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42:41

The kids who broke out of detention

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2022/02/05

What children experienced inside Tasmania's youth detention centre for a long time remained out of sight, out of mind.But as Mahmood Fazal discovered, the centre's secrets are coming out now, as more former detainees come forward to tell their stories for the first time.

45:07

Summer Season: Her name was Mhelody Bruno

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2022/01/29

She died in tragic circumstances, but it seems that the public, her family, even the court may not have been given the full story.Elise Kinsella investigates why.This is a repeat of a program that aired in July 2021.

38:09

Summer Season: A far-right troll's journey from an...

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2022/01/15

A young Australian far-right troll was known to his online fans as 'Catboy Kami'. Thousands followed his 'edgy' videos where he targeted children online with a mix of racial stereotypes and hardcore shock tactics. With that fame and notoriety, he's become a useful recruitment tool in the expansion of one of the globe's most extreme social movements.Alex Mann reveals Catboy Kami's true identity and how this young live streamer from south east Queensland ended up in the United States

44:45

Summer Season: The hidden park of last resort

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2022/01/08

It’s one of the last affordable caravan parks near Sydney's CBD where people can actually make a home.Many of the residents were driven here in one of life's desperate moments, but as Mridula Amin discovers, not everyone wants to leave.This is a repeat of a program that aired in April 2021.

43:23

Summer Season: 'The ghosts are not silent'

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2022/01/01

An awkward Christmas lunch conversation sends reporter Sam Carmody on a search for answers about his family history. The stories he finds out about are so disturbing, they have implications not just for his family but for the entire region, where his ancestors have a statue in their honour, a highway and even a town named after them.This is a repeat of a program that aired in September 2021.

41:24

Summer Season: The death Uber Eats disowned

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2021/12/25

Relatives of a dead food delivery rider say he was at work when a truck hit him. Uber Eats says he wasn’t. Patrick Begley investigates.This is a repeat of a program that aired in June 2021.

43:41

Summer Season: The place where people mysteriously...

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2021/12/18

Warren Meyer was a keen bushwalker who always came prepared for a hike. When he vanished in the wild terrain of the Yarra Ranges, police were baffled. Ashlynne McGhee investigates whether his disappearance could be linked to the other unsolved mysteries of Victoria's high country.This is a repeat of a program that aired in March 2021.

42:30

The giant wind farms clearing Queensland bush

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2021/12/11

There’s growing community backlash over the locations chosen for a number of massive new windfarm projects in Northern Queensland.And as Mayeta Clark discovered, its coming from unlikely quarters.

41:30

The infiltrator who helped hatch a terror plot

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2021/12/04

A young Melbourne man got ten years' jail after attempting to buy a gun in preparation for a possible terrorist attack.Now his family is speaking publicly for the first time, raising questions about who escalated the plot.Mahmood Fazal investigates.

39:56

The biggest financial scandal you've never heard of

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2021/11/27

It's been celebrated as Australia's "millionaires' factory".But Macquarie Bank is now caught up in the mother of all tax investigations.Reporter Mario Christodoulou has seen internal company files that show which executives knew what and when.This is a joint investigation made together with German investigative journalism outlet Correctiv.

41:08

Boom time in carbon farming country

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2021/11/20

Graziers are discovering there's millions to be made from their flat red earth.Taxpayers are funding billions to reduce the nation's carbon footprint.Reporter Geoff Thompson investigates whether carbon farming will really undo the damage we're doing from burning fossil fuels.

41:08

The hidden terror that's splitting people's identities

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2021/11/13

Reporter Tracey Shelton spent years as a correspondent giving a voice to people in war zones who'd experienced trauma. When she returned to Australia, she was surprised to find people here suffering similar symptoms, so she set out to investigate the cause.

37:00

Vulnerable, unvaxxed, and running out of time

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2021/11/06

These people were supposed to be near the front of the queue for Covid vaccines.But in Yarrabah, an Aboriginal community near Cairns, local doctors are still scrambling to get the vaccination rate above 50%With only six weeks until the Queensland borders open, reporter Mayeta Clark went to find out why.

44:32

How a conspiracy and a question led to 18 years jail

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2021/10/30

He was sentenced for a crime that shocked Australia: the terrorist plot to attack Sydney's Holsworthy barracks. But Nayef el Sayed's family are still confused about why he's doing so much jail time, and they're not the only ones with questions about the law used to convict him.Mahmood Fazal investigates.

29:01

Untouchable Assets | Part 3

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2021/10/05

As government investigators close in, Asiaciti realises it hasn't been keeping a close watch on some of its risky clients.In this series finale, Mario Christodoulou traverses from Swiss mountaintop chateaux to a Nigerian coup d'etat, to find out exactly what money was secretly flowing through Asiaciti's products.Then, he takes everything he's found to the man who built up the Asiaciti empire from nothing: Graeme Briggs.The ABC reached out to every person named in this story, we

37:33

Untouchable Assets | Part 2

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2021/10/04

A rock concert ticket scalper and a controversial entrepreneur turn to Asiaciti for assistance.Using products from Graeme Briggs' company, they lock away their riches on a small Pacific island nation, out of the reach of authorities.But soon, Asiaciti learns it's got its own crisis to deal with: a global media scandal that threatens the company's very existence. Mario Christodoulou reports.

42:26

Untouchable Assets | Part 1

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2021/10/03

Graeme Briggs enjoys rugby, collecting Japanese fountain pens, and looking after other people's money. The problem for Graeme and his company Asiaciti is that among the many legitimate clients, some of them turn out to be corrupt politicians, fraudsters, and criminals. If that isn't bad enough, nearly two million files from his company's server have been leaked to journalists. So what's Graeme Briggs going to do now? Mario Christodoulou investigates.

40:29

The scientists and shamans of psychedelic retreats

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2021/10/02

There's a landmark project underway in Melbourne to find out whether psilocybin - the hallucinogenic compound in magic mushrooms - can be used to improve end-of-life experiences.But many Australians have already turned to the underground because they're convinced psychedelics improve their mental health.Geoff Thompson investigates whether it's worth all the risks.This is a repeat of a program that aired in February 2021.

35:07

The Sydney security expert helping Afghan journalists...

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2021/09/25

Geoff Thompson follows the dangerous journeys of three Afghan journalists as they attempt to flee the Taliban. Two of them succeed with the help of an Australian man who engineers an escape route for them from his house in Sydney.

43:23

'The ghosts are not silent'

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2021/09/18

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