A relative of the convicted killer Morris Ansell describes the man he knew as a gentle uncle, long after Ansell served his prison sentence and began his life again in New Zealand.

Chapter 3: Someone to blame

Mar 11th, 2016 5m 10s

Joan stumbles on a description of the killer, Morris Ansell, which challenges her long-held suspicions about the murder. She also reveals how she eventually did track down her mother, and what happened when they met as adults.

Chapter 2: Searching for answers

Mar 11th, 2016 6m 17s

Alfred Atherton's murder case has been kept closed for 75 years, but in January 2016, the Public Records Office of Victoria opened it to its public collection. Joan is able to read the file for the first time, finding it stirs memories of the l

Making Sense of a Murder, Chapter 1: What Joan knows so far

Mar 11th, 2016 5m 43s

In the third season of Invisible History, we follow one woman's journey to make sense of her father's murder in 1939, with the central question being what role her mother may have played.

Chapter 5: Keeping the Olympic spirit alive

Nov 6th, 2015 7m 8s

Despite its challenges, Maxine says there is something keeping her living in the village, and she will never leave.

Chapter 4: Hard times at home

Nov 6th, 2015 6m 31s

Maxine's living situation became so traumatic at one point, she went into a deep depression.

Chapter 3: Sticking together

Nov 6th, 2015 5m 3s

Once a week, locals gather to share lunch in the backyard of a Marist Brother's house in the village. They say they may not have much money, but they have each other.

Chapter 2: 'The Bronx' of Melbourne

Nov 6th, 2015 8m 26s

In the 1970s, generational disadvantage amongst the community was compounded by the ageing housing stock.

Our Olympic Village, Chapter 1: an unlikely past

Nov 6th, 2015 6m 24s

Nearly 60 years after Melbourne hosted the Olympic Games, those living in the old athletes' village still suffer the effects of a rushed development and public housing policies of the time.

Chapter 1: The promise of a future

Jul 2nd, 2015 7m 41s

Robert Young begins to retrace the lives of two daring young Indigenous men. Starting at the corner of Franklin and Bowen Streets in Melbourne's CBD, then going back to the early 1800s in Tasmania, Robert discovers the men are closely connected

Chapter 2: The breaking point

Jul 2nd, 2015 5m 22s

Something tipped Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheener over the edge when they were in Victoria with George Augustus Robinson, but no one knows for sure what it was.

Chapter 3: The confrontation on the coast

Jul 2nd, 2015 4m 47s

A daring departure soon leads to an inevitable confrontation between Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheener's group and the colonists.

Chapter 4: The example of death

Jul 2nd, 2015 6m 22s

The first formal executions in Victoria raise questions regarding how to define a murderer in the midst of colonial conflict.

Chapter 5: The way we remember

Jul 2nd, 2015 5m 56s

Memorials everywhere, but what do they tell us? A controversial push for frontier conflict to be recognised is close to becoming a reality in Melbourne.

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