NaN/100 votes#1 - Bad Sport
Season 56 Episode 1 - Aired 2/1/2016
Sarah Ferguson presents an investigation into the criminal networks that are threatening the integrity of sport, amidst the uproar over the match fixing revelations in tennis, Linton Besser reports.
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NaN/100 votes#2 - Shark Alarm
Season 56 Episode 2 - Aired 2/8/2016
What's behind the rise in shark attacks, and is there anything we can do to stop them? Geoff Thompson reports.
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NaN/100 votes#3 - Dying To Dance
Season 56 Episode 3 - Aired 2/15/2016
Dying to Dance. Inside the dance party drug scene. Caro Meldrum-Hanna reports.
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NaN/100 votes#4 - Guns In The USA - Child's Play
Season 56 Episode 4 - Aired 2/22/2016
Exploring America's gun culture where kids learn to shoot and their classrooms are designed to be bulletproof. How America grapples with gun violence.
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NaN/100 votes#5 - Catastrophic Failure
Season 56 Episode 5 - Aired 2/29/2016
In his first story for Four Corners, reporter Ben Knight travels to Brazil to investigate BHP's responsibility for the Samarco mine disaster that's destroyed lives and polluted an entire river system.
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NaN/100 votes#6 - Money For Nothing
Season 56 Episode 6 - Aired 3/7/2016
It's the bank that's spent two years rebuilding its reputation after being exposed for ripping off its customers in a devastating financial advice scandal. An explosive corporate investigation by Adele Ferguson.
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NaN/100 votes#7 - Safari: Paying To Kill
Season 56 Episode 7 - Aired 3/14/2016
The big game and big bucks in Africa's trophy hunting industry. Taking us into the darker world of illegal hunting where lions are tranquilised or partly domesticated to make them easier to shot.
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NaN/100 votes#8 - Whatever It Takes
Season 56 Episode 8 - Aired 3/21/2016
A rare account from inside the Essendon doping scandal. Quentin McDermott reports.
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NaN/100 votes#9 - State Of Fear
Season 56 Episode 9 - Aired 3/28/2016
The investigation into the scandal engulfing Malaysia's Prime Minister and the question that led to the arrest of our reporter and cameraman.
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NaN/100 votes#10 - The Secrets Of The Super Rich
Season 56 Episode 10 - Aired 4/4/2016
This Four Corners investigation will reveal how the rich and powerful exploit the system. Reporter Marian Wilkinson follows the money trail.
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NaN/100 votes#11 - Clive Palmer
Season 56 Episode 11 - Aired 4/11/2016
The rise and fall of Clive Palmer's business empire and political career. Hayden Cooper reports.
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NaN/100 votes#12 - Inside Europe's Terror Attacks
Season 56 Episode 12 - Aired 4/18/2016
In the wake of the attacks in France and Brussels, a BBC Panorama investigation into Islamic State's European terror network and Western intelligence agencies' battle to stop it.
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NaN/100 votes#13 - Bad Blood
Season 56 Episode 13 - Aired 4/25/2016
The bad blood between Australian doctors and the Federal Government over offshore detention.
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NaN/100 votes#14 - Home Truths: What Happened To The Great Australian Dream?
Season 56 Episode 14 - Aired 5/2/2016
Ben Knight reports on the white hot issues of housing affordability and negative gearing and the generation left wondering if they will ever own their own home.
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NaN/100 votes#15 - Callous Disregard
Season 56 Episode 15 - Aired 5/9/2016
Gold Walkley award-winning reporter Caro Meldrum-Hanna follows the trail of evidence in the brutal death of a young woman as her family fights for justice.
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NaN/100 votes#16 - Supplements and Safety
Season 56 Episode 16 - Aired 5/16/2016
Supplements and safety: an investigation into the billion dollar health supplement and vitamin industry. What's in all those pills and could they be doing you harm?
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NaN/100 votes#17 - Money And Influence
Season 56 Episode 17 - Aired 5/23/2016
As we head into the third week of the election campaign, Four Corners examines how money and influence operates in the shadowy world of political donations.
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NaN/100 votes#18 - The Baby Business
Season 56 Episode 18 - Aired 5/30/2016
With an increasing number of women turning to fertility treatments to help them conceive a baby, Four Corners investigates, are women being sold false hope by the IVF industry?
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NaN/100 votes#19 - Ripped Off
Season 56 Episode 19 - Aired 6/6/2016
The scams, fraud and incompetence leaving remote communities exploited and betrayed. Linton Besser journeys almost 5000km across Australia in search of who's to blame.
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NaN/100 votes#20 - The Miracle Of Kobani
Season 56 Episode 20 - Aired 6/13/2016
We meet the people of the small Syrian town who defeated ISIS and are determined to rebuild their lives in the rubble.
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NaN/100 votes#21 - The Deputy And The Dark Horse
Season 56 Episode 21 - Aired 6/20/2016
The Deputy and the Dark Horse: Barnaby Joyce vs. Tony Windsor in the contest that could bring down the Deputy Prime Minister.
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NaN/100 votes#22 - The Leaders
Season 56 Episode 22 - Aired 6/27/2016
With the election only days away, Gold Walkley and Logie Award-winning reporter Sarah Ferguson interviews Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten. What will she ask?
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NaN/100 votes#23 - Future Proof
Season 56 Episode 23 - Aired 7/4/2016
With startling predictions that more than 5 million Australian jobs will disappear in the next 15 years, as a result of technology, we look at the future of work and ask are we preparing our kids for the jobs of the future?
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NaN/100 votes#24 - Soldiers Of Allah
Season 56 Episode 24 - Aired 7/11/2016
Going undercover with an ISIS terror cell. For six months this intrepid reporter infiltrated and secretly filmed a terrorist cell as they made plans for an attack.
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NaN/100 votes#25 - The Race To Dope
Season 56 Episode 25 - Aired 7/18/2016
The Race To Dope: The elite athletes blowing the whistle on how they cheated the system.
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The Best Episodes of Four Corners Season 56
Every episode of Four Corners Season 56 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Four Corners Season 56!
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Season 56 Ratings Summary
"Bad Sport" is the best rated episode of "Four Corners" season 56. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 2/1/2016. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Shark Alarm".