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7NEWS Spotlight
by LiSTNR
From the award-winning 7NEWS team comes 7NEWS Spotlight - a series of investigative specials focussing on major breaking news events and long-form investigations of national significance.
Episodes
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Bubba Chump: How Alex 'Chumpy' Pullin became a father 15 months after his death
Olympian and world champion snowboarder Alex “Chumpy” Pullin tragically lost his life in 2020 while spearfishing in a free diving accident near the Gold Coast. As the snowboarding community grieved the loss of the popular 32-year-old, Chumpy’s long-term partner, Ellidy Vlug, was left devastated....
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Secrets Of The UFOs
New developments in the global mystery surrounding UFOs with host Michael Usher and investigative journalist Ross Coulthart. An Australian witness to the infamous Westall incident in Melbourne finally breaks their silence about a cover-up. Watch this episode on YouTube:...
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Inside The Minds Of Killers
Criminal psychologist Tim Watson-Munro and criminal anthropologist Dr Xanthe Mallett join Michael Usher to delve into the minds of some of the world's worst psychopaths, narcissists and sociopaths to unravel the real reasons behind their chilling crimes. Cases include Dalia Dippolito, Jerrod...
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Ruby Princess: COVID-19 Outbreak Unleashed
This major 7NEWS investigation examines the critical errors and cover-ups in the deepening Ruby Princess coronavirus crisis, to date responsible for seven deaths and 10 percent of all COVID-19 cases in Australia. Featuring interviews with key players at the centre of the developing scandal and...
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The UFO Phenomenon
Five-time Walkley Award-winning investigative journalist Ross Coulthart – who has been investigating the phenomena for the past two years – has led the 7NEWS Spotlight team across the US, amassing never-before-seen compelling evidence and speaking to the key players behind an event that will…
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COVID-19: Delta Crisis Exposed
The arrival of the COVID-19 Delta variant has thrown Australia’s two biggest cities back into lockdown, prompted State borders to slam shut again, and raised even more questions about the glacial pace of the nation’s vaccine rollout. This 7NEWS Spotlight special examines how the Delta variant…
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Matthew Ames: meet Australia's bionic dad
When Matthew Ames fell ill in June 2013, he thought he had just come down with the flu. And four doctors agreed, sending him home to rest. When the pain became unbearable, he took himself to hospital. Matthew had contracted a streptococcal infection that ravaged his body, leading to the…
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Martin Bryant: the only interview ever recorded with the Port Arthur shooter
Australia was scarred forever by the horrors at Port Arthur in 1996. 35 people died when Bryant ran amok with his arsenal of weapons at the busy tourist destination of Port Arthur in Tasmania. The appalling crime wounded many more, scarred the nation, shocked the world and changed us forever. For...
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What happened to Madeleine McCann?
Madeleine McCann was just three years old when she vanished from her bed while on holiday in Portugal. There have been multiple sightings and her parents accused of foul play, but there's still no definitive answer as to what happened. Rahni Sadler sits down with Madeleine's parents Kate and…
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Inside Diana's private struggles
In this royal special event, Melissa Doyle sits down with those who knew Diana, Princess of Wales best: her butler Paul Burrell, her bodyguard Ken Wharfe, her best friend Rosa Monckton and journalist Richard Kay. They open up about the struggles behind the smile and the heartache inside that...
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The murder of Lisa Harnum: the CCTV footage that convicted Simon Gittany
In 2011, Canadian ex-pat Lisa Harnum was found dead at the bottom of a Sydney apartment building. Her fiance Simon Gittany was charged with her murder; he claimed she jumped from the balcony of their apartment. But three seconds of video would seal his fate. Investigative journalists Ross…
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Beauty queen killer: the unsolved murder of Anne Zappelli
Anne Zappelli was a young woman from country Western Australia. The beauty queen and Miss Australia Quest contestant was raped and murdered in September 1969, aged just 20. Police bungled the investigation and the case was never solved. A chilling deathbed confession that pointed the finger at…
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Sole survivor: the Lin family murders
On July 18, 2009, the battered bodies of newsagent Min Lin, his wife Lily Lin, their sons Henry and Terry; and Lily's sister Irene were found in their North Epping home. Brenda Lin was the only family member to survive - saved only by a school trip to New Caledonia. After making pleas for public...
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In The Blink Of An Eye - four young lives lost in the Oatlands car crash: Part Two
A group of seven carefree siblings and cousins, enjoying a moment of childhood independence as they walked to get ice cream from the shops on a hot Australian summer evening. There was laughter and jokes as they took turns on a bicycle – when without warning the unthinkable. In the blink of an…
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In The Blink Of An Eye - four young lives lost in the Oatlands car crash: Part One
A group of seven carefree siblings and cousins, enjoying a moment of childhood independence as they walked to get ice cream from the shops on a hot Australian summer evening. There was laughter and jokes as they took turns on a bicycle – when without warning the unthinkable. In the blink of an…
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Catching A Madman - the Family Court bomber: Part Two
For more than three decades, the seven crimes known as the Family Court Murders remained the worst series of unsolved serial killings in Australian criminal history. Between 1980 and 1985, four people were murdered and dozens critically injured in a cruel five-year reign of terror across Sydney,...
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Catching A Madman - the Family Court bomber: Part One
For more than three decades, the seven crimes known as the Family Court Murders remained the worst series of unsolved serial killings in Australian criminal history. Between 1980 and 1985, four people were murdered and dozens critically injured in a cruel five-year reign of terror across Sydney,...
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The Lindy Tapes - the Azaria Chamberlain mystery: Part Two
The Lindy Tapes is a documentary six months in the making. It uncovers stunning new evidence in the now infamous Azaria Chamberlain case. ‘A dingo’s got my baby’- five words that will forever divide a nation. The tragic death of a baby girl in outback Australia that at one point in time became a...
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The Lindy Tapes - the Azaria Chamberlain mystery: Part One
The Lindy Tapes is a documentary six months in the making. It uncovers stunning new evidence in the now infamous Azaria Chamberlain case. ‘A dingo’s got my baby’- five words that will forever divide a nation. The tragic death of a baby girl in outback Australia that at one point in time became a...
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From the award-winning 7NEWS team comes 7NEWS Spotlight - a series of investigative specials focussing on major breaking news events and long-form investigations of national significance.
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From the award-winning 7NEWS team comes 7NEWS Spotlight - a series of investigative specials focussing on major breaking news events and long-form investigations of national significance.
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7NEWS Spotlight is created and hosted by LiSTNR.
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