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Post Mortem

Post Mortem: The story behind the turmoil that’s engulfed Australia Post

“They got watches.” Then-Australia Post CEO, Christine Holgate

It was a jaw dropping moment. The admission by the CEO of Australia Post that four executives had been given Cartier watches as a reward for a banking deal sparked a wave of indignation and damaging headlines. It came at a time when many Australians were reeling from the crippling impact of the pandemic. It reeked of an out of touch executive class in charge of one of Australia’s most cherished institutions.

“This government is taking no action against the Liberal-appointed Australia Post board, which spent $12,000 of taxpayers’ money on Cartier watches?” Anthony Albanese, Opposition Leader

Politicians on both sides of the spectrum were quick to condemn the purchases and laid the blame at the feet of the beleaguered CEO, Christine Holgate.

“This was not consistent with public expectations about how taxpayers’ money should be spent.” Paul Fletcher, Communications Minister

Within hours, Christine Holgate was gone but the scandal was far from over. On Monday, Four Corners investigates the turmoil inside Australia Post and what brought down its high-profile CEO.

“I think I was thrown under the bus, and the bus reversed back over me.” Christine Holgate, former CEO

In the months that followed Ms Holgate’s departure there have been claims and counter claims as each side seeks to take the high moral ground.

“Do I feel it was escalated, because I was a woman? Yes, I do.” Christine Holgate, former CEO

“I would reject strongly the proposition that in some way the expectations are different as between a male executive and a female executive.” Paul Fletcher, Communications Minister

Four Corners investigates allegations of secret privatisation plans and proposed job cuts, and examines who was really standing up for whom.

“Don’t give me that rubbish that they wouldn’t sell anything off. They’d sell their bloody mother if they could.” Senator Pauline Hanson, One Nation Party

In interviews with key players, the program asks the decision makers to explain their actions to the people of Australia.

Post Mortem, reported by Michael Brissenden, goes to air on Monday 28th June at 8.30pm. It is replayed on Tuesday 29th June at 1.00pm and Wednesday 30th at 11.20pm. It can also be seen on ABC NEWS channel on Saturday at 8.10pm AEST, ABC iview and at abc.net.au/4corners.

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Watchdog or Lapdog?

Monday 5 July at 8:30pm

Watchdog or lapdog? How the casino regulator failed to stop crime at Crown

“The Victorian gambling regulator has been a lapdog, not a watchdog.” MP

Australia’s biggest casino, Crown Melbourne, has attracted the rich and powerful from the day it opened its doors. It’s also been a magnet for organised crime.

“Crown puts itself out there as the world of entertainment. It sells a very dangerous product. It needs close scrutiny.” Industry insider 1

Revelations of money laundering and criminal activity have seen Crown’s operations put under the microscope in multiple inquiries, exposing years of illegal conduct.

“A soft touch in gambling regulation never works. If you give a casino an inch, they’ll take a mile.” Former gambling minister

Crown is supposed to be subject to strict rules and regulations, so where was the authority in charge of keeping Crown in check?

“The regulator’s been an absolute failure in relation to keeping crime out of the casino.” Gambling policy analyst

On Monday, Four Corners investigates how the Victorian gambling regulator has spectacularly failed.

“Money laundering has been going on at the casino for many years and the regulator has known about it for a long time.” Industry insider 2

Industry insiders with decades of first-hand experience are speaking for the first time about how the regulator allowed crime to flourish under its nose.

“A lot of the things that we would report up the chain … just disappeared into oblivion, we never heard of any further about it.” Industry insider 3

Their revelations expose how and why Crown was not held in check and they say Crown is not the only one that needs to accountable.

“Look what’s happened…we definitely need a regulator that Crown fear.” Industry insider 4

Watchdog or lapdog? reported by Steve Cannane, goes to air on Monday 5th July at 8.30pm. It is replayed on Tuesday 6th July at 1.00pm and Wednesday 7th at 11.20pm. It can also be seen on ABC NEWS channel on Saturday at 8.10pm AEST, ABC iview and at abc.net.au/4corners.

