The Project had the CEO on the program this evening, in what they teased as an exclusive, but not mentioned anywhere.
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Dias told Mumbrella that her team had been looking into the issue for the last few months, and spoke to almost 100 people in the local music industry. She said Four Corners had tried to engage Live Nation for a period, even offering to do an interview anywhere, anytime, but the company declined in early October, so the show sent 35 detailed questions to the Live Nation media team for a response, and the company responded to 15 of them.
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Live Nation responds to ‘inaccuracies aired’ on Four Corners as ABC ‘stands by’ investigation
Live Nation has issued an extensive fact sheet that systematically responds to a number of claims made by Four Corners in a report aired last night on the ABC.
Four Corners ran a report on Live Nation on Monday evening, levelling a range of accusations at the company, whose market dominance and vertical business model the ABC claims is harming the local music industry and “squeezing out local competition”.
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Road Gold
Monday 21 October 8:30 pm
Four Corners: Road Gold reported by Pat McGrath goes to air on Monday 21 October at 8.30pm on ABC TV and ABC iview. See more at ABC NEWS Website and on ABC NEWS social media platforms.
Decades of backroom deals between state governments and toll operators have left Australia’s biggest cities with a network of private roads that are worsening the cost-of-living crisis for millions of motorists.
In this episode of Four Corners, reporter Pat McGrath investigates the near-monopoly held by toll giant Transurban in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney.
While taxpayers are racking up hundreds of thousands in debts and fines — facing prison if they fail to pay in Victoria — state governments are trying to claw back control of prices.
Even senior figures in the industry are calling for change, raising the prospect of an end to the toll industry’s roads of gold.
The report is done by Pat McGrath
Decades of backroom deals between state governments and toll operators have left Australia’s biggest cities with a network of private roads that are worsening the cost-of-living crisis for millions of motorists.
In this episode of Four Corners, reporter Pat McGrath investigates the near-monopoly held by toll giant Transurban in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney.
While taxpayers are racking up hundreds of thousands in debts and fines — facing prison if they fail to pay in Victoria — state governments are trying to claw back control of prices.
Even senior figures in the industry are calling for change, raising the prospect of an end to the toll industry’s roads of gold.
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2024 final will be Monday, 4 November
what date this show returning in next year?
VIDEO: Crisis On Campus
Monday 28 October at 8.30pm
They’re the clashes that ignited an international debate, the culmination of months of chaos across America’s college campuses.
Student protesters condemning Israel’s war on Gaza barricaded themselves in a building at Columbia University, in New York.
The sit-in divided the Ivy-league campus, and the US.
Soon, police broke through the windows. Guns drawn.
Crisis on Campus investigates the polarising debate over free speech, anti-Semitism, Israel, the Palestinians, and the political forces behind the growing dissent.
Crisis On Campus produced by PBS, goes to air on Monday 28 October at 8.30pm on ABC TV and ABC iview.
Disconnected - season final
Monday 4 November 8:30pm
Four Corners: Disconnected goes to air on Monday 4 November at 8.30pm on ABC TV and ABC iview. See more at abc.net.au/news and on ABC News social media platforms.
After 20 years of unfettered growth, a realisation is dawning about the true cost of social media.
And it’s the younger generations facing the brunt of the deadly consequences.
As Australia grapples with how to regulate social media, in the US, thousands of parents are taking up the fight to hold these hugely profitable tech giants accountable…through the courts.
In the last Four Corners episode of 2024, reporter Louise Milligan speaks to whistleblowers, one of the lawyers running the case, and a family devastated by the loss of their 18-year-old daughter.
As Meta introduces new protections for young people, insiders and families who’ve witnessed the most tragic consequences tell Four Corners enough is enough.
Kerry Stokes launched an attack on the ABC during Seven West Media’s annual general meeting on Thursday morning, accusing the national broadcaster of hypocrisy and unfair reporting.
Stokes took aim at the ABC’s Four Corners report, ‘Don’t Speak’, which aired in August and took aim at Channel Seven’s workplace culture, in which complaints of workplace bullying, sexual harassment, and whistleblowers not being listened to, were laid bare.
