Four Corners Season 35 Episodes

Episode 1

Parent Abuse

48 mins

How does our child fostering system deal with the people who make the system work - foster parents? 'Parent Abuse' examines the seemingly poor treatment foster parents receive, namely with little reward, recognition and no guardianship rights, which is damaging the goodwill of many. Officials and foster parents speak out.

Episode 2

Bugs in the System and Gene Genie

By Mick O'Donnell. A two-item report. Infected salami hospitalised 20 children.

Episode 3

The ADD Epidemic

By Norman Swan. Attention Deficit Disorder - an epidemic in our kids or a psychosomatic disorder in our doctors.

Episode 8

The Chief Justice

45 mins

Episode 10

Long to Reign Over Us

Ex BBC: A British view of monarchy's future. Will Charlie make it to throne?

Episode 13

Paying for Paul

On eve of Paul Keating's 13th Budget as Treasurer or Prime Minister we tried to balance his books.

Episode 19

Minor Surgery, Major Risk

By Liz Jackson. Four women became infected with HIV after minor operations in a Sydney doctor's surgery.

Episode 20

Deng's Dynasty

By Sally Neighbour. Who will run China after death of Deng Xiaoping? A look at how Deng's children are doing business in new China.

Episode 21

Playing Olympic Games

By Murray Hogarth. The site for Sydney's 'green' Olympics is a toxic waste zone.

Episode 22

Waves of Fear

By David Hardaker. As we increase our dosage of electro-magnetic radiation through cellular phones and other devices, are we creating an epidemic of cancer?

Episode 23

The Plane Truth

Ex BBC: The aviation industry tries to maintain highest standards of safety, but in UK and US there's growing concern about proliferation of bogus parts.

Episode 24

A Very Catholic Affair

By Murray McLaughlin. For most people Vinnies is a charity running a network of second hand stores, but Society of St Vincent DE Paul is also a political battleground.

Episode 25

A Reason to Kill

Y Andrew Fowler. When do householders have right to shoot intruders? In Australia going gun crazy or are honest citizens simply defending themselves against bad guys?.

Episode 30

The Lie in the Sky

By David Hardaker. The Nomad was Australia's own aviation marvel - a plane we would market to world.

Episode 39

November 1975

60 mins

On Tuesday November 11th, 1975, the Governor-General of Australia, Sir John Kerr, dismissed Gough Whitlam as Prime Minister and appointed Malcolm Fraser as a caretaker Prime Minister. 'Four Corners' looks back at the momentous event.

Episode 40

The Coward's War

Chris Masters' story on human rights atrocities used as weapons of war in former Yugoslavia.