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2012
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12 Nov 2012LOOK BACK ON 2012
Four Corners has now finished its 2012 season and we want to thank you for being a great audience throughout the year.
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02 Nov 2012Another Bloody Business
Next on Four Corners, we bring you a story the live export industry doesn't want told.
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29 Oct 2012Rise of the Superbugs
The rise of the superbugs. Why our reliance on antibiotics could pose a serious threat to our health.
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22 Oct 2012The Super Trawler
Some believed the super-trawler would revolutionise the fishing industry in Australia. Now it sits silent and empty, banned from plying its trade in Australian waters. What went wrong?
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11 Oct 2012The World According to Lance
How was one of the most celebrated sporting heroes of all time condemned as a drug cheat? Did Lance Armstrong really fool us all?
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08 Oct 2012The Battle for Syria
Four Corners goes on the frontline of the civil war raging in Syria. Clover Films' reporter Ghaith Abdul-Ahad and producer Jamie Doran tell the dramatic story of the battle for Aleppo, Syria's biggest city.
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27 Sep 2012Taxing Times in Timor
Four Corners' reporter Andrew Fowler travels to Timor-Leste to detail a no holds barred struggle that involves billions of dollars and the promise of investment and jobs from energy processing.
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20 Sep 2012Growing Up Poor
Growing up poor in modern Australia: this week Four Corners asks children what it's like being poor in the midst of plenty.
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13 Sep 2012The Hunt for Joseph Kony
African warlord Joseph Kony was targeted in a worldwide internet campaign. What impact did it have on him, and why is he still at large?
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06 Sep 2012There is No 3G in Heaven
One suicide is a tragedy. But what happens when a community is rocked by a series of suicides, one after another, all of them young people?
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30 Aug 2012Crash Landing
In 2009, a rescue jet ditched into the stormy seas off Norfolk Island and miraculously all onboard survived. Three years on Four Corners asks, what really happened.
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23 Aug 2012The Autism Enigma
Autism spectrum disorder is the fastest rising developmental disorder in the Western world. But what is causing this dramatic rise, and why do some communities have higher rates of ASD?
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16 Aug 2012Koala Crunch Time
In key parts of Australia, koalas are dying in big numbers. Are we prepared to compromise development to protect their natural habitat?
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09 Aug 2012The Body Snatchers
Exposing the international trade in human body parts and tissue.
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05 Aug 2012Inside Mail
Last year the nation spent billion punting on horses. Most people put their money down believing the races are a true contest, but are they?
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26 Jul 2012A Matter of Life and Death
How authorities are failing to protect women and children in mortal danger, and failing to prevent their partners' homicidal rage.
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19 Jul 2012Sex, Lies and Julian Assange
Reporter Andrew Fowler goes to Sweden for a revealing look at the allegations of sexual crimes hanging over Julian Assange's head, and at the claims of American involvement.
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12 Jul 2012Opium Brides
Reporter Najibullah Quraishi journeys deep into the Afghan countryside to reveal the personal and social devastation the Government's counter-narcotics program is causing.
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05 Jul 2012The Price of Pearl
Pearls - they're beautiful, luxurious and the height of fashion, but what price is being paid by the young divers who fetch pearl shells from the deep?
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28 Jun 2012Unholy Silence
Four Corners investigates claims that the Catholic Church has covered up allegations of sexual abuse made against priests and brothers in Australia.
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20 Jun 2012Gina Rinehart - The Power of One
She's rich, she's powerful and no one stands in her way. Not even her family...
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14 Jun 2012WikiLeaks - The Forgotten Man
Next on Four Corners - a return to the remarkable story of 'WikiLeaks -The Forgotten Man', Bradley Manning.
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07 Jun 2012The Great Euro Crash
Can the dream of an economically united Europe with a single currency survive the extravagance of the past decade and the mountains of debt strangling key countries in the union?
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31 May 2012Smugglers' Paradise - Australia
Next on Four Corners: How the biggest people smuggling networks in Indonesia have moved their operations to Australia.
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25 May 2012Casualties of the Boom
Next on Four Corners, how massive mining developments are killing communities in regional Australia.
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17 May 2012Madeleine McCann-The Last Hope
It was a disappearance that made international headlines and raised tensions between Britain and Portugal. Now comes the story of the new police investigation that some hope might finally explain what really happened to three year old Madeleine.
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10 May 2012Hard Knocks
A confronting story that looks at the implications of cutting-edge research relating to the prevention and management of head injuries in football players.