Stokes called the report “an egregious and unfair assault on our business and the reputation of our good people” and noted the hypocrisy of the network’s own recent controversies, including the insertion of gunfire into helmet-cam footage from Australian troops.
“Our formal complaint to the ABC — making a compelling case that Four Corners had clearly failed to meet the broadcaster’s own principles of impartiality, accuracy and fairness — was unsurprisingly ignored,” the Seven West Media chair said during the AGM.
“Despite our request, the ABC’s Ombudsman has also refused to investigate the matter.”
Neil Fergus, a former senior intelligence officer and CEO of the private security firm Intelligent Risks, was raided by ASIO with AFP officers in attendance in February when search warrants were executed at his Sydney home and office.
Mr Fergus said he was initially advised by federal authorities that the raids related to Chinese intelligence operations, but the subsequent interviews conducted with him by ASIO focused on his work for the organisation from the 1990s into the 2000s, when he conducted covert investigations to try to identify a “mole” within ASIO who had been working for the Russian spy service providing highly classified documents in return for money.
The ASIO mole was the subject of a Four Corners program, Traitor, in June 2023.
Mr Fergus was interviewed for the Four Corners story in his capacity as an international security specialist and CEO of Intelligent Risks, not as a former intelligence officer.
Mr Fergus has told the ABC the warrants for the raids appeared to relate to his work for ASIO investigating the Russian penetration, which he says was done under the authority of the then ASIO Director-General.
Mr Fergus says that during the raids he was questioned extensively about his involvement in the Four Corners program and accused of providing Peacock’s name to the ABC, which both he and the ABC deny.
Mr Fergus says he has lodged a formal complaint with the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security about the raids.
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Monday 3 February 8:30 pm
The multi-award winning Four Corners returns for another year of powerhouse investigative journalism - fearless and forensic, holding power to account throughout six decades – and counting.
Australia’s longest running current affairs program has been exposing scandals, triggering inquiries, firing debate and confronting taboos for and behalf of the Australian public since 1961 and looks set to remain as defiant as ever in 2024.
Production credit: An ABC NEWS production. Executive Producer Matthew Carney. Series Producer Alice Brennan.
Party Crashers
Monday 3 February at 8.30pm
For more than a century, Australian politics has been a two-party contest, leaving voters with a simple choice on election day: Labor or the Coalition.
But that old rule book is being torn apart.
As a federal election looms, Four Corners returns for 2025 with reporter Angus Grigg examining whether our two-party system is collapsing.
Independents and minor parties are set to capture more than a third of the vote and become the king makers in the new parliament.
Drawing on exclusive data for the first time Four Corners reveals that in 82 per cent of seats most households are in financial distress — astonishingly up from just eight per cent three years ago.
That means paychecks barely cover basic living expenses.
So, in this cost-of-living election, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has plenty to worry about.
Grigg and the team travel to four battleground electorates in New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia and Queensland where politics is being turned on its head.
Party Crashers reported by Angus Grigg goes to air on Monday 3 February at 8.30pm on ABC TV and ABC iview.
Endurance
Monday 10 February at 8:30pm
With Donald Trump vowing to end the brutal war in Ukraine, Four Corners travels to the front line to investigate: Is peace even possible?
With extraordinary access just a kilometre from Russian positions, reporter Mark Willacy watches from an underground bunker as an elite Ukrainian drone unit hunts and kills enemy soldiers in real-time.
He also speaks with Ukraine’s political leaders about whether Trump can broker a “just peace” with the man who started it all — Russian President Vladimir Putin.
As the war’s third anniversary looms, Four Corners takes viewers to the battlefield, where Russia is throwing everything it has at Ukraine in relentless, suicidal waves — what Ukrainian soldiers grimly call “meatwaves”.
Endurance, reported by Mark Willacy, goes to air on Monday 10 February at 8.30pm on ABC TV and ABC iview. See more at abc.net.au/news and on ABC News social media platforms.
Leaving Hate
Monday 17 February at 8:30pm
Families call on governments to act as loved ones fall into extremism.
