BBC documentary A Cry from the Grave. Carleton denied the claims, suing the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for defamation. In 2002 the case was heard, and the judge found that while Carleton had "misled his audience by misrepresenting a mass grave site shown in the program, and that 60 Minutes had copied film directly from the British documentary", the allegations made by Media Watch were in fact untrue and had defamed Carleton. Carleton was greatly relieved by the ruling. (However, the judge also found Media Watch was entitled to express the views it formed and eventually awarded costs against Channel Nine and to the ABC.). Media Watch themselves claimed that Carleton had interpreted the judgement as favouring him, when they believed it didn't, and they refused to apologise. Carleton won five Penguin Awards and three Logie Awards during his time with 60 Minutes and at the ABC. Death Carleton had experienced a number of health scares; the first was in 1988 when he underwent heart bypass surgery, which was filmed for 60 Minutes, and another in 2003 when he suffered a heart attack. In 2005, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. On 7 May 2006, Carleton collapsed from a massive heart attack during a press conference at the Beaconsfield gold mine, shortly after questioning mine manager Matthew Gill on previous safety issues at the site. First-hand reports from the scene indicated that Carleton had a weak pulse when taken by ambulance to the Launceston General Hospital and that he had been puffing and gasping not long before he collapsed. Carleton died at 2:12 p.m, in the ambulance on the way to hospital. His last words were: In the 2012 telemovie about the incident, Beaconsfield, Carleton was played by Steve Vizard. In 2017, his garden was featured on the television program Gardening Australia and was introduced by his wife Sharon. References External links 1943 births 2006 deaths 60 Minutes (Australian TV program) correspondents Australian television presenters Logie Award winners People educated at Sydney Grammar School People from Bowral University of New South Wales alumni 20th-century Australian journalists