Four Corners

By Andrew Fowler. This program reveals why the banking industry has lost our trust and how some banks bend the rules and break the law. We reveal a bonus system which rewards bank officials for forcing businesses to the wall. Bank malpractices are revealed and the devastating effect that these have on the lives and businesses that are affected by them.

By Sally Neighbour. This report pieces together Kerry Packer's style of doing business and reveals how key political figures have served Packer's interests. It took Packer three years and 340 million dollars to gain control of the Sydney Casino and another long-held goal, owning the Fairfax Newspaper Group, is almost within reach. The program asks whose interests are being served and how much power should one man have

By Tom Mangold. Ex BBC Panorama. This program gives an insight into the minds of dangerous men, psychopaths who have been imprisoned for committing terrible crimes. In 1991, a small number of these top security prisoners volunteered for psychotherapy with a prison psychiatrist and agreed to allow him to video-tape the actual treatment. The psychiatrist Dr Bob Johnson was convinced that he could break the mould and treat and cure these men. This program asks what is to be done with these men?

By Su Pennington. Ex BBC Panorama. This program examines the increasing numbers of women involved in violent crimes. Statistics show that within 20 years, the number of women who commit violent crimes may equal those committed by men. Su Pennington talks to women who have become involved with violent crimes and also to their victims. This program investigates why women have moved from their traditional roles of victims (and sometimes accessories to violent crime) to being active, sometimes brutal, participants.

By David Hardaker. This program investigates the privatisation by the Kennett Government of the dispatch system for Victoria's emergency services. Intergraph, a company with ambitious plans for Australia, won the contract, but as reporter David Hardaker reports due process was ignored. From the beginning, the Intergraph privatisation has been a shambles. It is the core of emergency services, but sometimes the system doesn't work.

By Murray McLaughlin. In this program, 4C's charts the last weeks of the life of Ester Wild and the dilemma faced by her doctor, Philip Nitschke, who had been treating her for cancer. Esther has chosen to die using the Northern Territory's "Right to Die" legislation, but her wish was denied when the Senate finally overturned the legislation. Esther's only option was palliative care and the program asks if this is really a form of disguised euthanasia.

By Liz Jackson. Four Corners visits the most notorious block of houses in Australia and witnesses how what was once a dream for Aboriginal self-determination turned into a ghetto. The first land grant to Aborigines has become known to the locals as The Block. Reporter Liz Jackson found an intractable problem on the city fringe, which is meeting the irrepressible force of the Olympics deadline ... and the people are under pressure to move.

By Callum MacRae. Ex BBC Dispatches: This report from Dispatches follows the last six months of Labor's election campaign in Britain which saw the rise of Tony Blair. He's campaigned to his Party's majority - the biggest seen this century. The program looks into Tony Blair's family history, interviews mentors who have helped along the way and follows him on the election trail.

By Margot O'Neill. This program examines the flood of people who are being diagnosed with PTSD - Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Vietnam War Veterans were the first to be diagnosed and now the condition is being recognised in people in a wider range of conditions and circumstances. Beverley Raphael targets the rapidly developing "trauma industry" and suggests it may even be harmful. The Victorian Government has legislated against victims of crime being compensated for pain and suffering.

Summer Series: Ex BBC The Big Picture. First in a two part series featuring the insights of British economist, Martin Jacques. He is intrigued by what he predicts to be the inevitable economic ascendancy of Asia over Europe and America, the shift in the balance of power from the west to the east.

Ex BBC Inside Story: This program takes us inside the Heaven's Gate cult 39 members of which committed suicide earlier this year in the belief that they would pick up a space ship travelling in the wake of the Hale-Bopp comet and ride into "the level above human". The beliefs of the cult, their increasingly bizarre practices and their devotion to their charismatic leader are investigated. Farewell tapes of cult members are shown and there are interviews with their families and former cult members.

"An hour of slime." The Victorian Premier, Jeff Kennett, goes on radio and launches a blistering attack on Sally Neighbour as she prepares to report on the Premier's five years in office.

By Hans-Joachim Seppelt. Ex SFB with studio and satellite interviews: This report reveals details about the East German sports doping program. Some members of the former swimming team reveal the way the system worked - and the toll it took on their lives. However, many authorities and trainers continue to deny this program existed. In a satellite interview after the report Jorge Hoffman (swimmer) tells Chris Masters of his experience, and reporter Hans-Joachim Seppelt tells of reaction to the report and Australian coach, Don Talbot is also interviewed in studio.

Summer Dispatches: Ex BBC. Part two of this two part series on Boris Yeltsin takes up the story in 1994, a year after Yeltsin had shelled his own parliament into submission and assumed the power of a modern Russian Tsar. Yeltsin's former bodyguard Alexander Korshakov, reveals many of Yeltsin's failings and foibles. Korshakov was sacked in 1996. Narrator: Bridget Kendall. Producer/Director: Paul Mitchell. Presenter: Liz Jackson.