60 Minutes is an Australian version of the United States television newsmagazine show 60 Minutes, airing since 1979 on Sunday nights on the Nine Network. A New Zealand version uses segments of the show. The program is one of five inducted into Australia’s television Logie Hall of Fame.[1]
Genre
News magazine
Created by
Don Hewitt (original format)
Presented by
Liz Hayes (1996–present)
Tara Brown (2001–present)
Sarah Abo (2019–present)
Tom Steinfort (2018, 2020–present)
Amelia Adams (2022–present)
Country of origin
Australia
Original language
English
No. of seasons
40
The program was founded by veteran television producer Gerard Stone, who was appointed its inaugural executive producer in 1979 by media magnate Kerry Packer.[2]
Stone devised it to be an Australian version of CBS’s US Sixty Minutes program and it featured well known reporters Ray Martin, Ian Leslie and George Negus. Its prominent early programs included a 1981 interview Negus conducted with UK leader Margaret Thatcher, during which the prime minister aggressively countered his questions.[3] Negus asked Thatcher why people described her as ”pig-headed” and the Prime Minister demanded he tell her who, when and where such comments were made.[4]
In 1982, Jana Wendt interviewed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and asked him why he had been so often described as a terrorist, a butcher, a gangster and a madman.[5]
In 2019, the program produced a report on the infiltration of organised crime into listed Australian casino firm Crown Resorts. It led to multiple state and federal inquiries, including the NSW Bergin Inquiry, that recommended Crown Resorts may be unfit to hold a casino licence.[6]
In March 2021, the Nine Network launched a one hour one story studio-based 60 Minutes spin-off Under Investigation presented by Liz Hayes and produced by Gareth Harvey that features a panel of guests.
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