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Four Corners : Season 57
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Air date: 06 Feb '17 - 41 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 (41)
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1. "A Helluva Ride" - The Trump Revolution Begins
06 Feb '17Four Corners returns with an incisive exploration of how President Trump will wield power. Reporter Michael Brissenden interviews key players in the Trump camp & Republicans on the political earthquake rippling across the US.
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2. Swallowing It
13 Feb '17How Australians are spending billions on unproven vitamins & supplements. With 7 out of 10 Australians taking a complementary medicine, Four Corners looks at the regulation & marketing of these products.
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3. Highway To Hell
20 Feb '17A Report from the Frontlines in the Battle Against the Islamic State. As the war against IS intensifies, Matt Brown reports from the frontlines of Mosul - the biggest urban battle since World War II.
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4. Oceans Of Plastic
27 Feb '17What happens to the plastic we throw away? A report on how our rubbish ends up in the ocean and the damage it causes.
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5. Crown Confidential: Packer's Losing Hand
06 Mar '17The Crown empire have bet big for years on China. Four Corners investigates what went wrong for James Packer's gambling & entertainment operations in China & what this might mean for its Australian business.
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6. The Price Of The American Dream
13 Mar '17Can President Trump keep his promise to make America Great Again? Four Corners meets the human face of America's working poor as they struggle to feed their families.
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7. The Age of Consequences
20 Mar '17Four Corners brings you the views of distinguished former members of the US military and senior policy makers who warn that climate change is not only real, it's a threat to global security.
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8. Fighting The System
27 Mar '17The mothers and carers battling for justice and protection for their disabled children.
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9. Please Explain
03 Apr '17Four Corners reporter Caro Meldrum-Hanna reveals the brutal backroom politics ripping into Pauline Hanson's One Nation party.
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10. Cracking The Code
10 Apr '17Cracking the Code: What Facebook really knows about you. How one of the world's most powerful corporations is turning our lives and our data into vast profits, in ways we have no control over.
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11. Syria's Disappeared
24 Apr '17This powerful film shines a light on the barbarism of the Syrian regime at a time when the future of President Assad is being argued over by the world's most powerful nations.
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12. After The Game
01 May '17After the Game: Elite athletes blow the whistle on the high price paid for sporting glory.
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13. Power Failure
08 May '17Four Corners investigates how a nation as rich as Australia is in coal, gas, sunshine and wind, could find itself in an energy crisis.
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14. Gun Runners
15 May '17It was one of the biggest illegal firearms busts in Australian history. A criminal syndicate brazenly smuggling weapons into the country exposing the failings in the nation's border security. Ben Knight reports.
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15. The Lindt Cafe Siege (Part 1)
22 May '17A 2-part investigation into the Lindt Cafe siege. Sarah Ferguson talks exclusively with families of Tori Johnson & Katrina Dawson about their experience on the day & their devastation, anger & frustrations in the aftermath.
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16. The Lindt Cafe Siege (Part 2)
29 May '17Part Two takes you inside the Lindt Cafe & the police operation on the day, with a forensic examination of how the disaster unfolded. We expose what went wrong & ask whether Australia is prepared for another terror attack.
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17. Power And Influence
05 Jun '17An investigation uncovering how China's Communist Party is infiltrating Australia, tracking the activities of Beijing-backed organisations and the efforts made to intimidate CCP opponents.
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18. Breaking The Brotherhood
12 Jun '17The brave few who blew the whistle on Australia's most corrupt police force.
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19. Rise Of The Trolls
19 Jun '17With the rise of social media and smartphones in virtually every pocket, internet trolls are only ever a click, tap or swipe away. Four Corners takes you into the dark side of the internet.
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20. Bleed Them Dry Until They Die
26 Jun '17The retirement villages ripping off retirees. Adele Ferguson investigates.
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21. The Company He Keeps
03 Jul '17This Four Corners investigation will reveal how Donald Trump was negotiating luxury resort deals in Bali and Java, raising serious questions about Presidential conflicts of interest.
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22. Forget Me Not
10 Jul '17A story of identity, love and dignity, introducing three families who tell their stories about living with dementia.
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23. Dark Secret
17 Jul '17In Philadelphia in the early 2000s, a team of lawyers embarked on an investigation led by a formidable District Attorney. What they uncovered was one of the worst criminal cover-ups in US history.
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24. Pumped
24 Jul '17Stretching from Qld to SA, billions of dollars in taxpayer's money has been poured into rescuing the rivers & streams of the Murray-Darling Basin. Linton Besser investigates where the money, & the water is going.
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25. Weapons Of Mass Surveillance
31 Jul '17The digital age has revolutionised the way we live our lives. With the technology of smartphones governments have been given the ability to spy on their citizens on an astonishing scale. Nawal Al-Maghafi reports.
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