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Four Corners

Season 2013 2013
TV-PG

  • 2013-01-04T09:30:00Z on ABC
  • 1h
  • 1d 19h (43 episodes)
  • Australia
  • English
  • Documentary, News
Australia's premier television current affairs program. Four Corners has been part of the national story since 1961, exposing scandals, triggering inquiries, firing debate and confronting taboos.

43 episodes

Season Premiere

2013-01-04T09:30:00Z

2013x01 Lance and the Truth

Season Premiere

2013x01 Lance and the Truth

  • 2013-01-04T09:30:00Z1h

He's a drug cheat, a bully and a liar who abused his best friends to keep a terrible secret, but has Lance Armstrong finally told the truth? The answer - almost certainly - is no.

It may be the wealthiest country in the world but as documentary maker Philippe Levasseur shows in America's Broken Dreams, when you lose your job in the US there is very little to protect you. In 2008 the global financial crisis hit the poor first, but now America's middle class is being devastated.

2013-02-18T09:30:00Z

2013x03 Reach For The Sky

2013x03 Reach For The Sky

  • 2013-02-18T09:30:00Z1h

It's been called the smartest fighter plane on the planet but it is way over budget and still not delivered. Can the F.35 live up to the hype, or is the project set ot crash and burn?

2013-02-25T09:30:00Z

2013x04 Punch Drunk

2013x04 Punch Drunk

  • 2013-02-25T09:30:00Z1h

Australians love a drink, and some see no problem at all with drinking to excess. But now doctors, police and paramedics have called 'time', warning that alcohol-fuelled violence has reached crisis levels.

2013-03-04T09:30:00Z

2013x05 A Betrayal of Trust

2013x05 A Betrayal of Trust

  • 2013-03-04T09:30:00Z1h

With Australia's population ageing, governments have made it very clear, you had better save and plan for your own retirement. But how can you be sure your money is in safe hands...

2013-03-11T09:30:00Z

2013x06 The Enemy Within

2013x06 The Enemy Within

  • 2013-03-11T09:30:00Z1h

How did a Lebanese immigrant move from owning an ethnic newspaper business to become the most influential politician in the State...

2013-03-18T09:30:00Z

2013x07 The Untouchables

2013x07 The Untouchables

  • 2013-03-18T09:30:00Z1h

This PBS-Frontline investigation asks why the US Department of Justice has failed to act on credible evidence that Wall Street deliberately packaged toxic loans and sold them to investors.

2013-03-25T09:30:00Z

2013x08 Mission Accomplished?

2013x08 Mission Accomplished?

  • 2013-03-25T09:30:00Z1h

The plan for Afghanistan was a robust democracy overseen by a well-trained army and police. But do the new security forces really have their hearts in the job?

2013-04-01T09:30:00Z

2013x09 Gas Leak!

2013x09 Gas Leak!

  • 2013-04-01T09:30:00Z1h

The coal seam gas industry promotes itself as a cleaner carbon-fuel alternative; but how do we know this is true? Until now much of the information used to back this claim has come from the industry itself. Four Corners reveals what really happened when two major companies applied to develop thousands of square kilometres of southern Queensland for coal seam gas.

2013-04-08T10:00:00Z

2013x10 A Gracious Gift

2013x10 A Gracious Gift

  • 2013-04-08T10:00:00Z1h

This is a story Australians think they know: the gift of a donated organ that transforms the life of someone with a devastating illness. What we see here for the first time is the extraordinary journey families undergo whose loved ones are dying in hospital from a sudden, unexpected event.

How the West was duped by informants who claimed Saddam Hussein had WMD and how this phony intelligence was used to justify the invasion of Iraq.

2013-04-22T10:00:00Z

2013x12 Who's Cheating Whom?

2013x12 Who's Cheating Whom?

  • 2013-04-22T10:00:00Z1h

Australians like to think their sports stars play fair but now it's alleged there's widespread drug taking and links with organised crime.

2013-04-29T10:00:00Z

2013x13 No Advantage

2013x13 No Advantage

  • 2013-04-29T10:00:00Z1h

We go inside Australia's offshore refugee processing centres on Nauru and Manus Island. What you see will shock you. Protests, evidence of self-harm and testimony of suicide attempts.