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Scandal: The rise and fall of an Australian billionaire

Monday 12 July at 8:30pm

“People like to believe in magic beans. They like to believe that there’s somebody out there that has solved finance. It’s just obvious bullshit.” Hedge fund manager

In the world’s financial capital, Australian Lex Greensill was every inch the corporate titan. With a company valued in the billions of dollars and a jet setting lifestyle, Greensill mixed with the rich and powerful on a grand scale.

“He associated himself with politicians, with famous people, he looked the part.” Hedge fund manager

With royal honours bestowed upon him by the palace, he even had the ear of a British prime minister and a desk in Downing Street.

“It’s not normal for a financier to kind of have free reign of the corridors of power in the U.K.” Finance writer

Yet many Australians had never heard of Lex Greensill until the company he founded came crashing down sparking one of the biggest international financial scandals since the global financial crisis.

“He’s been a brilliant salesman, and he’s had an incredible ambition. And, I think we’ll find that he sailed too close to the sun.” Forensic accountant

On Monday Four Corners investigates the rise and fall of the billionaire from Bundaberg and how his business imploded. From his beginnings in country Queensland, to the boardrooms of the international corporate elite, the program examines how his company made and lost a fortune.

“I am completely flummoxed that somebody can make money out of guessing what business will be done between companies in the future, and lending on the basis of it. That, to me, sounds like a bit more like clairvoyancy than high finance.” British MP

The scandal has embroiled some of the biggest names in Britain, with former prime minister David Cameron being questioned over his role in the company.

“It’s about lobbying…it’s about cronyism.” British MP

The downfall of the company is also threatening the empire of another billionaire with deep business ties to Australia.

“You had this sort of daisy chain of deals where the financing of one was dependent on the other.” Finance writer

The financial strife has left a trail of creditors and investors in the lurch around the world, including in Australia.

“When we’re working on the margins that we work on, it’s very difficult… They just didn’t pay us.” Contractor, South Australia

With Greensill Capital now facing multiple investigations many of those in the finance world are questioning how, given the lessons of the global financial crisis, was this allowed to happen?

“There were so many elements of this where it looked like a house of cards.” Finance writer

Scandal, reported by Stephen Long, goes to air on Monday 12th July at 8.30pm. It is replayed on Tuesday 13th May at 1.00pm and Wednesday 14th at 11.20pm. It can also be seen on ABC NEWS channel on Saturday at 8.10pm AEST, ABC iview and at abc.net.au/4corners.

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A Deadly Ascent: life and death on Mount Everest

Monday 19 July at 8:30 pm

A Deadly Ascent: life and death on Mount Everest

“My father would be very disappointed the way mountaineering has turned out today.” Jamling Norgay, mountaineer

In 1953 the world stood in awe when Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay conquered Mount Everest. Their feat inspired generations of climbers to tackle the mountain. But in 2019, when pictures emerged on social media showing climbers jammed together queuing to reach the summit, there was an outcry.

“When I first saw that picture, I believe it was on Instagram, it was like a kick in the gut to me…this is not what mountaineering is all about.” Climbing coach

Mount Everest has become big business with multiple companies selling the promise of an adventure of a lifetime.

“Everest has become a product…people think it’s basically walking up the stairs for a hike….’Oh Sherpa will do the work. I just have to pay money.’ I call them overnight climbers.” Jamling Norgay, mountaineer

Surging numbers of inexperienced climbers have been swarming the mountain, with deadly consequences.

“That we have this many people…the number of inexperienced climbers with unqualified guides - This was the perfect storm.” Climbing coach

The climbing season in 2019 was one of the deadliest ever, with eleven climbers losing their lives on Everest. In this gripping program, those on the mountain recount the dramatic events that unfolded on the world’s highest peak.

“The summit is right there in front of my eyes, I am going to go and climb it. And I still remember the Sherpa saying to me, ‘Come on, make a decision. You can’t go up. You will kill yourself.’ My Sherpa literally dragged me away.” Climber

The crush of queuing climbers created a deadly traffic jam that haunts those who survived.

“My Sherpa told me that her oxygen had finished and she could not move. She kept on calling me…Everyone had to save their own lives and nobody was able to do anything.” Climber

Now the elder statesmen of the climbing community warn that change is needed to protect both Everest and those who climb it.

