Four Corners(1961)

Name: Four Corners
Genre: News, Documentary
Released: 1961-08-19
Rating: 6.9

Australia's premiere current affairs programme, incisive investigative journalism.

★ 6.9(7)45m768 episodesReturning Series

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.

First aired:: 1961-08-19
Country:: AU
Network:: ABC TV

Episodes

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1. Willie Brigitte
2004-02-09 · 45m
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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2. Lords Of The Forests
2004-02-16 · 45m
Ticky Fullerton looks at the management of Tasmania's forests and how one timber company enjoys extraordinary political support for its operations.
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3. In the Firing Line
2004-02-23 · 45m
Fuelled by a cocktail of drugs, armed robberies are growing more violent and unpredictable.
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4. Arafat Investigated
2004-03-01 · 45m
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?
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5. The Speed Trap
2004-03-08 · 45m
How police laid a trap to catch drug dealers but instead found themselves entangled in a web of corruption allegations.
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6. Ethiopia: A Journey with Michael Buerk
2004-03-15 · 45m
Michael Buerk returns to Ethiopia 20 years after first alerting the world to the Ethiopian famine.
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7. Tarnished Gold
2004-03-22 · 45m
Are Australia's sports bosses surrendering to the drug cheats?
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8. Riot In Redfern
2004-03-29 · 45m
What really happened that night in the tiny Redfern community .
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9. A Crime of Insanity
2004-04-05 · 45m
Troubling questions arise when the legal and psychiatric worlds collide.
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10. Lost In Translation
2004-04-12 · 45m
Are Australians hitching a ride on China's economic juggernaut?
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11. Killers
2004-04-19 · 45m
A report on the conditions that made the violence in Rwanda possible.
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12. The Nuclear Bazaar
2004-04-26 · 45m
A special report on the frightening trade in nuclear secrets.
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13. Fair Game?
2004-05-03 · 45m
Allegations of sexual violence have engulfed some of Australia's top AFL footballers and their clubs.
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14. Rich Man, Poor Man
2004-05-10 · 45m
The fight between Australia and East Timor over billion dollar oil and gas interests.
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15. Al Qaeda Family
2004-05-17 · 45m
The inside story of the family that lived and trained with Osama Bin Laden.
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16. Till Debt Us Do Part
2004-05-24 · 45m
Where will the credit binge end for the many thousands of Australians in debt?
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17. The Taking of Logan Marr
2004-05-31 · 45m
Under what circumstances should a child be taken from its birth parents?
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18. Chain of Command
2004-06-07 · 45m
The story behind what may endure as defining images of war in Iraq.
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19. Corruption Inc.
2004-06-14 · 45m
Corruption spreads from state police forces into the Australian Crime Commission.
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20. A Blind Eye
2004-06-21 · 45m
Is the RSPCA turning a blind eye to cruelty for the benefit of commercial interests?
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21. The Clinton Interview
2004-06-28 · 45m
Bill Clinton defends his record and tells how his public and private lives clashed.
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22. A Case To Answer
2004-07-05 · 45m
How the justice system failed star swim coach Scott Volkers and the women he was accused of sexually molesting.
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23. A Dangerous Business
2004-07-12 · 45m
How one company’s obsession with the bottom line left a trail of death and dismemberment among its workers.
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24. Worst of the Worst?
2004-07-19 · 45m
Four Corners investigates the story behind Mamdouh Habib's incarceration at the notorious prison Guantanamo Bay .
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25. Training Day
2004-07-26 · 45m
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.
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26. A Bitter Pill?
2004-08-02 · 45m
Jonathan Holmes investigates the cost to our subsidised pharmaceutical scheme since Australia signed the Free Trade Agreement.
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27. The Secret Agent
2004-08-09 · 45m
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.
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28. Losing the Children
2004-08-16 · 45m
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.
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29. The Plea
2004-08-23 · 45m
"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?
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30. After Saddam
2004-08-30 · 45m
What do Iraqis think about the war and its aftermath?
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31. Doctoring the Figures
2004-09-06 · 45m
From outright fraud to allegations of cover up … and those who simply bend the rules.
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32. Beating the Black Dog
2004-09-13 · 45m
Five Australians tell their story of beating depression; the 'black dog" affecting one in five Australians.
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33. Run For Your Life
2004-09-20 · 45m
Four Corners presents the incredible journey of four young men .
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34. Island Raiders
2004-09-27 · 45m
How can one island nation lose a two billion dollar fortune in the space of twenty years?
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35. The Contenders
2004-10-04 · 45m
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.
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36. Battleground State
2004-10-08 · 45m
Reporter Jonathan Holmes takes us on a colourful journey through the battleground state of Ohio during the US Elections.
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37. City Limits
2004-10-18 · 45m
Once we had enough water to waste.
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38. A Baby To Save Our Son
2004-10-25 · 45m
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.
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39. Trust and Betrayal
2004-11-01 · 45m
A story of spies, counterspies, double agents and defections as Andrew Fowler reveals the betrayal inside one of Australia’s secret intelligence agencies.
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40. Blood Brothers
2004-11-08 · 45m
An exclusive story following a brave little boy’s fight to be cured.
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41. What the Children Saw
2004-11-15 · 45m
In a place where they should have felt safest, the children of Beslan were targeted in an act of barbarism.
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42. 2004: In Review
2004-11-24 · 45m
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.