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03 May 2012Judgement Day
Twenty years after the High Court's Mabo judgement, the inside story of the court decision that threatened to divide a nation.
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27 Apr 2012Mitt Romney and the Mormons
A startling investigation into America's fastest growing religion and the former Mormon bishop who says he now wants to be President of the United States.
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20 Apr 2012The Killer Within
The story of Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik.
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12 Apr 2012Blood and Honour
Can the war in Afghanistan be won and is Australia's involvement worth the price that's being paid?
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05 Apr 2012Happy Banking?
A story that reveals how key Australian banks dealt with the Global Financial Crisis and the shocking impact it had on their customers: loans terminated, businesses liquidated and lives in turmoil.
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29 Mar 2012Without Consent
The shocking expose of a practice hidden within Australia's migrant communities - the forced marriage of young girls - organised by their families and supported by religious leaders.
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22 Mar 2012The Fastest Changing Place on Earth
Next on Four Corners, the story of modern China told through the eyes of the villagers forced to sell their homes and give up their land to make way for massive urban development.
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15 Mar 2012Egypt: Children of the Revolution
A remarkable documentary, filmed over 12 months, that tells the story of Egypt's popular uprising and its aftermath, through the eyes of the people at the heart of the revolution.
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12 Mar 2012Dicing with Debt
A story that details a private sector debt binge and bailout in one of Europe's smallest countries, that still has the capacity to spark another round of financial panic across the globe.
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01 Mar 2012Closing Ranks
The harrowing story of a police shooting and the cover up that followed.
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23 Feb 2012Given or Taken?
Next on Four Corners: The heartbreaking story of forced adoption in Australia.
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16 Feb 2012Syria Exposed
A shocking expose showing how the Syrian Government has turned on its own people, systematically arresting, interrogating and torturing ordinary citizens in an attempt to stop any form of protest or criticism.
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10 Feb 2012The Comeback Kid?
The inside story of the Federal Government in crisis - how the Labor Party went from the heights of popularity to the depths of political despair.
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06 Feb 2012Revolution in the Classroom
An investigation into a new approach to education aimed at improving the standard of school teaching.
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2011
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14 Nov 2011LOOK BACK ON 2011
Four Corners has finished its season for 2011 and our team is researching new stories to bring you in 2012. We will be back on air on Monday 6 February 2012.
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03 Nov 2011Great Barrier Grief
An investigation that asks if the Great Barrier Reef is in danger from massive coastal development brought on by the resources boom in Queensland.
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27 Oct 2011Trial and Error?
An investigation that delves into one of Australia's longest running and most controversial murder cases.
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20 Oct 2011Asylum
A story that reveals what's really going on inside Australia's immigration detention centres and how the treatment of detainees has the potential to create a generation of people with major mental health problems.
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14 Oct 2011The Price of Life
A story that investigates the ethical and medical dilemmas involved in keeping tiny, premature babies alive. Who decides if they live or die and what, ultimately, is the cost of keeping them alive?
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06 Oct 2011Sex Slavery
A story that goes inside the world of human trafficking, debt bondage and sexual servitude; a world where women are bought and sold, traded like commodities and literally enslaved.
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29 Sep 2011Poor Kids
Three children tell what it's like to grow up poor in modern Britain. They're brave, they're funny but they're dealing with a system that doesn't seem to care.
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22 Sep 2011St Ann's Secret
A shocking story of sexual abuse of intellectually disabled children attending a Catholic school in Adelaide. Why did the school cover up the full extent of the abuse for 10 years, and the law fail to protect vulnerable children?
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15 Sep 2011The Carbon War
Four Corners examines the campaign being waged against the Federal Government over climate change policy that will put a price on Australia's greenhouse gas emissions for the first time.
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08 Sep 2011Own Goal
The story behind Australia's failed bid to host the World Cup and the impact it's having on the beautiful game.
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01 Sep 2011In Their Sights
The story behind the controversial strategy Coalition forces are using in Afghanistan to kill or capture the Taliban leadership.
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25 Aug 2011Bad News
An investigation into the scandal that threatens to destroy Rupert Murdoch's British media empire.
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22 Aug 2011Four Corners Celebrates 50 Years on ABC TV
Four Corners Celebrates 50 Years on ABC TV with a special program, exhibition and website.
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15 Aug 2011Standen: The Inside Man
The story behind the police investigation that brought down Mark Standen, one of Australia's top crime fighting law enforcement officers.