“Many people consider it a badge of honour that they climbed the highest mountain in the world. They do it for their pure ego. Doing it for the wrong reason is inviting the wrong consequence.” Climbing coach

“I don’t want to risk my life for the person who should not be there on the mountain in the first place.” Jamling Norgay, mountaineer

A Deadly Ascent, a Babel-Doc production, goes to air on Monday 19th of July at 8.30pm. It is replayed on Tuesday 20th at 1.00pm and Wednesday 21st at 11.20pm. It can also be seen on ABC NEWS channel on Saturday at 8.10pm AEST, ABC iview and at abc.net.au/4corners.

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FOUR CORNERS CELEBRATES ITS DIAMOND JUBILEE

Monday 16 August at 8:30pm

On Saturday 19th August 1961, Four Corners made its debut on Australian TV. With a staff of just six and a weekly budget of £480, the first national TV current affairs show was on the air. Originally a ‘magazine’ style show made up of several stories, copies of the program were flown around the country for broadcast. Today, Four Corners is Australia’s longest running current affairs program and a powerhouse of investigative journalism - fearless and forensic, holding power to account for 60 years.

The award winning program has amassed 62 Walkley awards, seven of them the coveted Gold, as well as 23 Logie awards.

To mark the program’s extraordinary milestone, Four Corners will broadcast a special episode with highlights from the show’s six decades.

As the program travels through the decades the faces and voices of generations of reporters and hosts appear, including the likes of Michael Charlton, Michael Willesee, Caroline Jones, Paul Lyneham, Ray Martin, Jeff McMullen, Andrew Olle, Chris Masters, Paul Barry, Liz jackson, Tony Jones, and Sarah Ferguson.

From its beginnings chronicling a rapidly changing 1960s Australia to landmark reporting on Indigenous issues, the archives reveal how Four Corners helped Australians discover each other and how a TV show could start a national conversation. The sixties provide a treasure trove of “did they really say that?” moments.

The 1970s capture a decade of social and political upheaval. The program was not immune with the media announcing “Girl will take over Four Corners” with the appointment of Caroline Jones as host. The stories show the rise of feminism, and the end of the Vietnam War to environmental activism and the rise and fall of the Whitlam Government.

The 1980s provides a wealth of outstanding moments. The era of big hair and excess leaps from the screen. In story after story Four Corners exposed staggering revelations, from the depths of Queensland police corruption in “The Moonlight State” to the world exclusive scoop revealing a French secret service operation to blow up a Greenpeace vessel.

By the 1990s corporate criminals were being held to account, none more so than in the iconic confrontation between Paul Barry and the disgraced businessman Alan Bond. There were intimate and powerful personal accounts of brave people putting their trust in Four Corners, as a dying Stuart Challender did chronicling his secret battle with AIDS. But not everyone was a fan of “4C’s”. Then Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett colourfully labelled one investigation “an hour of slime.”

The 2000s brought The Age of Terror and Four Corners was there to report on the 9/11 plotters and expose the secrets and lies told to justify the war in Iraq. And as the tide of asylum seekers washed on Australian shores, secret footage from inside Australia’s detention centres exposed traumatising scenes. Showcasing the power of observational film making, “The Ice Age” remains a shocking insight into drug addiction.

In this most recent decade, Four Corners has continued to excel, as showcased by a wave of investigations: from exposing people smuggling networks and cruel practices in the greyhound industry to the use of shackles and spithoods on juveniles in “Australia’s Shame”, the appalling practices of the banking industry and the revelations of a toxic political culture in “The Canberra Bubble”

The program will air on Monday 16th of August.

In addition to the broadcast program a special collection showing extended highlights of each decade and selected programs will be showcased on iView and the Four Corners website. A series of ABC News online articles will delve behind the scenes into the controversies and taboo topics that have defined the program along with “from the vault” special moments on social media.

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TikTok: Data mining, discrimination and dangerous content on the world’s most popular app

Monday 26 July at 8.30pm

“TikTok has penetrated the cultural and social spheres in Australia, and you get a sense that TikTok is part of the zeitgeist.” Digital media researcher

TikTok is the phenomenally successful social media platform that has taken the world by storm. More than a billion users scroll through its endless feeds and it has turned everyday Australians into international stars.

