Invisible History

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Date Title & Description Contributors
2016-03-11

  Chapter 4: Skeletons in the closet

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.
  ABC Local author
2016-03-11

  Chapter 3: Someone to blame

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.
  ABC Local author
2016-03-11

  Chapter 2: Searching for answers

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 legacy he...
  ABC Local author
2016-03-11

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

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.
  ABC Local author
2015-11-06

  Chapter 5: Keeping the Olympic spirit alive

Despite its challenges, Maxine says there is something keeping her living in the village, and she will never leave.
  ABC Local author
2015-11-06

  Chapter 4: Hard times at home

Maxine's living situation became so traumatic at one point, she went into a deep depression.
  ABC Local author
2015-11-06

  Chapter 3: Sticking together

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.
  ABC Local author
2015-11-06

  Chapter 2: 'The Bronx' of Melbourne

In the 1970s, generational disadvantage amongst the community was compounded by the ageing housing stock.
  ABC Local author
2015-11-06

  Our Olympic Village, Chapter 1: an unlikely past

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.
  ABC Local author
2015-07-02

  Chapter 1: The promise of a future

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 to one ...
  ABC Local author