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Two Australian pilots, one a womanizer and the other seeking true love, work for a South Pacific airline, spending their time pursuing romantic interests on various Polynesian islands while neglecting their professional duties.

Chasing Asylum tells the story of Australia's cruel, inhumane treatment of asylum seekers and refugees, examining the human, political, financial and moral impact of current and previous policy.

Nauru is an island in the South Pacific off the coast of New Zealand that was once one of the wealthiest nations on Earth, with large reserves of phosphate, discovered in the early 20th century.

Footage from the Republic of Nauru circa 1998.

Home movies shot on Nauru in 1973.

In their fourth collaborative film Zanny Begg (Sydney) and Oliver Ressler (Vienna) focus on Nauru, a tiny remote island in the Pacific with 10,000 inhabitants. The title "Anubumin" is Nauruan for "night" and symbolises a certain darkness that surrounds the island. The film combines a poetic narration written for the film with conversations carried out with whistleblowers in Australia. The narration discusses different voids that have shaped the islands past and future. The largest void is a physical one, the island is a raised reef consisting of calcite and phosphate on a volcanic base, which since 1906 has been mined and exported to Australia, to fertilise the former colonisers' farms. When phosphate extraction came to a stop in the 1980s, Nauru was bankrupt and 80 percent of the land area uninhabitable and infertile. In an attempt to generate income, in the 1990s Nauru became a prime money-laundering haven. After the disappearance of soil and money, today Nauru involves in the "disappearance of people" - housing one of Australia's offshore refugee detention centres. In a reaction to the criticism on terrible human right situation in the detention centre, Nauru severely restricted access to the island. Four whistleblowers, who worked as doctors and nurses in the detention centre, describe the institutionalised human rights violations in the offshore detention. They uncover a truth the Australian government tries to cover through intimidating people into silence. Today a new void threatens the island, rising sea-levels threaten the coastal edge, which is the only area left for its inhabitants to live. The people who warden the political and economic refugees of today may well become climate refugees of tomorrow. The night is always darkest before the dawn. (production note) Footage shot on Nauru by anonymous whistleblowers.

Twenty years ago, the residents of the tiny island nation of Nauru were the second wealthiest people on earth, but all that has changed. In 2004, Nauru is worse than broke with its people suffering the highest rate of diabetes in the world. Chris Masters reports on where the money has gone.

In central Australia traditional tracking skills and modern science are working together to save a rare species of rock wallaby. It's thought there are just a few dozen "black-flanked" rock wallabies left in the wild. While they are still considered something of an Indigenous delicacy, local Aboriginal women are now committed to not only taking them off the menu but off the endangered list as well.