Four Corners (1961)
Australia's premiere current affairs programme, incisive investigative journalism.
Four Corners is Australia's longest-running investigative journalism/current affairs television program. Broadcast on ABC1 in Australia, it premiered on 19 August 1961 and celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2021. Founding producer Robert Raymond and his successor Allan Ashbolt did much to set the ongoing tone of the program. Based on the Panorama concept, the program addresses a single issue in depth each week, showing either a locally produced program or a relevant documentary from overseas. The program has won many awards for investigative journalism, and broken many high-profile stories. A notable early example of this was the show's epoch-making 1962 exposé on the appalling living conditions endured by many Aboriginal Australians living in rural New South Wales.
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1. Super Power2024-02-19 · 47mThe cost of living with Coles and Woolworths. We uncover the tactics used by supermarkets to keep prices high - and competition out. Both deny price gouging but there are now six i
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2. The Wanted2024-02-26 · 47mA man accused by Rwandan authorities of being involved in brutal atrocities is living in Australia's suburbs. This joint Four Corners and Guardian investigation raise tough questio
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3. Old School2024-03-04 · 50mWhy the rest of Australia should care about what's happening at elite schools. Amid the push for private boys' schools in Australia to go co-educational, we investigate if these in
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4. The Forever War2024-03-11 · 46mInside Israel's war machine. John Lyons asks the tough questions; challenging some of Israel's most powerful political and military voices about the country's strategy and intentio
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5. Ukraine's War - The Other Side2024-03-18 · 45mTwo years since Ukraine was invaded by Russia, Four Corners brings you a rare insight from the other side. Filmmaker Sean Langan's groundbreaking documentary offers a human perspec
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6. Rules of Engagement2024-03-25 · 47mBehind the scenes of David McBride's fight to clear his name. The former Australian military lawyer is credited with exposing war crimes in Afghanistan - but was that his intention
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7. The Ozempic Underground2024-04-01 · 44mThe weight-loss wonder drugs in high demand and short supply. Elise Worthington meets desperate patients trying to access medications like Ozempic and exposes an Australian scam il
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8. Pain Factory2024-04-08 · 47mMore than three million Australians are living with chronic pain, and it's become a breeding ground for exploitation. We expose the ugly side of medicine with patients in worse pai
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9. The Discord Leaks2024-04-15 · 46mThe inside story of one of America's biggest national security leaks. We expose the inner circle and the young US Air National Guardsman at the centre of it, who leaked classified
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10. Meth Highway2024-04-22 · 44mAustralia's addiction to crystal meth or 'ice' is having devastating consequences, but beyond the street dealer, most are unaware of the drug's murky supply chains - and the facele
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11. The Kids Who Can't Go to School2024-04-29 · 47mA growing number of children are struggling to attend school - they want to go to school but feel like they can't because of anxiety and stress. We meet families battling the blame
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12. Porn: A Ruthless Business2024-05-06 · 45mA major international investigation into how porn websites operate and exposes their business models. Former employees give inside accounts, and victims whose lives have been destr
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13. Ruthless Pursuit2024-05-13 · 48mFor the first time ever, a former spy for China's notorious secret police goes public, exposing the covert and illegal operations he was ordered to carry out on foreign soil, inclu
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14. Kidfluencers2024-05-20 · 45mWho's following our children online? It's the age of social media influencers and Australian kids are getting on board. But there's a darker side to this new and unregulated world.
