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41 Episodes 2009 - 2009
Episode 1
45 mins
Last year Australians watched in disbelief as the financial markets of Europe and America faltered and collapsed. What started as a credit crunch on Wall Street spread round the world, plunging economies into recession, destroying trillions of dollars of wealth and putting millions of people out of work. Now it's finally hit home in Australia.
Episode 2
44 mins
They had been warned, they thought they had made the necessary preparations but nothing could prepare the people of Victoria for the fireball that swept through their state. How did it happen? What were the conditions really like that day? And what happened to the preparations so carefully made?
Episode 3
44 mins
Matthew Carney travels to Pakistan to investigate the Taliban's expanding reign of terror.
Episode 4
45 mins
BBC Reporter Tom Mangold tells the remarkable story of Victor Bout, the man Western governments claim was the world's biggest arms dealer. Not only does the program reveal the extent of Victor Bout's allegedly murderous activities, it also details his pursuit and capture by international authorities.
Episode 5
43 mins
On the eve of the government's release of its controversial climate change legislation, reporter Liz Jackson investigates the relentless lobbying campaign conducted by environmentalists and industry over the past 12 months. Both sides are unhappy and the government is feeling the heat.
Episode 6
46 mins
Colombia's king of cocaine blows the whistle on his country's drug trafficking cartels. Called "The Monkey" his real name is Salvatore Mancuso and for fifteen years he and his men conducted a campaign of terror: stealing land, killing farmers and trafficking billions of dollars of cocaine to markets in Europe and the Pacific. Now he has rolled over telling U.S. authorities what he did and the people who helped him do it.
Episode 7
48 mins
Einfeld talks exclusively to Four Corners and begs for forgiveness:
Episode 8
51 mins
With more troops being posted to Afghanistan the issue of Post Traumatic Stress looms large.
Episode 9
55 mins
Children across Australia talk about the alarming impact of bullying on their lives.
Episode 10
49 mins
For six years John Darwin pretended he was dead. Drowned in a canoeing accident in the North Sea off the coast of Britain. With the assistance of his wife Anne he cashed in six hundred thousand dollars of insurance and pension entitlements and lived a fantasy life, changing his name, altering his appearance and hiding from the world he had left behind.
Episode 11
46 mins
Reporter Matthew Carney wanted to find out the real impact of the economic downturn on the day to day lives of working Australians.
Episode 12
45 mins
A very personal story of the fire that devastated the iconic Victorian town of Marysville on 7th February 2009 - Black Saturday.
Episode 13
44 mins
"They Killed Sister Dorothy." On February 12th 2005, Sister Dorothy Stang, a catholic nun from Dayton, Ohio, was shot six times and left to die on a muddy road in the Brazilian Amazon. Who was this woman and why did her work amongst the poor arouse so much anger from ranchers and cattlemen?
Episode 14
49 mins
For much of the past decade rugby league in Australia has been dogged by a series of startling allegations relating to alcohol, women and sex. After every incident the National Rugby League has told the public it's moving to clean up the game.
Episode 15
47 mins
Last year the program told the story of Michael Travesser, formerly Wayne Bent, who claims to be the son of God.
Episode 16
46 mins
The story of a charity worker who conned his benefactors, using his good works to mask his sexual abuse of children across the sub-continent.
Episode 17
45 mins
With more and more Australians living longer the task of finding quality care for people who can't look after themselves is getting tougher.
Episode 18
43 mins
The underbelly of the Australian art world exposed.
Episode 19
50 mins
Liz Jackson investigates the tragic death of an Aboriginal leader locked in a prison van in heat wave conditions.
Episode 20
50 mins
The Niger River Delta in Africa - massive industrial projects have poisoned the land and the water. Sickness and disease are rampant.
Episode 21
52 mins
The shocking story of the Malu Sara, an immigration vessel that sank in the Torres Strait killing five people.
Episode 22
43 mins
A chilling investigation of an ambulance service that is putting patient's lives at risk.
Episode 23
48 mins
From his headquarters in New York, US financier Bernard Madoff masterminded a fraud that netted billions of dollars and ensnared thousands, from Palm Beach billionaires and Hollywood movie stars to pensioners across the US. But Madoff's scam did not end in America - he went global in his search for victims.
Episode 24
44 mins
The story of the high stakes battle now being fought between government, farmers and mining companies for the control of Australia's most fertile agricultural land.
Episode 25
50 mins
This week on Four Corners: Holy Cash Cows, a story that exposes the corruption and the lack of accountability that is putting Australia's multi-billion dollar education export industry at risk.
Episode 26
51 mins
It was the 26th November 2008 when ten heavily armed gunmen took over a fishing boat in the Arabian Sea and headed for the city of Mumbai on the west coast of India. An hour later their killing spree began.
Episode 27
47 mins
The story of the bikie leader who broke his gang's code of silence and the deal that put a man away for murder.
Episode 28
45 mins
Australia may be one of the most internet-connected countries on earth, with a super-fast broadband network on the way. But now the experts are warning there's danger with cyber crooks roaming the super highway.
Episode 29
44 mins
How a state government's "get tough on crime" policy is condemning hundreds of young people to life in jail.
Episode 30
45 mins
The BBC's Conspiracy Files investigates a range of remarkable claims that have been made after the bomb attacks on London's transport system four years ago. Why did the government claim the bombers had travelled to London on a train that didn't run on that day? Did Israeli security forces know of the attacks in advance and then warn their officials visiting London not go near the targeted locations? These are just some of the remarkable claims being made.
Episode 31
45 mins
The story of the political game that's undermined the drive to create "clean coal" technology.
Episode 32
48 mins
Should Aboriginal children in remote schools be taught in their own language or in English?
Episode 33
46 mins
The Last Chance Motel: What do you do when you've lost your job, lost your home and you have three kids to feed? Reporter Sarah Ferguson spends time with Australia's new homeless.
Episode 34
51 mins
The gripping inside story of the plot to blow up seven international jet airliners using bombs disguised as bottles of soft-drink. It was a plan aimed to kill thousands. In the end it was was foiled only because of remarkable work from the intelligence services and police in Britain.
Episode 35
49 mins
How a war within the New South Wales Labor Party has destroyed the government's credibility and left the nation's biggest economy without the most basic services.
Episode 36
46 mins
The story of James Packer, his attempt to create a global gaming empire and the business gambles that cost him billions
Episode 37
45 mins
Reporter/producer Paul Moreira tries to find out where the US$18 billion, given by major Western powers, has gone in Afghanistan. He follows the money trail from Europe to the suburbs of Kabul, confronting security guards employed by Afghan warlords and talking to aid organisations, asking them to explain how they have spent millions of dollars.
Episode 38
45 mins
An investigation that asks if police are being adequately trained to deal with potentially violent situations involving mentally ill people.
Episode 39
49 mins
What does the community do with convicted child sex offenders when they've done their time?
Episode 40
45 mins
The inside story of the issue, the people and politics that threaten to tear apart the once powerful Federal Coalition.
Episode 41