Series 2010

39 episodes · 2010

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.

Will Australia's flawed disability support system be reformed in time to save the families now at breaking point?

A harrowing documentary that tells how thousands of young boys in Afghanistan are now being hunted and groomed to become sex slaves.

The inside story of the battle to control Australian tennis.

Former members of the Church give a chilling portrait of life inside the organisation.

A revealing profile of the man who wants to be the next Prime Minister of Australia.

A horrifying account of the brutal war that's raging in the towns that dot the border between Mexico and the United States.

The harrowing story of the children who are forced into a life of crime on the streets in order to survive.

The harrowing story of the therapist whose work led some patients to believe they'd committed or been the victim of shocking sexual crimes.

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.

Four Corners looks at events surrounding the arrest of mining executive Stern Hu and the tensions now involved in doing business with China.

The story behind the Federal Government's multi-billion dollar home insulation scheme debacle.

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.

Quentin McDermott looks at the potential impact of the Government’s mandatory filtering system.

The story of a young woman's confronting journey back to the war-ravaged country of her birth.

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.

South Africa has the highest incidence of rape in the world, and almost half the victims are children.

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.

A story that reveals how a toxic cocktail of investment packages helped poison the retirement funds of hundreds of Australians.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A forensic investigation of the killing of Kwementyaye Ryder by five white, local youths from Alice Springs.

The story of a young woman's search to understand the shocking conflict that has laid waste the country where she was born.

An expose of people smugglers and their networks in Indonesia.

The story of an Australian town that holds a lesson for each and every person who's been touched by mental illness.

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.

The story of the greatest financial crisis you will ever see...

A joint ABC Four Corners/Fairfax investigation that takes us inside major Australian organised crime networks.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The inside story of the historic deal that created Australia's first national minority government in seven decades.

Part one of a startling expose revealing what really happened in Iraq after the occupation of the country by Coalition troops.

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.

An investigation into the allegations of corruption and match fixing that threaten to undermine the multi-billion dollar sport of international cricket.

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.