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15. Boeing's Fatal Flaw2024-05-27 · 45mNew, tough questions are being asked about Boeing's 737 Max, the fastest-selling jet in the company's history. PBS Frontline and The New York Times investigate the plane's commerci
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16. Breaking Free2024-06-03 · 47mEvery year, 19,000 people leave prison in New South Wales. Reporter Linton Besser meets the lucky few who've been given a place at Sydney's Rainbow Lodge - one of the longest conti
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17. Wind Wars2024-06-10 · 46mA new climate battle is now raging, pitting nature conservation against wind farms. It's fracturing communities and leading to enemies forming alliances. Plus the next frontier for
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18. Infiltrating Australia2024-06-17 · 47mThe long arm of the Indian state in Australia. Avani Dias reveals new details about the local "nest of spies" previously disrupted by ASIO and meets Australian residents who say th
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19. When IVF Goes Wrong2024-06-24 · 46mOne in every 18 births in Australia is now a result of IVF. It's a multi-million-dollar industry creating 'miracle babies'. But when things go wrong, who is holding these fertility
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20. Inside China's Tech Boom2024-07-01 · 46mFrom solar power to 5G, China has transformed into a science and technology superpower - but how does China innovate? What drives its bid for technological supremacy, and what it m
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21. Sex Tourism - My Father's Secret2024-07-08 · 46mSex work is big business in the Philippines, and men from overseas have fathered many children to sex workers. Children's DNA is being used to identify their sex-tourist fathers, t
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22. Retribution - The Battle For Democracy (Part 1)2024-07-15 · 56mThere has never been a US president like Donald Trump - and now he's back, this time with a detailed plan for his second coming. Mark Willacy sits down with White House insiders wh
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23. Retribution - The Battlegrounds (Part 2)2024-07-22 · 55mDonald Trump was talking about immigration on stage during the assassination attempt that left him bloodied and defiant. It's one of the fundamental issues currently dividing the U
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24. Canada's Climate War2024-07-29 · 44mMega-fires destroying forests, hungry polar bears invading towns and fishing villages at risk of going underwater - Canada's climate catastrophe. Can one of the world's largest pro
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25. The New Trade War2024-08-05 · 45mIs a tussle over electric vehicle imports the start of another East-West trade war? Fuelling the conflict are accusations that China is dumping EVs, solar panels and batteries on t
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26. Don't Speak2024-08-12 · 50mChannel Seven bills itself as a family network. Four Corners investigates allegations of sexism, exploitation and extreme bullying at the network. In some extreme cases employees h
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27. Water Grab2024-08-19 · 46mIn the red soil of the Top End a new 'silver bullet' industry is emerging - cotton. Angus Grigg exposes a system riven by conflicts of interest that threatens to destroy some of th
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28. The Big War2024-08-26 · 47mWith the Middle East on the brink of war, Four Corners travels to Iran, Lebanon and Israel to investigate why a new regional war is looming. Global Affairs Editor John Lyons and th
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29. Troubled Waters2024-09-02 · 44mA compelling documentary that sheds light on the escalating tensions in the South China Sea, exploring the broader geopolitical implications including the Philippines' deepening pa
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30. The Strata Trap2024-09-09 · 45mLinton Besser exposes the graft and greed of the strata industry - supposed to protect apartment owners' interests - with shocking stories of financial abuse, unethical practices a
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32. Silent Orders2024-09-16 · 44mThe execution of one of Australia's most powerful organised criminals in Sydney raised difficult questions. Surveillance recorded the alleged murder plot weeks beforehand, yet poli
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33. Germany's Enemy Within2024-09-23 · 44mGermany has spent decades reckoning with its Nazi history, but far-right extremism and violent plots, particularly targeting Jews, Muslims and immigrants, have been increasing. Eva
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34. Flight Club2024-09-30 · 45mWhat went wrong for Rex Airlines. The regional carrier entered voluntary administration and hundreds of jobs were lost. Emily Baker interviews Rex's former leaders and asks why Aus
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35. Nuclear Gamble2024-10-07 · 46mIs nuclear a viable answer to Australia's energy woes or is it a quixotic quest never to be realised? Eric Campbell visits the US, the largest producer of nuclear energy in the wor
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36. Music For Sale2024-10-14 · 47mMultinational Live Nation dominates Australia's live music industry, squeezing out competition by acquiring smaller independent operators. Avani Dias speaks to insiders who expose
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37. Road Gold2024-10-21 · 45mDecades of backroom deals between state governments and toll operators have left Australia's biggest cities with a network of private roads that are worsening the cost-of-living cr
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38. Crisis on Campus2024-10-28 · 45mThe polarising debate over free speech, antisemitism, Israel, the Palestinians and the political forces behind months of chaos and dissent across America's college campuses as stud
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39. Disconnected2024-11-04 · 48mThe true cost of social media and younger generations facing the brunt of the deadly consequences. As Australia grapples with how to regulate social media, parents in the US are ta
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