Tue, Sep 15, 1987
No country had less likely Founding Fathers. For sixty years the convict ships sailed until, in 1851, someone found gold - and so the furthest gulag slowly started towards nationhood.
Tue, Sep 22, 1987
"Fini retreat, beaucoup Australians ici!" So shouted a digger as he and his companions marched to the 1915 trenches. Thus was born the self-confident legend of the Anzacs. And much more followed.
Tue, Sep 29, 1987
We learnt British history; we had British heroes; we even had your garden gnomes. Once we were White Australia; today we are as ethnically mixed as any nation on earth.
Tue, Oct 6, 1987
A journey with self-made millionaire and pilot Dick Smith. A 1,000 mile helicopter journey from the Opera House, across the Outback to the remote desert town of Birdsville - in time for that most most Australian of events: a race meeting.
Tue, Oct 13, 1987
With humourist Spike Milligan. Spike starts in the town to which his parents emigrated in 1953. Spike thought they were mad - until he came and fell in love with the place - and its quirky Australian soul.