Background Briefing
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Serena
Jan 22, 2024
Each episode is thoughtfully researched and presented, the stories are relevant and engaging, and the audio mixing is always excellent. Ad-free.
Dec 26, 2022
Darren
Apr 11, 2021
Aussie stories you probably won't hear any where else. Reports are well investigated and produced.
May 13, 2020
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Mar 14, 2020
worth a listen.
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| Episode | Date |
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The Whistleblowers
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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A mother's message and the hospital that didn't want to hear it
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Tears, tea and bloodshed — can violent men ever change?
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Finding Jean Nassif
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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Dancing with Bulls
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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04 Stop and Search | The Botched Backyard Operation
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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03 Stop and Search | The Numbers Game
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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02 Stop and Search | Last Moments Before Gunshots
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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01 Stop and Search | Where's Brad?
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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What's the price of a freebirth?
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Meet the AI insiders who say it’s time to ‘accelerate or die’
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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'They use us': The Balinese villagers taking on Russian-backed developers
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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Summer Season: Prisoner of the State
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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Summer Season: Remy was 12 when she became a drug dealer
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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Summer Season: False Witness
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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Summer Season: Darcey and Chloe Part 01 - How the system failed to save two baby girls
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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Summer Season: Darcey and Chloe Part 02 - How the system failed to save two baby girls
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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Summer Season: The Whistleblower who helped catch a paedophile politican
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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Summer Season: The whistleblower who exposed Australia’s secretive offshore detention system
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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Summer Season: An aspiring doctor from the 'burbs takes on medical schools for elitism
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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A one-man consulate and a mysterious list: How to get out of Gaza
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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Hitler, Stalin and Shirley Temple lived in the Australian outback
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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An aspiring doctor from the 'burbs takes on medical schools for elitism
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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How an ADHD diagnosis was the start of Natalia’s life unravelling
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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The whistleblowers who stared down threats from Australia's biggest bank
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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The whistleblower who believed his employer was covering up an oil spill
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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The whistleblower who exposed Australia’s secretive offshore detention system
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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The Whistleblower who brought down Australia's Dr Death
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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The Whistleblower who captured the nation — and the man who unmasked her as a fraud
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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The Whistleblower who helped catch a paedophile politican
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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INTRODUCING — 'The Whistleblowers', a new series from Background Briefing
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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Can a rape trial be a positive experience?
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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03 | The outland or the cage
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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02 | The outland or the cage
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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01 | The outland or the cage
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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'What's your p(doom)?' Why AI experts are calculating our doomsday odds
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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The little-known religious code ruling many major public hospitals
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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Fashion victims
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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Inside the battle to keep cocaine out of Australia
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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False Witness
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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Grim Prospects | 02
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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Grim Prospects | 01
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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The woman who offers one last chance for an Australian visa
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May 25, 2023 |
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Remy was 12 when she became a drug dealer
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May 20, 2023 |
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The Fine Print
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May 11, 2023 |
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Prisoner of the State
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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The Psychedelic Rush
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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Dead Man's Secrets | 02
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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Dead Man's Secrets | 01
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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How the system failed to save Darcey and Chloe | 02
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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How the system failed to save Darcey and Chloe | 01
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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The psychiatrist and his star patient
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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Under the Eye of Iran | 02
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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Under the Eye of Iran | 01
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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The tiny device that can cause huge pain
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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Summer Season | Meet the teens at the frontline of organised crime
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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Summer Season | Catching a Fugitive | 02
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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Catching a fugitive | part 1
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Dec 29, 2022 |
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Summer Season | Is getting quality care at medicinal cannabis clinics just pot luck?
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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Summer Season | Kidnapping the Gods | 02
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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Summer Season | Kidnapping the Gods | 01
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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The little-known religious code ruling many major public hospitals
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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Has the age of AI already begun?
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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Pain in Paradise 02 | Byron's Thin Blue Line
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Nov 19, 2022 |
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Pain in Paradise 01 | What happened in Lateen Lane?
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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Under the Eye of Iran
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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The tiny device that can cause huge pain
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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Is the AFLW ready for Tiwi magic?
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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A far-right troll's journey from an Ipswich bedroom to global infamy
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Is getting quality care at medicinal cannabis clinics just pot luck?
