Season 2025

E1. Party Crashers

Feb 3, 2025

As a federal election looms, Four Corners reporter Angus Grigg examines 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.

E2. Endurance

Feb 10, 2025

With Donald Trump's empty promises vowing to end the brutal war in Ukraine, Four Corners travels to the front line to investigate. Is peace even possible? As the war's third anniversary looms, Mark Willacy reports from the battlefield.

E3. Leaving Hate

Feb 17, 2025

Families call on governments to act as loved ones fall into extremism. Reporter Avani Dias investigates the growing threat of homegrown extremism, the painful reality of radicalisation and desperate calls for stronger action.

E4. Trump's Comeback

Feb 24, 2025

PBS Frontline traces Donald Trump’s return to the presidency, overcoming unprecedented obstacles and opposition. With insider interviews, the documentary examines defining moments over his life and career, his 2020 election loss, felony convictions and his historic comeback.

E5. Tobacco Wars

Mar 3, 2025

Four Corners investigative journalist Dan Oakes uncovers the secrets of Australia's black-market tobacco trade, where arson attacks, extortion, and deadly feuds are used to control the illegal cigarette market.

E6. Sacrifice

Mar 10, 2025

Four Corners reveals how the Australian War Memorial is increasingly entwined with the global arms industry — raising troubling questions about conflicts of interest, corporate influence, and the future of the memorial itself.

E7. Betrayal of Trust: Australia's Childcare Crisis

Mar 17, 2025

Four Corners reporter Adele Ferguson uncovers the deep failures and systemic issues plaguing Australia's childcare sector.

E8. Truth / Yoorrook

Mar 24, 2025

Australia's first ever truth-telling commission uncovers our hidden history. Bridget Brennan examines how we as a nation reckon with our colonial past and take critical steps towards truth, healing and justice.

E9. Crooked

Mar 31, 2025

A decade-long investigation has uncovered explosive new evidence suggesting that corrupt former NSW Crime Commission assistant director Mark Standen’s criminality was far more extensive than the public was led to believe.

E10. The Power of Xi Jinping

Apr 7, 2025

The rise of Xi Jinping, China's most dominant leader since Mao Zedong, and the global consequences of his rule. From Xi's path to power and his ideological vision to how he has reshaped China's relationship with the world. A PBS Frontline production.

E11. Can Climate Scientists Save the World?

Apr 14, 2025 · 44m

From volcano labs in Iceland, to disappearing glaciers in Switzerland and to sun-reflecting clouds in Australia, the bold experiments aimed not just at cutting emissions but removing carbon from the atmosphere.

E12. The Agent Inside

Apr 21, 2025

Inside a dangerous terror network in Australia - the man who infiltrated it speaks out. One year after the Wakeley church stabbing, a former secret agent who infiltrated the country's jihadist underworld unmasks himself.

E13. True Colours

Apr 28, 2025

Louise Milligan examines the character, track record, and campaign strategies of the two men vying for power — Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton.

E14. The Fugitive

May 5, 2025

Over summer, organised crime cast a terrifying possible shadow over Australia. The Jewish community in Sydney was left reeling - shaken by a wave of attacks. Now the caravan plot "mastermind" speaks for the first time.

E15. Hammered

May 12, 2025

We love Bunnings — it’s where we go for a weekend sausage sizzle and to fulfil our DIY dreams. But what if the store some Australians trust most is not as benign as it would have us believe?

E16. The Rise and Fall of Terrorgram

May 19, 2025

They called themselves Terrorgram - a group of online militant extremists who threatened extreme violence to bring down governments and create new white "ethnostates". A year long investigation by PBS and ProPublica unmasks the ringleaders and how they operated.

E17. Decimated

May 26, 2025

Can the Liberal Party ever recover from its historic 2025 Federal election loss? Patricia Karvelas talks to Liberal insiders as they grapple with the existential crisis of what the Liberal Party stands for and who it represents. How responsible is Peter Dutton? And what happened to the 102-year-old Coalition?

E18. Emergency

Jun 2, 2025

Doctors and frontline health workers warn they are witnessing the collapse of public mental health care in NSW. Staff say they're being forced to release people who are still seriously unwell because there aren't enough beds.

E19. Heavy Hitters

Jun 9, 2025

As Australia embraces the UFC, Heavy Hitters reveals the cost for the fighters who risk so much for the spectacle. Reporter Mahmood Fazal speaks to former fighters who describe a culture of exploitation, secrecy, and lasting damage.

E20. Submerged

Jun 16, 2025

As the US launches a review into AUKUS, we examine the $368 billion submarine deal. Mark Willacy speaks with key players inside the US Congress and the defence community, as senior UK figures warn of cost blowouts and delays.

E21. Diddy: In Plain Sight

Jun 23, 2025

With Sean "Diddy" Combs on trial for alleged sex trafficking, this film uncovers first-hand accounts and unseen footage, exploring how silence, complicity and power allowed the allegations to stay hidden for so long. A Lion TV production for Channel 4 (UK).

E22. Trading in Chaos

Jun 30, 2025

A week before the 90 day pause expires on his so-called reciprocal tariffs, Four Corners dives into the chaos created by Donald Trump's trade policy. We examine the chaos, confusion, uncertainty and fear generated by Trump's so-called reciprocal tariffs, which experts say will increase the cost of living, make the US poorer and the world a less prosperous and secure place.

E23. Generation Cancer

Jul 7, 2025

Australians in their 30s and 40s are facing an alarming surge in cancer diagnoses and researchers are scrambling to understand why.

E24. Rage Against the Regime

Jul 14, 2025

For decades, Iranians have resisted a regime built on fear, repression and religious control. This film reveals the voices of those who live the struggle, exiled dissidents, young protesters and women who dared to speak out.

E25. God Complex

Jul 21, 2025

For years, a star neurosurgeon operated inside Australia's hospital system despite repeated allegations of sexist and inappropriate behaviour, and a string of legal claims by devastated patients.

E26. No Return: Australia's Missing Billions

Jul 28, 2025

The ATO is one of the most powerful and secretive institutions in the country, but for years, it's operated without effective scrutiny. This major Four Corners investigation reveals how inaction and flawed systems have allowed more than $50 billion in tax to go uncollected.

E27. The Price of Justice

Aug 4, 2025

At least one class action is launched on average every week in Australia. They are often seen as the only way Australians wronged by powerful institutions can get compensation and justice.

E28. Trump's Power and the Law

Aug 11, 2025

Trump versus the Courts: What will the American system of government become — the rule of law or the rule of the president? Donald Trump has expanded the power and authority of office like no other, and he is not stopping.

E29. Lawfare

Aug 18, 2025

A growing movement of fringe dwellers in Australia is attempting to challenge the authority of the courts, councils and cops. Supercharged during the COVID lockdowns, some call themselves sovereign citizens, others freedom fighters and soviet citizens.

E30. Empty Promises

Aug 25, 2025

More than $100 million has vanished in a financial scandal at the heart of the federal government's disability housing program.