Quentin McDermott
Director
Four Corners (1961)
Series 2016
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)
S56E1 - Bad Sport
Sarah Ferguson presents an investigation into the criminal networks that are threatening the integrity of sport, amidst the uproar over the match fixing revelations in tennis, Linton Besser reports.
Feb. 1, 2016, midnight
S56E2 - Shark Alarm
What's behind the rise in shark attacks, and is there anything we can do to stop them? Geoff Thompson reports.
Feb. 8, 2016, midnight
S56E3 - Dying To Dance
Dying to Dance. Inside the dance party drug scene. Caro Meldrum-Hanna reports.
Feb. 15, 2016, midnight
S56E4 - Guns In The USA - Child's Play
Exploring America's gun culture where kids learn to shoot and their classrooms are designed to be bulletproof. How America grapples with gun violence.
Feb. 22, 2016, midnight
S56E5 - Catastrophic Failure
In his first story for Four Corners, reporter Ben Knight travels to Brazil to investigate BHP's responsibility for the Samarco mine disaster that's destroyed lives and polluted an entire river system.
Feb. 29, 2016, midnight
S56E6 - Money For Nothing
It's the bank that's spent two years rebuilding its reputation after being exposed for ripping off its customers in a devastating financial advice scandal. An explosive corporate investigation by Adele Ferguson.
March 7, 2016, midnight
S56E7 - Safari: Paying To Kill
The big game and big bucks in Africa's trophy hunting industry. Taking us into the darker world of illegal hunting where lions are tranquilised or partly domesticated to make them easier to shot.
March 14, 2016, midnight
S56E8 - Whatever It Takes
A rare account from inside the Essendon doping scandal. Quentin McDermott reports.
March 21, 2016, midnight
S56E9 - State Of Fear
The investigation into the scandal engulfing Malaysia's Prime Minister and the question that led to the arrest of our reporter and cameraman.
March 28, 2016, midnight
S56E10 - The Secrets Of The Super Rich
This Four Corners investigation will reveal how the rich and powerful exploit the system. Reporter Marian Wilkinson follows the money trail.
April 4, 2016, midnight
S56E11 - Clive Palmer
The rise and fall of Clive Palmer's business empire and political career. Hayden Cooper reports.
April 11, 2016, midnight
S56E12 - Inside Europe's Terror Attacks
In the wake of the attacks in France and Brussels, a BBC Panorama investigation into Islamic State's European terror network and Western intelligence agencies' battle to stop it.
April 18, 2016, midnight
S56E13 - Bad Blood
The bad blood between Australian doctors and the Federal Government over offshore detention.
April 25, 2016, midnight
S56E14 - Home Truths: What Happened To The Great Australian Dream?
Ben Knight reports on the white hot issues of housing affordability and negative gearing and the generation left wondering if they will ever own their own home.
May 2, 2016, midnight
S56E15 - Callous Disregard
Gold Walkley award-winning reporter Caro Meldrum-Hanna follows the trail of evidence in the brutal death of a young woman as her family fights for justice.
May 9, 2016, midnight
S56E16 - Supplements and Safety
Supplements and safety: an investigation into the billion dollar health supplement and vitamin industry. What's in all those pills and could they be doing you harm?
May 16, 2016, midnight
S56E17 - Money And Influence
As we head into the third week of the election campaign, Four Corners examines how money and influence operates in the shadowy world of political donations.
May 23, 2016, midnight
S56E18 - The Baby Business
With an increasing number of women turning to fertility treatments to help them conceive a baby, Four Corners investigates, are women being sold false hope by the IVF industry?
May 30, 2016, midnight
S56E19 - Ripped Off
The scams, fraud and incompetence leaving remote communities exploited and betrayed. Linton Besser journeys almost 5000km across Australia in search of who's to blame.
June 6, 2016, midnight
S56E20 - The Miracle Of Kobani
We meet the people of the small Syrian town who defeated ISIS and are determined to rebuild their lives in the rubble.
June 13, 2016, midnight
S56E21 - The Deputy And The Dark Horse
The Deputy and the Dark Horse: Barnaby Joyce vs. Tony Windsor in the contest that could bring down the Deputy Prime Minister.
