Series 2010

Episodes • 2010

A Good Death

1. A Good Death

45 min

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.

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Breaking Point

2. Breaking Point

45 min

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

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The Warlord's Tune

3. The Warlord's Tune

45 min

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

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The State of Play

4. The State of Play

45 min

The inside story of the battle to control Australian tennis.

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Scientology: The Ex-Files

5. Scientology: The Ex-Files

45 min

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

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The Authentic Mr Abbott

6. The Authentic Mr Abbott

45 min

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

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Mexico's Drug Wars

7. Mexico's Drug Wars

45 min

A horrifying account of the brutal war that's raging in the towns that dot the border between Mexico and the United States.

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Gypsy Child Thieves

8. Gypsy Child Thieves

45 min

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

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Over the Edge

9. Over the Edge

45 min

The harrowing story of the therapist whose work led some patients to believe they'd committed or been the victim of shocking sexual crimes.

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A Dirty Business

10. A Dirty Business

45 min

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.

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Chinese Whispers

11. Chinese Whispers

45 min

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

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A Lethal Miscalculation

12. A Lethal Miscalculation

45 min

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

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Chocolate: The Bitter Truth

13. Chocolate: The Bitter Truth

45 min

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.

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Access Denied

14. Access Denied

45 min

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

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In a Strange Land

15. In a Strange Land

45 min

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

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Dirty Money

16. Dirty Money

45 min

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.

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South Africa's Lost Innocence

17. South Africa's Lost Innocence

45 min

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

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What's Yours Is Mine

18. What's Yours Is Mine

45 min

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.

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One Shitty Deal

19. One Shitty Deal

45 min

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

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Rush to Riches

20. Rush to Riches

45 min

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.

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Dancing with the Devil

21. Dancing with the Devil

45 min

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.

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A Careful War - Part 1

22. A Careful War - Part 1

45 min

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.

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A Careful War - Part 2

23. A Careful War - Part 2

45 min

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.

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A Dog Act

24. A Dog Act

45 min

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

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Heart of Darkness

25. Heart of Darkness

45 min

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

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Smugglers' Paradise

26. Smugglers' Paradise

45 min

An expose of people smugglers and their networks in Indonesia.

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Hidden Voices

27. Hidden Voices

45 min

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

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Whatever it Takes

28. Whatever it Takes

45 min

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.

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Overdose

29. Overdose

45 min

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

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Crime Incorporated

30. Crime Incorporated

45 min

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

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Body Corporate

31. Body Corporate

45 min

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.

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After the Deluge

32. After the Deluge

45 min

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.

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Return to the Rainbow Warrior

33. Return to the Rainbow Warrior

45 min

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.

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Oxy: The Hidden Epidemic

34. Oxy: The Hidden Epidemic

45 min

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.

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The Deal

35. The Deal

45 min

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

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Secret Iraq - Insurgency

36. Secret Iraq - Insurgency

45 min

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

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Secret Iraq - Awakening

37. Secret Iraq - Awakening

45 min

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.

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In a Fix

38. In a Fix

45 min

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

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Bad Call

39. Bad Call

45 min

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.

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