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Four Corners : Season 50
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Air date: 08 Feb '10 - 39 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 (39)
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1. A Good Death
08 Feb '10Four Corners follows four brave Australians as they come to the end of their lives, and the people determined to give them a good death.
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2. Breaking Point
15 Feb '10Will Australia's flawed disability support system be reformed in time to save the families now at breaking point?
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3. The Warlord's Tune
22 Feb '10A harrowing documentary that tells how thousands of young boys in Afghanistan are now being hunted and groomed to become sex slaves.
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4. The State of Play
01 Mar '10The inside story of the battle to control Australian tennis.
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5. Scientology: The Ex-Files
08 Mar '10Former members of the Church give a chilling portrait of life inside the organisation.
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6. The Authentic Mr Abbott
15 Mar '10A revealing profile of the man who wants to be the next Prime Minister of Australia.
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7. Mexico's Drug Wars
22 Mar '10A horrifying account of the brutal war that's raging in the towns that dot the border between Mexico and the United States.
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8. Gypsy Child Thieves
29 Mar '10The harrowing story of the children who are forced into a life of crime on the streets in order to survive.
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9. Over the Edge
05 Apr '10The harrowing story of the therapist whose work led some patients to believe they'd committed or been the victim of shocking sexual crimes.
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10. A Dirty Business
12 Apr '10How the people of a once picturesque valley found themselves surrounded by coalmines, dust and toxic chemicals, while the State Government ignores their pleas for help.
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11. Chinese Whispers
19 Apr '10Four Corners looks at events surrounding the arrest of mining executive Stern Hu and the tensions now involved in doing business with China.
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12. A Lethal Miscalculation
26 Apr '10The story behind the Federal Government's multi-billion dollar home insulation scheme debacle.
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13. Chocolate: The Bitter Truth
03 May '10An undercover investigation, spanning three continents, that exposes the way children are trafficked and used to produce the raw materials that drive a multi-billion dollar industry.
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14. Access Denied
10 May '10Quentin McDermott looks at the potential impact of the Government’s mandatory filtering system.
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15. In a Strange Land
17 May '10The story of a young woman's confronting journey back to the war-ravaged country of her birth.
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16. Dirty Money
24 May '10In this joint investigation with The Age newspaper, Four Corners reveals how the central pillar of Australia's financial system, the Reserve Bank, became ensnared in an international bribery scandal.
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17. South Africa's Lost Innocence
31 May '10South Africa has the highest incidence of rape in the world, and almost half the victims are children.
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18. What's Yours Is Mine
07 Jun '10How the government's attempt to introduce a resource super profits tax began a war with mine bosses, split the business community and may yet derail Labor's attempt to win the next Federal election.
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19. One Shitty Deal
14 Jun '10A story that reveals how a toxic cocktail of investment packages helped poison the retirement funds of hundreds of Australians.
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20. Rush to Riches
21 Jun '10How an attempt to negotiate a deal to create a state of the art resources development turned sour, pitting Indigenous people against each other and some of them against the State Government.
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21. Dancing with the Devil
28 Jun '10This story documents the intersecting lives of three men - a cop, a drug dealer and a preacher - as they struggle to survive on the backstreets of Rio de Janeiro.
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22. A Careful War - Part 1
05 Jul '10Chris Masters delivers the first of two ground level reports giving a soldier's-eye view of the bloody war being waged against the Taliban in Afghanistan.
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23. A Careful War - Part 2
12 Jul '10The story of Australian troops as they head into unchartered territory, trying to win the faith and trust of a brutalised people in conflict-torn Afghanistan.
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24. A Dog Act
19 Jul '10A forensic investigation of the killing of Kwementyaye Ryder by five white, local youths from Alice Springs.
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25. Heart of Darkness
26 Jul '10The story of a young woman's search to understand the shocking conflict that has laid waste the country where she was born.
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