June 20, 2016, midnight
S56E22 - The Leaders
With the election only days away, Gold Walkley and Logie Award-winning reporter Sarah Ferguson interviews Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten. What will she ask?
June 27, 2016, midnight
S56E23 - Future Proof
With startling predictions that more than 5 million Australian jobs will disappear in the next 15 years, as a result of technology, we look at the future of work and ask are we preparing our kids for the jobs of the future?
July 4, 2016, midnight
S56E24 - Soldiers Of Allah
Going undercover with an ISIS terror cell. For six months this intrepid reporter infiltrated and secretly filmed a terrorist cell as they made plans for an attack.
July 11, 2016, midnight
S56E25 - The Race To Dope
The Race To Dope: The elite athletes blowing the whistle on how they cheated the system.
July 18, 2016, midnight
S56E26 - Australia's Shame
Australia's Shame: The brutalisation of children behind bars. This confronting investigation by Caro Meldrum-Hanna will send shockwaves around Australia.
July 25, 2016, midnight
S56E27 - Insult To Injury
Insult To Injury: How the system damages cops with PTSD. Quentin McDermott reports.
Aug. 1, 2016, midnight
S56E28 - Man On A Wire
Man on a wire: How long can Malcolm Turnbull survive?
Aug. 8, 2016, midnight
S56E29 - Milked Dry
Milked Dry: The awful price being paid by Australian dairy farmers for the milk we drink. Deb Whitmont reports.
Aug. 15, 2016, midnight
S56E30 - Children On The Frontline
Children On The Frontline: Escape from Aleppo, one family's extraordinary story of life in the rubble of Syria and their escape to a new life, told through the eyes of four children.
Aug. 22, 2016, midnight
S56E31 - Cyber War
Cyber War: How hackers are threatening everything from your bank account to the nation's secrets. Linton Besser reports.
Aug. 29, 2016, midnight
S56E32 - Brexit: The Battle For Britain
The EU referendum result shocked many, but as this BBC film shows the warning signs were there. In interviews with key players, the program charts the tactics & spin used in the campaign.
Sept. 5, 2016, midnight
S56E33 - Rehab Inc.
Rehab Inc: The high price parents pay to get their kids off ice. Ben Knight reports.
Sept. 12, 2016, midnight
S56E34 - Backing Bourke
An outback town's bold experiment to save its young people from a life of crime.
Sept. 19, 2016, midnight
S56E35 - Frat Boys
Inside America's university fraternities. They're the elite clubs where testosterone, alcohol & campus life come together in a potent mix. Normally media shy, one frat house agreed to let the cameras in.
Sept. 26, 2016, midnight
S56E36 - China Rising
China Rising: The challenges for Australia as China and the US struggle for supremacy in Asia. Peter Greste joins Four Corners for a special report.
Oct. 3, 2016, midnight
S56E37 - For Better Or Worse
For Better or Worse: How the personal has become political in the fight over same-sex marriage. Four Corners investigates the politics behind the plebiscite debate.
Oct. 10, 2016, midnight
S56E38 - The Forgotten Children
They're the human face of Australia's tough border policies - the more than 100 refugee children living on Nauru. Debbie Whitmont reports.
Oct. 17, 2016, midnight
S56E39 - Copwatchers
The activists using cameras to fight back against police brutality in the US.
Oct. 24, 2016, midnight
S56E40 - Big Fish
Four Corners investigates the business of salmon farming. A report by Gold Walkley Award-winning journalist Caro Meldrum-Hanna.
Oct. 31, 2016, midnight
S56E41 - Crossroads Afghanistan
Crossroads Afghanistan: A heart-stopping journey on one of the most dangerous roads in the world, right through the heart of Taliban country.
Nov. 7, 2016, midnight
S56E42 - Broken Homes
Broken Homes: On the frontline of Australia's child protection crisis.
Nov. 14, 2016, midnight
S56E43 - A Sense Of Self
When acclaimed TV journalist Liz Jackson is diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, crippling her with pain & panic attacks, she turns the lens on herself to make the most challenging story of her life.
Nov. 21, 2016, midnight
ABC (AU)
45 min/ep
60 min
Aug. 19, 1961
Nov. 3, 2025, midnight
Returning Series
TV-PG / 10+
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