Background Briefing

A shocking murder takes place in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea.

When two infants die after being left inside a hot car, their family seek answers to how this could have happened.

Queensland authorities failed to heed multiple serious warnings that a young pair of sisters were in danger, before it was too late.

Kate thought she'd finally found a psychiatrist who cared about her.

Massoud was heading to a protest outside Tehran's embassy in Canberra when a phone call confirmed his worst fears had come true.

Protesters say they're being ordered to read false confessions and their activities are under surveillance.

It's one of the most effective forms of contraception available.

There's a violent territorial dispute between rival gangs in Sydney’s west.

Charles Batham has been in hiding for years, and after two narrow escapes the trail goes cold. Then, reporter Erin Parke gets a tip-off that that brings the global investigation back from the brink – but will the truth ever come out about Batham’s dark past?

A tall, eccentric Englishman with a secret double life flees Australia. For nine years he remains on the run. What he doesn't know is that two Australian women are tracking his movements from afar. Reporter Erin Parke was one of them.