2013-05-06T10:00:00Z

2013x14 The Surf Club

2013x14 The Surf Club

  • 2013-05-06T10:00:00Z1h

The surf life saving movement is Australia's biggest volunteer organisation and it saves thousands of lives each year. But right now Surf Life Saving Australia is at a crossroads... Wendy Carlisle investigates.

2013-05-13T10:00:00Z

2013x15 Raising Adam Lanza

2013x15 Raising Adam Lanza

  • 2013-05-13T10:00:00Z1h

An unflinching profile of the young man responsible for one of America's worst school massacres. Who was Adam Lanza - and what led him to kill 27 people at Sandy Hook Elementary school last year?

2013-05-20T10:00:00Z

2013x16 The Big Gamble

2013x16 The Big Gamble

  • 2013-05-20T10:00:00Z1h

We take a revealing look at the world of sports betting and the man who's made himself the face of the industry - Tom Waterhouse.

2013-05-27T10:00:00Z

2013x17 Hacked!

2013x17 Hacked!

  • 2013-05-27T10:00:00Z1h

Andrew Fowler reveals that hackers, working from locations overseas, have targeted key Federal Government departments and major corporations in Australia.

It was the police investigation that stunned Britain. Young men of Pakistani heritage grooming young girls with the intention of abusing them, gang raping them and then trading them with other groups of men. How could it happen in modern Britain?

2013-06-10T10:00:00Z

2013x19 The Hunting Party

2013x19 The Hunting Party

  • 2013-06-10T10:00:00Z1h

Hunting wild animals is a growth industry and now the pressure is on to get access to national parks. Who really benefits and who is at risk?

2013-06-13T10:00:00Z

2013x20 Escaping North Korea

2013x20 Escaping North Korea

  • 2013-06-13T10:00:00Z1h

Two North Korean defectors are smuggled across borders by a human smuggler who promises them a safe escape. Will they survive the perilous 5,000 km journey to freedom?

2013-06-25T10:00:00Z

2013x21 Fashion Victims

2013x21 Fashion Victims

  • 2013-06-25T10:00:00Z1h

Australians love a bargain, but what's the real cost of cheap clothes from the sweat shops in Bangladesh? On 24th April this year more than a thousand people were killed when an eight storey building collapsed in the heart of Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka.

2013-07-01T10:00:00Z

2013x22 On the Brink

2013x22 On the Brink

  • 2013-07-01T10:00:00Z1h

Could you live on 35 dollars a day and pay for food, clothing, transport and other bills? That's what single unemployed people are entitled to on the Newstart allowance.

2013-07-08T10:00:00Z

2013x23 To the Bitter End

2013x23 To the Bitter End

  • 2013-07-08T10:00:00Z1h

Reporter Marian Wilkinson tells the turbulent story of Labor's bitter leadership struggle, the dramatic day that ended the term of Australia's first female Prime Minister and Labor's renewed ambition to win the next election.

Next on Four Corners, PBS' NOVA documentary producer, Miles O'Brien, looks at how the events unfolded on the day of the bombing and he tracks how a team of investigators used modern technology, combined with good old fashioned detective work, to break the case.

2013-07-22T10:00:00Z

2013x25 Chemical Time Bomb

2013x25 Chemical Time Bomb

  • 2013-07-22T10:00:00Z1h

In the 1980s and 1990s governments across Australia outlawed the use of the herbicide 245T. The ban was introduced for one very good reason - 245T contains dioxin, a chemical impurity with the potential to seriously harm people who are exposed to it. But has the dioxin menace been tamed? Four Corners reveals evidence that this potentially deadly chemical compound may still be present in weed control products and that authorities do not routinely test for it.

The rise and fall of Australia's youngest billionaire, Nathan Tinkler. How did he make so much money and where did it go?

2013-08-01T10:00:00Z

2013x27 Walking Wounded

2013x27 Walking Wounded

  • 2013-08-01T10:00:00Z1h

War photographer Giles Dooley lost both legs and an arm while on assignment in Afghanistan and returns to record the plight of Afghan civilians who've lost even more.

