A one-hour special reveals deep failures and systemic issues in Australia's childcare sector. Adele Ferguson uncovers shocking cases of child abuse, neglect and injury highlighting gaps in childcare safety and accountability.

Betrayal of Trust

The fight to contain coronavirus. Have critical mistakes left Australia and our frontline medical workers dangerously exposed? Doctors, patients and health practitioners talk about confronting the virus for the first time.

Pandemic

The 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 inquiries and reviews targeting the duopoly.

Super Power

The AFL is the only major sporting code in the world that hasn't had a single elite male player publicly identify as gay. Louise Milligan investigates the AFL's culture and asks what has created this silence?

The Silence: AFL's Last Taboo

From volcano labs in Iceland, to disappearing glaciers in Switzerland and to sun-reflecting clouds in Australia, the bold experiments aimed not just at cutting emissions but removing carbon from the atmosphere.

Can Climate Scientists Save the World?

A growing anti-government movement in Australia is challenging the authority of the courts, councils and cops. Supercharged during the COVID lockdowns, some call themselves sovereign citizens, others freedom fighters.

Lawfare

Trump versus the Courts: What will the American system of government become - the rule of law or the rule of the president? Donald Trump has expanded the power and authority of office like no other, and he is not stopping.

Trump vs the Law

Growing up without a gender. Young Australians who do not identify as male or female explain how they negotiate the world and the judgement of others. Their parents talk about what it's like to raise a gender neutral child.

Not A Boy, Not A Girl

There 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 who witnessed the chaos of Trump's first term.

Retribution - The Battle For Democracy (Part 1)

The new reality of artificial life. As tech companies race to dominate the artificial intelligence market, experts warn we're not prepared for what happens next. Grace Tobin investigates the misuse and abuse of generative AI.

AI Rising

Two 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 perspective on life on the Russian frontline.

Ukraine's War - The Other Side

As China transforms into an economic powerhouse, billions of dollars have been illegally spirited out of the country. Mark Willacy reports on the bounty hunters chasing China's missing millions in Australia.

Project Dragon

On the frontline to preserve the world's largest tropical rainforest. Brazil is allowing the Amazon to be felled at an alarming rate, but Indigenous tribes, scientists and activists are fighting back. Sophie McNeill reports.

Saving The Amazon

How the Ruby Princess became an incubator for infection, leaving passengers and staff dangerously exposed. An alarming picture emerges of crucial decisions by the cruise operator and the actions of Australian authorities.

Outbreak Onboard

Former members of the Church give a chilling portrait of life inside the organisation.

Scientology: The Ex-Files

Next on Four Corners, PBS' NOVA documentary producer, Miles O'Brien, looks at how the events unfolded on the day of the bombing and he tracks how a team of investigators used modern technology, combined with good old fashioned detective work, to break the case.

Manhunt: The Boston Bombers

Japan's secret sex scandal. A music executive with a long history of allegations of sexual abuse made by boys in his talent agency. We examine the suffocating reality of being a J-pop idol and the media cover up over decades.

Predator: The Secret Scandal of J-Pop

Their voices are persuasive, their emails insistent and they have proven to be remarkably successful at conning countless people into handing over their money. Internet scamming began in the early days of email with appeals from Nigerian 'princes' asking for help to regain their missing money. From those amateurish beginnings, the scammers watched, learned and refined their techniques. What started out as a simple scam from West Africa has now morphed into a global enterprise, conning people on an industrial scale.

Meet the Scammers

Four Corners explores the controversial police technique putting innocent people behind bars, with a series of high-profile cases across America revealing a slew of wrongful convictions based on false confessions.

The Interrogation

Four Corners investigates the claims of a worldwide protest movement against wireless 5G technology, exploring how it works and the scientific studies undertaken into whether the technology is actually a threat to our health.

The Truth About 5G

How digital dating became a predators' playground. In a joint investigation for Four Corners and triple j Hack, Avani Dias uncovers a deeply troubling pattern of sexual assault and rape facilitated by the use of Tinder.

Tinder

In the final part of our special report, Sarah Ferguson investigates central allegations that members of the Trump team, including possibly the President himself, actively colluded with Russia to subvert American democracy.

Trump/Russia: Moscow Rules

Four Corners follows the money trail from New York to Moscow, tracking the ties between Trump, his business empire and Russia.

Trump/Russia: Follow The Money

The Christchurch terror attack brought to light the violent, disturbing right-wing extremist movement flourishing on the internet. Were authorities so focused on Islamic extremism that they failed to grasp this deadly threat?

Under the Radar

He is a self-styled evangelist who told his followers he was The Anointed One, chosen by God to convert the world to his beliefs. In reality, Scott Williams was a cult leader who used his own brand of religion to warp biblical scripture in the pursuit of sex, money and power. Reporter Caro Meldrum-Hanna investigates the rise of Scott Williams and his incredible path around the world and back to Australia, exposing how he created a hell on earth for many followers.(Australia, English)

Cult Of Horrors

After "The Day After"

Allegations have swirled around Willie Brigitte ever since his discreet deportation from Australia and his much-publicised arrest in France in October 2003.