“I think every young kid’s dream is to be successful online.” TikTok content creator

Famous for viral dance moves and comedy skits, the app has morphed into a platform that users anchor their lives around.

“It’s not an app on their phone anymore. It’s their livelihood. It’s how they communicate with their friends. It’s how they see the world. That’s a part that I don’t think everybody has adjusted to yet.” TikTok adviser

But there’s a dark side to the world’s most popular app. In a joint investigation by Four Corners and triple j Hack, disturbing evidence has been uncovered of how the app operates.

“TikTok isn’t out here to help people. I don’t think it’s come into the world with this intention of helping people.” TikTok user

In this eye-opening investigation, reporter Avani Dias travels down the TikTok rabbit hole to reveal the mechanics behind the app.

“If they’re going to make money off of something, then they will make money off of something. I think they maybe need to realise the impact that is having on people.” TikTok user

The program shows how dangerous and disturbing content is being served up to unwitting users with sometimes devastating consequences.

“I’d like to think that I wouldn’t have struggled with an eating disorder, if I hadn’t downloaded TikTok.” Eating disorder patient

The app’s appeal lies in its happy playful image but as this investigation shows, some users accuse the app of operating an inherently racist ‘feed’ that has seen people of colour and disability, effectively muted and marginalised for failing to meet the app’s view of perfection.

“It can be really disheartening to have your videos purposely suppressed.” TikTok content creator

Central to the app’s success is data mining, which enables TikTok to harvest vast amounts of information about its users.

“My claim with TikTok at the moment is that they are harvesting huge amounts of data illegally without the consent of children or their parents and they aren’t giving the right level of transparency about what happens to that data or actually what that data includes.” Fmr Children’s Commissioner

The investigation demonstrates the many techniques TikTok is using, including facial recognition, to know anything and everything about its users.

“Your face is a form of biometric information and your face can be analysed to distinguish a range of personality and demographic traits.” Behaviouralist

Owned by Chinese firm ByteDance, security analysts warn that countries need to take the national security implications of the data mining far more seriously.

“You never think about the Chinese government in Beijing having videos of you in your home, outside your home, at the park with your kids, knowing who your kids play with. That’s what they have now potentially with this data set.” National security analyst

Analysts say users need to look beyond the dance videos and recognise what’s going on behind the fun façade.

TikTok, reported by Avani Dias, goes to air on Monday 26th July at 8.30pm. It is replayed on Tuesday 27th July at 1.00pm and Wednesday 28th at 11.20pm. It can also be seen on ABC NEWS channel on Saturday at 8.10pm AEST, ABC iview and at abc.net.au/4corners.

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I wonder if they will add new things to the archive? The collection they added for the 50th back in 2011 is still up on the 4Corners website as are the decade recap shows.

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Lockdown: How Australia became trapped by COVID-19

Monday 2 August 2021

“It’s been disappointing. We’ve been let down. There’s no point in sugar coating it. It’s just been a massive disappointment.” Resident

For weeks, millions of Australians have been trapped by outbreaks of COVID-19 around the country with five states and the Northern Territory plunging into lockdown.

“The risk is real and we need to act quickly. We need to go hard, we need to go fast… I don’t want to see people end up in our hospitals on ventilators.” Qld Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk

At a grim press conference in Sydney, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian bluntly told the nation that with case numbers on the rise, the threat of COVID-19 had reached an unprecedented level.

“The situation that exists now…is regarded as a national emergency.” NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian

Now, despite millions of people being told to stay at home, the number of infections is climbing with the virulent Delta strain.

“We should be very worried about Delta. Delta is many times more infectious than the original wild type of virus. It is really easy to transmit, and it is slightly more problematic when it comes to people who’ve only had one dose of vaccine.” Former Health Dept Secretary

This type of outbreak is exactly what the nation’s leading experts warned of when Four Corners reported on the failings in Australia’s vaccine rollout in May.

“It’s clear the virus hasn’t gone away. It will come back in this country and if we have really low levels of vaccination at that point in time, then the impact of that will be far greater than it would have been otherwise.” Dr Paul Griffin, May 2021

Their warnings have become a grim reality. On Monday Four Corners examines how Australia was left dangerously exposed.

