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Season 57

  • S57E01 'A Helluva Ride' - The Trump Revolution Begins

    • February 6, 2017
    • ABC (AU)

    Four Corners returns for 2017 with an incisive exploration of how President Donald Trump will wield his power.

  • S57E02 Swallowing It

    • February 13, 2017
    • ABC (AU)

    How Australians are spending billions on unproven vitamins and supplements.

  • S57E03 Highway to Hell

    • February 20, 2017
    • ABC (AU)

    A report from the frontlines in the battle against Islamic State.

  • S57E04 Oceans of Plastic

    • February 27, 2017
    • ABC (AU)

    What happens to the plastic we throw away...

  • S57E05 Crown Confidential - Packer's Losing Hand

    • March 6, 2017
    • ABC (AU)

    Four Corners investigates the turmoil inside James Packer's Crown operation in China.

  • S57E06 The Price of the American Dream

    • March 13, 2017
    • ABC (AU)

    America's shrinking middle class are fast joining the swelling ranks of the working poor.

  • S57E07 The Age of Consequences

    • March 20, 2017
    • ABC (AU)

    The Pentagon insiders with a climate change warning for the world.

  • S57E08 Fighting the System

    • March 27, 2017
    • ABC (AU)

    The mothers and carers battling for justice and protection for their disabled children.

  • S57E09 Please Explain

    • April 3, 2017
    • ABC (AU)

    "We don't cheat, we don't lie, we are upfront with the people." Pauline Hanson When Pauline Hanson and her One Nation party stormed back into politics as a major force, it was done on the promise they would be nothing like the "mainstream" political parties they and their supporters loathe. Four Corners reveals the brutal backroom politics ripping into Pauline Hanson's One Nation party. Reporter Caro Meldrum-Hanna investigates the party's inner workings and explores how former supporters have been left disenchanted, asking for Pauline Hanson to "please explain"

  • S57E10 Cracking the Code

    • April 10, 2017
    • ABC (AU)

    "What's on your mind?" It's the friendly Facebook question which lets you share what you're thinking and what you've been up to. It's also the question that unlocks the details of your life and helps turn your thoughts into Facebook's profits. Four Corners explores the world of Facebook and how your data is being mined to drive the huge success of the social media giant. Reporter Peter Greste examines the Facebook business model and shows why your private life is making them billions. The program investigates how Facebook has the ability to track much of your browsing history, even when you're not logged on, and even if you aren't a member of the social network at all.

  • S57E11 Syria's Disappeared - The Case Against Assad

    • April 24, 2017
    • ABC (AU)

    From Channel 4 (UK). War crimes investigators are building a criminal case against the Syrian regime.

  • S57E12 After the Game

    • May 1, 2017
    • ABC (AU)

    Elite athletes blow the whistle on the high price paid for sporting glory.

  • S57E13 Power Failure

    • May 8, 2017
    • ABC (AU)

    Why Australia is being left in the dark.

  • S57E14 Gun Runners

    • May 15, 2017
    • ABC (AU)

    The gun smuggling syndicate that shocked Australian law enforcement.

  • S57E15 The Siege - Part One

    • May 22, 2017
    • ABC (AU)

    Sarah Ferguson talks exclusively with families of Tori Johnson & Katrina Dawson about their experience on the day & their devastation, anger & frustrations in the aftermath.

  • S57E16 The Siege - Part Two

    • May 29, 2017
    • ABC (AU)

    Part Two takes you inside the Lindt Cafe & the police operation on the day, with a forensic examination of how the disaster unfolded. We expose what went wrong & ask whether Australia is prepared for another terror attack.

  • S57E17 Power and Influence

    • June 5, 2017
    • ABC (AU)

    How's China's Communist Party is infiltrating Australia.

  • S57E18 Breaking the Brotherhood

    • June 12, 2017
    • ABC (AU)

    The brave few who blew the whistle on Australia's most corrupt police force.

  • S57E19 Rise of the Trolls

    • June 19, 2017
    • ABC (AU)

    The dark side of the internet.

  • S57E20 Bleed Them Dry Until They Die

    • June 26, 2017
    • ABC (AU)

    The retirement villages ripping off retirees.

  • S57E21 The Company He Keeps

    • July 3, 2017
    • ABC (AU)

    This Four Corners investigation will reveal how Donald Trump was negotiating luxury resort deals in Bali and Java, raising serious questions about Presidential conflicts of interest.

  • S57E22 Forget Me Not

    • July 10, 2017
    • ABC (AU)

    In this touching and brave program, three families have opened their lives to Four Corners to tell their stories about living with Dementia.

  • S57E23 Dark Secret

    • July 17, 2017
    • ABC (AU)

    The hidden story of one of the worst criminal cover-ups in America's history.

  • S57E24 Pumped

    • July 24, 2017
    • ABC (AU)

    Five years on from a landmark agreement to save the river system, something is wrong.

