Dark Australia

BATAVIA Part Two: The Ship of Secrets After surviving one of history's most catastrophic shipwrecks, the passengers of the  Batavia  believe the worst is over. They're wrong. Stranded on the barren islands of the Houtman Abrolhos in 1629, the survivors face a new and far more terrifying threat, not from the sea, but from one of their own. As Jeronimus Cornelisz consolidates power, fear bec...

BATAVIA Part One: The Ship of Secrets In 1629, a Dutch merchant ship carrying hundreds of passengers, crew, and a fortune in silver struck a remote reef off the coast of Western Australia. More than 300 people survived. What followed would become one of the darkest and most shocking stories in Australian history. In Part One of our Batavia series, we explore the rise of the Dutch East India Compan...

DARK AUSTRALIA — Episode 7 Ivan Milat: The Backpacker Killer Part Three — The Monster of Belanglo The hunt is over. In the final chapter of our Ivan Milat series, we follow the investigation as it closes in on the man behind the Backpacker Murders and uncover the evidence that would ultimately bring one of Australia's most notorious serial killers to justice. From police raids and chilling dis...

The bodies discovered inside Belanglo State Forest revealed a level of violence that shocked Australia — and terrified the world. In Part Two of this Dark Australia series, we dive deeper into the Backpacker Murders: • the victims, • the forensic evidence, • the escalating brutality, • the police investigation, • and the psychological evolution of Ivan Milat. As more graves are uncovered beneath t...

DARK AUSTRALIA — Episode 1 Ivan Milat: The Backpacker Killer Part One — Into Belanglo In the early 1990s, Australia was seen as one of the safest backpacking destinations on Earth. Young travellers hitchhiked freely between Sydney and Melbourne, trusting strangers along isolated highways and disappearing into the adventure of the Australian bush. Then the bodies began appearing inside Belanglo Sta...