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Deborah Snow's report focuses on the uprising in Bougainville and features an interview with Papua New Guinea's Bougainville commander, Colonel Leo Nuia, admitting that helicopters provided by Australia had been used to dump rebels' bodies at sea.
Nuia was sacked after the program aired.
The program won a Walkley Award for Best Investigative Report.
A moving portrait of the conductor Stuart Challender, who at the time of filming in 1991 was the chief conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
What the public didn’t know was that he was dying from AIDS.
But Stuart Challender was not defeated by his illness.
Despite being progressively weakened, he continued to perform, using the short time he had left as a spur to his musical achievement.
The program won the 1991 Walkley Award for Best Application of TV Medium to Journalism.
In 1991 Neil Mercer made 'Police Story', profiling Kings Cross crime boss Louis Bayeh.
The program introduced the public to organised crime's unromantic underbelly, and was one of Four Corners' first reports investigating crime and corruption in NSW.
