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Four Corners : Season 56
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Air date: 01 Feb '16 - 43 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 (43)
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1. Bad Sport
01 Feb '16Sarah Ferguson presents an investigation into the criminal networks that are threatening the integrity of sport, amidst the uproar over the match fixing revelations in tennis, Linton Besser reports.
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2. Shark Alarm
08 Feb '16What's behind the rise in shark attacks, and is there anything we can do to stop them? Geoff Thompson reports.
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3. Dying To Dance
15 Feb '16Dying to Dance. Inside the dance party drug scene. Caro Meldrum-Hanna reports.
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4. Guns In The USA - Child's Play
22 Feb '16Exploring America's gun culture where kids learn to shoot and their classrooms are designed to be bulletproof. How America grapples with gun violence.
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5. Catastrophic Failure
29 Feb '16In his first story for Four Corners, reporter Ben Knight travels to Brazil to investigate BHP's responsibility for the Samarco mine disaster that's destroyed lives and polluted an entire river system.
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6. Money For Nothing
07 Mar '16It's the bank that's spent two years rebuilding its reputation after being exposed for ripping off its customers in a devastating financial advice scandal. An explosive corporate investigation by Adele Ferguson.
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7. Safari: Paying To Kill
14 Mar '16The big game and big bucks in Africa's trophy hunting industry. Taking us into the darker world of illegal hunting where lions are tranquilised or partly domesticated to make them easier to shot.
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8. Whatever It Takes
21 Mar '16A rare account from inside the Essendon doping scandal. Quentin McDermott reports.
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9. State Of Fear
28 Mar '16The investigation into the scandal engulfing Malaysia's Prime Minister and the question that led to the arrest of our reporter and cameraman.
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10. The Secrets Of The Super Rich
04 Apr '16This Four Corners investigation will reveal how the rich and powerful exploit the system. Reporter Marian Wilkinson follows the money trail.
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11. Clive Palmer
11 Apr '16The rise and fall of Clive Palmer's business empire and political career. Hayden Cooper reports.
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12. Inside Europe's Terror Attacks
18 Apr '16In the wake of the attacks in France and Brussels, a BBC Panorama investigation into Islamic State's European terror network and Western intelligence agencies' battle to stop it.
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13. Bad Blood
25 Apr '16The bad blood between Australian doctors and the Federal Government over offshore detention.
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14. Home Truths: What Happened To The Great Australian Dream?
02 May '16Ben Knight reports on the white hot issues of housing affordability and negative gearing and the generation left wondering if they will ever own their own home.
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15. Callous Disregard
09 May '16Gold Walkley award-winning reporter Caro Meldrum-Hanna follows the trail of evidence in the brutal death of a young woman as her family fights for justice.
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16. Supplements and Safety
16 May '16Supplements and safety: an investigation into the billion dollar health supplement and vitamin industry. What's in all those pills and could they be doing you harm?
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17. Money And Influence
23 May '16As we head into the third week of the election campaign, Four Corners examines how money and influence operates in the shadowy world of political donations.
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18. The Baby Business
30 May '16With an increasing number of women turning to fertility treatments to help them conceive a baby, Four Corners investigates, are women being sold false hope by the IVF industry?
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19. Ripped Off
06 Jun '16The scams, fraud and incompetence leaving remote communities exploited and betrayed. Linton Besser journeys almost 5000km across Australia in search of who's to blame.
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20. The Miracle Of Kobani
13 Jun '16We meet the people of the small Syrian town who defeated ISIS and are determined to rebuild their lives in the rubble.
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21. The Deputy And The Dark Horse
20 Jun '16The Deputy and the Dark Horse: Barnaby Joyce vs. Tony Windsor in the contest that could bring down the Deputy Prime Minister.
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22. The Leaders
27 Jun '16With the election only days away, Gold Walkley and Logie Award-winning reporter Sarah Ferguson interviews Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten. What will she ask?
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23. Future Proof
04 Jul '16With startling predictions that more than 5 million Australian jobs will disappear in the next 15 years, as a result of technology, we look at the future of work and ask are we preparing our kids for the jobs of the future?
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24. Soldiers Of Allah
11 Jul '16Going undercover with an ISIS terror cell. For six months this intrepid reporter infiltrated and secretly filmed a terrorist cell as they made plans for an attack.
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25. The Race To Dope
18 Jul '16The Race To Dope: The elite athletes blowing the whistle on how they cheated the system.
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