“A leak from quarantine was probably inevitable. But the problems we’re having now all go back to the decisions that were made last year.” Former Health Dept Secretary

As the program shows, the slow and sometimes faltering vaccine rollout has made the task of beating COVID-19 that much harder.

“We’re going to have to increase our supply and increase our injecting rate by a third, every day, seven days a week, until December 31.” Epidemiologist

For those struggling to get back on their feet after a horror 2020, there is frustration that they are facing even more pain.

“There is a high level of anxiety bordering on depression for many people, but the real frustration from the business community is around the lack of vaccination rollout right now. And we know that vaccinations are our only way of getting out of these lockdowns.” Retail spokesperson

Experts warn that there will be more to come if the issues of supply and hesitancy aren’t overcome.

“The longer a variant spreads, the greater the risk of it learning mutations and changing, and becoming a super variant.” Epidemiologist

Lockdown, reported by Adam Harvey, goes to air on Monday 2nd August at 8.30pm. It is replayed on Tuesday 3rd August at 1.00pm and Wednesday 4th at 11.20pm. It can also be seen on ABC NEWS channel on Saturday at 8.10pm AEST, ABC iview and at abc.net.au/4corners.

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Are you scared yet, human? How artificial intelligence is changing our world

Monday 9 August 8.30pm

Are you scared yet, human? How artificial intelligence is changing our world

“AI is a fundamental risk to the existence of human civilisation.” Elon Musk

Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the way we work and live in ways that were once dismissed as the stuff of science fiction. The technology has the capacity to improve our lives, but it also presents new challenges and potentially grave risks.

“If we’re not careful, George Orwell’s 1984 could come to pass in 2024.” Brad Smith, President of Microsoft

In this insightful and provocative program, those working at the cutting edge of this technological revolution give their insights into how AI should be used and controlled.

“Technology is never neutral, some technologies are in favour of tyranny… Surveillance and social control are what AI is good at.” Research scientist

AI and machine learning is driven by the data we create every time we interact with our devices.

“It’s estimated that 90% of the world’s data was created in just the last 2 years alone.” Missy Yong, Chief Information Officer, Switch

Increasingly, AI is being embedded into military hardware and strategic planning.

“We need humans to be making the combat execution decisions because humans have legal moral and ethical responsibilities, they have chains of command, they have repercussions, robots do not.” Defence contractor

“Our mission statement is clearly to transform the Department of Defense through accelerating the adoption of artificial intelligence.” Lieutenant General Michael Groen, Director, Joint Artificial Intelligence Centre, US Department of Defense

In interviews with senior US military personnel and contractors, the program shows how AI is transforming defence departments around the world.

“Every weapon system that our troops use will have some component of artificial intelligence integrated in it, in fact we’ve made it a requirement that for every new weapon system they develop artificial intelligence capability.” Congressman Seth Moulton, Chair, US Future of Defence Task Force

China is also heavily investing in artificial intelligence with the desire for AI supremacy fuelling what some fear is a new arms race.

“The Chinese Government including state-owned weapons manufacturers are aggressively pursuing AI enabled weapons.” Gregory Allen, Chief of Strategy, Joint Artificial Intelligence Centre, US Department of Defence

The adoption of AI has also fuelled concerns about the moral and ethical responsibility of those working in the heart of “Big Tech.”

“Google should not be involved in the business of war. I kind of felt like I had blood on my hands.” Former Google software engineer

Decisions made now on who will control this technology and how it will have a critical impact on our future world.

“The time that we’re living in now is a crossroads for the human race and if we get it right it could be a golden era for humanity…If we get it wrong we could create a dystopian technology, reinforced global dictatorship, we could even lose control over the world to our own technology. Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary General

Are you scared yet, human? A BBC Panorama production goes to air on Monday 9th August 8.30pm. It is replayed on Tuesday 10th August at 1.00pm and Wednesday 11th at 11.20pm. It can also be seen on ABC NEWS channel on Saturday at 8.10pm AEST, ABC iview and at abc.net.au/4corners.

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I give the 80s neon phase the thumbs up

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FOUR CORNERS: FEARLESS AND FORENSIC FOR 60 YEARS

Monday 16 August 2021 at 8:30pm

On Saturday 19th August 1961, Four Corners made its debut on Australian TV. With a staff of just six and a weekly budget of £480, the first national TV current affairs show was on the air. Originally a ‘magazine’ style show made up of several stories, copies of the program were flown around the country for broadcast.

