 13, 2013 • 3m

In December 1914, an athletic young Hawaiian strode across the beach at Freshwater, a stretch of sand between Manly and Curl Curl....Read more

Nellie Melba and Enrico Caruso 1902
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August 20, 2013 • 3m

The imperious Australian soprano and the effusive Italian tenor had transformed La Boheme from a slow burn sleeper into a blockbus...Read more

Joe Lyons and Benito Mussolini 1935 and 1937
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August 27, 2013 • 3m

Herr Hitler was busy in the Rhineland, so Joseph Aloysius Lyons decided to pay a visit to Signor Mussolini instead. It was 1935 an...Read more

Rupert Murdoch and Kamahl 1958
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September 10, 2013 • 3m

Just before Christmas, 1958, Rupert Murdoch, then aged 27, met a sensitive young Tamil on the dodge from the immigration authoriti...Read more

George Johnston and Leonard Cohen 1960
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October 8, 2013 • 3m

In the backroom bar of the Katsikas brothers' grocery store, amid tins of olive oil and sacks of flour, a young unknown Canadian p...Read more

Kylie Minogue and Michael Hutchence 1987
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October 15, 2013 • 3m

Kylie Minogue met Michael Hutchence at a bash after the Countdown Awards in 1987. By the time their two-year affair ended, it had ...Read more

Lionel Rose and Elvis Presley 1968
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October 22, 2013 • 3m

Twenty-year-old boxer Lionel Rose was in Los Angeles to defend his world bantamweight title. When he received the message that Elv...Read more

Edward Kelly and Redmond Barry 1880
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October 29, 2013 • 3m

In 1880, an unschooled Catholic bushman and a Protestant judge traded points, back and forth, neither ultimately persuading the ot...Read more