Four Corners (1961)
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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Episode 1 - True Detectives
Release Date: 2015-02-02Shocking revelations on Melbourne's gangland killings. Nick McKenzie reports.
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Episode 2 - Eat, Pray, Shoot
Release Date: 2015-02-09Inside the campaign to save the two Australians on death row in Bali. Mark Davis reports.
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Episode 3 - Making a Killing
Release Date: 2015-02-16Inside Australia's multi-billion dollar greyhound racing industry.
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Episode 4 - The Jobs Game
Release Date: 2015-02-23Scandal in the federal government's employment programs. Linton Besser reports.
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Episode 5 - Apple's Broken Promises
Release Date: 2015-03-02Apple is the most valuable brand on the planet, making products that everyone wants - but how are its workers treated when the world isn't looking?
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Episode 6 - Bringing The War Home
Release Date: 2015-03-09The scourge of PTSD; as soldiers they fought the enemy abroad, now as civilians they battle a silent enemy within. Quentin McDermott reports.
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Episode 7 - House of Cards
Release Date: 2013-03-16Why the Liberal Party came so close to toppling its leader after just 18 months in Government.
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Episode 8 - Ditched
Release Date: 2015-03-23An investigation into the shocking human cost felt by the survivors of an aviation crash.
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Episode 9 - Game of Loans
Release Date: 2015-03-30The merchants of debt: how fast cash loans become a ruinous financial trap.
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Episode 10 - India's Daughter
Release Date: 2015-04-06The crime that shamed India and divided the country.
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Episode 11 - ANZAC to Afghanistan
Release Date: 2015-04-13Reporter Chris Masters revisits the Fatal Shore, the story of Gallipoli.
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Episode 12 - Degrees of Deception
Release Date: 2015-04-20Australia has been gripped by a national debate over how to fund our university education. But perhaps there's a more important question: what is it worth?
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Episode 13 - No Free Steps to Heaven
Release Date: 2015-04-27On the frontline with the women taking up arms against Islamic State.
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Episode 14 - Slaving Away
Release Date: 2015-05-04The dirty secrets behind Australia's fresh food.
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Episode 15 - Remote Hope
Release Date: 2015-05-11An unflinching portrait of Australia's remote Indigenous communities and their struggle to survive.
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Episode 16 - Secrets of Mexico's Drug War
Release Date: 2015-05-18This investigation from the BBC looks into the American authorities' relationship with the biggest and most powerful criminal organisation in the world, the Sinaloa Cartel.
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Episode 17 - At Their Mercy
Release Date: 2015-05-25The bullying and bastardisation of young doctors in our hospitals.
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Episode 18 - Ship of Death
Release Date: 2015-06-01A whodunit on the high seas.
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Episode 19 - Nepal Quake: Terror on Everest
Release Date: 2015-06-08Terror on Everest: extraordinary accounts and footage from the day the Nepal earthquake struck.
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Episode 20 - The End of Coal?
Release Date: 2015-06-15With the price of coal plummeting and our biggest customers turning to renewable energy, is Australia backing a loser?
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Episode 21 - Journey into Hell
Release Date: 2015-06-22On the trail of the traffickers exploiting the most unwanted people on the planet.
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Episode 22 - The Mafia in Australia: Drugs, Murder and Politics
Release Date: 2015-06-29In this joint Four Corners/Fairfax Media investigation, we reveal how the mafia continues to flourish in Australia despite major police operations.
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Episode 23 - The Mafia in Australia: Blood Ties
Release Date: 2015-07-06Part two of this special investigation goes inside one of the most ambitious organised crime investigations in Australian history.
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Episode 24 - 7/7: Ten Years On
Release Date: 2015-07-13Stories of courage and humanity in the aftermath of the 2005 London bombings.
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Episode 25 - A Nation Divided? The Charlie Hebdo Aftermath
Release Date: 2015-07-20From BBC Three. A personal and provocative look at life in France following the Charlie Hebdo terror attacks.
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Episode 26 - Iron Man
Release Date: 2015-07-27Inside the power plays of the mercurial mining billionaire Andrew Twiggy Forrest, as he fights for survival. Stephen Long reports.
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Episode 27 - Escorts
Release Date: 2015-08-03Inside the hidden world of transgender escorts.
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Episode 28 - The Great Cricket Coup
Release Date: 2015-08-10How India hijacked the game of cricket, and how Australia helped.
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Episode 29 - Secrets, Politics and Torture
Release Date: 2015-08-17From PBS Frontline. Secrets, Politics and Torture: The ghosts of the CIA's controversial interrogation program.
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Episode 30 - Machine Man
Release Date: 2015-08-24Four Corners puts Labor leader Bill Shorten under the microscope.
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Episode 31 - 7-Eleven: The Price of Convenience
Release Date: 2015-08-31Adele Ferguson returns to Four Corners with an investigation into the 7-Eleven business empire with revelations of dodgy bookkeeping, blackmail and the mass underpayment of its workforce.
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Episode 32 - The Truth About Halal
Release Date: 2015-09-07The war of words over the Halal certification of food. Anti-Islam groups label it a religious tax. Claims of corruption and links to terrorism light up the blogosphere. Four Corners searches out the truth.
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Episode 33 - Dethroning Tony Abbott
Release Date: 2015-09-21On Monday night, Four Corners will chart the events that led to the former Prime Minister's downfall.
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Episode 34 - Wasted
Release Date: 2015-09-28A special investigation by Dr Norman Swan on the unnecessary testing and treatments choking the health system and making patients ill.
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Episode 35 - Escape From ISIS
Release Date: 2015-10-05From Channel 4 (UK). As asylum seekers flee from the ISIS conflict zone, Four Corners brings you this timely and powerful story of the secret network rescuing women and children held captive by ISIS.
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Episode 36 - The Great Wall of Money
Release Date: 2015-10-12Next week on Four Corners: the Chinese billions flooding into Australian real estate.
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Episode 37 - Jackson and Lawler: Inside the Eye of the Storm
Release Date: 2015-10-19Next on Four Corners, we take you inside the world of Australia's most formidable power couple - former union boss Kathy Jackson and Fair Work Commission Vice President, Michael Lawler.
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Episode 38 - Digital Dissidents
Release Date: 2015-10-26From WDR (DE). Next on Four Corners, a documentary on the digital dissidents blowing the whistle on government surveillance around the globe.
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Episode 39 - Hidden Harm
Release Date: 2015-11-02Next on Four Corners, we examine the sobering reality of the damage done by alcohol to unborn babies.
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Episode 40 - Return to the Valley of Death
Release Date: 2015-11-09In this report, BBC producer Merwais Miakhail takes us on a personal journey into Afghanistan's tribal heartland, known as the 'Valley of Death'.
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Episode 41 - Our Kids: Why are they so stressed?
Release Date: 2015-11-16In frank, funny and sometimes heartbreaking conversations, Australian kids take us inside their world and tell us why they're so anxious about the present and the future.
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Episode 42 - Plan of Attack: The Making of a Teenage Terrorist
Release Date: 2015-11-23It was the random act of violence that authorities had been warning of and it left the nation crying out for answers. How could a 15-year-old school boy become a killer?
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Episode 43 - Rosie's Story
Release Date: 2015-11-30The tragic death of Luke Batty, killed by his father. Could his brutal murder have been prevented? Geoff Thompson reports.