ABC Rewind

In the summer of 1978, Australian narcotics agents intercepted a campervan being unloaded on the Melbourne docks. What they discovered inside the van turned out to be the largest haul of an illicit substance, black hashish, to land on Australian soil at the time. The campervan belonged to two elderly American women tourists, whose overseas holiday odyssey quickly spiralled into a hellish nightmare.

In the summer of 1978, narcotics agents discovered the largest ever haul of illicit drugs to land in Australia, stashed inside a campervan belonging to two elderly American women tourists. But were these women truly drug smugglers or naive puppets in an elaborate plot masterminded by someone else?

Were you at the Wanda gig in 1982? It's forty years since Triple J hosted a free outdoor concert on Sydney's Wanda Beach, where a massive crowd turned up to see the bands whose music defined an era, and who changed the sound of Australian rock forever

How did the largest deaths in custody site in Australia become a tourist mecca?

The dark history of Western Australia’s idyllic holiday playground.

In 1979 a man named Vico Virkez gave a surprise tip off that would lead to one of the longest criminal trials, and some say, the greatest miscarriage of justice, in Australian history.

The story of six Croatian Australian men who were incarcerated for 15 years for crimes they say they never committed.40 years later, new evidence has been found in their favour.

Diaries from two voyages to Sydney aboard the famous Scottish clipper, Samuel Plimsoll.It was a perilous time to be at sea. Disease and fever spread through the ship.Both journeys ended prematurely at Sydney's North Head quarantine station.

The Australian instrument that shaped the sound of the 1980s and forever changed how popular music was made

Sister Edith Blake’s gripping story, from her training in Sydney to nursing Australian soldiers in Gallipoli, to her tragic death in English waters where Germany had promised the safe passage of hospital ships.