Four Corners

Liberal powerbrokers speak out, exposing the backroom dramas and leadership enmities that helped bury John Howard and his government.

Can abusive men stop themselves hurting women?

He famously "fed the chooks" - but did Joh Bjelke-Petersen feather his own nest?

Sally Neighbour reports on young Aussies who feel like social outcasts and asks if there's danger of a backlash.

Will climate change revolutionise Australian agriculture?

The compelling story of British reporter Alan Johnston’s 114 days in captivity, his fate at the whim of a fanatical jihadist group, the Army of Islam.

The rising sludge of debt that threatens thousands of Australian families...

Debbie Whitmont raises disturbing new questions about Australia's first political assassination.

Giving is good - but receiving is even better… Sarah Ferguson investigates the dark art of political fundraising.

Four Corners presents a shocking undercover expose of child trafficking in China.

Can Barack Obama unite America – and deliver on Martin Luther King’s dream?

What drove a young man with no criminal past to carry out the worst shooting massacre in modern American history?

Sick of being taken for granted, Australia's vast army of carers is on the march, demanding reform as the Rudd Government prepares its maiden budget.

Liz Jackson reports how China is muzzling dissidents in the run-up to the Beijing Olympics.

An undercover investigation into the violent world of dogfighting gangs...

Companies plundered, investors dudded, the world's top policeman allegedly corrupted, a flamboyant businessman murdered… Andrew Fowler reports a tale of intrigue.

Is the Government’s attack on binge drinking doomed to fail?

Taking the children away… Sarah Ferguson asks if boarding schools are the answer to the crisis in indigenous education?

Chris Masters reports on a church that's tearing families apart… and asks if there should be a limit to religious freedom.

Where did the money go?

Debbie Whitmont looks inside one of Australia's most powerful and secretive crime-fighting bodies and asks: is it stretching the law too far?

Life in Tibet under Beijing's rule… a personal account from a refugee who returned to spend three months filming secretly.

Perfect pitch… how one man sold celebrities, investors and government on the dream of a revolutionary petrol pill in one of the great corporate con jobs.

What's a painting worth?

Big and dangerous?

A voyage into the Arctic to witness the vanishing of the vast sea ice… Can it be halted - or is it past tipping point?

Inside a Doomsday cult… an unprecedented insight into how cult members can be mesmerised by leaders – and why many cannot leave.

A boomtown running on empty...

A profile of Liberal leader-in-waiting, Malcolm Turnbull… his brilliance, his brashness and his baggage.

Behind one of the key conspiracy theories swirling over 9/11...

Guards from Australia's toughest detention centres speak out about the horrors behind the wire – and the pain they've carried outside.

Will a looming gas bonanza wreck the frontier splendour of the Kimberley – or help haul its people out of poverty?

A story of dignity reclaimed… an Australian-founded hospital gives African women a second chance at life.

Liz Jackson reports on the insider who stole a bank’s secrets, then sold them, sparking panic among the world’s super rich.

As chaos sweeps world markets, Four Corners returns to the scene of the crime – America’s mortgage belt.

Is the Murray-Darling doomed?

They were the glamour force... supercops smashing drug rackets, tracking terrorists and making Australians feel safe. Grateful politicians showered them with praise and hefty budget increases. Officers of the Australian Federal Police and their canny chief Mick Keelty could do no wrong. Or so it seemed. The once-lionised AFP is now ridiculed for apparent bungling, excessive secrecy and cosying up to political masters. The collapse of the terrorism case against Dr Mohammed Haneef – now the subject of an inquiry by a retired judge – has been a humiliation for the AFP, with speculation erupting about Mr Keelty’s future. But the Haneef affair may be just a symptom of deep cultural problems that beset the AFP. Four Corners charts its rise from inauspicious beginnings 29 years ago to its golden era under the Howard Government, when the AFP rightly won plaudits after the Bali bombings, to its recent plummet from grace, and asks: what went wrong?

What could stop Obama?

Was Australia’s identity forged and burnished under fire at Gallipoli and the Western Front?