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Latest episodes

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.

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.

Jan 8, 2022 • 45min
Summer Season: The hidden park of last resort
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.

Jan 1, 2022 • 43min
Summer Season: 'The ghosts are not silent'
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.

Dec 25, 2021 • 41min
Summer Season: The death Uber Eats disowned
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.

Dec 18, 2021 • 44min
Summer Season: The place where people mysteriously disappear
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.

Dec 11, 2021 • 43min
The giant wind farms clearing Queensland bush
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.

Dec 4, 2021 • 42min
The infiltrator who helped hatch a terror plot
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.

Nov 27, 2021 • 40min
The biggest financial scandal you've never heard of
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.

Nov 20, 2021 • 41min
Boom time in carbon farming country
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.