Season 55

Series 2015

Four Corners

43 episodes02/02/2015

Episodes

Episode 1
S55 · E1 · 02/02/2015 · 45 min

True Detectives

Shocking revelations on Melbourne's gangland killings. Nick McKenzie reports.

Episode 2
S55 · E2 · 09/02/2015 · 45 min

Eat, Pray, Shoot

Inside the campaign to save the two Australians on death row in Bali. Mark Davis reports.

Episode 3
S55 · E3 · 16/02/2015 · 45 min

Making a Killing

Inside Australia's multi-billion dollar greyhound racing industry.

Episode 4
S55 · E4 · 23/02/2015 · 45 min

The Jobs Game

Scandal in the federal government's employment programs. Linton Besser reports.

Episode 5
S55 · E5 · 02/03/2015 · 45 min

Apple's Broken Promises

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?

Episode 6
S55 · E6 · 09/03/2015 · 45 min

Bringing The War Home

The scourge of PTSD; as soldiers they fought the enemy abroad, now as civilians they battle a silent enemy within. Quentin McDermott reports.

Episode 7
S55 · E7 · 16/03/2013 · 45 min

House of Cards

Why the Liberal Party came so close to toppling its leader after just 18 months in Government.

Episode 8
S55 · E8 · 23/03/2015 · 45 min

Ditched

An investigation into the shocking human cost felt by the survivors of an aviation crash.

Episode 9
S55 · E9 · 30/03/2015 · 45 min

Game of Loans

The merchants of debt: how fast cash loans become a ruinous financial trap.

Episode 10
S55 · E10 · 06/04/2015 · 45 min

India's Daughter

The crime that shamed India and divided the country.

Episode 11
S55 · E11 · 13/04/2015 · 45 min

ANZAC to Afghanistan

Reporter Chris Masters revisits the Fatal Shore, the story of Gallipoli.

Episode 12
S55 · E12 · 20/04/2015 · 45 min

Degrees of Deception

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?

Episode 13
S55 · E13 · 27/04/2015 · 45 min

No Free Steps to Heaven

On the frontline with the women taking up arms against Islamic State.

Episode 14
S55 · E14 · 04/05/2015 · 45 min

Slaving Away

The dirty secrets behind Australia's fresh food.

Episode 15
S55 · E15 · 11/05/2015 · 45 min

Remote Hope

An unflinching portrait of Australia's remote Indigenous communities and their struggle to survive.

Episode 16
S55 · E16 · 18/05/2015 · 45 min

Secrets of Mexico's Drug War

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.

Episode 17
S55 · E17 · 25/05/2015 · 45 min

At Their Mercy

The bullying and bastardisation of young doctors in our hospitals.

Episode 18
S55 · E18 · 01/06/2015 · 45 min

Ship of Death

A whodunit on the high seas.

Episode 19
S55 · E19 · 08/06/2015 · 45 min

Nepal Quake: Terror on Everest

Terror on Everest: extraordinary accounts and footage from the day the Nepal earthquake struck.

Episode 20
S55 · E20 · 15/06/2015 · 45 min

The End of Coal?

With the price of coal plummeting and our biggest customers turning to renewable energy, is Australia backing a loser?

Episode 21
S55 · E21 · 22/06/2015 · 45 min

Journey into Hell

On the trail of the traffickers exploiting the most unwanted people on the planet.

Episode 22
S55 · E22 · 29/06/2015 · 45 min

The Mafia in Australia: Drugs, Murder and Politics

In this joint Four Corners/Fairfax Media investigation, we reveal how the mafia continues to flourish in Australia despite major police operations.

Episode 23
S55 · E23 · 06/07/2015 · 45 min

The Mafia in Australia: Blood Ties

Part two of this special investigation goes inside one of the most ambitious organised crime investigations in Australian history.

Episode 24
S55 · E24 · 13/07/2015 · 45 min

7/7: Ten Years On

Stories of courage and humanity in the aftermath of the 2005 London bombings.

Episode 25
S55 · E25 · 20/07/2015 · 45 min

A Nation Divided? The Charlie Hebdo Aftermath

From BBC Three. A personal and provocative look at life in France following the Charlie Hebdo terror attacks.

Iron Man
S55 · E26 · 27/07/2015 · 45 min

Iron Man

Inside the power plays of the mercurial mining billionaire Andrew Twiggy Forrest, as he fights for survival. Stephen Long reports.

Episode 27
S55 · E27 · 03/08/2015 · 45 min

Escorts

Inside the hidden world of transgender escorts.

Episode 28
S55 · E28 · 10/08/2015 · 45 min

The Great Cricket Coup

How India hijacked the game of cricket, and how Australia helped.

Episode 29
S55 · E29 · 17/08/2015 · 45 min

Secrets, Politics and Torture

From PBS Frontline. Secrets, Politics and Torture: The ghosts of the CIA's controversial interrogation program.

Episode 30
S55 · E30 · 24/08/2015 · 45 min

Machine Man

Four Corners puts Labor leader Bill Shorten under the microscope.

Episode 31
S55 · E31 · 31/08/2015 · 45 min

7-Eleven: The Price of Convenience

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.

The Truth About Halal
S55 · E32 · 07/09/2015 · 45 min

The Truth About Halal

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.

Dethroning Tony Abbott
S55 · E33 · 21/09/2015 · 45 min

Dethroning Tony Abbott

On Monday night, Four Corners will chart the events that led to the former Prime Minister's downfall.

Episode 34
S55 · E34 · 28/09/2015 · 45 min

Wasted

A special investigation by Dr Norman Swan on the unnecessary testing and treatments choking the health system and making patients ill.

Escape From ISIS
S55 · E35 · 05/10/2015 · 45 min

Escape From ISIS

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.

The Great Wall of Money
S55 · E36 · 12/10/2015 · 45 min

The Great Wall of Money

Next week on Four Corners: the Chinese billions flooding into Australian real estate.

Jackson and Lawler: Inside the Eye of the Storm
S55 · E37 · 19/10/2015 · 45 min

Jackson and Lawler: Inside the Eye of the Storm

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.

Digital Dissidents
S55 · E38 · 26/10/2015 · 45 min

Digital Dissidents

From WDR (DE). Next on Four Corners, a documentary on the digital dissidents blowing the whistle on government surveillance around the globe.

Hidden Harm
S55 · E39 · 02/11/2015 · 45 min

Hidden Harm

Next on Four Corners, we examine the sobering reality of the damage done by alcohol to unborn babies.

Return to the Valley of Death
S55 · E40 · 09/11/2015 · 45 min

Return to the Valley of Death

In this report, BBC producer Merwais Miakhail takes us on a personal journey into Afghanistan's tribal heartland, known as the 'Valley of Death'.

Our Kids: Why are they so stressed?
S55 · E41 · 16/11/2015 · 45 min

Our Kids: Why are they so stressed?

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.

Plan of Attack: The Making of a Teenage Terrorist
S55 · E42 · 23/11/2015 · 45 min

Plan of Attack: The Making of a Teenage Terrorist

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?

Episode 43
S55 · E43 · 30/11/2015 · 45 min

Rosie's Story

The tragic death of Luke Batty, killed by his father. Could his brutal murder have been prevented? Geoff Thompson reports.

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