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- Gang Bangs
- 'A Cemetery For The Living'
- 'I've Never Been So Shaken'
- Pictures from Behind The Razor Wire
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- 'I Don't Want pity'
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...
Aug 16, 2021 · JOHN PENLINGTON: This week I talked with some boys who said they had taken part in what they call gang bangs in the Bankstown district of Sydney. These boys are aged around 17 and 18.
Aug 14, 2021 · As another of the program's first reporters, John Penlington, later wrote: "The RSL affair heralded a continuing battle over the program's and indeed the ABC's role and commitment to investigative ...
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This episode also resulted in the NT Corrections Minister, John Elferink, being stood down from his position. On 4 February 2019, Four Corners aired a report documenting the status of women's rights in Saudi Arabia.
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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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After a 9:47 am lift-off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, it took John Glenn barely 45 minutes to pass over Perth on the dark side of the globe. Awaiting him there was a brilliant welcome – literally. Perth was ablaze with lights.
