NaN/100 votes#1 - The Culture
Season 47 Episode 1 - Aired 2/12/2007
It's blokey and it's bolshie, the envy of other unions, with near blanket coverage of its workforce. For decades it has sought to influence election campaigns, dragged concessions out of fearful governments and fought ferociously for its members.
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#2 - Battling the Booze
Season 47 Episode 2 - Aired 2/19/2007
You don't have to be sitting on a street corner urinating in your trousers and shadow boxing to be a drunk. I'm living proof of that... - Ian
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#3 - The Denial Machine
Season 47 Episode 3 - Aired 2/26/2007
For years the global warming debate has swirled like a firestorm. Science has been tossed about in a tornado of spin from doomsayers and doubters, deep green activists and fossil fuel lobbyists.
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#4 - The Road to Return
Season 47 Episode 4 - Aired 3/5/2007
Who's tough on crime? It's an election season ritual: the law and order auction to see which party will put more cops on the streets or increase sentences or build more jails.
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#5 - Firestorm
Season 47 Episode 5 - Aired 3/12/2007
Across southern Australia, fire chiefs are anxiously waiting for the cool draughts of autumn to extinguish another stress-filled season of sparks, flare-ups and rushed responses.
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#6 - You Only Live Twice
Season 47 Episode 6 - Aired 3/19/2007
Our world might be getting smaller, thanks to technology, but virtual worlds and games are booming. Millions of people venture daily into these new and constantly evolving landscapes where they can conquer mythical armies, slay dragons and embark on other fantastical quests.
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#7 - A Hidden Life
Season 47 Episode 7 - Aired 3/26/2007
In May 2005, citizens of Spokane, USA, woke to startling news about their city's mayor, Jim West. The outwardly conservative Republican, who had pushed legislation barring gay teachers from public schools, had whiled away his private hours trawling for young men on an Internet chatroom, the Spokesman-Review newspaper alleged. West reportedly abused his office by offering internships to lure them into more intimate relationships.
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#8 - David Hicks' Story
Season 47 Episode 8 - Aired 4/2/2007
With a wispy moustache and long, lank hair, it was a different David Hicks who just faced US military court in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. No longer the clean-cut young man smiling familiarly out of old family snaps - and no longer protesting his innocence.
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#9 - Treechange
Season 47 Episode 9 - Aired 4/9/2007
Australia is planting trees. After years of debate about logging old growth forests what could seem more sensible or more worthy? And yet a national quarrel has developed about tree plantations, a quarrel that Chris Master discovers is quietly dividing rural communities and members of the Coalition Government.
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#10 - Earth, Wind and Fire
Season 47 Episode 10 - Aired 4/16/2007
Picture a windswept hillside lined with slender white skyscrapers, each crowned by a giant whirring rotor longer than a jumbo jet. Or a swathe of desert covered by a sea of mirrors drawing power from the sun.
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#11 - Painting the Mind
Season 47 Episode 11 - Aired 4/23/2007
Imagine surviving a massive brain injury, then waking up in hospital to discover your personality has completely transformed.
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#12 - The Dark Arts
Season 47 Episode 12 - Aired 4/30/2007
"Well mate... let me just say this to you. I mean you wouldn't know this but I'm not a f...... good enemy to have..." (Brian Burke on the telephone)
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#13 - Dr Rosanna Capolingua
Season 47 Episode 13 - Aired 5/7/2007
A confronting report in which fit and healthy elderly Australians reveal plans to take their own lives before they lose their independence. Is this a new fact of life in greying Australia?
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#14 - Mississippi Cold Case
Season 47 Episode 14 - Aired 5/21/2007
One spring day in 1964, Charles Moore and Henry Dee were hitchhiking in rural Mississippi. The two black men were picked up by the Ku Klux Klan, tortured, locked in a car boot and driven to Louisiana, then chained to an engine block and dropped alive into the Mississippi River.
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#15 - A Private Affair
Season 47 Episode 15 - Aired 5/28/2007
Nick off, it's not for sale!... Qantas shareholder's answer to the takeover offer.
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#16 - Torture
Season 47 Episode 16 - Aired 6/4/2007
"No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment." (Universal Declaration of Human Rights)
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#17 - Ghost Prisoners
Season 47 Episode 17 - Aired 6/11/2007
Shackled, gagged and blindfolded, they are bundled on to spy planes, spirited to Third World capitals and dumped in prison hellholes. There they face repeated interrogations that typically include prolonged sessions of torture, crudely inflicted, unimaginably endured.
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#18 - Tough Calls
Season 47 Episode 18 - Aired 6/18/2007
"We run an absolute dictatorship and that's what's going to drive this transformation and deliver results... If you can't get the people to go there and you try once and you try twice... then you just shoot 'em and get them out of the way... " - Telstra Chief Operations Officer Greg Winn (at a May business meeting)
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#19 - The Home Front
Season 47 Episode 19 - Aired 6/25/2007
While politicians clash noisily over global warming and how to fight it, millions of Australians are trying modestly to cut their energy use, to be a small part of a big solution.
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#20 - Forward Base Afghanistan
Season 47 Episode 20 - Aired 7/2/2007
Like Star Wars figures beamed back to the 17th century, Australia's hi-tech, lethally-equipped soldiers cut a surreal presence as they cautiously patrol the baking dustbowl of southern Afghanistan, drawing just casual glances from turbaned tribesmen and nomadic herders.
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#21 - Real Spooks
Season 47 Episode 21 - Aired 7/9/2007
Across Britain counter terrorism forces are gathering evidence against the planners of the failed car bomb plots in London and Glasgow. The forensic information gleaned from the vehicles and the arrests in Britain and Australia should allow them to piece together how the conspiracy was formed.
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#22 - The Cape Experiment
Season 47 Episode 22 - Aired 7/16/2007
"If they don't take responsibility then we will step in. We want the system to work so that when people don't take responsibility we're able to step in ... you could lose your freedom if you don't abide by the conditions." Noel Pearson.
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#23 - For The Children's Sake
Season 47 Episode 23 - Aired 7/23/2007
"My baby was the last thing that I thought about until I pulled that needle out of my arm." Sharon, drug user.
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#24 - Grist to the Mill
Season 47 Episode 24 - Aired 7/30/2007
It started with dinner in a Hobart restaurant. The head of Tasmania's biggest timber company and the then Deputy Premier chatted about future plans for the forest industry in Tasmania. Four years on the Tasmanian Parliament is about to decide whether to give the nod to a $1.7 billion giant pulp mill on the banks of the Tamar River north of Launceston.
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#25 - The Behaviour Business
Season 47 Episode 25 - Aired 8/6/2007
An angry child, lashing out at the world, struggling at school, labelled a 'problem'. The desperate parents, looking for help, hoping that one day their child will have a normal life. This is the traumatic world of families living with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
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The Best Episodes of Four Corners Season 47
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Season 47 Ratings Summary
"The Culture" is the best rated episode of "Four Corners" season 47. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 2/12/2007. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Battling the Booze".