Four Corners
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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Season 50
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A Good Death
Four Corners follows four brave Australians as they come to the end of their lives, and the people determined to give them a good death.
Feb 8, 2010 -
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Breaking Point
Will Australia's flawed disability support system be reformed in time to save the families now at breaking point?
Feb 15, 2010 -
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The Warlord's Tune
A harrowing documentary that tells how thousands of young boys in Afghanistan are now being hunted and groomed to become sex slaves.
Feb 22, 2010 -
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The State of Play
The inside story of the battle to control Australian tennis.
Mar 1, 2010 -
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Scientology: The Ex-Files
Former members of the Church give a chilling portrait of life inside the organisation.
Mar 8, 2010 -
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The Authentic Mr Abbott
A revealing profile of the man who wants to be the next Prime Minister of Australia.
Mar 15, 2010 -
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Mexico's Drug Wars
A horrifying account of the brutal war that's raging in the towns that dot the border between Mexico and the United States.
Mar 22, 2010 -
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Gypsy Child Thieves
The harrowing story of the children who are forced into a life of crime on the streets in order to survive.
Mar 29, 2010 -
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Over the Edge
The harrowing story of the therapist whose work led some patients to believe they'd committed or been the victim of shocking sexual crimes.
Apr 5, 2010 -
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A Dirty Business
How the people of a once picturesque valley found themselves surrounded by coalmines, dust and toxic chemicals, while the State Government ignores their pleas for help.
Apr 12, 2010 -
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Chinese Whispers
Four Corners looks at events surrounding the arrest of mining executive Stern Hu and the tensions now involved in doing business with China.
Apr 19, 2010 -
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E12
A Lethal Miscalculation
The story behind the Federal Government's multi-billion dollar home insulation scheme debacle.
Apr 26, 2010 -
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Chocolate: The Bitter Truth
An undercover investigation, spanning three continents, that exposes the way children are trafficked and used to produce the raw materials that drive a multi-billion dollar industry.
May 3, 2010 -
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Access Denied
Quentin McDermott looks at the potential impact of the Government’s mandatory filtering system.
May 10, 2010 -
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In a Strange Land
The story of a young woman's confronting journey back to the war-ravaged country of her birth.
May 17, 2010 -
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Dirty Money
In this joint investigation with The Age newspaper, Four Corners reveals how the central pillar of Australia's financial system, the Reserve Bank, became ensnared in an international bribery scandal.
May 24, 2010 -
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South Africa's Lost Innocence
South Africa has the highest incidence of rape in the world, and almost half the victims are children.
May 31, 2010 -
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What's Yours Is Mine
How the government's attempt to introduce a resource super profits tax began a war with mine bosses, split the business community and may yet derail Labor's attempt to win the next Federal election.
Jun 7, 2010 -
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One Shitty Deal
A story that reveals how a toxic cocktail of investment packages helped poison the retirement funds of hundreds of Australians.
Jun 14, 2010 -
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Rush to Riches
How an attempt to negotiate a deal to create a state of the art resources development turned sour, pitting Indigenous people against each other and some of them against the State Government.
Jun 21, 2010 -
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Dancing with the Devil
This story documents the intersecting lives of three men - a cop, a drug dealer and a preacher - as they struggle to survive on the backstreets of Rio de Janeiro.
Jun 28, 2010 -
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A Careful War - Part 1
Chris Masters delivers the first of two ground level reports giving a soldier's-eye view of the bloody war being waged against the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Jul 5, 2010 -
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A Careful War - Part 2
The story of Australian troops as they head into unchartered territory, trying to win the faith and trust of a brutalised people in conflict-torn Afghanistan.
Jul 12, 2010 -
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A Dog Act
A forensic investigation of the killing of Kwementyaye Ryder by five white, local youths from Alice Springs.
Jul 19, 2010 -
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Heart of Darkness
The story of a young woman's search to understand the shocking conflict that has laid waste the country where she was born.
Jul 26, 2010 -
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Smugglers' Paradise
An expose of people smugglers and their networks in Indonesia.
Aug 2, 2010 -
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Hidden Voices
The story of an Australian town that holds a lesson for each and every person who's been touched by mental illness.
Aug 9, 2010 -
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Whatever it Takes
A critical look at one of the closest fought Federal elections in two decades, assessing the parties, their policies and the two people who want to lead the country.
Aug 16, 2010 -
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Overdose
The story of the greatest financial crisis you will ever see...
Aug 23, 2010 -
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Crime Incorporated
A joint ABC Four Corners/Fairfax investigation that takes us inside major Australian organised crime networks.
Aug 30, 2010 -
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Body Corporate
The story of the high stakes battle that will decide who owns your body and the key biological building blocks that make you the person that you are.
Sep 6, 2010 -
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After the Deluge
The story of the high stakes battle that will decide who owns your body and the key biological building blocks that make you the person that you are.
Sep 9, 2010 -
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Return to the Rainbow Warrior
This week on Four Corners, "Return to the Rainbow Warrior", a story that attempts to finally get to the truth of a murderous attack that New Zealanders describe as an act of state sponsored terrorism.
Sep 20, 2010 -
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Oxy: The Hidden Epidemic
This week on Four Corners, Oxy: The Hidden Epidemic - a story that reveals how the misuse of powerful prescription drugs is creating a new generation of addicts.
Sep 23, 2010 -
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The Deal
The inside story of the historic deal that created Australia's first national minority government in seven decades.
Oct 4, 2010 -
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Secret Iraq - Insurgency
Part one of a startling expose revealing what really happened in Iraq after the occupation of the country by Coalition troops.
Oct 11, 2010 -
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Secret Iraq - Awakening
The story revealing how Coalition policy took Iraq to the brink of an all-out civil war and how key players in the U.S.
Oct 18, 2010 -
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In a Fix
An investigation into the allegations of corruption and match fixing that threaten to undermine the multi-billion dollar sport of international cricket.
Oct 25, 2010 -
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Bad Call
Everyone knows that telecommunications is a highly competitive business. Empires have been built on cheap phone calls and businesses are always looking to get a better deal from phone companies. But now Four Corners reporter Stephen Long blows the whistle on highly questionable phone deals.
Nov 1, 2010