2001 and 2014
Kerry Packer sheds a tear while talking about his donated kidney. Thirteen years later, his former daughter-in-law Jodhi Meares would appear on the show to talk about the famously private family. 
2002
Former Governor-General and Archbishop of Brisbane Peter Hollingworth infers that a woman who is claiming to have been sexually abused by a bishop initiated the relationship and that no abuse took place.2003
With trademark frankness ("bugger, bugger, bugger"), former first lady Hazel Hawke appears on the show to reveal she has Alzheimer's, lifting the lid on a then little-known disease.
2006
On the eve of his life sentence, Bali Nine drug trafficker Scott Rush was the subject of a show that was criticised for not revealing his prior convictions, which were splashed on the front page of Brisbane's Courier-Mail. The show is accused of having cut a deal with Rush's family, which Fleming denied, arguing that reporting such details put the young man at risk of a harsher penalty.
2007
One year after the death of actress Belinda Emmett, her family, friends and husband Rove McManus were gathered to recall her talent and brave and winning spirit.
2009
Australian Story's cameras were following Malcolm Turnbull for a profile of the then-Opposition leader, who was shaping up to be a serious contender for the prime-ministership. While filming in Turnbull's office, an email from a public servant named Gordon Grech containing damaging allegations about Prime Minister Kevin Rudd landed in his inbox. Turnbull charged, but the claims about Rudd turned out to be false.
2011
American-born Kristina Keneally became the first female premier of NSW before a bruising defeat. Yet even the most furious of voters who'd turned on her would have been moved by her personal confessions.
2014
Hollywood A-listers came a-knocking when the story of Aminah Hart broke; after losing two children, she conceived through an anonymous sperm donor. What happened next is the rom-com Hollywood wished it had made.
2015
Despite an avowed hostility to sections of the Australian media, millionaire mining magnate Gina Rinehart chooses to talk about her father Lang Hancock and her children, despite their ugly public legal stoush over a family trust.