Season 1995

E1. Parent Abuse

Feb 13, 1995 · 60m

By Chris Masters. How does our child fostering system deal with the people who make the system work - foster parents?

E2. Bugs in the System and Gene Genie

Feb 20, 1995 · 60m

By Mick O'Donnell. A two-item report. Infected salami hospitalised 20 children and killed one young girl. Our health authorities quickly tracked down the source, but Four Corners revealed the flaws in our inspection system that allowed this tragedy to happen. The second item, Germ Genie was a BBC-produced report examining the threat of germ warfare

E3. The ADD Epidemic

Feb 27, 1995 · 60m

By Norman Swan. Attention Deficit Disorder - an epidemic in our kids or a psychosomatic disorder in our doctors. Is giving kids amphetamines the answer?

E4. The Highwaymen

60m

By Murray Hogarth. As the major media telecommunication and software producers move and shake, who will control the multimedia of the future?

E5. The Can-Do Man

60m

By Murray McLaughlin. Laurie Brereton has been Paul Keating's mate since they were Young Labor larrikins. As Minister for Transport and Industrial Relations, Laurie tackles the dirty jobs that no-one else wants.

E6. The Boy Who Broke the Bank

60m

y . Ex BBC: The inside story of how money trader Nick Leeson brought Barings Bank undone

E7. Sex and Power

60m

By Mick O'Donnell. Melbourne University's Ormond College - sexual harrassment or feminist plot? The story that was the basis of Helen Garner's controversial book The First Stone reveals the inability of our institutions to deal with sexual harrassment.

E8. The Chief Justice

60m

By Liz Jackson. An analysis of the changing role of the High Court of Australia. In the first ever interview by a sitting Chief Justice, Sir Anthony Mason defended the increasing involvement of the court in making law on social and political issues

E9. Urgent and Secret

60m

By Murray Hogarth. A senior public servant reveals for the first time how Victorian Attorney General Jan Wade tried to undermine the power and independence of the Victorian Director of Public Prosecutions

E10. Long to Reign Over Us

Apr 17, 1995 · 60m

Ex BBC: A British view of the monarchy's future. Will Charlie make it to the throne?

E11. The Prophet of Oz

60m

By David Millikan. Jeremy Griffith believes he's a great prophet of God and Everest mountaineer Tim McCartney-Snape agrees, but should they be spreading the message through our schools?

E12. Hot Rocks

60m

By Murray McLaughlin. A heist story with a difference - these diamonds are pink and the police don't want to know who-dunnit.

E13. Paying for Paul

May 8, 1995 · 60m

On the eve of Paul Keating's 13th Budget as Treasurer or Prime Minister we tried to balance his books.

E14. Million Dollar Spy

60m

Ex BBC: For nine years America's most notorious double agent sold his country's secrets to the Soviet Union. At least 10 Soviet spies were executed before the million dollar spy was uncovered.

E15. The Gamekeepers

60m

By Chris Masters. In 1995 the greatest game of all was in the backrooms not on the field as Packer and Murdoch packed down for the right to broadcast football. Whatever your code - League, Union, soccer or AFL - the gamekeepers are changing the rules.

E16. Oklahoma Bomber

60m

Ex BBC: America's worst terrorist attack wasn't the the work of foreign fanatics, it was home grown. A look at America's broken heartland.

E17. Academy of Crime

60m

By Chris Masters. When Royal Commissioner Justice Woods released damning video evidence of corruption in the NSW Police Force, Four Corners was there with the most comprehensive coverage of the corruption culture that flourished in Sydney's Kings Cross.

E18. Tycoon

60m

Ex NBC: A fascinating look at the man running your computer - Bill Gates. Where does he want to go today?

E19. Minor Surgery, Major Risk

Jun 19, 1995 · 60m

By Liz Jackson. Four women became infected with HIV after minor operations in a Sydney doctor's surgery. It shouldn't have happened and we would never have known except for the determination of one of those patients. For the first time she tells her story.

E20. Deng's Dynasty

Jun 26, 1995 · 60m

By Sally Neighbour. Who will run China after the death of Deng Xiaoping? A look at how Deng's children are doing business in new China.

E21. Playing Olympic Games

Jul 3, 1995 · 60m

By Murray Hogarth. The site for Sydney's 'green' Olympics is a toxic waste zone. Can anyone clean it up before the games begin?

E22. Waves of Fear

Jul 10, 1995 · 60m

By David Hardaker. As we increase our dosage of electro-magnetic radiation through cellular phones and other devices, are we creating an epidemic of cancer?

E23. The Plane Truth

Jul 17, 1995 · 60m

Ex BBC: The aviation industry tries to maintain the highest standards of safety, but in the UK and the US there's growing concern about the proliferation of bogus parts.

E24. A Very Catholic Affair

Jul 24, 1995 · 60m

By Murray McLaughlin. For most people Vinnies is a charity running a network of second hand stores, but the Society of St Vincent de Paul is also a political battleground where church factions struggle for control.

E25. A Reason to Kill

Jul 31, 1995 · 60m

y Andrew Fowler. When do householders have the right to shoot intruders? In Australia going gun crazy or are honest citizens simply defending themselves against the bad guys?

E26. Baby Blues

60m

Ex BBC: Women speak frankly about the impact of post-natal depression.

E27. The Men Who Saved Australia

60m

By Chris Masters. When the Japanese were on Australia's doorstep we didn't send our frontline troops, we sent our chocolate soldiers. Ill-trained and ill-equipped, they held the Kokoda Trail and defeated the enemy. 50 years after the war, Four Corners talks to the men who saved Australia.

E28. Shadow Boxing

60m

By Mick O'Donnell. Twenty years after the Indonesian invasion of East Timor, the 27th Province remains 'the stone in the shoe' of Australian-Indonesian relations. Four Corners examines the troubled relationship and speaks to General Herman Mantiri, the Indonesian Ambassador that Australia rejected.

E29. The House of Murdoch

60m

By Ali Cromie. Rupert Murdoch has built up one of the world's most powerful media conglomerates, but who will succeed him?

E30. The Lie in the Sky

Sep 4, 1995 · 60m

By David Hardaker. The Nomad was Australia's own aviation marvel - a plane we would market to the world. But the plane was a 'widow maker' and after 20 years of cover up, now we can barely give them away.