Series 2006
38 episodes · Feb 13, 2006
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- S46E1
The Greenhouse Mafia
Feb 13, 200645mFour Corners returns for 2006 with a whistleblower... and revelations of a powerful insiders' club...
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Wheeling and Dealing
Feb 20, 200645mThere's road rage over private tollways... Have deals between politicians and tollway bosses killed off grand new visions for public transport and decongested streets? Are they creating a road monster that leaves Australians addicted to cars?
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The Convert
Feb 27, 200645mJack Thomas has become the first person to be convicted under Australia's new terrorist funding laws.
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How The Kids Took Over
Mar 6, 200645mKid watching is very grown-up business. The 12-and-unders are a demographic that marketers ignore at their peril.
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Riot and Revenge
Mar 13, 200645mOne Sunday last December, 5000 Australians gathered at Cronulla, singing and waving the national flag as they "reclaimed" the beach. Fuelled by drink, the crowd became a mob, hunting down and beating anyone who looked Middle Eastern.
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The Ice Age
Mar 20, 200645mIt's cheap, highly addictive and ultra-powerful. "Ice", or crystal methamphetamine, is now more popular than heroin, playing havoc with the minds and the bodies of nearly 50,000 Australians.
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Big Fish, Little Fish
Mar 27, 200645mSeven got life sentences and two are facing death by firing squad - but the blood of the Bali Nine will not stain the hands of this country's crimefighters.
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Cash Crop
Apr 10, 200645mFor Saddam Hussein, it must have been a no-brainer. He would pay $200,000 to a top UN official. In return, Saddam would be showered in billions.
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Cash Crop Part Two
Apr 17, 200645mIn the space of four days, Australians have witnessed the extraordinary spectacle of their Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister each submitting to rigorous, sustained and public interrogation at the Cole inquiry.
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Stockwell - Countdown to Killing
Apr 24, 200645mAll of London was on edge when a young electrician, Jean Charles de Menezes, headed off for work on 22 July last year. The previous day, four would-be suicide bombers had attacked the transport system. A fortnight earlier, a series of suicide bombings had killed 52 people.
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The Making of Zarqawi
May 1, 200645mMany thought he was dead or wounded. But when he dramatically appeared this week in an Internet video, firing off an automatic weapon and anti-American rhetoric, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi looked very much alive.
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The Boys
May 8, 200645mThe Westpoint collapse...Ticky Fullerton digs into the scheme that has wiped out the life savings of thousands of Australians. Who's taken their money? And why did regulators let it happen?
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A Deathly Silence
May 15, 200645mIn the hours before he killed himself in April last year, Campbell Bolton wrote a long note in which he told his family how sorry he was for the pain he was about to cause them. "It fills me with grief when I think of what I have done to you," he wrote.
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Reigning in Hell
May 22, 200645mMurder, drugs, extortion, robbery, gambling, prostitution... for 40 years, this has been the daily business of the Aryan Brotherhood, according to US law enforcers.
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The Road to Nowhere
May 29, 200645mThere's another story buried deep beneath the horrific headlines about sexual abuse in indigenous Australia.
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Far From Care
Jun 5, 200645mImagine being about to give birth, cocooned in a speeding car on a night-time dash to a hospital that's still hours away, every bump, every brake to dodge a kangaroo sharpening the pain and discomfort.
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Monkey Love
Jun 12, 200645mTo his fans, research psychologist Harry Harlow was a 20th century hero, a scientific pioneer who revolutionised the way we raise our children today.
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Stoking the Fires
Jun 19, 200645mAs Australian troops stand between the warring factions in East Timor, Liz Jackson reveals the power plays and intrigues that are tearing the infant nation apart.
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Car Wars
Jun 26, 200645mIf your late model car goes missing, don't expect to see it again soon.
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Killed by Care
Jul 3, 200645m"Do no harm." It's the ethos of medicine, the bedrock principle for all its practitioners.
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The Right Stuff
Jul 17, 200645mFor decades the Liberal Party has carried itself proudly as a broad church, home to a wide spectrum of ideology among members. Now a bitter factional war is playing out in Australia's biggest state that many say is disenfranchising grassroots members and threatening democracy.
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The Price of Life
Jul 24, 200645mBreast cancer stalked Becky Measures. It had struck 14 of her female relatives, killing some of them.
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Junk History
Jul 31, 200645mFour Corners often explores extravagant claims and tall tales. Rarely though does it meet a character quite as colourful as author Gavin Menzies.
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Execution of a Teenage Girl
Aug 7, 200645mNot long after dawn on August 15, 2004 a teenage girl was dragged through a town square in the Iranian provincial city of Neka, past a crowd of people to the spot where a mobile crane had been converted into a makeshift gallows. Atefah Sahaaleh was 16 years old. She was hanged that morning for crimes against chastity.
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Sick No Good
Aug 14, 200645mA member of a 'raskol' gang talks about rape as a ritual part of crime. A career truck driver on the highland's highway picks up a teenage prostitute - just part of his routine. A 'hostess supervisor' at a Port Moresby brothel explains that he may tell clients to use a condom with his girls but that sometimes he is too tired to bother. These are voices from Matthew Carney's intimate report on how Papua New Guinea became a hot spot for the AIDS virus.
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Seachange
Aug 21, 200645mCares and crowds are forgotten. Sand crunches between your toes, there's salt on your skin and sun on your back. Here is where blue ocean meets virgin bush, and a golden stretch of beach is all yours for camping, swimming and quiet reflection.
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What Price Global Warming?
Aug 28, 200645mHeat waves and cyclones; droughts ravaging farmland; rising seas swamping beach havens; forests drying up and species dying out; the Barrier Reef and Kakadu, icons of nature, doomed.
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Diet Confidential
Sep 4, 200645mIt's a battle for your body and for your money - a tug-o-war between two powerful forces: the marketing pressure to eat more versus the social pressure to weigh less.
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Five Years
Sep 11, 200645mThe dust settled long ago at Ground Zero. But the world is still searching for clarity after 9/11.
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In the Line of Fire
Sep 18, 200645mThey were ordinary suburban Australians setting out on a big overseas adventure... to cheer on the Socceroos at the World Cup, or take in the sights of Europe. They would climax the trip with a visit to ancestral lands in southern Lebanon where they would rekindle family ties, rediscover their heritage and relax.
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Separate Lives
Sep 25, 200645mThey've launched controversial forays into election campaigns in Australia, New Zealand the US. Now the Exclusive Brethren are drawing more unwanted headlines, this time accused of trawling for dirt on the sex life of the NZ Prime Minister's husband.
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The A Team
Oct 2, 200645mIt was a signature TV news image of the 1990s: the bush as battleground, greenies blocking bulldozers, shouting slogans and trading insults with angry timber workers.
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The War on Al Qaeda
Oct 9, 200645mTwo weeks ago a leaked US intelligence assessment gave powerful new ammunition to critics of the Iraq war.
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@NZACS
Oct 16, 200645mFrom Iraq to Solomon Islands and Afghanistan to East Timor, Australia's Army is stretched tight. The burden of overseas deployments weighs like a straining kitbag on the back of each of Australia's 22,443 regular soldiers.
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Buyer of Beauty, Beware
Oct 23, 200645mFrom marginal to mainstream, once furtive but now flaunted, cosmetic surgery is being eagerly explored by Australians from teens to pensioners, female and male.
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Journey of No Return
Oct 30, 200645mEach week more than a thousand Australians are delivered the cruel diagnosis: they have dementia - incurable, untreatable, terminal.