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Four Corners : Season 46
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Air date: 13 Feb '06 - 38 episodesFour 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 50th anniversary in 2011. 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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List of Episodes (38)
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1. The Greenhouse Mafia
13 Feb '06Four Corners returns for 2006 with a whistleblower... and revelations of a powerful insiders' club...
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2. Wheeling and Dealing
20 Feb '06There's road rage over private tollways... Have deals between politicians and tollway bosses killed off grand new visions for public transport and decongested streets? Are they creating a road monster that leaves Australians addicted to cars?
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3. The Convert
27 Feb '06Jack Thomas has become the first person to be convicted under Australia's new terrorist funding laws.
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4. How The Kids Took Over
06 Mar '06Kid watching is very grown-up business. The 12-and-unders are a demographic that marketers ignore at their peril.
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5. Riot and Revenge
13 Mar '06One Sunday last December, 5000 Australians gathered at Cronulla, singing and waving the national flag as they "reclaimed" the beach. Fuelled by drink, the crowd became a mob, hunting down and beating anyone who looked Middle Eastern.
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6. The Ice Age
20 Mar '06It's cheap, highly addictive and ultra-powerful. "Ice", or crystal methamphetamine, is now more popular than heroin, playing havoc with the minds and the bodies of nearly 50,000 Australians.
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7. Big Fish, Little Fish
27 Mar '06Seven got life sentences and two are facing death by firing squad - but the blood of the Bali Nine will not stain the hands of this country's crimefighters.
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8. Sex Slaves
03 Apr '06"I sold your wife."
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9. Cash Crop
10 Apr '06For Saddam Hussein, it must have been a no-brainer. He would pay $200,000 to a top UN official. In return, Saddam would be showered in billions.
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10. Cash Crop Part Two
17 Apr '06In the space of four days, Australians have witnessed the extraordinary spectacle of their Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister each submitting to rigorous, sustained and public interrogation at the Cole inquiry.
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11. Stockwell - Countdown to Killing
24 Apr '06All of London was on edge when a young electrician, Jean Charles de Menezes, headed off for work on 22 July last year. The previous day, four would-be suicide bombers had attacked the transport system. A fortnight earlier, a series of suicide bombings had killed 52 people.
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12. The Making of Zarqawi
01 May '06Many thought he was dead or wounded. But when he dramatically appeared this week in an Internet video, firing off an automatic weapon and anti-American rhetoric, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi looked very much alive.
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13. The Boys
08 May '06The Westpoint collapse...Ticky Fullerton digs into the scheme that has wiped out the life savings of thousands of Australians. Who's taken their money? And why did regulators let it happen?
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14. A Deathly Silence
15 May '06In the hours before he killed himself in April last year, Campbell Bolton wrote a long note in which he told his family how sorry he was for the pain he was about to cause them. "It fills me with grief when I think of what I have done to you," he wrote.
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15. Reigning in Hell
22 May '06Murder, drugs, extortion, robbery, gambling, prostitution... for 40 years, this has been the daily business of the Aryan Brotherhood, according to US law enforcers.
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16. The Road to Nowhere
29 May '06There's another story buried deep beneath the horrific headlines about sexual abuse in indigenous Australia.
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17. Far From Care
05 Jun '06Imagine being about to give birth, cocooned in a speeding car on a night-time dash to a hospital that's still hours away, every bump, every brake to dodge a kangaroo sharpening the pain and discomfort.
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18. Monkey Love
12 Jun '06To his fans, research psychologist Harry Harlow was a 20th century hero, a scientific pioneer who revolutionised the way we raise our children today.
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19. Stoking the Fires
19 Jun '06As Australian troops stand between the warring factions in East Timor, Liz Jackson reveals the power plays and intrigues that are tearing the infant nation apart.
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20. Car Wars
26 Jun '06If your late model car goes missing, don't expect to see it again soon.
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21. Killed by Care
03 Jul '06"Do no harm." It's the ethos of medicine, the bedrock principle for all its practitioners.
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22. Peak Oil
10 Jul '06"The price of petrol is disgusting, absolutely disgusting..."
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23. The Right Stuff
17 Jul '06For decades the Liberal Party has carried itself proudly as a broad church, home to a wide spectrum of ideology among members. Now a bitter factional war is playing out in Australia's biggest state that many say is disenfranchising grassroots members and threatening democracy.
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24. The Price of Life
24 Jul '06Breast cancer stalked Becky Measures. It had struck 14 of her female relatives, killing some of them.
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25. Junk History
31 Jul '06Four Corners often explores extravagant claims and tall tales. Rarely though does it meet a character quite as colourful as author Gavin Menzies.
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