Nelson Mandela promised a South Africa based on freedom and equality. But as the country's former leader lies in hospital critically ill, the nation he fought to create is slowly disintegrating. Violence is commonplace, unemployment is out of control and the ruling ANC Government is accused of rampant corruption.

2013-08-19T10:00:00Z

2013x29 Finding Mercy

2013x29 Finding Mercy

  • 2013-08-19T10:00:00Z1h

What do you do when your best friend is lost to you in a tide of violence and cruelty? Do you search across continents to find her? That is the story of filmmaker Robyn Paterson and her friend Mercy.

2013-08-26T10:00:00Z

2013x30 Buying Time

2013x30 Buying Time

  • 2013-08-26T10:00:00Z1h

There is not a person in the community that is not affected by cancer in some way. We go inside the hospitals and consulting rooms with Australians who are confronting the reality that the advanced cancer they have could kill them.

2013-09-02T10:00:00Z

2013x31 No Margin For Error

2013x31 No Margin For Error

  • 2013-09-02T10:00:00Z1h

Four Corners goes on the campaign trail, taking a fly-on-the-wall look at two seats that will be crucial in deciding who wins Government this time around.

2013-09-09T10:00:00Z

2013x32 In Google We Trust

2013x32 In Google We Trust

  • 2013-09-09T10:00:00Z1h

Australians are among the most technically connected in the world - but do we know where our data goes and how it's being used?

2013-09-16T10:00:00Z

2013x33 My Own Choice

2013x33 My Own Choice

  • 2013-09-16T10:00:00Z1h

The story of a young man with a serious debilitating illness trying to find a way to legally end his own life.

2013-09-23T10:00:00Z

2013x34 Preying on Paradise

2013x34 Preying on Paradise

  • 2013-09-23T10:00:00Z1h

A look at the renewed fight against corruption in Papua New Guinea. Will Australia help or hinder the battle? Marian Wilkinson reports.

2013-09-30T10:00:00Z

2013x35 Cover Up

2013x35 Cover Up

  • 2013-09-30T10:00:00Z1h

Two insiders blow the lid on a financial scandal that goes to the heart of one of Australia's most important and trusted institutions.

2013-10-07T09:30:00Z

2013x36 Terror in the Desert

2013x36 Terror in the Desert

  • 2013-10-07T09:30:00Z1h

The harrowing story of an al Qaeda raid on a remote North African gas plant, told by the people who survived it.

2013-10-14T09:30:00Z

2013x37 No Accounting

2013x37 No Accounting

  • 2013-10-14T09:30:00Z1h

The Jawoyn people were held up as the model Indigenous community. What went wrong? Matthew Carney reports.

It was an Australia Day paddock party for a group of 19-year-old school friends. But something went very wrong. By sunrise, two young people were dying. So why has no one been held to account?

2013-10-28T09:30:00Z

2013x39 Fire In The Wire

2013x39 Fire In The Wire

  • 2013-10-28T09:30:00Z1h

We're told many bushfires are deliberately lit but close analysis suggests powerlines are the main culprits. What if many of our worst fires are in fact very much like industrial accidents which could have been prevented?

A large part of India is in danger of eating itself into an early grave. BBC This World discovers Indian families, obsessed with the glitter of the West, are indulging their children with fast, fatty foods.

2013-11-11T09:30:00Z

2013x41 JFK - The Lost Bullet

2013x41 JFK - The Lost Bullet

  • 2013-11-11T09:30:00Z1h

Was John F. Kennedy the victim of conspiracy or a lone gunman? Can the third bullet fired at him that day in Dallas help answer that question?

2013-11-18T09:30:00Z

2013x42 Trading Misery

2013x42 Trading Misery

  • 2013-11-18T09:30:00Z1h

In September a boat carrying 72 asylum seekers sank in stormy waters off the coast of Indonesia. Most of those onboard drowned, many of them children. Sarah Ferguson goes on the trail of the people smugglers who organised the vessel.

2013-11-25T09:30:00Z

2013x43 Palmer Drama

2013x43 Palmer Drama

  • 2013-11-25T09:30:00Z1h

Clive Palmer says he's bankrolled the Palmer United Party to give voice to millions of Australians who can't afford a lobbyist, but can we take him at his word?

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