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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.
Episode 42 : 2004: In Review
November. 24,2004
2004 will be remembered chiefly for international issues, primarily events in Iraq: including the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal; as well as the continued threat of terrorism. We also faced crucial elections both at home and in the United States.
Episode 41 : What the Children Saw
November. 15,2004
In a place where they should have felt safest, the children of Beslan were targeted in an act of barbarism.
Episode 40 : Blood Brothers
November. 08,2004
An exclusive story following a brave little boy’s fight to be cured.
Episode 39 : Trust and Betrayal
November. 01,2004
A story of spies, counterspies, double agents and defections as Andrew Fowler reveals the betrayal inside one of Australia’s secret intelligence agencies.
Episode 38 : A Baby To Save Our Son
October. 25,2004
Jamie Whitaker had been created to save the life of his brother Charlie, who suffers from Diamond-Blackfan anaemia, DBA, a form of bone marrow failure.
Episode 37 : City Limits
October. 18,2004
Once we had enough water to waste.
Episode 36 : Battleground State
October. 08,2004
Reporter Jonathan Holmes takes us on a colourful journey through the battleground state of Ohio during the US Elections.
Episode 35 : The Contenders
October. 04,2004
Liz Jackson follows the leaders' trails during an election campaign that's gone from truth in government, to billion dollar give-aways and old fashioned fear tactics - as the parties battle to win over middle Australia.
Episode 34 : Island Raiders
September. 27,2004
How can one island nation lose a two billion dollar fortune in the space of twenty years?
Episode 33 : Run For Your Life
September. 20,2004
Four Corners presents the incredible journey of four young men .
Episode 32 : Beating the Black Dog
September. 13,2004
Five Australians tell their story of beating depression; the 'black dog" affecting one in five Australians.
Episode 31 : Doctoring the Figures
September. 06,2004
From outright fraud to allegations of cover up … and those who simply bend the rules.
Episode 30 : After Saddam
August. 30,2004
What do Iraqis think about the war and its aftermath?
Episode 29 : The Plea
August. 23,2004
"The Plea" examines the cases a jury will never get to hear and asks the question, is the plea bargain undermining an entire legal system?
Episode 28 : Losing the Children
August. 16,2004
Four Corners tells the story of the Dalton family breakdown in the context of the Government's recent initiatives to reform the Family Court system, and the rising political influence of men's groups.
Episode 27 : The Secret Agent
August. 09,2004
This expose reveals the truth behind what the BNP has been telling the public in recent years, as it has tried to shed its image of a far-right, racist party.
Episode 26 : A Bitter Pill?
August. 02,2004
Jonathan Holmes investigates the cost to our subsidised pharmaceutical scheme since Australia signed the Free Trade Agreement.
Episode 25 : Training Day
July. 26,2004
Chris Masters talks to bent cops and police chiefs around Australia about the painful costs of corruption, the effectiveness of anti-corruption measures and the need for constant vigilance.
Episode 24 : Worst of the Worst?
July. 19,2004
Four Corners investigates the story behind Mamdouh Habib's incarceration at the notorious prison Guantanamo Bay .
Episode 23 : A Dangerous Business
July. 12,2004
How one company’s obsession with the bottom line left a trail of death and dismemberment among its workers.
Episode 22 : A Case To Answer
July. 05,2004
How the justice system failed star swim coach Scott Volkers and the women he was accused of sexually molesting.
Episode 21 : The Clinton Interview
June. 28,2004
Bill Clinton defends his record and tells how his public and private lives clashed.
Episode 20 : A Blind Eye
June. 21,2004
Is the RSPCA turning a blind eye to cruelty for the benefit of commercial interests?
Episode 19 : Corruption Inc.
June. 14,2004
Corruption spreads from state police forces into the Australian Crime Commission.
Episode 18 : Chain of Command
June. 07,2004
The story behind what may endure as defining images of war in Iraq.
Episode 17 : The Taking of Logan Marr
May. 31,2004
Under what circumstances should a child be taken from its birth parents?
Episode 16 : Till Debt Us Do Part
May. 24,2004
Where will the credit binge end for the many thousands of Australians in debt?
Episode 15 : Al Qaeda Family
May. 17,2004
The inside story of the family that lived and trained with Osama Bin Laden.
Episode 14 : Rich Man, Poor Man
May. 10,2004
The fight between Australia and East Timor over billion dollar oil and gas interests.
Episode 13 : Fair Game?
May. 03,2004
Allegations of sexual violence have engulfed some of Australia's top AFL footballers and their clubs.
Episode 12 : The Nuclear Bazaar
April. 26,2004
A special report on the frightening trade in nuclear secrets.
Episode 11 : Killers
April. 19,2004
A report on the conditions that made the violence in Rwanda possible.
Episode 10 : Lost In Translation
April. 12,2004
Are Australians hitching a ride on China's economic juggernaut?
Episode 9 : A Crime of Insanity
April. 05,2004
Troubling questions arise when the legal and psychiatric worlds collide.
Episode 8 : Riot In Redfern
March. 29,2004
What really happened that night in the tiny Redfern community .
Episode 7 : Tarnished Gold
March. 22,2004
Are Australia's sports bosses surrendering to the drug cheats?
Episode 6 : Ethiopia: A Journey with Michael Buerk
March. 15,2004
Michael Buerk returns to Ethiopia 20 years after first alerting the world to the Ethiopian famine.
Episode 5 : The Speed Trap
March. 08,2004
How police laid a trap to catch drug dealers but instead found themselves entangled in a web of corruption allegations.
Episode 4 : Arafat Investigated
March. 01,2004
Why has Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat - once feted at the White House but now holed up in his West Bank headquarters - become such an outcast?
Episode 3 : In the Firing Line
February. 23,2004
Fuelled by a cocktail of drugs, armed robberies are growing more violent and unpredictable.
Episode 2 : Lords Of The Forests
February. 16,2004
Ticky Fullerton looks at the management of Tasmania's forests and how one timber company enjoys extraordinary political support for its operations.
Episode 1 : Willie Brigitte
February. 09,2004
Allegations have swirled around Willie Brigitte ever since his discreet deportation from Australia and his much-publicised arrest in France in October 2003.
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Season 61
Holding power to account for 60 Years, Four Corners continues to expose scandals, trigger inquiries, lead national debate and confront the issues that matter to us all. Australia's premier investigative journalism program.
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