Logie winner Law & Disorder repeated

Next week SBS will repeat its series Law & Disorder which won a Most Outstanding Factual at the Logies.

The series looks at how three ordinary Australians, a cop, accountant and nurse reacted when exposed to events that demanded they blow the whistle on various authorities. The series defeated Bombora: The Story of Australian Surfing, Bondi Rescue, Darwin’s Brave New World and Last Chance Saloon for the Logie.

The ABC is similarly replaying a Logie-nominated Australian Story tonight.

Mon May 17
Law & Disorder: Andrew Wilkie – The Perfect Whistleblower -This Logie winning three part documentary series delves deep into the murky world of government misconduct, crime, corruption and the ordinary citizens who try to expose it all. Through extraordinary first person narratives, this is a blow-by-blow account of what happens when whistle-blowers take on the authorities. The first episode is the story of Andrew Wilkie, the only Western intelligence officer to speak out before the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Tuesday 18 May
Law & Disorder: Allan Kessing – The Reluctant Whistleblower – This Logie winning series delves deep into the murky world of government misconduct, crime, corruption and the ordinary citizens who try to expose it all. The subject of episode two, Allan Kessing, has fought for years to clear his name, after he says he was wrongly convicted of leaking customs reports to the media about major security flaws at Sydney airport. He claims he was the victim of a revenge campaign by the former Government and bureaucracy. Kessing has sent himself broke fighting to restore his name. Now a convicted criminal, he is an example of how the system is determined to discourage whistle blowing no matter what the cost.

Wednesday 19 May
Law & Disorder: Going Public – Tonight, in this Logie winning series, the focus moves to the everyday workplace. How three ordinary Australians, the cop, the accountant and the nurse reacted when exposed to events that demanded they blow the whistle. Simon Illingworth, the cop who fought corruption for 17 years, but went public when crooked cops and organised crime colluded to kill him; Jeff Simpson, the mild mannered but determined accountant who tried to warn of the biggest corporate collapse in Australian history; and Karen Smith – the nursing aide, who tried to speak up for patients being abused in nursing homes, and who was sacked when she went to the media. Through their experiences we see how the system is loaded against those who speak out, even when their claims are proved correct.

It airs 7:30pm May 17th-19th on SBS TWO.

David Knox blogs Eurovision at sbs.com.au