The purchase of an undisciplined guard dog poisons relationships between Redfern neighbours and aggravates a malignant memory for ex-serviceman Ernie.

Nic Shields spends her lunchtimes playing the pokies, and in a desperate attempt to absolve a whirlpool of deceit and debt she has found herself in, stages a robbery.

Mattie races to share the news of her PhD with her estranged white father Jack - who she hasn't seen in 19 years - only to find he has died days earlier.

New parents, Janine and Justin are tested to their limit when their newborn son goes missing and suspicions grow in the community and then between one another.

Aaron Davis's career in the force is on hold since an Aboriginal teenager died in police custody on his shift, but his life changes when he begins a relationship with a neighbour.

When a freak accident takes the life of his partner Richard, Peter has to fight Richard's mother to keep custody of their daughter.