Episode 1
A Good Death
2010-02-08 • 45 min
Four Corners follows four brave Australians as they come to the end of their lives, and the people determined to give them a good death.
TV season
2010-02-08
Episode 1
2010-02-08 • 45 min
Four Corners follows four brave Australians as they come to the end of their lives, and the people determined to give them a good death.
Episode 2
2010-02-15 • 45 min
Will Australia's flawed disability support system be reformed in time to save the families now at breaking point?
Episode 3
2010-02-22 • 45 min
A harrowing documentary that tells how thousands of young boys in Afghanistan are now being hunted and groomed to become sex slaves.
Episode 4
2010-03-01 • 45 min
The inside story of the battle to control Australian tennis.
Episode 5
2010-03-08 • 45 min
Former members of the Church give a chilling portrait of life inside the organisation.
Episode 6
2010-03-15 • 45 min
A revealing profile of the man who wants to be the next Prime Minister of Australia.
Episode 7
2010-03-22 • 45 min
A horrifying account of the brutal war that's raging in the towns that dot the border between Mexico and the United States.
Episode 8
2010-03-29 • 45 min
The harrowing story of the children who are forced into a life of crime on the streets in order to survive.
Episode 9
2010-04-05 • 45 min
The harrowing story of the therapist whose work led some patients to believe they'd committed or been the victim of shocking sexual crimes.
Episode 10
2010-04-12 • 45 min
How the people of a once picturesque valley found themselves surrounded by coalmines, dust and toxic chemicals, while the State Government ignores their pleas for help.
Episode 11
2010-04-19 • 45 min
Four Corners looks at events surrounding the arrest of mining executive Stern Hu and the tensions now involved in doing business with China.
Episode 12
2010-04-26 • 45 min
The story behind the Federal Government's multi-billion dollar home insulation scheme debacle.
Episode 13
2010-05-03 • 45 min
An undercover investigation, spanning three continents, that exposes the way children are trafficked and used to produce the raw materials that drive a multi-billion dollar industry.
Episode 14
2010-05-10 • 45 min
Quentin McDermott looks at the potential impact of the Government’s mandatory filtering system.
Episode 15
2010-05-17 • 45 min
The story of a young woman's confronting journey back to the war-ravaged country of her birth.
Episode 16
2010-05-24 • 45 min
In this joint investigation with The Age newspaper, Four Corners reveals how the central pillar of Australia's financial system, the Reserve Bank, became ensnared in an international bribery scandal.
Episode 17
2010-05-31 • 45 min
South Africa has the highest incidence of rape in the world, and almost half the victims are children.
Episode 18
2010-06-07 • 45 min
How the government's attempt to introduce a resource super profits tax began a war with mine bosses, split the business community and may yet derail Labor's attempt to win the next Federal election.
Episode 19
2010-06-14 • 45 min
A story that reveals how a toxic cocktail of investment packages helped poison the retirement funds of hundreds of Australians.
Episode 20
2010-06-21 • 45 min
How an attempt to negotiate a deal to create a state of the art resources development turned sour, pitting Indigenous people against each other and some of them against the State Government.
Episode 21
2010-06-28 • 45 min
This story documents the intersecting lives of three men - a cop, a drug dealer and a preacher - as they struggle to survive on the backstreets of Rio de Janeiro.
Episode 22
2010-07-05 • 45 min
Chris Masters delivers the first of two ground level reports giving a soldier's-eye view of the bloody war being waged against the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Episode 23
2010-07-12 • 45 min
The story of Australian troops as they head into unchartered territory, trying to win the faith and trust of a brutalised people in conflict-torn Afghanistan.
Episode 24
2010-07-19 • 45 min
A forensic investigation of the killing of Kwementyaye Ryder by five white, local youths from Alice Springs.
Episode 25
2010-07-26 • 45 min
The story of a young woman's search to understand the shocking conflict that has laid waste the country where she was born.
Episode 26
2010-08-02 • 45 min
An expose of people smugglers and their networks in Indonesia.
Episode 27
2010-08-09 • 45 min
The story of an Australian town that holds a lesson for each and every person who's been touched by mental illness.
Episode 28
2010-08-16 • 45 min
A critical look at one of the closest fought Federal elections in two decades, assessing the parties, their policies and the two people who want to lead the country.
Episode 29
2010-08-23 • 45 min
The story of the greatest financial crisis you will ever see...
Episode 30
2010-08-30 • 45 min
A joint ABC Four Corners/Fairfax investigation that takes us inside major Australian organised crime networks.
Episode 31
2010-09-06 • 45 min
The story of the high stakes battle that will decide who owns your body and the key biological building blocks that make you the person that you are.
Episode 32
2010-09-09 • 45 min
The story of the high stakes battle that will decide who owns your body and the key biological building blocks that make you the person that you are.
Episode 33
2010-09-20 • 45 min
This week on Four Corners, "Return to the Rainbow Warrior", a story that attempts to finally get to the truth of a murderous attack that New Zealanders describe as an act of state sponsored terrorism.
Episode 34
2010-09-23 • 45 min
This week on Four Corners, Oxy: The Hidden Epidemic - a story that reveals how the misuse of powerful prescription drugs is creating a new generation of addicts.
Episode 35
2010-10-04 • 45 min
The inside story of the historic deal that created Australia's first national minority government in seven decades.
Episode 36
2010-10-11 • 45 min
Part one of a startling expose revealing what really happened in Iraq after the occupation of the country by Coalition troops.
Episode 37
2010-10-18 • 45 min
The story revealing how Coalition policy took Iraq to the brink of an all-out civil war and how key players in the U.S.
Episode 38
2010-10-25 • 45 min
An investigation into the allegations of corruption and match fixing that threaten to undermine the multi-billion dollar sport of international cricket.
Episode 39
2010-11-01 • 45 min
Everyone knows that telecommunications is a highly competitive business. Empires have been built on cheap phone calls and businesses are always looking to get a better deal from phone companies. But now Four Corners reporter Stephen Long blows the whistle on highly questionable phone deals.