Background Briefing

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.

When Jordan wanted to treat his insomnia, he turned to an experimental therapy: medicinal cannabis.

Precious artefacts looted from Cambodia and Thailand made their way into prominent collections here in Australia, and around the world. In the second and final episode of his investigation, Mario Christodoulou investigates why it’s taking so long for these precious works to be returned to their rightful home.

Many ancient Cambodian artifacts arrived in Australia during the 1960s and 1970s, when the south east Asian country was in turmoil. Mario Christodoulou investigates how some had come from looted historic sites or passed through the hands of suspected smugglers, and now feature in major galleries around the world.

Did you know that some of Australia’s largest public hospitals are run according to a religious code of ethics? 

There’s new mind-bending technology that creates immersive media from scratch. 

Five years ago, a confronting video of a violent police encounter shocked the Byron Bay community.

In one dark Byron Bay back alley, a series of baton strikes changes a teenager's life.

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.

AFL superstars like Cyril Rioli and Michael Long forged their talents there.

Note: this episode was originally broadcast in July 2021 and it contains explicit language and confronting themes.

When Jordan wanted to treat his insomnia, he turned to an experimental therapy: medicinal cannabis.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that the following program contains references to a deceased Indigenous Australian.

From piles of rubbish to leaking sewers, rats, and gas leaks.

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

When protesters disrupted one of Australia’s largest container facilities, the NSW Government responded with new broad-sweeping laws that carried 2 year jail terms.