Four Corners

With all the problems in the Middle East, is there any chance of an enduring peace?

The recession in the country.

The collapse of the Fairfax media empire plays out like high drama, filled with family conflict, failed ambition, and public consequences. Journalist David Marr unravels the story behind the downfall, featuring rare insights from key Fairfax family members - James, John, and Lady Fairfax; as they break their silence on the ill-fated attempt by young Warwick Fairfax to privatize the company.

Tonight, a forum examines how Gulf War has tested the racial tolerance of Australians. Hosted by Andrew Olle, broadcast from Bankstown Town Hall.

Vincent Cannistrato, retired chief of the CIA, reveals that the world's most feared terrorist organisations are assembled in Bagdad, and that after the Gulf War, attacks, aimed mainly at western civilians, will be chronic.

The BBC's Gavin Hewitt reports on President Gorbachev's extraordinary fall from public favor in the Soviet Union.

The six Irishmen talk about their 16 years in jail, imprisioned for a crime they didn't commit.

With the Aboriginal Deaths In Custody report due to be handed to the Government next week, David Marr reports on an Aboriginal community who are fighting violence, poverty and a growing death rate.

An insight into Australia's premier law enforcement agency, the NCA, which is now held up to ridicule after a series of disastrous bungles during the past three years.

A report by Deborah Snow on the Labor Party's entanglement with WA Inc how it started and where it will go.

Mothers and doctors speak out about the grim reality of life five years after the world’s worst nuclear accident.

Brisbane City Council awarded the US company Pacific Waste Management a multi-million dollar contract. Mark Colvin reports on this company and the garbage disposal methods that are being questioned.

A report on proposed changes to deplete the power of New Zealand's unions. Andrew Olle questions Liberal Party members about their similar plans for Australian unions.

The circumstances surrounding premature deaths of Aboriginal adults and children.

An investigation into the pros and cons of superannuation funds.

An exploration of the power of the alcohol lobby and the weakness of government regulation.

Andrew Oile chairs a studio debate on the latest political events in Canberra.

Mark Colvin reports on the impact of the recession.

On the eve of the ALP Centenary National Conference in Hobart, Jonathan Holmes talks to the important, self-important and neglected members of the Australian Labor.

Deborah Snow's report focuses on the uprising in Bougainville and features an interview with Papua New Guinea's Bougainville commander, Colonel Leo Nuia, admitting that helicopters provided by Australia had been used to dump rebels' bodies at sea. Nuia was sacked after the program aired. The program won a Walkley Award for Best Investigative Report.

A profile of Opposition Leader Dr John Hewson, the man who could be Australia's next Prime Minister.

Tony Jones backgrounds the long-running struggle within Yugoslavia and the implication of Slovenia's determination to continue its fight for independence.

An investigation into what became of those people who led the democracy movement inside China, Hong Kong, the United States and Britain.

State governments are being forced to reexamine the rules surrounding secret political donations, first Queensland, then WA and now the Northern Territory has been called to account.

A moving portrait of the conductor Stuart Challender, who at the time of filming in 1991 was the chief conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. What the public didn’t know was that he was dying from AIDS. But Stuart Challender was not defeated by his illness. Despite being progressively weakened, he continued to perform, using the short time he had left as a spur to his musical achievement. The program won the 1991 Walkley Award for Best Application of TV Medium to Journalism.

The media circus and the Gulf war.

An report into oil tanker disasters.

Paul Keating defends his record as Labor's Treasurer for the past eight years. He talks about the recession we had to have; the unemployed, the 'Banana Republic', and more.

On this, the 30th anniversary of the program, Chris Masters presents a report that casts serious doubt on the evidence against six Croatian Australians who were convicted of a terrorist conspiracy to bomb targets around Sydney.

David Marr and Monica Attard report live from Moscow on the extraordinary session of the Soviet Congress of Deputies called to overturn the Soviet Union.

A report on the lobby's political campaign of the year, the fight to save Australia's endangered species.

Reporter Paul Barry traces the life of Kerry Packer from his teenage years hampered by illness and isolation to the zenith of his political and business power.

In 1991 Neil Mercer made 'Police Story', profiling Kings Cross crime boss Louis Bayeh. The program introduced the public to organised crime's unromantic underbelly, and was one of Four Corners' first reports investigating crime and corruption in NSW.

Jonathan Holmes reports on the Japanese golf course developers operating in Australia and Japan, where some are said to be involved in financial scandals.

David Marr presents a report on the quest to purge the old guard of the Soviet Communist Party and examines just how much will change with their departure.

A report on the potential hazards of breast implant surgery.

Ross Coulthart reveals how the Federal Government has achieved a de-facto ID system through the back door.

Examines the two recent chemical explosions in Victoria and NSW and the after-effects of chemical smoke clouds drifting over our cities.

The murder of Medgar Evers changed the course of segregation in America's South. But his killer has never been convicted.

The overprescription of tranquillisers in the '60s and '70s has left a legacy of dependency among unsuspecting patients.

Wollongong’s Lord Mayor, Frank Arkell proclaims that Wollongong was now vital, progressive and vigorously developing, providing “boundless opportunity and economic growth”. Chris Masters explores the region's continuing mass poverty and unemployment.