Overview of 'Four Corners' Season 56

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.

Stars:

Jeff McMullen

Release Date: 1961-08-19
Seasons: 23 44 46 47 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64

6.9/10

Country: AU
Language: English
Runtime: 45

Season 56 Episode List

Episode 1 - Bad Sport
Release Date: 2016-02-01
Sarah Ferguson presents an investigation into the criminal networks that are threatening the integrity of sport, amidst the uproar over the match fixing revelations in tennis, Linton Besser reports.
Episode 2 - Shark Alarm
Release Date: 2016-02-08
What's behind the rise in shark attacks, and is there anything we can do to stop them? Geoff Thompson reports.
Episode 3 - Dying To Dance
Release Date: 2016-02-15
Dying to Dance. Inside the dance party drug scene. Caro Meldrum-Hanna reports.
Episode 4 - Guns In The USA - Child's Play
Release Date: 2016-02-22
Exploring America's gun culture where kids learn to shoot and their classrooms are designed to be bulletproof. How America grapples with gun violence.
Episode 5 - Catastrophic Failure
Release Date: 2016-02-29
In his first story for Four Corners, reporter Ben Knight travels to Brazil to investigate BHP's responsibility for the Samarco mine disaster that's destroyed lives and polluted an entire river system.
Episode 6 - Money For Nothing
Release Date: 2016-03-07
It's the bank that's spent two years rebuilding its reputation after being exposed for ripping off its customers in a devastating financial advice scandal. An explosive corporate investigation by Adele Ferguson.
Episode 7 - Safari: Paying To Kill
Release Date: 2016-03-14
The big game and big bucks in Africa's trophy hunting industry. Taking us into the darker world of illegal hunting where lions are tranquilised or partly domesticated to make them easier to shot.
Episode 8 - Whatever It Takes
Release Date: 2016-03-21
A rare account from inside the Essendon doping scandal. Quentin McDermott reports.
Episode 9 - State Of Fear
Release Date: 2016-03-28
The investigation into the scandal engulfing Malaysia's Prime Minister and the question that led to the arrest of our reporter and cameraman.
Episode 10 - The Secrets Of The Super Rich
Release Date: 2016-04-04
This Four Corners investigation will reveal how the rich and powerful exploit the system. Reporter Marian Wilkinson follows the money trail.
Episode 11 - Clive Palmer
Release Date: 2016-04-11
The rise and fall of Clive Palmer's business empire and political career. Hayden Cooper reports.
Episode 12 - Inside Europe's Terror Attacks
Release Date: 2016-04-18
In the wake of the attacks in France and Brussels, a BBC Panorama investigation into Islamic State's European terror network and Western intelligence agencies' battle to stop it.
Episode 13 - Bad Blood
Release Date: 2016-04-25
The bad blood between Australian doctors and the Federal Government over offshore detention.
Episode 14 - Home Truths: What Happened To The Great Australian Dream?
Release Date: 2016-05-02
Ben Knight reports on the white hot issues of housing affordability and negative gearing and the generation left wondering if they will ever own their own home.
Episode 15 - Callous Disregard
Release Date: 2016-05-09
Gold Walkley award-winning reporter Caro Meldrum-Hanna follows the trail of evidence in the brutal death of a young woman as her family fights for justice.
Episode 16 - Supplements and Safety
Release Date: 2016-05-16
Supplements and safety: an investigation into the billion dollar health supplement and vitamin industry. What's in all those pills and could they be doing you harm?
Episode 17 - Money And Influence
Release Date: 2016-05-23
As we head into the third week of the election campaign, Four Corners examines how money and influence operates in the shadowy world of political donations.
Episode 18 - The Baby Business
Release Date: 2016-05-30
With an increasing number of women turning to fertility treatments to help them conceive a baby, Four Corners investigates, are women being sold false hope by the IVF industry?
Episode 19 - Ripped Off
Release Date: 2016-06-06
The scams, fraud and incompetence leaving remote communities exploited and betrayed. Linton Besser journeys almost 5000km across Australia in search of who's to blame.
Episode 20 - The Miracle Of Kobani
Release Date: 2016-06-13
We meet the people of the small Syrian town who defeated ISIS and are determined to rebuild their lives in the rubble.