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Oct 08, 2022 |
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Faulty Towers 02 | 'The scummiest landlord in the state'
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Faulty Towers 01 | The birdman of Surry Hills
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Meet the teens at the frontline of organised crime
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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Inside the climate activists’ plan to shut down Australia
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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What happened to the Saudi sisters?
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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What happened to the Saudi sisters?
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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The billion dollar industry helping students cheat
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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Who's developing the wilderness?
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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The artisan farmers taking on Victoria's meat regulator
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Jul 16, 2022 |
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The fight for control over Black births
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Jul 09, 2022 |
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Will any koalas be left in Australia's east by 2050?
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Jul 02, 2022 |
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What goes on inside Australia's first long COVID clinic?
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Jun 25, 2022 |
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Kidnapping the Gods | Part 2
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Jun 18, 2022 |
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Kidnapping the Gods
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Jun 11, 2022 |
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The teachers are not alright
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Jun 04, 2022 |
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Why Queensland's sex workers say the law puts their lives at risk
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May 28, 2022 |
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The 'holy grail' of IVF that went wrong
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Apr 23, 2022 |
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When the floodwater goes, what's next?
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Apr 16, 2022 |
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The mums accused of poisoning their kids
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Apr 09, 2022 |
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The end of Australia's biggest coal fired power plant
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Apr 02, 2022 |
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The quiet drug crisis you haven't heard about
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Mar 26, 2022 |
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The scientists questioning a serial murder case
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Mar 19, 2022 |
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Inside aged care's Omicron chaos
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Mar 12, 2022 |
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Catching a Fugitive | Part 2
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Mar 05, 2022 |
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Catching a fugitive | part 1
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Feb 26, 2022 |
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The boss you can't escape from
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Feb 19, 2022 |
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How COVID chokes a hospital
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Feb 12, 2022 |
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The kids who broke out of detention
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Feb 05, 2022 |
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Summer Season: Her name was Mhelody Bruno
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Jan 29, 2022 |
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Summer Season: A far-right troll's journey from an Ipswich bedroom to global infamy
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Jan 15, 2022 |
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Summer Season: The hidden park of last resort
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Jan 08, 2022 |
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Summer Season: 'The ghosts are not silent'
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Jan 01, 2022 |
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Summer Season: The death Uber Eats disowned
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Dec 25, 2021 |
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Summer Season: The place where people mysteriously disappear
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Dec 18, 2021 |
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The giant wind farms clearing Queensland bush
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Dec 11, 2021 |
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The infiltrator who helped hatch a terror plot
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Dec 04, 2021 |
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The biggest financial scandal you've never heard of
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Nov 27, 2021 |
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Boom time in carbon farming country
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Nov 20, 2021 |
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The hidden terror that's splitting people's identities
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Nov 13, 2021 |
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Vulnerable, unvaxxed, and running out of time
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Nov 06, 2021 |
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How a conspiracy and a question led to 18 years jail
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Oct 30, 2021 |
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Untouchable Assets | Part 3
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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Untouchable Assets | Part 2
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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Untouchable Assets | Part 1
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Oct 03, 2021 |
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The scientists and shamans of psychedelic retreats
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Oct 02, 2021 |
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The Sydney security expert helping Afghan journalists escape
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Sep 25, 2021 |
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'The ghosts are not silent'
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Sep 18, 2021 |
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What it's like to face terrorism charges
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Aug 14, 2021 |
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Inside the epicentre of Australia's Delta outbreak
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Aug 07, 2021 |
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Reality TV's reckoning
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Jul 31, 2021 |
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A far-right troll's journey from an Ipswich bedroom to global infamy
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Jul 24, 2021 |
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Myanmar: The Spring Revolution
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Jul 17, 2021 |
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Unmasking Monsters
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Jul 10, 2021 |
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Her name was Mhelody Bruno
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Jul 03, 2021 |
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The death Uber Eats disowned
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Jun 26, 2021 |
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The death Uber Eats disowned
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Jun 26, 2021 |
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The killer we've invited into the lounge room
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Jun 19, 2021 |
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How Australians are escaping India's Covid catastrophe
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Jun 12, 2021 |
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The rural stoush fuelled by our chicken meat obsession
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Jun 05, 2021 |
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The memo that erased a scandal
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Apr 24, 2021 |
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The Archbishop, the luxury pad, and the COVID-ravaged aged care home
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Apr 17, 2021 |
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The hidden park of last resort
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Apr 10, 2021 |
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The Base Tapes | Part 2
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Apr 03, 2021 |
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The Base Tapes | Part 1
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Mar 27, 2021 |
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The small town torn apart by big bets
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Mar 13, 2021 |
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The place where people mysteriously disappear
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Mar 06, 2021 |
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The chilling secrets of a Melbourne guru
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Feb 27, 2021 |
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A nearby nurse and the firefighter left to wait in agony
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Feb 20, 2021 |
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The fight to stop a tiny battery from killing kids
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Feb 13, 2021 |
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The scientists and shamans of psychedelic retreats
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Feb 06, 2021 |
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Summer Season: how one school failed its students
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Jan 02, 2021 |
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Summer Season: This judge’s unfair decisions upended people’s lives. What can be done about it?
