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Story Hunters Season 1

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Story Hunters Season 1 Full Episode Guide

Episode 57 - Facebook and Motherhood
Episode 56 - Longboard Dancing
Episode 55 - Hair Fetish
First Aired: November. 09,2016

Josh Marriage grew a beard after his relationship broke down and before too long he had so many fans online he turned it into a business. But he's not the only one who pays the bills catering to other people's hair fetishes.

Episode 54 - Patchewollock: Way Out West Art
First Aired: November. 04,2016

In Victoria's far north-west the tiny farming town of Patchewollock is experiencing a minor boom in culture and babies, and after decades of decline, it can't come too soon.

Episode 53 - The Gambler
First Aired: November. 01,2016

Story Hunter Mel Garrick get a rare insight into the closed off world of professional gambling. We speak to a man who turns over millions of dollars a year by leaving nothing to chance.

Episode 52 - Unwasted
First Aired: October. 28,2016

South Australia has one of the most successful bottle and can recycling schemes in the world. Mel Garrick looks into the economy that surrounds it and the pensioners, homeless and eccentrics who make much needed cash this way.

Episode 51 - Roller Derby: Don't Ask, Don't Tell
First Aired: October. 26,2016

Trans people are constantly renegotiating their world. One of the side stories to their journey is how they still keep playing team sports. Story Hunter Mel Garrick travels to Adelaide to find a sport with a don't ask dont tell policy.

Episode 50 - Kabaddi
First Aired: October. 19,2016

Australia has just competed in a world cup in India. Despite the sport having 500 million fans, you have probably never heard of it! Story Hunter Marcus Thompson asked our audience to help explain the amazing world of kabaddi.

Episode 49 - Modern Love: Love Without Sex
First Aired: October. 14,2016

Could the secret to a great relationship be NOT having sex? In the next instalment of our Modern Love series, Story Hunter Mel Garrick meets an asexual couple who thinks exactly that.

Episode 48 - Modern Love: Love Without Sense
First Aired: October. 12,2016

Relationships are hard but what happens when one of you can not see or hear? Story Hunter Marcus Thompson talks to an extraordinary couple as part of our Modern Love series.

Episode 47 - Yorta Yorta
First Aired: September. 23,2016

How do you stay proud after the highest court in the land rules that your traditional customs have been washed away? We look at the experience of the Yorta Yorta as part of ABC2's Pride Vs Prejudice.

Episode 46 - Australia's Baptism By Fire
First Aired: September. 21,2016

We got six Australians, from a range of migrant backgrounds, together for dinner and asked them if every group faces a trial by fire to become Aussie? A part of ABC2's Pride Vs Prejudice.

Episode 43 - A Deadly Place to Call Home
First Aired: September. 02,2016

The state government wants to close down the former asbestos mining town of Wittenoom in Western Australia. Mel Garrick goes to talk to the three remaining residents about the place they love to call home.

Episode 41 - Number Plates
Episode 40 - Respect Your Elders
Episode 38 - Rio Students
First Aired: August. 15,2016

Students claim that many of Rio's universities have closed because the government is diverting money to the Olympics. Guest Story Hunter Kate Tozer talks to students doing it tough.

Episode 37 - #IAmOther
Episode 35 - Queen of Signing - Follow Up
First Aired: August. 03,2016

We get an update on our campaign of getting more Australian live music acts to include signing for deaf fans. We get reactions to this from The Rubens who won our online poll of acts you'd like to see include an interpreter.

Episode 34 - Timor Hip Hop
First Aired: August. 01,2016

We look at the emerging hip hop music and dance scene in Dili, Timor-Leste. Auskar Surbakti found out how hard it is to make a career of music in one of the world's poorest countries.

Episode 29 - Emotional Rollercoaster: Katie
Episode 28 - Growing Up A Show Kid
First Aired: July. 15,2016

The most unique school in Australia is threatened with closure. The National School for Travelling Show Children was in Rockhampton when Story Hunter Mike Clay caught up with them.

Episode 24 - Stock Photos
Episode 22 - #Twitchike: Part 7
Episode 21 - Ride On Mower Racing
Episode 20 - #Twitchike: Part 6
Episode 17 - What's Going On? Canberra: Episode 6
First Aired: June. 20,2016

In the final of their series Rosie Waterland and Jamila Rizvi look at the extremely close and often explosive relationship between politicians and the press. Features chats with Alice Workman, Laura Tingle and Lenore Taylor. Also a very special cameo from Leigh Sales.

Episode 15 - What's Going On? Canberra: Part 5
Episode 14 - Australia's Poorest Town
First Aired: June. 10,2016

Ash McGhee travels to Mungallala in south-west Queensland because the ATO classifies it as the poorest town in Australia. But what she finds is a surprising place that is not at all what she expected.

Episode 11 - The Art of Theft
Episode 10 - #Twitchike: Part 2
First Aired: June. 01,2016

Guest Story Hunter, Dan Ilic, travels through Victoria to talk to people about the issues of this election. What he finds is a fascinating mixture of disengagement, passion and straight-talking.

Episode 9 - What's Going On? Canberra: Part 4
First Aired: May. 30,2016

Rosie finds out what it is like to be a Cabinet Minister. Guest Hunters Jamila Rizvi and Rosie Waterland journey to the heart of Australian democracy asking all the hard questions and some stupid ones as well.

Episode 8 - The Queen of Signing
Episode 6 - What's Going On? Canberra: Part 3
First Aired: May. 23,2016

What's its really like to be a Senator? Guest Hunters Jamila Rizvi and Rosie Waterland journey to the heart of Australian democracy asking all the hard questions and some stupid ones as well.

Episode 5 - What's Going On? Canberra: Part 2
First Aired: May. 20,2016

Behind the doors of the House of Representatives. Guest Hunters Jamila Rizvi and Rosie Waterland journey to the heart of Australian democracy asking all the hard questions and some stupid ones as well.

Episode 4 - What's In The Giftschrank?
First Aired: May. 16,2016

Giftschranks or poison rooms were used to store offensive literature from Hitler's time in power after World War II. It turns out here in Australia we have giftschranks of our own, full of books deemed too dangerous for the general public.

Episode 3 - What's Going On? Canberra: Part 1
First Aired: May. 16,2016

The first in a series of how Canberra really works. Guest Hunters Jamila Rizvi and Rosie Waterland journey to the heart of Australian democracy, asking all the hard question and some stupid ones as well.

Episode 1 - Beginner Beauty Queens: Part 1
First Aired: May. 16,2016

15 young women are competing for two spots in the finals for Miss World Australia.They say its empowering, and the bikini round is no longer included. Is the pageant feminist or old fashioned? And what does it take to win?

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