Today, Four Corners is the longest running series on Australian television and a powerhouse of investigative journalism – fearless and forensic, holding power to account for 60 years.

The award-winning program has amassed 62 Walkley awards, seven of them the coveted Gold, as well as 23 Logie awards.

To mark the program’s extraordinary milestone, Four Corners will broadcast a special episode with highlights from the show’s six decades.

As the program travels through the decades the faces and voices of generations of reporters and hosts appear, including the likes of Michael Charlton, Michael Willesee, Caroline Jones, Paul Lyneham, Andrew Olle, Kerry O’Brien, Chris Masters, Paul Barry, Liz Jackson, Tony Jones, and Sarah Ferguson.

From its beginnings chronicling a rapidly changing 1960s Australia to landmark reporting on Indigenous issues, the archives reveal how Four Corners helped Australians discover each other and how a TV show could start a national conversation. The sixties provide a treasure trove of “did they really say that?” moments.

The 1970s capture a decade of social and political upheaval. The program was not immune with the media announcing “Girl will take over Four Corners” with the appointment of Caroline Jones as host. The stories show the rise of feminism, and the end of the Vietnam War to environmental activism and the rise and fall of the Whitlam Government.

The 1980s provides a wealth of outstanding moments. The era of big hair and excess leaps from the screen. In story after story Four Corners exposed staggering revelations, from the depths of Queensland police corruption in “The Moonlight State” to the world exclusive scoop revealing a French secret service operation to blow up a Greenpeace vessel.

By the 1990s corporate criminals were being held to account, none more so than in the iconic confrontation between Paul Barry and the disgraced businessman Alan Bond. There were intimate and powerful personal accounts of brave people putting their trust in Four Corners, as a dying Stuart Challender did chronicling his secret battle with AIDS. But not everyone was a fan of “4C’s”. Then Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett colourfully labelled one investigation “an hour of slime”.

The 2000s brought The Age of Terror and Four Corners was there to report on the 9/11 plotters and expose the secrets and lies told to justify the war in Iraq. And as the tide of asylum seekers washed on Australian shores, secret footage from inside Australia’s detention centres exposed traumatising scenes. Showcasing the power of observational film making, “The Ice Age” remains a shocking insight into drug addiction.

In this most recent decade, Four Corners has continued to excel, as showcased by a wave of investigations: from exposing people smuggling networks and cruel practices in the greyhound industry to the use of shackles and spithoods on juveniles in “Australia’s Shame”, the appalling practices of the banking industry and the revelations of a toxic political culture in “The Canberra Bubble”.

In addition to the broadcast program, a special collection of extended highlights from each decade, and selected programs, will be showcased on ABC iview and the Four Corners website. A series of ABC NEWS online articles will delve behind the scenes into the controversies and taboo topics that have defined the program along with “from the vault” special moments on social media.

Four Corners: Fearless and Forensic for 60 years, goes to air on Monday 16 August at 8.30pm. It is replayed on Tuesday 17th August at 1.00pm and Wednesday 18th at 11.20pm. It can also be seen on ABC NEWS channel on Saturday at 8.10pm AEST, ABC iview and at abc.net.au/4corners.

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Four Corners is on the front cover of Green Guide with The Age today.

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It’s the oldest Australian Television show, yes? Or does it share the title with Play School?

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Kind of hard to share the title when 4 Corners started in 1961 and Play School started in 1966.

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So it’s the oldest show on Australian Television?
There isn’t any other show I can recall.

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If there’s one thing this compilation of Four Corners Openers has proven, it’s that their theme music and “rotating 4 cube” titles are iconic elements of Australian TV branding! :slight_smile:

The 1960s/70s theme music sounds so quaint, you couldn’t imagine it being appropriate for 99% of contemporary (the last decade at least…) 4C stories!

Unless there’s one I’ve somehow missed, Four Corners would have to be the oldest program on Australian TV that’s still running today, after of course the main news bulletins on various stations.

#2 would be Play School (1966), with Behind The News (1968, although that one was off-air for a year) in third spot.

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Yes, Play School is the second oldest.