Invisible History

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.

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.

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 her mother left her as a child.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 of his own ancestors.

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.

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

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

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.