Willie Brigitte

Ticky Fullerton looks at the management of Tasmania's forests and how one timber company enjoys extraordinary political support for its operations.

Lords Of The Forests

Fuelled by a cocktail of drugs, armed robberies are growing more violent and unpredictable.

In the Firing Line

Why has Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat - once feted at the White House but now holed up in his West Bank headquarters - become such an outcast?

Arafat Investigated

How police laid a trap to catch drug dealers but instead found themselves entangled in a web of corruption allegations.

The Speed Trap

Michael Buerk returns to Ethiopia 20 years after first alerting the world to the Ethiopian famine.

Ethiopia: A Journey with Michael Buerk

Are Australia's sports bosses surrendering to the drug cheats?

Tarnished Gold

What really happened that night in the tiny Redfern community .

Riot In Redfern

Troubling questions arise when the legal and psychiatric worlds collide.

A Crime of Insanity

Are Australians hitching a ride on China's economic juggernaut?

Lost In Translation

A report on the conditions that made the violence in Rwanda possible.

Killers

A special report on the frightening trade in nuclear secrets.

The Nuclear Bazaar

Allegations of sexual violence have engulfed some of Australia's top AFL footballers and their clubs.

Fair Game?

The fight between Australia and East Timor over billion dollar oil and gas interests.

Rich Man, Poor Man

The inside story of the family that lived and trained with Osama Bin Laden.

Al Qaeda Family

Where will the credit binge end for the many thousands of Australians in debt?

Till Debt Us Do Part

Under what circumstances should a child be taken from its birth parents?

The Taking of Logan Marr

The story behind what may endure as defining images of war in Iraq.

Chain of Command

Corruption spreads from state police forces into the Australian Crime Commission.

Corruption Inc.

Is the RSPCA turning a blind eye to cruelty for the benefit of commercial interests?

A Blind Eye

Bill Clinton defends his record and tells how his public and private lives clashed.

The Clinton Interview

How the justice system failed star swim coach Scott Volkers and the women he was accused of sexually molesting.

A Case To Answer

How one company’s obsession with the bottom line left a trail of death and dismemberment among its workers.

A Dangerous Business

Four Corners investigates the story behind Mamdouh Habib's incarceration at the notorious prison Guantanamo Bay .

Worst of the Worst?

Chris Masters talks to bent cops and police chiefs around Australia about the painful costs of corruption, the effectiveness of anti-corruption measures and the need for constant vigilance.

Training Day

Jonathan Holmes investigates the cost to our subsidised pharmaceutical scheme since Australia signed the Free Trade Agreement.

A Bitter Pill?

This expose reveals the truth behind what the BNP has been telling the public in recent years, as it has tried to shed its image of a far-right, racist party.

The Secret Agent

Four Corners tells the story of the Dalton family breakdown in the context of the Government's recent initiatives to reform the Family Court system, and the rising political influence of men's groups.

Losing the Children

"The Plea" examines the cases a jury will never get to hear and asks the question, is the plea bargain undermining an entire legal system?

The Plea

What do Iraqis think about the war and its aftermath?

After Saddam

From outright fraud to allegations of cover up … and those who simply bend the rules.

Doctoring the Figures

Five Australians tell their story of beating depression; the 'black dog" affecting one in five Australians.

Beating the Black Dog

Four Corners presents the incredible journey of four young men .

Run For Your Life

How can one island nation lose a two billion dollar fortune in the space of twenty years?

Island Raiders

Liz Jackson follows the leaders' trails during an election campaign that's gone from truth in government, to billion dollar give-aways and old fashioned fear tactics - as the parties battle to win over middle Australia.

The Contenders

Reporter Jonathan Holmes takes us on a colourful journey through the battleground state of Ohio during the US Elections.

Battleground State

City Limits

Jamie Whitaker had been created to save the life of his brother Charlie, who suffers from Diamond-Blackfan anaemia, DBA, a form of bone marrow failure.

A Baby To Save Our Son

A story of spies, counterspies, double agents and defections as Andrew Fowler reveals the betrayal inside one of Australia’s secret intelligence agencies.

Trust and Betrayal

An exclusive story following a brave little boy’s fight to be cured.

Blood Brothers

In a place where they should have felt safest, the children of Beslan were targeted in an act of barbarism.

What the Children Saw

2004 will be remembered chiefly for international issues, primarily events in Iraq: including the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal; as well as the continued threat of terrorism. We also faced crucial elections both at home and in the United States.

2004: In Review

Four Corners returns for 2006 with a whistleblower... and revelations of a powerful insiders' club...

The Greenhouse Mafia

There's road rage over private tollways... Have deals between politicians and tollway bosses killed off grand new visions for public transport and decongested streets? Are they creating a road monster that leaves Australians addicted to cars?

Wheeling and Dealing

Jack Thomas has become the first person to be convicted under Australia's new terrorist funding laws.

The Convert

Kid watching is very grown-up business. The 12-and-unders are a demographic that marketers ignore at their peril.

