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Genre
  
Newsmagazine

Country of origin
  
Australia

No. of seasons
  
41

First episode date
  
11 February 1979

Number of seasons
  
41

6.7/10
IMDb

Created by
  
Original language(s)
  
English

Executive producer(s)
  
Kirsty Thomson (2016)

Language
  
English

Program creator
  
Don Hewitt

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Presented by
  
Liz Hayes, Charles Wooley, Tara Brown, Allison Langdon, Peter Stefanovic, Liam Bartlett, Ross Coulthart

Awards
  
Logie Award for Most Outstanding Public Affairs Report

Similar
  
Four Corners, Foreign Correspondent, 60 Minutes II, 60 Minutes Sports, Home and Away

Profiles

60 Minutes is an Australian version of the U.S. television newsmagazine program 60 Minutes airing on Sunday nights on the Nine Network. A New Zealand version uses segments of the show.

Contents

Gerald Stone, the founding executive producer, was given the job by Kerry Packer and was told: "I don't give a f... what it takes. Just do it and get it right." After the first episode was broadcast on 11 February 1979, Packer was less than impressed, telling Stone: "You've blown it, son. You better fix it fast." Over the years, Stone's award-winning 60 Minutes revolutionised Australian current affairs reporting and enhanced the careers of Ray Martin, Ian Leslie, George Negus, and later Jana Wendt.

Awards

60 Minutes has won numerous awards for broadcasting, including five Silver Logies, one Special Achievement Logie, and received nominations for a further six Logie awards.

Executive producers

  • Gerald Stone (1979–1992)
  • Present correspondents

  • Liz Hayes (1996–present)
  • Charles Wooley (1993–2005, 2009–present)
  • Tara Brown (2001–present)
  • Allison Langdon (2011–present)
  • Peter Stefanovic (2017–present)
  • Liam Bartlett (2006–2012, 2015–present)
  • Ross Coulthart (2015–present)
  • Contributing reporters

  • Ellen Fanning (1999–2000 full-time, 2009–present)
  • Peter Overton (2001-2009, full-time, 2009–present)
  • Karl Stefanovic (2005–present)
  • Ray Martin (1979–1984 full-time, 2010–present)
  • Georgie Gardner (2014–present)
  • Past correspondents

  • Jana Wendt (1982–88, 1994)
  • Jeff McMullen (1985–2001)
  • Jennifer Byrne (1986–93)
  • Mike Munro (1986–92)
  • Richard Carleton (1987–2006) (died during the Beaconsfield mine disaster.)
  • Tracey Curro (1993–97)
  • Ellen Fanning (1999–2001)
  • Paul Barry (2004–05)
  • Peter Harvey (2003–2013)
  • Michael Usher (2009–2016)
  • Original correspondents

  • George Negus (1979–86)
  • Ray Martin (1979–84)
  • Ian Leslie (1979–89)
  • Kate Baillieu (1979– resigned before program went to air)
  • Commentators

    Past and present commentators include:

  • Paul Lyneham (1979–2000)
  • Peter Harvey (2003–2013)
  • Controversies

    In March 2016, a news crew for Australia's 60 Minutes working with Jan Sjunnesson came under attack, including having stones thrown on them and a car running over the foot of a cameraman who was trying to prevent it from leaving in the immigrant-dominated district of Rinkeby of Stockholm. 60 Minutes published the video, on which reporter Liz Hayes states "there are now 55 declared no-go zones in Sweden."

    In April 2016, Tara Brown and eight other people (including three other staff members of the Nine Network, David Ballment, Stephen Rice, and Ben Williamson) were arrested on allegations of child abduction in Beirut. According to Lebanese authorities, 60 minutes allegedly paid $115,000 directly to the Child Abduction Recovery International Agency, despite claims that the exchange was made by the mother of the children. The abduction agency used has also been widely discredited, with fake recovery stories being posted on Facebook and their operators having been arrested all over the world. The recovery involved the team waiting in a parked car on the street and then snatching the children from their Grandmother and nanny before driving away. [Media WatchLebanese judicial sources told The Guardian that the group were to be charged with "armed abduction, purveying threats and physical harm" - crimes which carry sentences of twenty years imprisonment with hard labour. The group were released from custody only after the Nine Network paid a substantial money settlement to the father of the children the subject of the abduction attempt. This operation by 60 minutes sparked wide debate about the ethics of the journalism being conducted and was a great humiliation to the program.

    References

    60 Minutes (Australian TV program) Wikipedia


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