When Ray meets Jessica

Ray Martin interviews Jessica Mauboy this Sunday night on 60 Minutes.

Mauboy continues to carve out a successful career, despite coming second in Australian Idol. She was recently announced as a co-host of the Kid’s Choice Awards for Nickelodeon.

From Darwin … to the World
It’s one of the great mysteries of TV talent quests, that coming second is often the better career move. Scottish singer Susan Boyle is one mega-successful runner-up. Another is our own Jessica Mauboy. Jess was a sweet, pretty and softly-spoken sixteen-year-old when she made the grand final of Australian Idol. She missed out on that title. But, four years later, she’s proving she’s a winner. She has a raunchy new image and she’s just about to release her second album, featuring some of the hottest names in music. And, along the way, she even found the perfect man.

Reporter: Ray Martin
Producer: Sandra Cleary

Enslaved!
The woman you will meet on Sunday night has quite a story to tell. It’s not an easy one to hear. It must have been tougher still to put it all down on paper. When Natascha Kampusch was ten years old, she was snatched from a street in Vienna by a sick stranger who locked her away in a secret cellar. For eight years, she was held captive in a tiny box of a room, growing from child to teenager under the menacing gaze of her captor. Natascha’s escape in 2006 created international headlines. But she’s never spoken about exactly what happened to her in that dungeon. Now she’s released her autobiography. Liam Bartlett caught up with this remarkably self-assured young lady in London.
Reporter: Liam Bartlett
Producer: Nick Greenaway

The Ultimate Bypass
It’s a terrible irony. Heart disease is Australia’s biggest killer, yet we have one of the lowest organ donation rates in the world. The wait for a transplant can be agonisingly long. Often it’s fatal. But there’s been some remarkable progress in recent times. Doctors can now keep their patients alive for months, even years, by hooking them up to artificial pumps. It’s amazing stuff. And that’s just the start of it. In the future these machines will be so small that they’ll actually replace the human heart.

Reporter: Charles Wooley
Produducers: Jonathan Harley, Hugh Nailon