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08 Aug 2011Italy's Bloodiest Mafia: The Camorra
An investigation exposing how Italy's most ruthless organised crime syndicate has taken over one of the country's most beautiful cities, Naples.
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29 Jul 2011The Guantanamo Trap
The story of America's most controversial prison and the impact it had on the lives of its inmates and the people who held them captive.
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25 Jul 2011Against the Wind
An investigation into allegations that wind turbines are making people sick. Are these installations 'weapons of mass destruction' as some have claimed, or are they vehicles for mass hysteria?
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18 Jul 2011Iron and Dust
The story behind the stalled negotiations that could create one of Australia's biggest mining projects, and why two men who claim they have the community's best interests at heart can't find agreement.
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11 Jul 2011The Invasion of Lampedusa
How the arrival of thousands of boat people on a tiny island in the middle of the Mediterranean has revived the anti-immigration debate in Europe, pushing countries to review their open border policies.
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04 Jul 2011Sri Lanka's Killing Fields
A story that investigates the final weeks of the 25 year civil war between the Government of Sri Lanka and the secessionist rebels, the Tamil Tigers.
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27 Jun 2011Where Are They Now?
In its fiftieth year, Four Corners revisits the survivors of the killing fields.
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20 Jun 2011Wilkie's Gamble
How a first time Independent Federal MP cut a deal that delivered Julia Gillard government in return for a promise to radically overhaul poker machine gaming policy.
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13 Jun 2011Culture of Silence
Australian Defence Force personnel tell how they have been brutalised and abused while the system that was supposed to protect them let them down, or in some cases chose to punish them.
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06 Jun 2011In Harm's Way
The story of strife-torn Yemen, seen through the eyes of a young English-born Muslim returning to the place he believes is his homeland. He's in for a shock.
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30 May 2011A Bloody Business
An explosive expose of the cruelty inflicted on Australian cattle exported to the slaughterhouses of Indonesia.
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19 May 2011Brain Explosion
How the quest to make footballers run faster, hit harder, with the ability to neutralise opponents is putting players at risk of brain damage and early onset dementia.
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16 May 2011Joint Reaction
How a revolutionary medical device that offered patients a new lease on life left many of them poisoned and crippled.
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09 May 2011Following bin Laden
The story of an Al Qaeda fighting unit in Afghanistan told from the inside.
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27 Apr 2011Return to Aurukun
A story that tells the latest chapter in the life of a remarkable community that has battled with missionaries, governments and the horrors of alcohol abuse.
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25 Apr 2011The Price of Freedom
How 33 miners in Chile, who dodged death, have come to terms with the horror they experienced and their second chance at life.
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11 Apr 2011The National Broadband Network
A grand vision or a grand folly? Four Corners sizes up the largest infrastructure project in Australian history.
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04 Apr 2011Bowraville: Unfinished Business
Next on Four Corners: three children are dead. Investigators have only one suspect. So why, twenty years on, is no-one in jail? Debbie Whitmont investigates.
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28 Mar 2011QF32
What caused the dramatic mid air explosion on board the Qantas super jumbo? Sarah Fergusons gripping account of how a single engine part almost brought down the pride of the Qantas fleet.
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21 Mar 2011Japan's Nuclear Nightmare
As a brave band of workers fights to bring the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant under control, Four Corners reports on the unfolding crisis and raises questions about the industry's future direction.
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14 Mar 2011BP: Billion Blowout
The story of the worst offshore oil disaster in US history, the BP Deepwater Horizon spill, through the eyes of the man dubbed the most hated man in America, former BP boss Tony Hayward.
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07 Mar 2011Backlash in the Basin
The furious battle over the future of the Murray Darling Basin. Marian Wilkinson reports on the tough political decisions ahead in the fight over the biggest water reform in Australian history.
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28 Feb 2011The Miracle Baby of Haiti
The story of a baby girl plucked from the rubble of the Haiti earthquake and the British doctor who made the momentous decision to evacuate her. A simple act of mercy with profound consequences for everyone involved.
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21 Feb 2011The Gas Rush
As Australia sets its sights on becoming one of the world's energy superpowers Four Corners investigates the coal seam gas industry and the cost to farmers and the environment.
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14 Feb 2011The Forgotten Man
The inside story of the security breach that enraged the American Government and a profile of the man who made it all possible.
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07 Feb 2011The Real Julia?
This week as Four Corners returns in its 50th year the spotlight falls on the nation's leader. Prime Minister Julia Gillard may be instantly recognisable but many Australian's say they don't really know her or what she stands for.
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