Quentin McDermott
Director
Four Corners (1961)
Series 2006
Four Corners is Australia's longest-running investigative journalism/current affairs television program. Broadcast on ABC1 in Australia, it premiered on 19 August 1961 and celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2021. Founding producer Robert Raymond and his successor Allan Ashbolt did much to set the ongoing tone of the program. Based on the Panorama concept, the program addresses a single issue in depth each week, showing either a locally produced program or a relevant documentary from overseas. The program has won many awards for investigative journalism, and broken many high-profile stories. A notable early example of this was the show's epoch-making 1962 exposé on the appalling living conditions endured by many Aboriginal Australians living in rural New South Wales.
Released Aug. 19, 1961
Episode 45 min
10+
Genres: Documentary, News
Keywords: tmdb.investigative-journalism, imdb.non-fiction, imdb.television, imdb.vigilantes, imdb.number-4-in-title, imdb.two-word-title, imdb.number-in-title
Network: ABC (AU)
S46E1 - The Greenhouse Mafia
Four Corners returns for 2006 with a whistleblower... and revelations of a powerful insiders' club...
Feb. 13, 2006, midnight
S46E2 - Wheeling and Dealing
There's road rage over private tollways... Have deals between politicians and tollway bosses killed off grand new visions for public transport and decongested streets? Are they creating a road monster that leaves Australians addicted to cars?
Feb. 20, 2006, midnight
S46E3 - The Convert
Jack Thomas has become the first person to be convicted under Australia's new terrorist funding laws.
Feb. 27, 2006, midnight
S46E4 - How The Kids Took Over
Kid watching is very grown-up business. The 12-and-unders are a demographic that marketers ignore at their peril.
March 6, 2006, midnight
S46E5 - Riot and Revenge
One Sunday last December, 5000 Australians gathered at Cronulla, singing and waving the national flag as they "reclaimed" the beach. Fuelled by drink, the crowd became a mob, hunting down and beating anyone who looked Middle Eastern.
March 13, 2006, midnight
S46E6 - The Ice Age
It's cheap, highly addictive and ultra-powerful. "Ice", or crystal methamphetamine, is now more popular than heroin, playing havoc with the minds and the bodies of nearly 50,000 Australians.
March 20, 2006, midnight
S46E7 - Big Fish, Little Fish
Seven got life sentences and two are facing death by firing squad - but the blood of the Bali Nine will not stain the hands of this country's crimefighters.
March 27, 2006, midnight
S46E8 - Sex Slaves
"I sold your wife."
April 3, 2006, midnight
S46E9 - Cash Crop
For Saddam Hussein, it must have been a no-brainer. He would pay $200,000 to a top UN official. In return, Saddam would be showered in billions.
April 10, 2006, midnight
S46E10 - Cash Crop Part Two
In the space of four days, Australians have witnessed the extraordinary spectacle of their Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister each submitting to rigorous, sustained and public interrogation at the Cole inquiry.
April 17, 2006, midnight
S46E11 - Stockwell - Countdown to Killing
All of London was on edge when a young electrician, Jean Charles de Menezes, headed off for work on 22 July last year. The previous day, four would-be suicide bombers had attacked the transport system. A fortnight earlier, a series of suicide bombings had killed 52 people.
April 24, 2006, midnight
S46E12 - The Making of Zarqawi
Many thought he was dead or wounded. But when he dramatically appeared this week in an Internet video, firing off an automatic weapon and anti-American rhetoric, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi looked very much alive.
May 1, 2006, midnight
S46E13 - The Boys
The Westpoint collapse...Ticky Fullerton digs into the scheme that has wiped out the life savings of thousands of Australians. Who's taken their money? And why did regulators let it happen?
May 8, 2006, midnight
S46E14 - A Deathly Silence
In the hours before he killed himself in April last year, Campbell Bolton wrote a long note in which he told his family how sorry he was for the pain he was about to cause them. "It fills me with grief when I think of what I have done to you," he wrote.
May 15, 2006, midnight
S46E15 - Reigning in Hell
Murder, drugs, extortion, robbery, gambling, prostitution... for 40 years, this has been the daily business of the Aryan Brotherhood, according to US law enforcers.
May 22, 2006, midnight
S46E16 - The Road to Nowhere
There's another story buried deep beneath the horrific headlines about sexual abuse in indigenous Australia.
May 29, 2006, midnight
S46E17 - Far From Care
Imagine being about to give birth, cocooned in a speeding car on a night-time dash to a hospital that's still hours away, every bump, every brake to dodge a kangaroo sharpening the pain and discomfort.
June 5, 2006, midnight
S46E18 - Monkey Love
To his fans, research psychologist Harry Harlow was a 20th century hero, a scientific pioneer who revolutionised the way we raise our children today.
