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The Best Episodes of Four Corners Season 54

Every episode of Four Corners Season 54 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Four Corners Season 54!

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

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Four Corners Season 54 Episode 1 - This Trucking Life
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    #1 - This Trucking Life

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    Long haul truckies say they're being pushed to the brink by big business and government with lethal results.

    Director:Unknown
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  2. Four Corners Season 54 Episode 2 - Stone Cold Justice
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    #2 - Stone Cold Justice

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    Violence is part of life in the Middle East but have children now become a new target for Israeli security forces? A special investigation by journalist John Lyons.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Four Corners Season 54 Episode 3 - Inside North Korea
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    #3 - Inside North Korea

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    Follows the journeys of a small group of North Korean secret film-makers, revealing what life is really like under the new leader Kim Jong Un.

    Director:Unknown
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  4. Four Corners Season 54 Episode 4 - Little Boy Lost
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    #4 - Little Boy Lost

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    A little boy lost and a family's search for answers; how did the police get the investigation so wrong? Geoff Thompson reports.

    Director:Unknown
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  5. Four Corners Season 54 Episode 5 - Tales from the Organ Trade
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    #5 - Tales from the Organ Trade

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    Faced with death, would you illegally pay for a heart, lungs or kidney? Thousands do and the international black market is booming.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Four Corners Season 54 Episode 6 - The Boy with the Henna Tattoo
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    #6 - The Boy with the Henna Tattoo

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    The inside story of an investigation to rescue an Australian child from an international paedophile ring. Caro Meldrum-Hanna reports.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Four Corners Season 54 Episode 7 - Drawing the Line
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    #7 - Drawing the Line

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    An investigation of the intelligence operation that's caused friction in Australia's relationship with East Timor. Marian Wilkinson reports.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Four Corners Season 54 Episode 8 - The Dancing Shiva
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    #8 - The Dancing Shiva

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    Quentin McDermott investigates the scandal that's engulfing the National Gallery. Were our finest art experts duped?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Four Corners Season 54 Episode 9 - How China Fooled the World
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    #9 - How China Fooled the World

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    An investigation of the Chinese debt binge that's left economists holding their breath. What will be the impact on Australia?

    Director:Unknown
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  11. Four Corners Season 54 Episode 10 - A Lender of Last Resort
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    #10 - A Lender of Last Resort

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    How does a mortgage broker, whose work has prompted multiple complaints and is the subject of ongoing police investigation, continue to operate? Linton Besser reports on Australia's shadowy world of unregulated lending.

    Director:Unknown
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  12. Four Corners Season 54 Episode 11 - End of the Road
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    #11 - End of the Road

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    The car manufacturing industry is on the way out, so what's the real impact? Stephen Long reports.

    Director:Unknown
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  13. Four Corners Season 54 Episode 12 - Day of Days
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    #12 - Day of Days

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    Four Corners commemorates the 70th anniversary of the Normandy landings.

    Director:Unknown
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  14. Four Corners Season 54 Episode 13 - The Manus Solution
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    #13 - The Manus Solution

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    Geoff Thompson puts together the most comprehensive account yet of what took place at The Manus Island Regional Processing Centre in February 2014.

    Director:Unknown
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  15. Four Corners Season 54 Episode 14 - Banking Bad
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    #14 - Banking Bad

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    Putting the spotlight on a top bank's financial planners. Was it bad advice or just greed? Adele Ferguson reports.

    Director:Unknown
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  16. Four Corners Season 54 Episode 15 - Streets of Shame
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    #15 - Streets of Shame

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    A shocking insight into the sexual exploitation of many thousands of poor and vulnerable children in Pakistan, one of the world's most important Muslim nations.

    Director:Unknown
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  17. Four Corners Season 54 Episode 16 - Lost: MH370
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    #16 - Lost: MH370

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    How did Malaysian authorities lose a plane, search in the wrong place and ignore significant evidence for so long? Caro Meldrum-Hanna reports on the Mystery of Flight MH370.

    Director:Unknown
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  18. Four Corners Season 54 Episode 17 - The Walking Wounded
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    #17 - The Walking Wounded

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    It was a high-tech hip replacement that failed. The company tried to cover it up. Now they're exposed. Quentin McDermott reports.

    Director:Unknown
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  19. Four Corners Season 54 Episode 18 - The Pope's Revolution
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    #18 - The Pope's Revolution

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    Can Pope Francis reform a Church weighed down by scandal and controversy?

    Director:Unknown
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  20. Four Corners Season 54 Episode 19 - Chamber of Horrors
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    #19 - Chamber of Horrors

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    With ample evidence of sex abuse in the military, why don't the top brass deal with the abusers? Michael Brissenden reports.

    Director:Unknown
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  21. Four Corners Season 54 Episode 20 - In the Shadow of the Stadiums
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    #20 - In the Shadow of the Stadiums

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    Brazil splurged billions to host the soccer World Cup while many live a life of poverty and crime. What price the "beautiful game?"

    Director:Unknown
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  22. Four Corners Season 54 Episode 21 - Democracy for Sale
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    #21 - Democracy for Sale

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    Democracy is a powerful concept. But it doesn't come cheap. Reporter Linton Besser delves inside the investigation that blew the lid on corruption within Australia's major political parties.

    Director:Unknown
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  23. Four Corners Season 54 Episode 22 - Rupert, Rebekah and Andy
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    #22 - Rupert, Rebekah and Andy

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    She was the queen of the British tabloids, a faithful and trusted servant of media mogul Rupert Murdoch. He was the top aide to the British Prime Minister. But for the past eight months, Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson have been the focus of one of the longest-running criminal trials in British history.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Four Corners Season 54 Episode 23 - Power to the People
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    #23 - Power to the People

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    While the rest of the world moves to embrace renewable energy why is Australia drawing back? Four Corners documents the revolution in power generation taking place across the globe.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Four Corners Season 54 Episode 24 - Rosie's Story
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    #24 - Rosie's Story

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    It was a crime that left Australians horrified. The tragic death of Luke Batty, killed by his father. Could his brutal murder have been prevented? Luke's mother Rosie tells her story.

    Director:Unknown
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  26. Four Corners Season 54 Episode 25 - Generation Like
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    #25 - Generation Like

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    Thanks to social media, today's teenagers are able to interact directly with their culture and their heroes, dispensing approval to music, videos, food and clothes, as well as each other. They say that's empowering because they can deliver a verdict instantly. But is this empowerment or a new form of slavery? And are teenagers being manipulated by big corporations and the marketing moguls who see social media as the ultimate marketing tool?(Australia, English)

    Director:Unknown
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Season 54 Ratings Summary

"This Trucking Life" is the best rated episode of "Four Corners" season 54. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 2/3/2014. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Stone Cold Justice".