Presented with humour & verve, Australian Encounters celebrates historic encounters between a renowned Australian & a...

It was 1919 and the world's statesmen were gathered at Versailles to redraw the map of the world. Australia had sacri...

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

The imperious Australian soprano and the effusive Italian tenor had transformed La Boheme from a slow burn sleeper in...

Herr Hitler was busy in the Rhineland, so Joseph Aloysius Lyons decided to pay a visit to Signor Mussolini instead. I...

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

In the backroom bar of the Katsikas brothers' grocery store, amid tins of olive oil and sacks of flour, a young unkno...

Kylie Minogue met Michael Hutchence at a bash after the Countdown Awards in 1987. By the time their two-year affair e...

Twenty-year-old boxer Lionel Rose was in Los Angeles to defend his world bantamweight title. When he received the mes...

In 1880, an unschooled Catholic bushman and a Protestant judge traded points, back and forth, neither ultimately pers...