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Mar 26, 2022 • 39min

The quiet drug crisis you haven't heard about

Prison authorities know that drugs are constantly finding their way into our prisons.But the most commonly detected drug is one you might never have heard of.And health experts are warning there’s a disaster looming for addicted inmates when they get out.Mahmood Fazal reports.This episode contains explicit language.
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Mar 19, 2022 • 42min

The scientists questioning a serial murder case

She was convicted of killing her four children nearly two decades ago.But new scientific evidence has come to light, leading some of Australia’s most respected scientists to argue that Kathleen Folbigg was actually the victim of a terrible miscarriage of justice.Some of those scientists now say Australia needs to establish a whole new body to review potentially wrongful convictions.Rachael Brown reports.Special thanks to Flinders University Adjunct Associate Professor Robert Moles for his research assistance.
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Mar 12, 2022 • 36min

Inside aged care's Omicron chaos

This wave of coronavirus caused more Australians to die in aged care homes than any variant before it.This time we had vaccines and we had time to prepare.Reporter Geoff Thompson investigates how it went so wrong during Omicron.
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Mar 5, 2022 • 40min

Catching a Fugitive | Part 2

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?
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Feb 26, 2022 • 36min

Catching a fugitive | part 1

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.
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Feb 19, 2022 • 39min

The boss you can't escape from

Why a part of our workforce is afraid to speak up, even if their lodgings have bedbugs, it's hard to get a shower, or their pay is getting docked by random amounts.Reporter Mario Christodoulou investigates.
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Feb 12, 2022 • 40min

How COVID chokes a hospital

For months the NSW government assured the public that its hospitals were coping through the pandemic.But frontline staff are now speaking out about the barely controlled chaos behind the scenes.Reporter Mayeta Clark investigates what really happened during Omicron's peak.
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Feb 5, 2022 • 43min

The kids who broke out of detention

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.
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Jan 29, 2022 • 45min

Summer Season: Her name was Mhelody Bruno

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.
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Jan 15, 2022 • 38min

Summer Season: A far-right troll's journey from an Ipswich bedroom to global infamy

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 mixing with the top ranks of the white power movement.This is a repeat of a program that aired in July 2021.

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