When Emily’s teenage son became withdrawn, she never imagined he had secretly joined Australia’s most prominent Neo-Nazi group. Now, she and other families are speaking out for the first time, revealing to reporter Avani Dias the painful reality of radicalisation and the struggle to get help.
Australian authorities are urging families to report extremist behaviour and engage in early intervention programs — but many say the system is failing them. A serving police officer has now broken ranks, backing these families and warning that current efforts aren’t working.
This Four Corners investigation exposes the growing threat of homegrown extremism and the desperate calls for stronger action.
Leaving Hate , reported by Avani Dias, goes to air on Monday 17 February at 8.30pm on ABC TV and ABC iview. See more at abc.net.au/news and on ABC News social media platforms
Trump: The Comeback King
Monday 24 February at 8:30pm
Trump: The Comeback King is a gripping new documentary that explores Donald Trump’s dramatic resurgence following his 2020 election defeat.
Through unprecedented access, in-depth analysis, and expert interviews, the film — presented by PBS Frontline — examines the pivotal moments and strategies that propelled him back to the political forefront, marking one of the most consequential comebacks in American history.
Focusing in on the legal battles, the political maneuvering, and an unwavering support from his base, Trump: The Comeback King investigates how Trump defied opposition to reclaim his position as a dominant force in U.S. politics.
The documentary features exclusive insights from key figures, shedding light on the forces that shaped his return and the challenges that lay ahead. It dives into Trump’s family legacy and business empire to reveal how they have shaped his presidency.
As the United States grapples with deep political divisions, this film offers a compelling and timely examination of what will be a defining chapter in modern history.
Trump: The Comeback King goes to air on Monday 24 of February at 8.30pm on ABC TV
Tobacco Wars
Monday 3 March at 8:30pm
FOUR CORNERS EXPOSES AUSTRALIA’S THRIVING BLACK-MARKET CIGARETTE TRADE
Four Corners investigative journalist Dan Oakes uncovers the secrets of Australia’s black-market tobacco trade in Tobacco Wars.
With illicit cigarettes readily available in cash-only stores and distributed by unmarked vans across the country, this investigation reveals a vast network stretching from Melbourne’s suburban tobacconists to international smuggling routes.
Using concealed cameras and exclusive access to law enforcement, the Four Corners team follows the illicit pipeline, exposing the lucrative industry that is fueling violent organised crime while robbing the government of billions in lost revenue.
Tobacco Wars investigates the high-stakes underworld where arson attacks, extortion, and deadly feuds are used to control the illegal cigarette market.
As the government grapples with policy responses and law enforcement agencies struggle to disrupt smuggling syndicates, Tobacco Wars raises urgent questions about the country’s ability to curb this thriving illicit trade.
With gripping undercover footage and exclusive insights from key players, Four Corners delivers a must-watch exposé on how Australia’s efforts to cut smoking rates have inadvertently fueled a dangerous and violent underworld.
Tobacco Wars, reported by Dan Oakes, goes to air on Monday 3 March at 8.30pm on ABC TV and ABC iview. See more at abc.net.au/news and on ABC News social media platforms.
The Australian reports that the ABC has ordered former Triple J host and teal candidate Alex Dyson to pull campaign ads featuring footage from Four Corners, after he used the content without permission. Dyson’s ads included an interview with Peter Small, a former Liberal branch president, who criticised his party’s neglect of rural voters and called for Wannon to become a more contested seat. While Dyson credited the Four Corners footage in his ads, he did not seek ABC approval before repurposing it.
(summary from Mediaweek)
C21 reports the ABC has bought two Channel News Asia documentaries from distributor TVF International at this week’s Australian International Documentary Conference in Melbourne.
ABC has licensed two specials from the CNA-commissioned series When Titans Clash (12×48’) for its Four Corners current affairs strand. Titans Clash: A New Global Trade War? (1×48’) examines the risk of a trade war between the European Union and China and When Titans Clash: Knives Out in the South China Sea (1×48’) explores recent clashes between the Philippines and China and the involvement of the US.