Four Corners — Season 55
Australia's premiere current affairs programme, incisive investigative journalism.
About this season
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.
Episodes (43)
1. True Detectives
Aired 2 February 2015 • 45 min
Shocking revelations on Melbourne's gangland killings. Nick McKenzie reports.
2. Eat, Pray, Shoot
Aired 9 February 2015 • 45 min
Inside the campaign to save the two Australians on death row in Bali. Mark Davis reports.
3. Making a Killing
Aired 16 February 2015 • 45 min
Inside Australia's multi-billion dollar greyhound racing industry.
4. The Jobs Game
Aired 23 February 2015 • 45 min
Scandal in the federal government's employment programs. Linton Besser reports.
5. Apple's Broken Promises
Aired 2 March 2015 • 45 min
Apple is the most valuable brand on the planet, making products that everyone wants - but how are its workers treated when the world isn't looking?
6. Bringing The War Home
Aired 9 March 2015 • 45 min
The scourge of PTSD; as soldiers they fought the enemy abroad, now as civilians they battle a silent enemy within. Quentin McDermott reports.
7. House of Cards
Aired 16 March 2013 • 45 min
Why the Liberal Party came so close to toppling its leader after just 18 months in Government.
8. Ditched
Aired 23 March 2015 • 45 min
An investigation into the shocking human cost felt by the survivors of an aviation crash.
9. Game of Loans
Aired 30 March 2015 • 45 min
The merchants of debt: how fast cash loans become a ruinous financial trap.
10. India's Daughter
Aired 6 April 2015 • 45 min
The crime that shamed India and divided the country.
11. ANZAC to Afghanistan
Aired 13 April 2015 • 45 min
Reporter Chris Masters revisits the Fatal Shore, the story of Gallipoli.
12. Degrees of Deception
Aired 20 April 2015 • 45 min
Australia has been gripped by a national debate over how to fund our university education. But perhaps there's a more important question: what is it worth?
13. No Free Steps to Heaven
Aired 27 April 2015 • 45 min
On the frontline with the women taking up arms against Islamic State.
14. Slaving Away
Aired 4 May 2015 • 45 min
The dirty secrets behind Australia's fresh food.
15. Remote Hope
Aired 11 May 2015 • 45 min
An unflinching portrait of Australia's remote Indigenous communities and their struggle to survive.
16. Secrets of Mexico's Drug War
Aired 18 May 2015 • 45 min
This investigation from the BBC looks into the American authorities' relationship with the biggest and most powerful criminal organisation in the world, the Sinaloa Cartel.
17. At Their Mercy
Aired 25 May 2015 • 45 min
The bullying and bastardisation of young doctors in our hospitals.
18. Ship of Death
Aired 1 June 2015 • 45 min
A whodunit on the high seas.
19. Nepal Quake: Terror on Everest
Aired 8 June 2015 • 45 min
Terror on Everest: extraordinary accounts and footage from the day the Nepal earthquake struck.
20. The End of Coal?
Aired 15 June 2015 • 45 min
With the price of coal plummeting and our biggest customers turning to renewable energy, is Australia backing a loser?
21. Journey into Hell
Aired 22 June 2015 • 45 min
On the trail of the traffickers exploiting the most unwanted people on the planet.
22. The Mafia in Australia: Drugs, Murder and Politics
Aired 29 June 2015 • 45 min
In this joint Four Corners/Fairfax Media investigation, we reveal how the mafia continues to flourish in Australia despite major police operations.
23. The Mafia in Australia: Blood Ties
Aired 6 July 2015 • 45 min
Part two of this special investigation goes inside one of the most ambitious organised crime investigations in Australian history.
24. 7/7: Ten Years On
Aired 13 July 2015 • 45 min
Stories of courage and humanity in the aftermath of the 2005 London bombings.
25. A Nation Divided? The Charlie Hebdo Aftermath
Aired 20 July 2015 • 45 min
From BBC Three. A personal and provocative look at life in France following the Charlie Hebdo terror attacks.
26. Iron Man
Aired 27 July 2015 • 45 min
Inside the power plays of the mercurial mining billionaire Andrew Twiggy Forrest, as he fights for survival. Stephen Long reports.
27. Escorts
Aired 3 August 2015 • 45 min
Inside the hidden world of transgender escorts.
28. The Great Cricket Coup
Aired 10 August 2015 • 45 min
How India hijacked the game of cricket, and how Australia helped.
29. Secrets, Politics and Torture
Aired 17 August 2015 • 45 min
From PBS Frontline. Secrets, Politics and Torture: The ghosts of the CIA's controversial interrogation program.
30. Machine Man
Aired 24 August 2015 • 45 min
Four Corners puts Labor leader Bill Shorten under the microscope.
31. 7-Eleven: The Price of Convenience
Aired 31 August 2015 • 45 min
Adele Ferguson returns to Four Corners with an investigation into the 7-Eleven business empire with revelations of dodgy bookkeeping, blackmail and the mass underpayment of its workforce.
32. The Truth About Halal
Aired 7 September 2015 • 45 min
The war of words over the Halal certification of food. Anti-Islam groups label it a religious tax. Claims of corruption and links to terrorism light up the blogosphere. Four Corners searches out the truth.
33. Dethroning Tony Abbott
Aired 21 September 2015 • 45 min
On Monday night, Four Corners will chart the events that led to the former Prime Minister's downfall.
34. Wasted
Aired 28 September 2015 • 45 min
A special investigation by Dr Norman Swan on the unnecessary testing and treatments choking the health system and making patients ill.
35. Escape From ISIS
Aired 5 October 2015 • 45 min
From Channel 4 (UK). As asylum seekers flee from the ISIS conflict zone, Four Corners brings you this timely and powerful story of the secret network rescuing women and children held captive by ISIS.
36. The Great Wall of Money
Aired 12 October 2015 • 45 min
Next week on Four Corners: the Chinese billions flooding into Australian real estate.
37. Jackson and Lawler: Inside the Eye of the Storm
Aired 19 October 2015 • 45 min
Next on Four Corners, we take you inside the world of Australia's most formidable power couple - former union boss Kathy Jackson and Fair Work Commission Vice President, Michael Lawler.
38. Digital Dissidents
Aired 26 October 2015 • 45 min
From WDR (DE). Next on Four Corners, a documentary on the digital dissidents blowing the whistle on government surveillance around the globe.
39. Hidden Harm
Aired 2 November 2015 • 45 min
Next on Four Corners, we examine the sobering reality of the damage done by alcohol to unborn babies.
40. Return to the Valley of Death
Aired 9 November 2015 • 45 min
In this report, BBC producer Merwais Miakhail takes us on a personal journey into Afghanistan's tribal heartland, known as the 'Valley of Death'.
41. Our Kids: Why are they so stressed?
Aired 16 November 2015 • 45 min
In frank, funny and sometimes heartbreaking conversations, Australian kids take us inside their world and tell us why they're so anxious about the present and the future.
42. Plan of Attack: The Making of a Teenage Terrorist
Aired 23 November 2015 • 45 min
It was the random act of violence that authorities had been warning of and it left the nation crying out for answers. How could a 15-year-old school boy become a killer?
43. Rosie's Story
Aired 30 November 2015 • 45 min
The tragic death of Luke Batty, killed by his father. Could his brutal murder have been prevented? Geoff Thompson reports.