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Since then, the work of its reporters — John Penlington, Andrew Olle, Mike Willesee, Chris Masters, Sarah Ferguson and Anne Connolly among them — has exposed corruption, instigated royal commissions and, in some cases, landed people in prison. The program has won 62 Walkley Awards and 23 Logies.
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Aug 16, 2021 · JOHN PENLINGTON, reporter 1963-71: People in authority tended to watch it and probably were very alarmed at some of the things they saw because authority was being gradually challenged in ...
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It's a Saturday night in 1968 and a group of teenagers are ranged against a wooden fence in Sydney's western suburbs. Just off camera, a reporter asks a question that still sounds astonishing 53 years later. "How many gang bangs do you think you've been along to?" "About six," the boy answers. "Did it for kicks I 'spose, just to be part of the grou...
The bold pitch by Four Corners' founders in 1961 was to hold a mirror up to Australia. Within weeks of its debut, Australia's first TV current affairs show had shocked the nation. It brought the abject poverty of an Indigenous community in New South Wales into the living rooms of white Australia. "This is Box Ridge," presenter Michael Charlton anno...
In all his years as a journalist, it's the line that still hits David Marr hardest. "He could have my blood, if I could give it to him." They were the desperate words from a grandmother willing to give her life to save that of her grandson who was dying from AIDS. This was Australia in 1991 and the grandson was Stuart Challender, the conductor of t...
"Do they think we're animals?" cries the anguished father cradling his six-year-old son in his arms. The little boy's name is Shayan Bedraie. He had stopped eating, drinking or talking. He and his Iranian family were locked up in the Villawood detention centre. They were taking an enormous risk to tell their story to Four Corners. In 2001, Australi...
In a dingy flat, a hardcore ice user picks at his leg, convinced he's infected with parasites crawling under his skin. In excruciating detail, he attempts to explain his symptoms to the reporter holding the camera, video journalist Matthew Carney. It's 2006 and Australia is on the verge of an ice epidemic but few people understand what it will unle...
"This is a very hard story for me to tell because it involves exposing my current condition to a public audience." With her characteristic directness, veteran Four Corners reporter Liz Jackson looks directly down the barrel of the camera and reveals she is in the grip of Parkinson's disease. "I feel that for such a common disease and such an ill-un...
The subsequent Royal Commission, known as the Fitzgerald Inquiry, found systematic corruption in various levels of government and led to the gaoling of police commissioner Terry Lewis, and the resignation and subsequent criminal trial of Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen .
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Jan 20, 2022 · JOHN PENLINGTON. The man who said no to the women's demands is the Minister for Justice in Queensland, Dr Peter Delamov.
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John Penlington wore his best suit to the beach to film this Four Corners story on Australia's surf culture in 1965.
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