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Four Corners: Series 2018

40 episodes · premiered Feb 5, 2018

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  1. Episode 1: The Billion Dollar Bust Feb 5, 2018 · 45m Linton Besser reports on the undercover operation to catch the world's most wanted money launderer in The Billion Dollar Bust.
  2. Episode 2: Behind Closed Doors Feb 12, 2018 · 45m The domestic workers treated like slaves in Australia. Louise Milligan investigates the hidden workforce kept behind closed doors, living in slave-like conditions and made to work around…
  3. Episode 3: City of Ghosts Feb 19, 2018 · 45m The search for foreign fighters in the ruins of Raqqa. For four years Islamic State ruled its 'caliphate' from its capital Raqqa. ABC Middle East correspondent Matt Brown goes on an…
  4. Episode 4: Everything Forbidden, Anything Possible Feb 26, 2018 · 45m Dancing, drugs and rebellion in the Islamic Republic of Iran. After decades of strict rules, many young people in Iran are now rebelling. They're taking their lives in their hands and…
  5. Episode 5: Weather Alert Mar 5, 2018 · 45m How Australia's warming climate is changing the way we live and work. Rather than waiting for politicians, our farmers, small businesses, government planners and corporations are adapting…
  6. Episode 6: Big Australia: Are We Ready? Mar 12, 2018 · 45m Australia's population is growing fast, we've added almost 400,000 people in the last year, and we're feeling the strain. Ben Knight investigates what a Big Australia means and the…
  7. Episode 7: Working with Weinstein Mar 19, 2018 · 45m The women who worked for Harvey Weinstein tell their stories. For the first time, work colleagues and employees who kept quiet fearing legal action and reprisals, are coming forward to…
  8. Episode 8: Super Risk Mar 26, 2018 · 45m The millions of Australians missing out on superannuation. Despite having a .5 trillion pool of retirement savings, the rise of the gig economy and freelance workers mean millennials are…
  9. Episode 9: Mongrel Bunch Of Bastards Apr 9, 2018 · 45m Taking on the extraordinary powers of the Tax Office. Adele Ferguson puts the actions of the ATO under the microscope, examining how it uses its extensive powers and whether it is acting…
  10. Episode 10: Democracy, Data and Dirty Tricks Apr 16, 2018 · 45m The undercover investigation that left social media giant Facebook reeling. We unmask the secretive political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica and the dirty tricks they deployed to…
  11. Episode 11: Green Rush Apr 23, 2018 · 45m The race to riches for Australia's new marijuana moguls. While entrepreneurs are talking up the potential of products from insomnia cures to chronic pain treatments, patients are…
  12. Episode 12: Tipping the Scales Apr 30, 2018 · 45m Sugar, politics and what's making us fat. Michael Brissenden investigates the power of Big Sugar and its influence on public policy. We reveal the industry's tactics and the access they…
  13. Episode 13: I Am That Girl May 7, 2018 · 45m The case that put sexual consent on trial. The young woman at the centre of one of Australia's most controversial rape trials has chosen to speak to Four Corners in the hope others will…
  14. Episode 14: Banksters May 14, 2018 · 45m The scandalous conduct of a global bank. HSBC is one of the world's largest and most powerful financial institutions, but it has been at the centre of several of the biggest financial…
  15. Episode 15: Complicit May 21, 2018 · 45m The workers paying the price for our mobile phone obsession. Smartphones and tablets revolutionised the way we communicate but the technology we are addicted to has had toxic consequences…
  16. Episode 16: Mind the Gap May 28, 2018 · 45m Millions of Australians fork out big money for private health insurance. In this joint Four Corners investigation with Dr Norman Swan from RN's Health Report, we examine what's driving…
  17. Episode 17: Trump/Russia: Follow The Money Jun 4, 2018 · 45m Four Corners follows the money trail from New York to Moscow, tracking the ties between Trump, his business empire and Russia.
