An outback town's bold experiment to save its young people from a life of crime.

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Rehab Inc.

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.

Bad Sport

What's behind the rise in shark attacks, and is there anything we can do to stop them? Geoff Thompson reports.

Shark Alarm

Dying to Dance. Inside the dance party drug scene. Caro Meldrum-Hanna reports.

Dying To Dance

Exploring America's gun culture where kids learn to shoot and their classrooms are designed to be bulletproof. How America grapples with gun violence.

Guns In The USA - Child's Play

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.

Catastrophic Failure

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.

Money For Nothing

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.

Safari: Paying To Kill

A rare account from inside the Essendon doping scandal. Quentin McDermott reports.

Whatever It Takes

The investigation into the scandal engulfing Malaysia's Prime Minister and the question that led to the arrest of our reporter and cameraman.

State Of Fear

This Four Corners investigation will reveal how the rich and powerful exploit the system. Reporter Marian Wilkinson follows the money trail.

The Secrets Of The Super Rich

The rise and fall of Clive Palmer's business empire and political career. Hayden Cooper reports.

Clive Palmer

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.

Inside Europe's Terror Attacks

The bad blood between Australian doctors and the Federal Government over offshore detention.

Bad Blood

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.

Home Truths: What Happened To The Great Australian Dream?

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.

Callous Disregard

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?

Supplements and Safety

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.

Money And Influence

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?

The Baby Business

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.

Ripped Off

We meet the people of the small Syrian town who defeated ISIS and are determined to rebuild their lives in the rubble.

The Miracle Of Kobani

The Deputy and the Dark Horse: Barnaby Joyce vs. Tony Windsor in the contest that could bring down the Deputy Prime Minister.

The Deputy And The Dark Horse

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?

The Leaders

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?

Future Proof

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.

Soldiers Of Allah

The Race To Dope: The elite athletes blowing the whistle on how they cheated the system.

The Race To Dope

Australia's Shame: The brutalisation of children behind bars. This confronting investigation by Caro Meldrum-Hanna will send shockwaves around Australia.

Australia's Shame

Insult To Injury: How the system damages cops with PTSD. Quentin McDermott reports.

Insult To Injury

Man on a wire: How long can Malcolm Turnbull survive?

Man On A Wire

Milked Dry: The awful price being paid by Australian dairy farmers for the milk we drink. Deb Whitmont reports.

Milked Dry

Children On The Frontline: Escape from Aleppo, one family's extraordinary story of life in the rubble of Syria and their escape to a new life, told through the eyes of four children.

Children On The Frontline

Cyber War: How hackers are threatening everything from your bank account to the nation's secrets. Linton Besser reports.

Cyber War

The EU referendum result shocked many, but as this BBC film shows the warning signs were there. In interviews with key players, the program charts the tactics &amp; spin used in the campaign.

Brexit: The Battle For Britain

Rehab Inc: The high price parents pay to get their kids off ice. Ben Knight reports.

Inside America's university fraternities. They're the elite clubs where testosterone, alcohol &amp; campus life come together in a potent mix. Normally media shy, one frat house agreed to let the cameras in.

China Rising: The challenges for Australia as China and the US struggle for supremacy in Asia. Peter Greste joins Four Corners for a special report.

China Rising

For Better or Worse: How the personal has become political in the fight over same-sex marriage. Four Corners investigates the politics behind the plebiscite debate.

For Better Or Worse

They're the human face of Australia's tough border policies - the more than 100 refugee children living on Nauru. Debbie Whitmont reports.

The Forgotten Children

The activists using cameras to fight back against police brutality in the US.

Copwatchers

Four Corners investigates the business of salmon farming. A report by Gold Walkley Award-winning journalist Caro Meldrum-Hanna.

Big Fish

Crossroads Afghanistan: A heart-stopping journey on one of the most dangerous roads in the world, right through the heart of Taliban country.

Crossroads Afghanistan

Broken Homes: On the frontline of Australia's child protection crisis.

Broken Homes

When acclaimed TV journalist Liz Jackson is diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, crippling her with pain &amp; panic attacks, she turns the lens on herself to make the most challenging story of her life.

A Sense Of Self

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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