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60 Minutes: June 22

Charles Woolley visits the exact spot where World War One was ignited, 100 years ago.

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60mwOn 60 Minutes Charles Woolley visits the exact spot where World War One was ignited, 100 years ago.

Parent Power
A parent’s love knows no bounds, especially when a child is diagnosed with a deadly disease. But what lengths would you go to if the disease was so rare that pharmaceutical companies saw no profit in developing a cure? Well, more and more parents of desperately sick kids are taking matters into their own hands. Armed with passion and the power of the internet, they’re bringing urgency to the usually glacial pace of drug discovery. This Sunday, Michael Usher talks to one Australian couple whose son and daughter have developed an ultra-rare fatal genetic disease. They’ve found a cure and established a medical trial, only to face the impossible decision – which child will they save?
Reporter: Michael Usher
Producers: Lincoln Howes, Jo Townsend

The Assassin
Gavrilo Princip fired the deadliest shot in history. One bullet that richoted around the world and defined the course of the 20th century. Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914, triggering the beginning of World War One and the unprecedented carnage that would follow. Sixty thousand Australians would make the ultimate sacrifice on the field of battle. This week marks 100th anniversary of the Archduke’s assassination. Charles Wooley revisits the exact spot where the world changed forever and meets the assassin’s family, who claim he’s a hero.
Reporter: Charles Wooley
Producer: Nick Greenaway

Sunday, June 22, 2014 at 8pm on Channel Nine

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  1. Tonight’s program ‘Gavrilo’ dissapointly failed to answer questions:
    Why Gavrilo assissinated the Archiduke and what relevance Gavrilo Princip has to do with Australian involvement in WWI at all(most of program focused on Australian involvement in the WWI).

    Facts about Gavrilo Princip are taken out of context in a way that audience would get an impression Gavrilo ‘triggered the war’ , so he was to be blamed for Australian involvement and human loss in WWI.

    Apart from visiting the site where the event took place and mentioning his name, the rest of the program could have been called any other name, as it is not relevant to Gavrilo Princip at all.

    The military historian statement that Gavrilo Princip was a ‘terrorist ‘can be argued from few points depending on which paradigm one applied.
    The same can be said for the other allegation, that Gavrilo Princip was as much a…

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