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 55
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True Detectives
Shocking revelations on Melbourne's gangland killings. Nick McKenzie reports.
Feb 2, 2015 -
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Eat, Pray, Shoot
Inside the campaign to save the two Australians on death row in Bali. Mark Davis reports.
Feb 9, 2015 -
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Making a Killing
Inside Australia's multi-billion dollar greyhound racing industry.
Feb 16, 2015 -
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The Jobs Game
Scandal in the federal government's employment programs. Linton Besser reports.
Feb 23, 2015 -
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Apple's Broken Promises
Apple 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?
Mar 2, 2015 -
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Bringing The War Home
The scourge of PTSD; as soldiers they fought the enemy abroad, now as civilians they battle a silent enemy within. Quentin McDermott reports.
Mar 9, 2015 -
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House of Cards
Why the Liberal Party came so close to toppling its leader after just 18 months in Government.
Mar 16, 2013 -
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Ditched
An investigation into the shocking human cost felt by the survivors of an aviation crash.
Mar 23, 2015 -
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Game of Loans
The merchants of debt: how fast cash loans become a ruinous financial trap.
Mar 30, 2015 -
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India's Daughter
The crime that shamed India and divided the country.
Apr 6, 2015 -
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ANZAC to Afghanistan
Reporter Chris Masters revisits the Fatal Shore, the story of Gallipoli.
Apr 13, 2015 -
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Degrees of Deception
Australia 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?
Apr 20, 2015 -
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No Free Steps to Heaven
On the frontline with the women taking up arms against Islamic State.
Apr 27, 2015 -
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Slaving Away
The dirty secrets behind Australia's fresh food.
May 4, 2015 -
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Remote Hope
An unflinching portrait of Australia's remote Indigenous communities and their struggle to survive.
May 11, 2015 -
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Secrets of Mexico's Drug War
This investigation from the BBC looks into the American authorities' relationship with the biggest and most powerful criminal organisation in the world, the Sinaloa Cartel.
May 18, 2015 -
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At Their Mercy
The bullying and bastardisation of young doctors in our hospitals.
May 25, 2015 -
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Ship of Death
A whodunit on the high seas.
Jun 1, 2015 -
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Nepal Quake: Terror on Everest
Terror on Everest: extraordinary accounts and footage from the day the Nepal earthquake struck.
Jun 8, 2015 -
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The End of Coal?
With the price of coal plummeting and our biggest customers turning to renewable energy, is Australia backing a loser?
Jun 15, 2015 -
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Journey into Hell
On the trail of the traffickers exploiting the most unwanted people on the planet.
Jun 22, 2015 -
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The Mafia in Australia: Drugs, Murder and Politics
In this joint Four Corners/Fairfax Media investigation, we reveal how the mafia continues to flourish in Australia despite major police operations.
Jun 29, 2015 -
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The Mafia in Australia: Blood Ties
Part two of this special investigation goes inside one of the most ambitious organised crime investigations in Australian history.
Jul 6, 2015 -
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7/7: Ten Years On
Stories of courage and humanity in the aftermath of the 2005 London bombings.
Jul 13, 2015 -
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A Nation Divided? The Charlie Hebdo Aftermath
From BBC Three. A personal and provocative look at life in France following the Charlie Hebdo terror attacks.
Jul 20, 2015 -
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Iron Man
Inside the power plays of the mercurial mining billionaire Andrew Twiggy Forrest, as he fights for survival. Stephen Long reports.
Jul 27, 2015 -
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Escorts
Inside the hidden world of transgender escorts.
Aug 3, 2015 -
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The Great Cricket Coup
How India hijacked the game of cricket, and how Australia helped.
Aug 10, 2015 -
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Secrets, Politics and Torture
From PBS Frontline. Secrets, Politics and Torture: The ghosts of the CIA's controversial interrogation program.
Aug 17, 2015 -
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Machine Man
Four Corners puts Labor leader Bill Shorten under the microscope.
Aug 24, 2015 -
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7-Eleven: The Price of Convenience
Adele 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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The Truth About Halal
The 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.
Sep 7, 2015 -
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Dethroning Tony Abbott
On Monday night, Four Corners will chart the events that led to the former Prime Minister's downfall.
Sep 21, 2015 -
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Wasted
A special investigation by Dr Norman Swan on the unnecessary testing and treatments choking the health system and making patients ill.
Sep 28, 2015 -
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Escape From ISIS
From 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.
Oct 5, 2015 -
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The Great Wall of Money
Next week on Four Corners: the Chinese billions flooding into Australian real estate.
Oct 12, 2015 -
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Jackson and Lawler: Inside the Eye of the Storm
Next 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.
Oct 19, 2015 -
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Digital Dissidents
From WDR (DE). Next on Four Corners, a documentary on the digital dissidents blowing the whistle on government surveillance around the globe.
Oct 26, 2015 -
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Hidden Harm
Next on Four Corners, we examine the sobering reality of the damage done by alcohol to unborn babies.
Nov 2, 2015 -
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Return to the Valley of Death
In this report, BBC producer Merwais Miakhail takes us on a personal journey into Afghanistan's tribal heartland, known as the 'Valley of Death'.
Nov 9, 2015 -
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Our Kids: Why are they so stressed?
In 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.
Nov 16, 2015 -
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Plan of Attack: The Making of a Teenage Terrorist
It 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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Rosie's Story
The tragic death of Luke Batty, killed by his father. Could his brutal murder have been prevented? Geoff Thompson reports.
Nov 30, 2015