How The Kids Took Over

One Sunday last December, 5000 Australians gathered at Cronulla, singing and waving the national flag as they "reclaimed" the beach. Fuelled by drink, the crowd became a mob, hunting down and beating anyone who looked Middle Eastern.

Riot and Revenge

It's cheap, highly addictive and ultra-powerful. "Ice", or crystal methamphetamine, is now more popular than heroin, playing havoc with the minds and the bodies of nearly 50,000 Australians.

The Ice Age

Seven got life sentences and two are facing death by firing squad - but the blood of the Bali Nine will not stain the hands of this country's crimefighters.

Big Fish, Little Fish

Sex Slaves

For Saddam Hussein, it must have been a no-brainer. He would pay $200,000 to a top UN official. In return, Saddam would be showered in billions.

Cash Crop

In the space of four days, Australians have witnessed the extraordinary spectacle of their Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister each submitting to rigorous, sustained and public interrogation at the Cole inquiry.

Cash Crop Part Two

All of London was on edge when a young electrician, Jean Charles de Menezes, headed off for work on 22 July last year. The previous day, four would-be suicide bombers had attacked the transport system. A fortnight earlier, a series of suicide bombings had killed 52 people.

Stockwell - Countdown to Killing

Many thought he was dead or wounded. But when he dramatically appeared this week in an Internet video, firing off an automatic weapon and anti-American rhetoric, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi looked very much alive.

The Making of Zarqawi

The Westpoint collapse...Ticky Fullerton digs into the scheme that has wiped out the life savings of thousands of Australians. Who's taken their money? And why did regulators let it happen?

The Boys

In the hours before he killed himself in April last year, Campbell Bolton wrote a long note in which he told his family how sorry he was for the pain he was about to cause them. "It fills me with grief when I think of what I have done to you," he wrote.

A Deathly Silence

Murder, drugs, extortion, robbery, gambling, prostitution... for 40 years, this has been the daily business of the Aryan Brotherhood, according to US law enforcers.

Reigning in Hell

There's another story buried deep beneath the horrific headlines about sexual abuse in indigenous Australia.

The Road to Nowhere

Imagine being about to give birth, cocooned in a speeding car on a night-time dash to a hospital that's still hours away, every bump, every brake to dodge a kangaroo sharpening the pain and discomfort.

Far From Care

To his fans, research psychologist Harry Harlow was a 20th century hero, a scientific pioneer who revolutionised the way we raise our children today.

Monkey Love

As Australian troops stand between the warring factions in East Timor, Liz Jackson reveals the power plays and intrigues that are tearing the infant nation apart.

Stoking the Fires

If your late model car goes missing, don't expect to see it again soon.

Car Wars

"Do no harm." It's the ethos of medicine, the bedrock principle for all its practitioners.

Killed by Care

"The price of petrol is disgusting, absolutely disgusting..."

Peak Oil

For decades the Liberal Party has carried itself proudly as a broad church, home to a wide spectrum of ideology among members. Now a bitter factional war is playing out in Australia's biggest state that many say is disenfranchising grassroots members and threatening democracy.

The Right Stuff

Breast cancer stalked Becky Measures. It had struck 14 of her female relatives, killing some of them.

The Price of Life

Four Corners often explores extravagant claims and tall tales. Rarely though does it meet a character quite as colourful as author Gavin Menzies.

Junk History

Not long after dawn on August 15, 2004 a teenage girl was dragged through a town square in the Iranian provincial city of Neka, past a crowd of people to the spot where a mobile crane had been converted into a makeshift gallows. Atefah Sahaaleh was 16 years old. She was hanged that morning for crimes against chastity.

Execution of a Teenage Girl

A member of a 'raskol' gang talks about rape as a ritual part of crime. A career truck driver on the highland's highway picks up a teenage prostitute - just part of his routine. A 'hostess supervisor' at a Port Moresby brothel explains that he may tell clients to use a condom with his girls but that sometimes he is too tired to bother. These are voices from Matthew Carney's intimate report on how Papua New Guinea became a hot spot for the AIDS virus.

Sick No Good

Cares and crowds are forgotten. Sand crunches between your toes, there's salt on your skin and sun on your back. Here is where blue ocean meets virgin bush, and a golden stretch of beach is all yours for camping, swimming and quiet reflection.

Seachange

Heat waves and cyclones; droughts ravaging farmland; rising seas swamping beach havens; forests drying up and species dying out; the Barrier Reef and Kakadu, icons of nature, doomed.

What Price Global Warming?

It's a battle for your body and for your money - a tug-o-war between two powerful forces: the marketing pressure to eat more versus the social pressure to weigh less.

Diet Confidential

The dust settled long ago at Ground Zero. But the world is still searching for clarity after 9/11.

Five Years

They were ordinary suburban Australians setting out on a big overseas adventure... to cheer on the Socceroos at the World Cup, or take in the sights of Europe. They would climax the trip with a visit to ancestral lands in southern Lebanon where they would rekindle family ties, rediscover their heritage and relax.

In the Line of Fire

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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