Series 2004

Allegations have swirled around Willie Brigitte ever since his discreet deportation from Australia and his much-publicised arrest in France in October 2003.

Ticky Fullerton looks at the management of Tasmania's forests and how one timber company enjoys extraordinary political support for its operations.

Fuelled by a cocktail of drugs, armed robberies are growing more violent and unpredictable.

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?

How police laid a trap to catch drug dealers but instead found themselves entangled in a web of corruption allegations.

Michael Buerk returns to Ethiopia 20 years after first alerting the world to the Ethiopian famine.

Are Australia's sports bosses surrendering to the drug cheats?

What really happened that night in the tiny Redfern community .

Troubling questions arise when the legal and psychiatric worlds collide.

Are Australians hitching a ride on China's economic juggernaut?

A report on the conditions that made the violence in Rwanda possible.

A special report on the frightening trade in nuclear secrets.

Allegations of sexual violence have engulfed some of Australia's top AFL footballers and their clubs.

The fight between Australia and East Timor over billion dollar oil and gas interests.

The inside story of the family that lived and trained with Osama Bin Laden.

Where will the credit binge end for the many thousands of Australians in debt?

Under what circumstances should a child be taken from its birth parents?

The story behind what may endure as defining images of war in Iraq.

Corruption spreads from state police forces into the Australian Crime Commission.

Is the RSPCA turning a blind eye to cruelty for the benefit of commercial interests?

Bill Clinton defends his record and tells how his public and private lives clashed.

How the justice system failed star swim coach Scott Volkers and the women he was accused of sexually molesting.

How one company’s obsession with the bottom line left a trail of death and dismemberment among its workers.

Four Corners investigates the story behind Mamdouh Habib's incarceration at the notorious prison Guantanamo Bay .

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.

Jonathan Holmes investigates the cost to our subsidised pharmaceutical scheme since Australia signed the Free Trade Agreement.

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.

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.

"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?

What do Iraqis think about the war and its aftermath?

From outright fraud to allegations of cover up … and those who simply bend the rules.

Five Australians tell their story of beating depression; the 'black dog" affecting one in five Australians.

Four Corners presents the incredible journey of four young men .

How can one island nation lose a two billion dollar fortune in the space of twenty years?

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.

Reporter Jonathan Holmes takes us on a colourful journey through the battleground state of Ohio during the US Elections.

Once we had enough water to waste.

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.

A story of spies, counterspies, double agents and defections as Andrew Fowler reveals the betrayal inside one of Australia’s secret intelligence agencies.

An exclusive story following a brave little boy’s fight to be cured.

In a place where they should have felt safest, the children of Beslan were targeted in an act of barbarism.

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.