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?

Plan of Attack: The Making of a Teenage Terrorist

Kerry O'Brien

Rosie's Story

Our Kids: Why are they so stressed?

Shocking revelations on Melbourne's gangland killings. Nick McKenzie reports.

True Detectives

Inside the campaign to save the two Australians on death row in Bali. Mark Davis reports.

Eat, Pray, Shoot

Inside Australia's multi-billion dollar greyhound racing industry.

Making a Killing

Scandal in the federal government's employment programs. Linton Besser reports.

The Jobs Game

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?

Apple's Broken Promises

The scourge of PTSD; as soldiers they fought the enemy abroad, now as civilians they battle a silent enemy within. Quentin McDermott reports.

Bringing The War Home

Why the Liberal Party came so close to toppling its leader after just 18 months in Government.

House of Cards

An investigation into the shocking human cost felt by the survivors of an aviation crash.

Ditched

The merchants of debt: how fast cash loans become a ruinous financial trap.

Game of Loans

The crime that shamed India and divided the country.

India's Daughter

Reporter Chris Masters revisits the Fatal Shore, the story of Gallipoli.

ANZAC to Afghanistan

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?

Degrees of Deception

On the frontline with the women taking up arms against Islamic State.

No Free Steps to Heaven

The dirty secrets behind Australia's fresh food.

Slaving Away

An unflinching portrait of Australia's remote Indigenous communities and their struggle to survive.

Remote Hope

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.

Secrets of Mexico's Drug War

The bullying and bastardisation of young doctors in our hospitals.

At Their Mercy

Ship of Death

Terror on Everest: extraordinary accounts and footage from the day the Nepal earthquake struck.

Nepal Quake: Terror on Everest

With the price of coal plummeting and our biggest customers turning to renewable energy, is Australia backing a loser?

The End of Coal?

On the trail of the traffickers exploiting the most unwanted people on the planet.

Journey into Hell

In this joint Four Corners/Fairfax Media investigation, we reveal how the mafia continues to flourish in Australia despite major police operations.

The Mafia in Australia: Drugs, Murder and Politics

Part two of this special investigation goes inside one of the most ambitious organised crime investigations in Australian history.

The Mafia in Australia: Blood Ties

Stories of courage and humanity in the aftermath of the 2005 London bombings.

7/7: Ten Years On

From BBC Three. A personal and provocative look at life in France following the Charlie Hebdo terror attacks.

A Nation Divided? The Charlie Hebdo Aftermath

Inside the power plays of the mercurial mining billionaire Andrew Twiggy Forrest, as he fights for survival. Stephen Long reports.

Iron Man

Inside the hidden world of transgender escorts.

Escorts

How India hijacked the game of cricket, and how Australia helped.

The Great Cricket Coup

From PBS Frontline. Secrets, Politics and Torture: The ghosts of the CIA's controversial interrogation program.

Secrets, Politics and Torture

Four Corners puts Labor leader Bill Shorten under the microscope.

Machine Man

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.

7-Eleven: The Price of Convenience

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.

The Truth About Halal

On Monday night, Four Corners will chart the events that led to the former Prime Minister's downfall.

Dethroning Tony Abbott

A special investigation by Dr Norman Swan on the unnecessary testing and treatments choking the health system and making patients ill.

Wasted

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.

Escape From ISIS

Next week on Four Corners: the Chinese billions flooding into Australian real estate.

The Great Wall of Money

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.

Jackson and Lawler: Inside the Eye of the Storm

From WDR (DE). Next on Four Corners, a documentary on the digital dissidents blowing the whistle on government surveillance around the globe.

Digital Dissidents

Next on Four Corners, we examine the sobering reality of the damage done by alcohol to unborn babies.

Hidden Harm

In this report, BBC producer Merwais Miakhail takes us on a personal journey into Afghanistan's tribal heartland, known as the 'Valley of Death'.

Return to the Valley of Death

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.

The tragic death of Luke Batty, killed by his father. Could his brutal murder have been prevented? Geoff Thompson reports.

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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