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Four Corners : Season 63
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Air date: 30 Jan '23 - 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. Purity
30 Jan '23An Education in Opus Dei - the disturbing teachings of the conservative Catholic organisation and its influence in the NSW Liberal Party. Former students reflect on the practices they say have scarred them for life.
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2. Do No Harm
06 Feb '23The doctors who break their sacred oath but are still allowed to practise. We investigate the medical complaints handling process as patients tell harrowing stories of betrayal, and the system that struggled to respond.
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3. Carbon Colonialism
13 Feb '23Can carbon credits really save the planet? We journey deep into the Papua New Guinean jungle to uncover the confronting truth about the carbon trade, finding a vast chasm between what is marketed and what is really happening.
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4. The People's Fight: The Battle for Kherson
20 Feb '23The People's Fight, the inside story of the battle of the strategic city of Kherson. This Ukrainian victory halted Russian advances in the South and showed how an army of volunteers could defeat the might of the Russian army.
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5. Fading Away
27 Feb '23Australia's secret battle with eating disorders. We follow families as they struggle to get the right treatment, exploring the complexities and revealing a health system appallingly underprepared to deal with this crisis.
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6. Tainted Gold
06 Mar '23Inside Perth Mint's billion dollar scandal. Criminals have targeted Australia's largest government-owned gold refiner, trying to exploit weaknesses in its reporting systems to launder money.
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7. High Stakes
13 Mar '23Exposing the political games of one of Australia's most powerful lobby groups. A senior Liberal Party minister speaks for the first time about the orchestrated campaign to remove him by the powerful Australian gambling lobby.
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8. The Secret World of Incels
20 Mar '23Filmmaker Ben Zand takes us into the dark world of Incels - a radical online subculture of young men who rage against women for supposedly denying them sex and then turn that rage into fantasies about horrific violence.
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9. Agents of Influence
27 Mar '23Real Estate insiders expose the industry's secret tactics. Agents and property professionals reveal the ways in which their profession manipulates and misleads buyers as well as sellers in the pursuit of making a deal.
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10. Gaming the Games
03 Apr '23The scandal threatening the Paralympics. Insiders reveal a culture where classification rules are regularly bent and broken, as a system meant to ensure a level playing field for Paralympians is flawed and easily manipulated.
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11. Predator: The Secret Scandal of J-Pop
10 Apr '23Japan's secret sex scandal. A music executive with a long history of allegations of sexual abuse made by boys in his talent agency. We examine the suffocating reality of being a J-pop idol and the media cover up over decades.
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12. Hackers Inc
17 Apr '23Australia is under cyber-attack and the problem is only getting worse. John Lyons tracks the criminal syndicate behind one of our largest-ever data breaches, finding highly-organised criminal gangs, often based in Russia.
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13. Fox and the Big Lie
24 Apr '23Four Corners revisits its investigation into the inner workings of the powerful Murdoch-owned conservative news outlet Fox News, in the wake of the company's billion-dollar settlement with an election technology company.
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14. Going Nuclear
01 May '23Australia's high risk submarine gamble. As we embark on the $368-billion AUKUS plan to acquire a fleet of nuclear-powered subs, reporter Angus Grigg exposes major delays and safety issues in our current Collins Class vessels.
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15. AI Rising
08 May '23The new reality of artificial life. As tech companies race to dominate the artificial intelligence market, experts warn we're not prepared for what happens next. Grace Tobin investigates the misuse and abuse of generative AI.
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16. Inside Russia
15 May '23We go deep inside Russia to document the opposition to the Ukrainian war. Brave Russians who are willing to speak out against their government, despite the incredible risk.
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17. Cocaine Nation
22 May '23We lift the lid on the shadowy underworld of Australia's cocaine supply chain, with unprecedented access to traffickers, importers, street dealers and high-ranking cartel operatives.
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18. Hiding Behind Tombstones
29 May '23The new legal tactics blocking justice for survivors. Louise Milligan goes inside the legal fight as lawyers representing victims face institutions pushing to have cases thrown out of court altogether.
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19. Frontline Taiwan
05 Jun '23The small island state of Taiwan is in dire straits - stuck in the middle of a struggle between nuclear superpowers China and the United States. There are real fears it may become the centre of our next major global conflict.
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20. Game, Bet, Match
12 Jun '23The secretive deals between Australia's big sporting codes and bookmakers. Pat McGrath reveals how sports governing bodies get a cut of every bet made in Australia on their games. Could it change the way the games are played?
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21. Traitor
19 Jun '23Australia's great untold spy story. A senior officer at our national spy agency stole and sold highly classified intelligence to Russia's KGB for at least six years, jeopardising our security relationship with the US and UK.
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22. Dirty Deeds
26 Jun '23Inside Australia's Biggest Tax Scam. Paul Farrell investigates the Plutus Payroll scheme: a vast conspiracy to defraud more than $100 million from Australian taxpayers, revealing how it was set up and how it was brought down.
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23. Putin and the Presidents
03 Jul '23A week after the Wagner rebellion exposed cracks in Russian President Vladimir Putin's power, we investigate his decades long clashes with US Presidents. The miscalculations and missteps that paved the way for war in Ukraine.
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24. Blocked
10 Jul '23The battle over youth gender care. Patricia Karvelas breaks open the debate, navigating polarised arguments and scientific research on issues including medical interventions, puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.
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25. House of Cards
17 Jul '23Inside the broken business of building. Australia has the highest rate of construction insolvencies in a decade. We examine the supply chain pressures, slim profit margins and failure in regulation as some flout the law.
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