Australia Uncovered - Season 2

First aired: 10/25/2022 4 episodes

The second collection of Australia Uncovered, a strand of stand-alone documentaries that explore and celebrate contemporary Australia in revealing, surprising, and compelling ways.

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Episodes

1. Me and My Tourette’s

Aired: 10/25/2022

Around one in every hundred Australians are diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome (TS), a condition that has no cure and is so little understood, even by medical science. With repetitive, sudden movements and vocal tics, the involuntary physical effects can leave people with the syndrome feeling on the outskirts of Australian society. The one-hour documentary will follow three people as they experience a remarkable camp in Victoria that has the potential to change their lives.

2. Inconceivable: The Secret Business of Breeding Humans

Aired: 11/1/2022

This one-hour documentary is based on a journalist’s discovery at the age of 27 that the man who brought her up and loved her dearly was not her biological father. Her mother was impregnated with anonymous donor sperm. The intensely personal film is the story of award-winning investigative journalist Sarah Dingle and her fight to uncover the truth about who made her and how. At the same time, she uses her skills to investigate the secretive fertility industry, in her words - “a deeply unethical and pathologically secretive business that makes millions for its practitioners but has little concern for the human beings it creates.”

3. The Cleaning Company

Aired: 11/8/2022

The Cleaning Company (also known as 'Clean')is a fly-on-the-wall insight into the world of trauma cleaning through the journey of charming transgender business owner Sandra Pankhurst and the lives of a motley crew of workers at Frankston's Specialised Trauma Cleaning Services (STC). The theatrical release of this film was called Clean and earned an AACTA nomination, premiering to acclaim at this year’s MIFF and SXSW.

4. Kids Raising Kids

Aired: 11/15/2022

School is a challenge for many teenagers, but for some, the stakes are even higher. Kids Raising Kids gives audiences exclusive insight inside a one-of-a kind high school for teen parents in Canberra. - but our characters’ lessons are not confined to the classroom. Many of the students are single parents, some are overcoming family trauma and drug dependency, and all are navigating a complex system. What unites them is a will to transform their lives - to get an education, stay on the right side of the law, and be the best parents they can be. Can they overcome the immense challenges in their lives to make it to graduation and a new future?