Holding power to account for 60 Years, Four Corners continues to expose scandals, trigger inquiries, lead national debate and confront the issues...

It's blokey and it's bolshie, the envy of other unions, with near blanket coverage of its workforce. For decades it has sought to influence election...

You don't have to be sitting on a street corner urinating in your trousers and shadow boxing to be a drunk. I'm living proof of that... - Ian

For years the global warming debate has swirled like a firestorm. Science has been tossed about in a tornado of spin from doomsayers and doubters,...

Who's tough on crime? It's an election season ritual: the law and order auction to see which party will put more cops on the streets or increase...

Across southern Australia, fire chiefs are anxiously waiting for the cool draughts of autumn to extinguish another stress-filled season of sparks,...

Our world might be getting smaller, thanks to technology, but virtual worlds and games are booming. Millions of people venture daily into these new...

In May 2005, citizens of Spokane, USA, woke to startling news about their city's mayor, Jim West. The outwardly conservative Republican, who had...

With a wispy moustache and long, lank hair, it was a different David Hicks who just faced US military court in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. No longer the...

Australia is planting trees. After years of debate about logging old growth forests what could seem more sensible or more worthy? And yet a national...

Picture a windswept hillside lined with slender white skyscrapers, each crowned by a giant whirring rotor longer than a jumbo jet. Or a swathe of...

Imagine surviving a massive brain injury, then waking up in hospital to discover your personality has completely transformed.

"Well mate... let me just say this to you. I mean you wouldn't know this but I'm not a f...... good enemy to have..." (Brian Burke on the telephone)

A confronting report in which fit and healthy elderly Australians reveal plans to take their own lives before they lose their independence. Is this a...

One spring day in 1964, Charles Moore and Henry Dee were hitchhiking in rural Mississippi. The two black men were picked up by the Ku Klux Klan,...

Nick off, it's not for sale!... Qantas shareholder's answer to the takeover offer.

"No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment." (Universal Declaration of Human Rights)

Shackled, gagged and blindfolded, they are bundled on to spy planes, spirited to Third World capitals and dumped in prison hellholes. There they face...

"We run an absolute dictatorship and that's what's going to drive this transformation and deliver results... If you can't get the people to go there...

While politicians clash noisily over global warming and how to fight it, millions of Australians are trying modestly to cut their energy use, to be a...

Like Star Wars figures beamed back to the 17th century, Australia's hi-tech, lethally-equipped soldiers cut a surreal presence as they cautiously...

Across Britain counter terrorism forces are gathering evidence against the planners of the failed car bomb plots in London and Glasgow. The forensic...

"If they don't take responsibility then we will step in. We want the system to work so that when people don't take responsibility we're able to step...

"My baby was the last thing that I thought about until I pulled that needle out of my arm." Sharon, drug user.

It started with dinner in a Hobart restaurant. The head of Tasmania's biggest timber company and the then Deputy Premier chatted about future plans...

An angry child, lashing out at the world, struggling at school, labelled a 'problem'. The desperate parents, looking for help, hoping that one day...

When was the last time you had a good night's sleep? Are you one of the million-plus Australians who spend their nights watching the minutes tick by,...

"I don't think you can win without them. And I think if they're unified, you'll lose if they go against you. John Kerry learned that. Al Gore learned...

How do you know if you can trust your doctor? How do you know if they have the skills to heal you? How do you find out, what all too often, the...

The crimes are shocking, the perpetrators alarmingly young. A 15-year-old who brutally murdered his parents; a 15-year-old participant in a fatal...

"There's no country in the world that has gambling in clubs and pubs in the way that we do in Australia." Professor Jan McMillen.

"When the US sneezes the rest of the world gets the cold."

The pictures were shocking. A woman swathed in a blue burqa, stumbling across the ground, barely able to see. Forced to her knees, then shot in the...

On Saturday June 30 an explosives-filled Jeep Cherokee careered into Glasgow's airport terminal. Images of the flaming car and one of the attackers,...

Democracy will just have to wait. The rallies have been crushed and the protesters are in captivity, in hiding, or fleeing the country. Military...

They don't vote and they repudiate any organised role in politics. It's God's call, they say, whether governments stand or fall.

They called him The Tractor. "He mowed people down," explained an informant.

"If you think about all the planes that are available as being puppies in a litter, the Super Hornet is the runt." US aviation analyst James Stevenson

After decades of hollow promises, it was time to cut the talk. In Canberra's eyes the rolling scandal of child sexual abuse in Indigenous communities...

In the political marketplace, their votes are gold dust. People like Matthew, Nicole, Mark, Deanne and George will determine who governs Australia...