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Four Corners

Four Corners

Australia's premiere current affairs programme, incisive investigative journalism.

1961Returning Series22 Seasons745 Episodes6.9TMDB
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Four 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 60th anniversary in 2021. 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.

Season 50 Episodes

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Episode 1: A Good Death

Feb 8, 2010 · 45m

Four Corners follows four brave Australians as they come to the end of their lives, and the people determined to give them a good death.

Episode 2: Breaking Point

Feb 15, 2010 · 45m

Will Australia's flawed disability support system be reformed in time to save the families now at breaking point?

Episode 3: The Warlord's Tune

Feb 22, 2010 · 45m

A harrowing documentary that tells how thousands of young boys in Afghanistan are now being hunted and groomed to become sex slaves.

Episode 7: Mexico's Drug Wars

Mar 22, 2010 · 45m

A horrifying account of the brutal war that's raging in the towns that dot the border between Mexico and the United States.

Episode 8: Gypsy Child Thieves

Mar 29, 2010 · 45m

The harrowing story of the children who are forced into a life of crime on the streets in order to survive.

Episode 9: Over the Edge

Apr 5, 2010 · 45m

The harrowing story of the therapist whose work led some patients to believe they'd committed or been the victim of shocking sexual crimes.

Episode 10: A Dirty Business

Apr 12, 2010 · 45m

How 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.

Episode 11: Chinese Whispers

Apr 19, 2010 · 45m

Four Corners looks at events surrounding the arrest of mining executive Stern Hu and the tensions now involved in doing business with China.

Episode 13: Chocolate: The Bitter Truth

May 3, 2010 · 45m

An 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.

Episode 14: Access Denied

May 10, 2010 · 45m

Quentin McDermott looks at the potential impact of the Government’s mandatory filtering system.

Episode 16: Dirty Money

May 24, 2010 · 45m

In 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.

Episode 18: What's Yours Is Mine

Jun 7, 2010 · 45m

How 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.

Episode 19: One Shitty Deal

Jun 14, 2010 · 45m

A story that reveals how a toxic cocktail of investment packages helped poison the retirement funds of hundreds of Australians.

Episode 20: Rush to Riches

Jun 21, 2010 · 45m

How 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.

Episode 21: Dancing with the Devil

Jun 28, 2010 · 45m

This 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.

Episode 22: A Careful War - Part 1

Jul 5, 2010 · 45m

Chris 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.

Episode 23: A Careful War - Part 2

Jul 12, 2010 · 45m

The 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.

Episode 24: A Dog Act

Jul 19, 2010 · 45m

A forensic investigation of the killing of Kwementyaye Ryder by five white, local youths from Alice Springs.

Episode 25: Heart of Darkness

Jul 26, 2010 · 45m

The story of a young woman's search to understand the shocking conflict that has laid waste the country where she was born.

Episode 27: Hidden Voices

Aug 9, 2010 · 45m

The story of an Australian town that holds a lesson for each and every person who's been touched by mental illness.

Episode 28: Whatever it Takes

Aug 16, 2010 · 45m

A critical look at one of the closest fought Federal elections in two decades, assessing the parties, their policies and the two people who want to lead the country.

Episode 29: Overdose

Aug 23, 2010 · 45m

The story of the greatest financial crisis you will ever see...

Episode 30: Crime Incorporated

Aug 30, 2010 · 45m

A joint ABC Four Corners/Fairfax investigation that takes us inside major Australian organised crime networks.

Episode 31: Body Corporate

Sep 6, 2010 · 45m

The story of the high stakes battle that will decide who owns your body and the key biological building blocks that make you the person that you are.

Episode 32: After the Deluge

Sep 9, 2010 · 45m

The story of the high stakes battle that will decide who owns your body and the key biological building blocks that make you the person that you are.

Episode 33: Return to the Rainbow Warrior

Sep 20, 2010 · 45m

This week on Four Corners, "Return to the Rainbow Warrior", a story that attempts to finally get to the truth of a murderous attack that New Zealanders describe as an act of state sponsored terrorism.

Episode 34: Oxy: The Hidden Epidemic

Sep 23, 2010 · 45m

This week on Four Corners, Oxy: The Hidden Epidemic - a story that reveals how the misuse of powerful prescription drugs is creating a new generation of addicts.

Episode 35: The Deal

Oct 4, 2010 · 45m

The inside story of the historic deal that created Australia's first national minority government in seven decades.

Episode 36: Secret Iraq - Insurgency

Oct 11, 2010 · 45m

Part one of a startling expose revealing what really happened in Iraq after the occupation of the country by Coalition troops.

Episode 38: In a Fix

Oct 25, 2010 · 45m

An investigation into the allegations of corruption and match fixing that threaten to undermine the multi-billion dollar sport of international cricket.

Episode 39: Bad Call

Nov 1, 2010 · 45m

Everyone knows that telecommunications is a highly competitive business. Empires have been built on cheap phone calls and businesses are always looking to get a better deal from phone companies. But now Four Corners reporter Stephen Long blows the whistle on highly questionable phone deals.

Season 50 FAQ

Quick answers about this season's release timeline and episode lineup.

When did Four Corners Season 50 premiere?

Four Corners Season 50 premiered on February 8, 2010.

How many episodes are in Four Corners Season 50?

Four Corners Season 50 has 39 episodes.

What is the first episode of Four Corners Season 50?

The season opens with Season 50 Episode 1, "A Good Death". It aired on February 8, 2010.

Go to Season 50 Episode 1

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