2004 • 42 Episodes
February 9, 2004
Allegations have swirled around Willie Brigitte ever since his discreet deportation from Australia and his much-publicised arrest in France in October 2003.
February 16, 2004
Ticky Fullerton looks at the management of Tasmania's forests and how one timber company enjoys extraordinary political support for its operations.
February 23, 2004
Fuelled by a cocktail of drugs, armed robberies are growing more violent and unpredictable.
March 1, 2004
Why has Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat - once feted at the White House but now holed up in his West Bank headquarters - become such an outcast?
March 8, 2004
How police laid a trap to catch drug dealers but instead found themselves entangled in a web of corruption allegations.
March 15, 2004
Michael Buerk returns to Ethiopia 20 years after first alerting the world to the Ethiopian famine.
March 22, 2004
Are Australia's sports bosses surrendering to the drug cheats?
March 29, 2004
What really happened that night in the tiny Redfern community .
April 5, 2004
Troubling questions arise when the legal and psychiatric worlds collide.
April 12, 2004
Are Australians hitching a ride on China's economic juggernaut?
April 19, 2004
A report on the conditions that made the violence in Rwanda possible.
April 26, 2004
A special report on the frightening trade in nuclear secrets.
May 3, 2004
Allegations of sexual violence have engulfed some of Australia's top AFL footballers and their clubs.
May 10, 2004
The fight between Australia and East Timor over billion dollar oil and gas interests.
May 17, 2004
The inside story of the family that lived and trained with Osama Bin Laden.
May 24, 2004
Where will the credit binge end for the many thousands of Australians in debt?
May 31, 2004
Under what circumstances should a child be taken from its birth parents?
June 7, 2004
The story behind what may endure as defining images of war in Iraq.
June 14, 2004
Corruption spreads from state police forces into the Australian Crime Commission.
June 21, 2004
Is the RSPCA turning a blind eye to cruelty for the benefit of commercial interests?
June 28, 2004
Bill Clinton defends his record and tells how his public and private lives clashed.
July 5, 2004
How the justice system failed star swim coach Scott Volkers and the women he was accused of sexually molesting.
July 12, 2004
How one company’s obsession with the bottom line left a trail of death and dismemberment among its workers.
July 19, 2004
Four Corners investigates the story behind Mamdouh Habib's incarceration at the notorious prison Guantanamo Bay .
July 26, 2004
Chris Masters talks to bent cops and police chiefs around Australia about the painful costs of corruption, the effectiveness of anti-corruption measures and the need for constant vigilance.
August 2, 2004
Jonathan Holmes investigates the cost to our subsidised pharmaceutical scheme since Australia signed the Free Trade Agreement.
August 9, 2004
This expose reveals the truth behind what the BNP has been telling the public in recent years, as it has tried to shed its image of a far-right, racist party.
August 16, 2004
Four Corners tells the story of the Dalton family breakdown in the context of the Government's recent initiatives to reform the Family Court system, and the rising political influence of men's groups.
August 23, 2004
"The Plea" examines the cases a jury will never get to hear and asks the question, is the plea bargain undermining an entire legal system?
August 30, 2004
What do Iraqis think about the war and its aftermath?
September 6, 2004
From outright fraud to allegations of cover up … and those who simply bend the rules.
September 13, 2004
Five Australians tell their story of beating depression; the 'black dog" affecting one in five Australians.
September 20, 2004
Four Corners presents the incredible journey of four young men .
September 27, 2004
How can one island nation lose a two billion dollar fortune in the space of twenty years?
October 4, 2004
Liz Jackson follows the leaders' trails during an election campaign that's gone from truth in government, to billion dollar give-aways and old fashioned fear tactics - as the parties battle to win over middle Australia.
October 8, 2004
Reporter Jonathan Holmes takes us on a colourful journey through the battleground state of Ohio during the US Elections.
October 18, 2004
Once we had enough water to waste.
October 25, 2004
Jamie Whitaker had been created to save the life of his brother Charlie, who suffers from Diamond-Blackfan anaemia, DBA, a form of bone marrow failure.
November 1, 2004
A story of spies, counterspies, double agents and defections as Andrew Fowler reveals the betrayal inside one of Australia’s secret intelligence agencies.
November 8, 2004
An exclusive story following a brave little boy’s fight to be cured.
November 15, 2004
In a place where they should have felt safest, the children of Beslan were targeted in an act of barbarism.
November 24, 2004
2004 will be remembered chiefly for international issues, primarily events in Iraq: including the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal; as well as the continued threat of terrorism. We also faced crucial elections both at home and in the United States.