June 12, 2006, midnight
S46E19 - Stoking the Fires
As Australian troops stand between the warring factions in East Timor, Liz Jackson reveals the power plays and intrigues that are tearing the infant nation apart.
June 19, 2006, midnight
S46E20 - Car Wars
If your late model car goes missing, don't expect to see it again soon.
June 26, 2006, midnight
S46E21 - Killed by Care
"Do no harm." It's the ethos of medicine, the bedrock principle for all its practitioners.
July 3, 2006, midnight
S46E22 - Peak Oil
"The price of petrol is disgusting, absolutely disgusting..."
July 10, 2006, midnight
S46E23 - The Right Stuff
For decades the Liberal Party has carried itself proudly as a broad church, home to a wide spectrum of ideology among members. Now a bitter factional war is playing out in Australia's biggest state that many say is disenfranchising grassroots members and threatening democracy.
July 17, 2006, midnight
S46E24 - The Price of Life
Breast cancer stalked Becky Measures. It had struck 14 of her female relatives, killing some of them.
July 24, 2006, midnight
S46E25 - Junk History
Four Corners often explores extravagant claims and tall tales. Rarely though does it meet a character quite as colourful as author Gavin Menzies.
July 31, 2006, midnight
S46E26 - Execution of a Teenage Girl
Not long after dawn on August 15, 2004 a teenage girl was dragged through a town square in the Iranian provincial city of Neka, past a crowd of people to the spot where a mobile crane had been converted into a makeshift gallows. Atefah Sahaaleh was 16 years old. She was hanged that morning for crimes against chastity.
Aug. 7, 2006, midnight
S46E27 - Sick No Good
A member of a 'raskol' gang talks about rape as a ritual part of crime. A career truck driver on the highland's highway picks up a teenage prostitute - just part of his routine. A 'hostess supervisor' at a Port Moresby brothel explains that he may tell clients to use a condom with his girls but that sometimes he is too tired to bother. These are voices from Matthew Carney's intimate report on how Papua New Guinea became a hot spot for the AIDS virus.
Aug. 14, 2006, midnight
S46E28 - Seachange
Cares and crowds are forgotten. Sand crunches between your toes, there's salt on your skin and sun on your back. Here is where blue ocean meets virgin bush, and a golden stretch of beach is all yours for camping, swimming and quiet reflection.
Aug. 21, 2006, midnight
S46E29 - What Price Global Warming?
Heat waves and cyclones; droughts ravaging farmland; rising seas swamping beach havens; forests drying up and species dying out; the Barrier Reef and Kakadu, icons of nature, doomed.
Aug. 28, 2006, midnight
S46E30 - Diet Confidential
It's a battle for your body and for your money - a tug-o-war between two powerful forces: the marketing pressure to eat more versus the social pressure to weigh less.
Sept. 4, 2006, midnight
S46E31 - Five Years
The dust settled long ago at Ground Zero. But the world is still searching for clarity after 9/11.
Sept. 11, 2006, midnight
S46E32 - In the Line of Fire
They were ordinary suburban Australians setting out on a big overseas adventure... to cheer on the Socceroos at the World Cup, or take in the sights of Europe. They would climax the trip with a visit to ancestral lands in southern Lebanon where they would rekindle family ties, rediscover their heritage and relax.
Sept. 18, 2006, midnight
S46E33 - Separate Lives
They've launched controversial forays into election campaigns in Australia, New Zealand the US. Now the Exclusive Brethren are drawing more unwanted headlines, this time accused of trawling for dirt on the sex life of the NZ Prime Minister's husband.
Sept. 25, 2006, midnight
S46E34 - The A Team
It was a signature TV news image of the 1990s: the bush as battleground, greenies blocking bulldozers, shouting slogans and trading insults with angry timber workers.
Oct. 2, 2006, midnight
S46E35 - The War on Al Qaeda
Two weeks ago a leaked US intelligence assessment gave powerful new ammunition to critics of the Iraq war.
Oct. 9, 2006, midnight
S46E36 - @NZACS
From Iraq to Solomon Islands and Afghanistan to East Timor, Australia's Army is stretched tight. The burden of overseas deployments weighs like a straining kitbag on the back of each of Australia's 22,443 regular soldiers.
Oct. 16, 2006, midnight
S46E37 - Buyer of Beauty, Beware
From marginal to mainstream, once furtive but now flaunted, cosmetic surgery is being eagerly explored by Australians from teens to pensioners, female and male.
Oct. 23, 2006, midnight
S46E38 - Journey of No Return
Each week more than a thousand Australians are delivered the cruel diagnosis: they have dementia - incurable, untreatable, terminal.
Oct. 30, 2006, midnight
ABC (AU)
45 min/ep
60 min
Aug. 19, 1961
Nov. 3, 2025, midnight
Returning Series
TV-PG / 10+
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