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Dec 26, 2020 |
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Summer Season: He wanted an ambulance. He got a police "dog box".
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Dec 19, 2020 |
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Summer season: Inside the brazen tax scam where the homeless are made company directors
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Dec 12, 2020 |
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Buyer Wanted - Mothballed Oil Rig
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Dec 05, 2020 |
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The billion-dollar sports industry that can't keep up with the cheats
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Nov 28, 2020 |
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450 days trapped on a cargo ship
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Nov 21, 2020 |
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How contact tracers confront lies on the COVID frontline
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Nov 14, 2020 |
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Introducing: Thin Black Line
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Nov 07, 2020 |
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The Ponzi scheme that preyed on faith
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Oct 31, 2020 |
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Welcome to Tent City, the underside of WA's coronavirus success story
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Oct 24, 2020 |
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A horrific playground incident: how one school failed its students
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Oct 17, 2020 |
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Are these two scholars really a threat to Australia's security?
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Oct 10, 2020 |
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How banks help criminals get rich: Part 2
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Oct 03, 2020 |
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How banks help criminals get rich
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Sep 26, 2020 |
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Assange's extradition: what's really at stake?
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Sep 12, 2020 |
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Response from Falun Dafa Association of Australia
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Aug 24, 2020 |
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The Power of Falun Gong, Part 3
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Aug 08, 2020 |
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The Power of Falun Gong, Part 2
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Aug 01, 2020 |
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The Power of Falun Gong, Part 1
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Jul 25, 2020 |
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No one told these country mums why their babies died
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Jul 18, 2020 |
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Meet the debt monster
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Jul 11, 2020 |
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Why was this woman sent to a men's prison?
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Jul 04, 2020 |
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The rallying cry heard the world over
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Jun 27, 2020 |
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Who seeks to profit from the trauma of abuse survivors?
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Jun 20, 2020 |
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Why Australia's spies think the far right could find a foothold during coronavirus
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Jun 13, 2020 |
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The controversial push to rebrand raw milk
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Jun 06, 2020 |
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How were the kids in this town contaminated?
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May 30, 2020 |
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Having a baby alone: How the pandemic has changed how we give birth
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May 21, 2020 |
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Drive-by dinners: Food relief in the time of Corona
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May 19, 2020 |
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Prison outbreak: Prisoners released to protect them from COVID-19
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May 14, 2020 |
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Hotel Corona: How the pandemic could fix homelessness
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Apr 25, 2020 |
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Who's profiting from the pandemic?
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Apr 18, 2020 |
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'People will die': Country hospital fears it won't cope with coronavirus
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Apr 04, 2020 |
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How we're getting through this
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Mar 28, 2020 |
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He wanted an ambulance. He got a police "dog box".
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Mar 21, 2020 |
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Mutants or miracles? Australia's GM cows
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Mar 14, 2020 |
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'If I can't get my house fixed, I'm homeless'
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Mar 07, 2020 |
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How fracking could threaten Australia's Paris target
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Feb 29, 2020 |
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Inside the brazen tax scam where the homeless are made company directors
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Feb 15, 2020 |
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This predator targeted victims on Tinder for years. Why wasn’t he stopped sooner?
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Feb 08, 2020 |
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This judge’s unfair decisions upended people’s lives. What can be done about it?
