Four Corners

Series 2010

39 episodes · premiered Feb 8, 2010

Where to watch Four Corners

  1. E1 A Good Death

    Feb 8, 2010 · 45m

    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.

  2. E2 Breaking Point

    Feb 15, 2010 · 45m

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

  3. E3 The Warlord's Tune

    Feb 22, 2010 · 45m

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

  4. E4 The State of Play

    Mar 1, 2010 · 45m

    The inside story of the battle to control Australian tennis.

  5. E5 Scientology: The Ex-Files

    Mar 8, 2010 · 45m

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

  6. E6 The Authentic Mr Abbott

    Mar 15, 2010 · 45m

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

  7. E7 Mexico's Drug Wars

    Mar 22, 2010 · 45m

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

  8. E8 Gypsy Child Thieves

    Mar 29, 2010 · 45m

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

  9. E9 Over the Edge

    Apr 5, 2010 · 45m

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

  10. E10 A Dirty Business

    Apr 12, 2010 · 45m

    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.

  11. E11 Chinese Whispers

    Apr 19, 2010 · 45m

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

  12. E12 A Lethal Miscalculation

    Apr 26, 2010 · 45m

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

  13. E13 Chocolate: The Bitter Truth

    May 3, 2010 · 45m

    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.

  14. E14 Access Denied

    May 10, 2010 · 45m

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

  15. E15 In a Strange Land

    May 17, 2010 · 45m

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

  16. E16 Dirty Money

    May 24, 2010 · 45m

    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.

  17. E17 South Africa's Lost Innocence

    May 31, 2010 · 45m

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

  18. E18 What's Yours Is Mine

    Jun 7, 2010 · 45m

    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.

  19. E19 One Shitty Deal

    Jun 14, 2010 · 45m

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

  20. E20 Rush to Riches

    Jun 21, 2010 · 45m

    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.

  21. E21 Dancing with the Devil

    Jun 28, 2010 · 45m

    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.

  22. E22 A Careful War - Part 1

    Jul 5, 2010 · 45m

    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.

  23. E23 A Careful War - Part 2

    Jul 12, 2010 · 45m

    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.

  24. E24 A Dog Act

    Jul 19, 2010 · 45m

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

  25. E25 Heart of Darkness

    Jul 26, 2010 · 45m

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

  26. E26 Smugglers' Paradise

    Aug 2, 2010 · 45m

    An expose of people smugglers and their networks in Indonesia.

  27. E27 Hidden Voices

    Aug 9, 2010 · 45m

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

  28. E28 Whatever it Takes

    Aug 16, 2010 · 45m

    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.

  29. E29 Overdose

    Aug 23, 2010 · 45m

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

  30. E30 Crime Incorporated

    Aug 30, 2010 · 45m

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

  31. E31 Body Corporate

    Sep 6, 2010 · 45m

    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.

  32. E32 After the Deluge

    Sep 9, 2010 · 45m

    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.

  33. E33 Return to the Rainbow Warrior

    Sep 20, 2010 · 45m

    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.

  34. E34 Oxy: The Hidden Epidemic

    Sep 23, 2010 · 45m

    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.

  35. E35 The Deal

    Oct 4, 2010 · 45m

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

  36. E36 Secret Iraq - Insurgency

    Oct 11, 2010 · 45m

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

  37. E37 Secret Iraq - Awakening

    Oct 18, 2010 · 45m

    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.

  38. E38 In a Fix

    Oct 25, 2010 · 45m

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

  39. E39 Bad Call

    Nov 1, 2010 · 45m

    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.