  18. Episode 18: Trump/Russia: Secrets, Spies and Useful Idiots Jun 11, 2018 · 45m Sarah Ferguson continues to chart the extraordinary allegations, interrogating the evidence and interviewing key protagonists in this unfolding drama over members of the Trump team accused…
  19. Episode 19: Trump/Russia: Moscow Rules Jun 18, 2018 · 45m In the final part of our special report, Sarah Ferguson investigates central allegations that members of the Trump team, including possibly the President himself, actively colluded with…
  20. Episode 20: Second Chance Kids Jun 25, 2018 · 45m The teenage criminals sentenced to life in jail. Being tough on crime has become a popular mantra for political parties, but calls for a crackdown have led to tougher penalties and…
  21. Episode 21: Outbreak Jul 2, 2018 · 45m The quarantine failures putting the Australian economy at risk. Four Corners investigates some of the worst biosecurity breaches, uncovering sophisticated smuggling operations, inadequate…
  22. Episode 22: Off Track Jul 9, 2018 · 45m The Secrets and Scandals of Australian Horse Racing. With a prize pool more than million and employing 50,000 people it's one of our biggest industries, but away from the glamour all is…
  23. Episode 23: Out Of The Dark Jul 16, 2018 · 45m The extraordinary rescue mission to save Thailand's lost boys. Mark Willacy documents the extraordinary international effort to find and rescue 12 school boys and their soccer coach from a…
  24. Episode 24: Money For Nothing Jul 23, 2018 · 45m How corporate greed and deception cost AMP its trusted place in Australian life. How AMP ripped off customers including charging fees for no service and the measures it took to conceal its…
  25. Episode 25: Champagne With Dictators Jul 30, 2018 · 45m Australia accused of failing to stand up for democracy as Cambodia descends into dictatorship. Sophie McNeill confronts the man whose political opponents have been imprisoned and…
  26. Episode 26: Inside Facebook Aug 6, 2018 · 45m The undercover investigation exposing how Facebook decides what you see. An undercover reporter, training as a content moderator, is taken through the rules behind the social networking…
  27. Episode 27: Beauty's New Normal Aug 13, 2018 · 45m Welcome to the new world of enhanced 'beauty' where there's nothing natural about the faces and bodies created by cosmetic procedures. Fuelled by social media influencers, cosmetic surgery…
  28. Episode 28: Parenting 101 Aug 20, 2018 · 45m Having a child is supposed to be the most natural thing in the world, but knowing how to raise children can be daunting. Follow the story of three mothers determined to learn how to become…
  29. Episode 29: A Form of Madness Aug 27, 2018 · 45m How the Liberal Party tore itself apart. This special Four Corners investigation takes you inside a political catastrophe. We chart the rise and fall of Malcolm Turnbull and the enemies…
  30. Episode 30: Populist Revolution Sep 3, 2018 · 45m Strategist and provocateur Steve Bannon channelled the anger of those who felt left behind by globalism to elect Trump as president. Sarah Ferguson interviews Bannon on his crusade for a…
  31. Episode 31: Manchester Bomb: Our Story Sep 10, 2018 · 45m The teenage survivors rebuilding their lives. They were young girls and teenagers, out to see their favourite pop star in Manchester. As the show ended, a terrorist detonated a home-made…
  32. Episode 32: Who Cares? (Part 1) Sep 17, 2018 · 45m In part one, Four Corners investigates the business of aged care and what that means for the vulnerable residents left in its care. Families speak out with disturbing accounts of…
  33. Episode 33: Who Cares? (Part 2) Sep 24, 2018 · 45m In part two, we detail shocking cases of abuse and premature deaths in our nursing homes. Carers and families come forward to tell their stories and reveal the abject failure of government…
  34. Episode 34: Proud Country Oct 1, 2018 · 45m A portrait of a community surviving the drought. A story from the heart of the drought, a portrait of the land and its people where lack of rain is biting hard. Witness the strength of…
  35. Episode 35: The Monsanto Papers Oct 8, 2018 · 45m The secret tactics used by global chemical giant Monsanto to protect its billion-dollar business and its star product, the weed killer, Roundup. We trace the company's influence campaign…
  36. Episode 36: Prisons Uncovered Oct 15, 2018 · 45m Hidden cameras behind bars reveal the problems facing governments around the world: how to manage soaring prison populations, rife with drugs, violence and squalid living conditions as…
  37. Episode 37: Big Guns Oct 22, 2018 · 45m How a cashed up gun industry has Australia's firearms laws in its sights. Sean Nicholls examines a lobby group funded and directed by major firearms sellers and manufacturers employing new…
  38. Episode 38: Windsor Inc. Oct 29, 2018 · 45m The visit by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex was a triumph for the House of Windsor brand. We examine the sophisticated corporate campaign to future-proof the Crown and how the Royals…
  39. Episode 39: Crime and Panic Nov 5, 2018 · 45m According to the media, Melbourne is in the grip of a crimewave, overrun by African street gangs responsible for a wave of violence. Reporter Sophie McNeill is on the ground to get to the…
  40. Episode 40: Bitter End Nov 12, 2018 · 45m The final Four Corners for 2018 examines the corporate crisis that engulfed the ABC and brought down both the Managing Director and Chair. Sarah Ferguson speaks with inside players…