Australia’s black gold is powering city lights far from where it begins — way, way down under. This fissure to furnace view of an industry concealed from public eye brings to life the industry fuelling Australia.

Do we want to live longer if it just means more old age?

Hanan Angalo works as a cleaner at a western Sydney school. In another life, she was “Mama”, the wife of Commander Yousif Kuwa of the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army.

The curable disease of tuberculosis thrives on poverty and overcrowding. In Papua New Guinea's West New Britain province, a doctor tells how stigma, sorcery and HIV conspire to make it deadly.

John Cummings was a married father of three daughters until he turned 52. That year he did something that he had wanted to do his whole life. He became Katherine.

In 1975 Abel Guterres took a chance, leaving East Timor for Australia. Meet the former tram driver who became East Timor’s ambassador to Australia.

As an opera singer, Emma Slaytor sang in Carmen and performed on stage with Joan Sutherland. Then she became a litigator, specialising in medical defence work.

By accident, choice or fate some of us transform our lives completely. Today, meet Xiao Tang Qin who was a concert violinist in Beijing and now plays for customers of his Sydney dumpling shop.