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Feb 01, 2020 |
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Summer special: Murder on trial
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Jan 25, 2020 |
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Summer special: The Golden Nugget Affair
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Jan 18, 2020 |
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Summer special: The Birdman of Surry Hills
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Jan 11, 2020 |
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Summer special: This meth we’re in
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Jan 04, 2020 |
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Summer special: Welfare to worse
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Dec 28, 2019 |
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Summer special: Flight of Fancy
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Dec 21, 2019 |
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Licence to drill
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Dec 14, 2019 |
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The problem with winning
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Dec 07, 2019 |
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'Should have been a wedding, not a funeral'
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Nov 30, 2019 |
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"No water, no us"
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Nov 23, 2019 |
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Where to now?
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Nov 16, 2019 |
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State of emergency
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Nov 11, 2019 |
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Are Australians aiding China's surveillance state?
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Oct 12, 2019 |
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Are Australians aiding China's surveillance state?
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Oct 12, 2019 |
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Prepare to burn
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Oct 06, 2019 |
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Who is burning sacred objects in the outback?
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Sep 21, 2019 |
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What happens in Surf Club...
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Sep 14, 2019 |
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Who watches over our judges?
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Sep 07, 2019 |
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How vaping will make you free
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Aug 31, 2019 |
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Out of jail, 2 nights to find a home
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Aug 17, 2019 |
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The Birdman of Surry Hills
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Aug 11, 2019 |
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Welfare to worse
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Aug 03, 2019 |
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The Pub Test: why Australia can't stop drinking
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Jul 27, 2019 |
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Under The Hammer
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Jul 20, 2019 |
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The Golden Nugget Affair
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Jul 14, 2019 |
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"Slaughter" house — the scandal inside ANZ
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May 25, 2019 |
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Proxy war: The outsiders campaigning for the major parties
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May 11, 2019 |
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From bias to brutality: How Australia is failing minority groups
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May 04, 2019 |
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Shitposting to the Senate: How the alt-right infiltrated Parliament
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Apr 21, 2019 |
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The sexual abuse scandal nobody's talking about
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Apr 13, 2019 |
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How some of Australia's biggest live music shows were funded by a Ponzi scheme
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Apr 06, 2019 |
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Flight of fancy: The mysterious case of the night parrot
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Mar 30, 2019 |
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Haircuts and hate: The rise of Australia's alt-right
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Mar 21, 2019 |
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This meth we’re in: Businesses profit from residential drug lab contamination fears
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Mar 16, 2019 |
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Inside Australia's segregated hotel rooms
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Mar 09, 2019 |
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Doxxed: Exposing the terrifying new frontier in online abuse
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Feb 23, 2019 |
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What if your day in court lasted just five minutes?
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Feb 16, 2019 |
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Murder on trial: Was a Melbourne woman’s conviction beyond reasonable doubt?
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Feb 09, 2019 |
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Gridlock: Australia’s electricity system buckles as politicians stall on energy policy
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Feb 02, 2019 |
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Haircuts and hate: The rise of Australia's alt-right
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Jan 27, 2019 |
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Death in Chinatown: Who's looking after international students?
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Jan 19, 2019 |
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Not fare: How taxi licences collapsed in value, destroying lives and livelihoods
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Jan 12, 2019 |
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The drugs don't work: Patients and paramedics expose Queensland Ambulance Service scandal
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Jan 06, 2019 |
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Dirty rotten phone calls: The anatomy of a scam
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Dec 22, 2018 |
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From verbal abuse to axe murder: The death of Canberra mum Tara Costigan
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Dec 15, 2018 |
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From verbal abuse to axe murder: The death of Canberra mum Tara Costigan
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Dec 15, 2018 |
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The bird and the businessman: A billionaire developer's plan to build on a protected wetland
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Dec 08, 2018 |
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The Implant Files: Global investigation reveals extent of harm caused by medical devices (Part 2)
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Dec 02, 2018 |
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The Implant Files: Global investigation reveals extent of harm caused by medical devices (Part 1)
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Nov 26, 2018 |
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Burning obsession: The fight to stop bushfire arson
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Nov 24, 2018 |
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Slavery in the suburbs: Migrant women abused for dowry
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Nov 17, 2018 |
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Breaking point: Australia under pressure to evacuate sick children from Nauru (Part 2)
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Nov 07, 2018 |
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Two years of Trump: Is America great again?
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Nov 03, 2018 |