Season 50

Series 2010

Four Corners

39 episodes08/02/2010

Episodes

Episode 1
S50 · E1 · 08/02/2010 · 45 min

A Good Death

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
S50 · E2 · 15/02/2010 · 45 min

Breaking Point

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

Episode 3
S50 · E3 · 22/02/2010 · 45 min

The Warlord's Tune

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

Episode 4
S50 · E4 · 01/03/2010 · 45 min

The State of Play

The inside story of the battle to control Australian tennis.

Episode 5
S50 · E5 · 08/03/2010 · 45 min

Scientology: The Ex-Files

Former members of the Church give a chilling portrait of life inside the organisation.

Episode 6
S50 · E6 · 15/03/2010 · 45 min

The Authentic Mr Abbott

A revealing profile of the man who wants to be the next Prime Minister of Australia.

Episode 7
S50 · E7 · 22/03/2010 · 45 min

Mexico's Drug Wars

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
S50 · E8 · 29/03/2010 · 45 min

Gypsy Child Thieves

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

Episode 9
S50 · E9 · 05/04/2010 · 45 min

Over the Edge

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
S50 · E10 · 12/04/2010 · 45 min

A Dirty Business

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
S50 · E11 · 19/04/2010 · 45 min

Chinese Whispers

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

Episode 12
S50 · E12 · 26/04/2010 · 45 min

A Lethal Miscalculation

The story behind the Federal Government's multi-billion dollar home insulation scheme debacle.

Episode 13
S50 · E13 · 03/05/2010 · 45 min

Chocolate: The Bitter Truth

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
S50 · E14 · 10/05/2010 · 45 min

Access Denied

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

Episode 15
S50 · E15 · 17/05/2010 · 45 min

In a Strange Land

The story of a young woman's confronting journey back to the war-ravaged country of her birth.

Episode 16
S50 · E16 · 24/05/2010 · 45 min

Dirty Money

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 17
S50 · E17 · 31/05/2010 · 45 min

South Africa's Lost Innocence

South Africa has the highest incidence of rape in the world, and almost half the victims are children.

Episode 18
S50 · E18 · 07/06/2010 · 45 min

What's Yours Is Mine

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
S50 · E19 · 14/06/2010 · 45 min

One Shitty Deal

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

Episode 20
S50 · E20 · 21/06/2010 · 45 min

Rush to Riches

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
S50 · E21 · 28/06/2010 · 45 min

Dancing with the Devil

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
S50 · E22 · 05/07/2010 · 45 min

A Careful War - Part 1

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
S50 · E23 · 12/07/2010 · 45 min

A Careful War - Part 2

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
S50 · E24 · 19/07/2010 · 45 min

A Dog Act

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

Episode 25
S50 · E25 · 26/07/2010 · 45 min

Heart of Darkness

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

Episode 26
S50 · E26 · 02/08/2010 · 45 min

Smugglers' Paradise

An expose of people smugglers and their networks in Indonesia.

Episode 27
S50 · E27 · 09/08/2010 · 45 min

Hidden Voices

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

Episode 28
S50 · E28 · 16/08/2010 · 45 min

Whatever it Takes

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
S50 · E29 · 23/08/2010 · 45 min

Overdose

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

Episode 30
S50 · E30 · 30/08/2010 · 45 min

Crime Incorporated

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

Episode 31
S50 · E31 · 06/09/2010 · 45 min

Body Corporate

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
S50 · E32 · 09/09/2010 · 45 min

After the Deluge

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
S50 · E33 · 20/09/2010 · 45 min

Return to the Rainbow Warrior

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
S50 · E34 · 23/09/2010 · 45 min

Oxy: The Hidden Epidemic

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
S50 · E35 · 04/10/2010 · 45 min

The Deal

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

Episode 36
S50 · E36 · 11/10/2010 · 45 min

Secret Iraq - Insurgency

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

Episode 37
S50 · E37 · 18/10/2010 · 45 min

Secret Iraq - Awakening

The story revealing how Coalition policy took Iraq to the brink of an all-out civil war and how key players in the U.S.

Episode 38
S50 · E38 · 25/10/2010 · 45 min

In a Fix

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

Episode 39
S50 · E39 · 01/11/2010 · 45 min

Bad Call

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.