  • S57E25 Weapons of Mass Surveillance

    • July 31, 2017
    • ABC (AU)

    From the BBC. The international cyber arms trade giving governments the tools to spy on their citizens.

  • S57E26 Trashed

    • August 7, 2017
    • ABC (AU)

    Four Corners investigates the big business of rubbish and where it ends up.

  • S57E27 Inside the Greens

    • August 14, 2017
    • ABC (AU)

    Four Corners captures the drama behind the scenes as The Greens try to operate on the federal political stage.

  • S57E28 Betting on the House

    • August 21, 2017
    • ABC (AU)

    How Australia's real estate obsession is driving us to the brink.

  • S57E29 Blood Business

    • August 28, 2017
    • ABC (AU)

    The lucrative international trade in blood and plasma.

  • S57E30 Combustible

    • September 4, 2017
    • ABC (AU)

    The dangerous legacy of failed regulation in the building industry.

  • S57E31 North Korea - Murder in the Family

    • September 11, 2017
    • ABC (AU)

    From BBC2. How Kim Jong-un's murderous ambitions are driving North Korea's nuclear weapons program and threatening world peace.

  • S57E32 All That Glitters

    • September 18, 2017
    • ABC (AU)

    Developers, deals and donations on the Gold Coast.

  • S57E33 The Ransom

    • September 25, 2017
    • ABC (AU)

    Inside the murky world of international kidnapping and hostage negotiation.

  • S57E34 Digging into Adani

    • October 2, 2017
    • ABC (AU)

    The dubious dealings of India's corporate colossus.

  • S57E35 Contamination

    • October 9, 2017
    • ABC (AU)

    It’s one of the biggest environmental scandals in Australian history. Harmful chemicals, leaching into the ground and waterways, contaminating the water relied upon for drinking. These chemicals are the toxic legacy of fire-fighting foam, used for decades on Defence Force bases and other sites around Australia.

  • S57E36 Hillary Clinton

    • October 16, 2017
    • ABC (AU)

    In a special edition of Four Corners, Hillary Clinton, in her only Australian television interview, talks with Sarah Ferguson. This riveting conversation, recorded in New York, takes us into the heart and mind of the woman at the centre of the most stunning election loss in modern US history. This is a very different Hillary Clinton to the managed political performer. Candid, open and at times angry, the former presidential candidate talks about what went wrong and her fears for the future.

  • S57E37 What's Wrong With the NBN?

    • October 23, 2017
    • ABC (AU)

    From the start, Australia’s National Broadband Network was billed as a game changer that would future proof the nation by delivering super fast internet services. Almost a decade on from those promises, there’s a growing number of angry residential customers and small businesses who are bitterly disappointed with the NBN. On Monday night, as the NBN reaches a milestone, passing the half-way point in its rollout, Four Corners investigates the problems fuelling this dissatisfaction.

  • S57E38 Germany's New Nazis

    • October 30, 2017
    • ABC (AU)

    For the first time since the dark days of Hitler's Nazi Germany, a right-wing nationalist party is centre stage in German politics. Right-wing extremism in Germany has surged to its highest level since the downfall of the Third Reich, with a record number of attacks against asylum seekers and their supporters. This film, from the BBC's Panorama program, charts the rise of one notorious anti-immigrant group which stands accused of a wave of violent attacks. In an exclusive interview, one of the group's ringleaders talks for the first time about his motivations and his actions.

  • S57E39 The Paradise Papers

    • November 6, 2017
    • ABC (AU)

    Four Corners will take you inside the secretive world of tax havens where corporations and the wealthy operate far from public view. In an investigation that spans the globe, Four Corners will reveal the lengths some of the world's most powerful business figures and global corporations are going to, to avoid paying tax. “We're seeing things that people never thought would see the light of day." As tax authorities in Australia and across the globe try to claw back money from the big multinationals, reporter Marian Wilkinson will show how a web of offshore operators help organise elaborate international tax avoidance schemes.

  • S57E40 Malcolm in a Muddle

    • November 13, 2017
    • ABC (AU)

    In the week the same sex marriage survey results will be announced, Four Corners will take you into the battle for control raging inside the Liberal Party. As reporter Michael Brissenden will show, whatever the results of the postal survey, the politicking will be far from over. When Malcom Turnbull took the leadership of the Liberal Party he promised to do things differently, end the slogans and act decisively. But for the last two years he's been unable to stamp his authority on his government.

  • S57E41 The Murphy Scandal

    • November 20, 2017
    • ABC (AU)

    Justice Lionel Murphy was one of the most senior political and legal figures in Australia. He was also at the centre of one of the most extraordinary scandals in our nation's history. Now this sensational chapter in Australia's history has been reopened with the release of documents kept secret for 30 years. Four Corners takes you into the heart of this story with powerful first hand accounts from many of the key players in this astonishing saga. Some are speaking publicly for the first time in 30 years.