Episode 21 - The Deputy And The Dark Horse
Release Date: 2016-06-20
The Deputy and the Dark Horse: Barnaby Joyce vs. Tony Windsor in the contest that could bring down the Deputy Prime Minister.
Episode 22 - The Leaders
Release Date: 2016-06-27
With the election only days away, Gold Walkley and Logie Award-winning reporter Sarah Ferguson interviews Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten. What will she ask?
Episode 23 - Future Proof
Release Date: 2016-07-04
With startling predictions that more than 5 million Australian jobs will disappear in the next 15 years, as a result of technology, we look at the future of work and ask are we preparing our kids for the jobs of the future?
Episode 24 - Soldiers Of Allah
Release Date: 2016-07-11
Going undercover with an ISIS terror cell. For six months this intrepid reporter infiltrated and secretly filmed a terrorist cell as they made plans for an attack.
Episode 25 - The Race To Dope
Release Date: 2016-07-18
The Race To Dope: The elite athletes blowing the whistle on how they cheated the system.
Episode 26 - Australia's Shame
Release Date: 2016-07-25
Australia's Shame: The brutalisation of children behind bars. This confronting investigation by Caro Meldrum-Hanna will send shockwaves around Australia.
Episode 27 - Insult To Injury
Release Date: 2016-08-01
Insult To Injury: How the system damages cops with PTSD. Quentin McDermott reports.
Episode 28 - Man On A Wire
Release Date: 2016-08-08
Man on a wire: How long can Malcolm Turnbull survive?
Episode 29 - Milked Dry
Release Date: 2016-08-15
Milked Dry: The awful price being paid by Australian dairy farmers for the milk we drink. Deb Whitmont reports.
Episode 30 - Children On The Frontline
Release Date: 2016-08-22
Children On The Frontline: Escape from Aleppo, one family's extraordinary story of life in the rubble of Syria and their escape to a new life, told through the eyes of four children.
Episode 31 - Cyber War
Release Date: 2016-08-29
Cyber War: How hackers are threatening everything from your bank account to the nation's secrets. Linton Besser reports.
Episode 32 - Brexit: The Battle For Britain
Release Date: 2016-09-05
The EU referendum result shocked many, but as this BBC film shows the warning signs were there. In interviews with key players, the program charts the tactics & spin used in the campaign.
Episode 33 - Rehab Inc.
Release Date: 2016-09-12
Rehab Inc: The high price parents pay to get their kids off ice. Ben Knight reports.
Episode 34 - Backing Bourke
Release Date: 2016-09-19
An outback town's bold experiment to save its young people from a life of crime.
Episode 35 - Frat Boys
Release Date: 2016-09-26
Inside America's university fraternities. They're the elite clubs where testosterone, alcohol & campus life come together in a potent mix. Normally media shy, one frat house agreed to let the cameras in.
Episode 36 - China Rising
Release Date: 2016-10-03
China Rising: The challenges for Australia as China and the US struggle for supremacy in Asia. Peter Greste joins Four Corners for a special report.
Episode 37 - For Better Or Worse
Release Date: 2016-10-10
For Better or Worse: How the personal has become political in the fight over same-sex marriage. Four Corners investigates the politics behind the plebiscite debate.
Episode 38 - The Forgotten Children
Release Date: 2016-10-17
They're the human face of Australia's tough border policies - the more than 100 refugee children living on Nauru. Debbie Whitmont reports.
Episode 39 - Copwatchers
Release Date: 2016-10-24
The activists using cameras to fight back against police brutality in the US.
Episode 40 - Big Fish
Release Date: 2016-10-31
Four Corners investigates the business of salmon farming. A report by Gold Walkley Award-winning journalist Caro Meldrum-Hanna.
Episode 41 - Crossroads Afghanistan
Release Date: 2016-11-07
Crossroads Afghanistan: A heart-stopping journey on one of the most dangerous roads in the world, right through the heart of Taliban country.
Episode 42 - Broken Homes
Release Date: 2016-11-14
Broken Homes: On the frontline of Australia's child protection crisis.
Episode 43 - A Sense Of Self
Release Date: 2016-11-21
When acclaimed TV journalist Liz Jackson is diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, crippling her with pain & panic attacks, she turns the lens on herself to make the most challenging story of her life.