Episode 1
Willie Brigitte
2004-02-09 • 45 min
Allegations have swirled around Willie Brigitte ever since his discreet deportation from Australia and his much-publicised arrest in France in October 2003.
TV season
2004-02-09
Episode 1
2004-02-09 • 45 min
Allegations have swirled around Willie Brigitte ever since his discreet deportation from Australia and his much-publicised arrest in France in October 2003.
Episode 2
2004-02-16 • 45 min
Ticky Fullerton looks at the management of Tasmania's forests and how one timber company enjoys extraordinary political support for its operations.
Episode 3
2004-02-23 • 45 min
Fuelled by a cocktail of drugs, armed robberies are growing more violent and unpredictable.
Episode 4
2004-03-01 • 45 min
Why has Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat - once feted at the White House but now holed up in his West Bank headquarters - become such an outcast?
Episode 5
2004-03-08 • 45 min
How police laid a trap to catch drug dealers but instead found themselves entangled in a web of corruption allegations.
Episode 6
2004-03-15 • 45 min
Michael Buerk returns to Ethiopia 20 years after first alerting the world to the Ethiopian famine.
Episode 7
2004-03-22 • 45 min
Are Australia's sports bosses surrendering to the drug cheats?
Episode 8
2004-03-29 • 45 min
What really happened that night in the tiny Redfern community .
Episode 9
2004-04-05 • 45 min
Troubling questions arise when the legal and psychiatric worlds collide.
Episode 10
2004-04-12 • 45 min
Are Australians hitching a ride on China's economic juggernaut?
Episode 11
2004-04-19 • 45 min
A report on the conditions that made the violence in Rwanda possible.
Episode 12
2004-04-26 • 45 min
A special report on the frightening trade in nuclear secrets.
Episode 13
2004-05-03 • 45 min
Allegations of sexual violence have engulfed some of Australia's top AFL footballers and their clubs.
Episode 14
2004-05-10 • 45 min
The fight between Australia and East Timor over billion dollar oil and gas interests.
Episode 15
2004-05-17 • 45 min
The inside story of the family that lived and trained with Osama Bin Laden.
Episode 16
2004-05-24 • 45 min
Where will the credit binge end for the many thousands of Australians in debt?
Episode 17
2004-05-31 • 45 min
Under what circumstances should a child be taken from its birth parents?
Episode 18
2004-06-07 • 45 min
The story behind what may endure as defining images of war in Iraq.
Episode 19
2004-06-14 • 45 min
Corruption spreads from state police forces into the Australian Crime Commission.
Episode 20
2004-06-21 • 45 min
Is the RSPCA turning a blind eye to cruelty for the benefit of commercial interests?
Episode 21
2004-06-28 • 45 min
Bill Clinton defends his record and tells how his public and private lives clashed.
Episode 22
2004-07-05 • 45 min
How the justice system failed star swim coach Scott Volkers and the women he was accused of sexually molesting.
Episode 23
2004-07-12 • 45 min
How one company’s obsession with the bottom line left a trail of death and dismemberment among its workers.
Episode 24
2004-07-19 • 45 min
Four Corners investigates the story behind Mamdouh Habib's incarceration at the notorious prison Guantanamo Bay .
Episode 25
2004-07-26 • 45 min
Chris Masters talks to bent cops and police chiefs around Australia about the painful costs of corruption, the effectiveness of anti-corruption measures and the need for constant vigilance.
Episode 26
2004-08-02 • 45 min
Jonathan Holmes investigates the cost to our subsidised pharmaceutical scheme since Australia signed the Free Trade Agreement.
Episode 27
2004-08-09 • 45 min
This expose reveals the truth behind what the BNP has been telling the public in recent years, as it has tried to shed its image of a far-right, racist party.
Episode 28
2004-08-16 • 45 min
Four Corners tells the story of the Dalton family breakdown in the context of the Government's recent initiatives to reform the Family Court system, and the rising political influence of men's groups.
Episode 29
2004-08-23 • 45 min
"The Plea" examines the cases a jury will never get to hear and asks the question, is the plea bargain undermining an entire legal system?
Episode 30
2004-08-30 • 45 min
What do Iraqis think about the war and its aftermath?
Episode 31
2004-09-06 • 45 min
From outright fraud to allegations of cover up … and those who simply bend the rules.
Episode 32
2004-09-13 • 45 min
Five Australians tell their story of beating depression; the 'black dog" affecting one in five Australians.
Episode 33
2004-09-20 • 45 min
Four Corners presents the incredible journey of four young men .
Episode 34
2004-09-27 • 45 min
How can one island nation lose a two billion dollar fortune in the space of twenty years?
Episode 35
2004-10-04 • 45 min
Liz Jackson follows the leaders' trails during an election campaign that's gone from truth in government, to billion dollar give-aways and old fashioned fear tactics - as the parties battle to win over middle Australia.
Episode 36
2004-10-08 • 45 min
Reporter Jonathan Holmes takes us on a colourful journey through the battleground state of Ohio during the US Elections.
Episode 37
2004-10-18 • 45 min
Once we had enough water to waste.
Episode 38
2004-10-25 • 45 min
Jamie Whitaker had been created to save the life of his brother Charlie, who suffers from Diamond-Blackfan anaemia, DBA, a form of bone marrow failure.
Episode 39
2004-11-01 • 45 min
A story of spies, counterspies, double agents and defections as Andrew Fowler reveals the betrayal inside one of Australia’s secret intelligence agencies.
Episode 40
2004-11-08 • 45 min
An exclusive story following a brave little boy’s fight to be cured.
Episode 41
2004-11-15 • 45 min
In a place where they should have felt safest, the children of Beslan were targeted in an act of barbarism.
Episode 42
2004-11-24 • 45 min
2004 will be remembered chiefly for international issues, primarily events in Iraq: including the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal; as well as the continued threat of terrorism. We also faced crucial elections both at home and in the United States.