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July 31, 2006

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Four Corners - S46 - E25

Four Corners often explores extravagant claims and tall tales. Rarely though does it meet a character quite as colourful as author Gavin Menzies.

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Four Corners: Season 46 - 38 Episode s

46x1 - The Greenhouse Mafia
February 13, 2006
Four Corners returns for 2006 with a whistleblower... and revelations of a powerful insiders' club...
46x2 - Wheeling and Dealing
February 20, 2006
There's road rage over private tollways... Have deals between politicians and tollway bosses killed off grand new visions for public transport and decongested streets? Are they creating a road monster that leaves Australians addicted to cars?
46x3 - The Convert
February 27, 2006
Jack Thomas has become the first person to be convicted under Australia's new terrorist funding laws.
46x4 - How The Kids Took Over
March 6, 2006
Kid watching is very grown-up business. The 12-and-unders are a demographic that marketers ignore at their peril.
46x5 - Riot and Revenge
March 13, 2006
One Sunday last December, 5000 Australians gathered at Cronulla, singing and waving the national flag as they "reclaimed" the beach. Fuelled by drink, the crowd became a mob, hunting down and beating anyone who looked Middle Eastern.
46x6 - The Ice Age
March 20, 2006
It's cheap, highly addictive and ultra-powerful. "Ice", or crystal methamphetamine, is now more popular than heroin, playing havoc with the minds and the bodies of nearly 50,000 Australians.
46x7 - Big Fish, Little Fish
March 27, 2006
Seven got life sentences and two are facing death by firing squad - but the blood of the Bali Nine will not stain the hands of this country's crimefighters.
46x8 - Sex Slaves
April 3, 2006
"I sold your wife."
46x9 - Cash Crop
April 10, 2006
For Saddam Hussein, it must have been a no-brainer. He would pay ,000 to a top UN official. In return, Saddam would be showered in billions.
46x10 - Cash Crop Part Two
April 17, 2006
In the space of four days, Australians have witnessed the extraordinary spectacle of their Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister each submitting to rigorous, sustained and public interrogation at the Cole inquiry.
46x11 - Stockwell - Countdown to Killing
April 24, 2006
All of London was on edge when a young electrician, Jean Charles de Menezes, headed off for work on 22 July last year. The previous day, four would-be suicide bombers had attacked the transport system. A fortnight earlier, a series of suicide bombings had killed 52 people.
46x12 - The Making of Zarqawi
May 1, 2006
Many thought he was dead or wounded. But when he dramatically appeared this week in an Internet video, firing off an automatic weapon and anti-American rhetoric, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi looked very much alive.
46x13 - The Boys
May 8, 2006
The Westpoint collapse...Ticky Fullerton digs into the scheme that has wiped out the life savings of thousands of Australians. Who's taken their money? And why did regulators let it happen?
46x14 - A Deathly Silence
May 15, 2006
In the hours before he killed himself in April last year, Campbell Bolton wrote a long note in which he told his family how sorry he was for the pain he was about to cause them. "It fills me with grief when I think of what I have done to you," he wrote.
46x15 - Reigning in Hell
May 22, 2006
Murder, drugs, extortion, robbery, gambling, prostitution... for 40 years, this has been the daily business of the Aryan Brotherhood, according to US law enforcers.
46x16 - The Road to Nowhere
May 29, 2006
There's another story buried deep beneath the horrific headlines about sexual abuse in indigenous Australia.
46x17 - Far From Care
June 5, 2006
Imagine being about to give birth, cocooned in a speeding car on a night-time dash to a hospital that's still hours away, every bump, every brake to dodge a kangaroo sharpening the pain and discomfort.
46x18 - Monkey Love
June 12, 2006
To his fans, research psychologist Harry Harlow was a 20th century hero, a scientific pioneer who revolutionised the way we raise our children today.
46x19 - Stoking the Fires
June 19, 2006
As Australian troops stand between the warring factions in East Timor, Liz Jackson reveals the power plays and intrigues that are tearing the infant nation apart.
46x20 - Car Wars
June 26, 2006
If your late model car goes missing, don't expect to see it again soon.
46x21 - Killed by Care
July 3, 2006
"Do no harm." It's the ethos of medicine, the bedrock principle for all its practitioners.
46x22 - Peak Oil
July 10, 2006
"The price of petrol is disgusting, absolutely disgusting..."
46x23 - The Right Stuff
July 17, 2006
For decades the Liberal Party has carried itself proudly as a broad church, home to a wide spectrum of ideology among members. Now a bitter factional war is playing out in Australia's biggest state that many say is disenfranchising grassroots members and threatening democracy.
46x24 - The Price of Life
July 24, 2006
Breast cancer stalked Becky Measures. It had struck 14 of her female relatives, killing some of them.
46x25 - Junk History
July 31, 2006
Four Corners often explores extravagant claims and tall tales. Rarely though does it meet a character quite as colourful as author Gavin Menzies.
46x26 - Execution of a Teenage Girl
August 7, 2006
Not long after dawn on August 15, 2004 a teenage girl was dragged through a town square in the Iranian provincial city of Neka, past a crowd of people to the spot where a mobile crane had been converted into a makeshift gallows. Atefah Sahaaleh was 16 years old. She was hanged that morning for crimes against chastity.
46x27 - Sick No Good
August 14, 2006
A member of a 'raskol' gang talks about rape as a ritual part of crime. A career truck driver on the highland's highway picks up a teenage prostitute - just part of his routine. A 'hostess supervisor' at a Port Moresby brothel explains that he may tell clients to use a condom with his girls but that sometimes he is too tired to bother. These are voices from Matthew Carney's intimate report on how Papua New Guinea became a hot spot for the AIDS virus.
46x28 - Seachange
August 21, 2006
Cares and crowds are forgotten. Sand crunches between your toes, there's salt on your skin and sun on your back. Here is where blue ocean meets virgin bush, and a golden stretch of beach is all yours for camping, swimming and quiet reflection.
46x29 - What Price Global Warming?
August 28, 2006
Heat waves and cyclones; droughts ravaging farmland; rising seas swamping beach havens; forests drying up and species dying out; the Barrier Reef and Kakadu, icons of nature, doomed.
46x30 - Diet Confidential
September 4, 2006
It's a battle for your body and for your money - a tug-o-war between two powerful forces: the marketing pressure to eat more versus the social pressure to weigh less.
46x31 - Five Years
September 11, 2006
The dust settled long ago at Ground Zero. But the world is still searching for clarity after 9/11.
46x32 - In the Line of Fire
September 18, 2006
They were ordinary suburban Australians setting out on a big overseas adventure... to cheer on the Socceroos at the World Cup, or take in the sights of Europe. They would climax the trip with a visit to ancestral lands in southern Lebanon where they would rekindle family ties, rediscover their heritage and relax.
46x33 - Separate Lives
September 25, 2006
They've launched controversial forays into election campaigns in Australia, New Zealand the US. Now the Exclusive Brethren are drawing more unwanted headlines, this time accused of trawling for dirt on the sex life of the NZ Prime Minister's husband.
46x34 - The A Team
October 2, 2006
It was a signature TV news image of the 1990s: the bush as battleground, greenies blocking bulldozers, shouting slogans and trading insults with angry timber workers.
46x35 - The War on Al Qaeda
October 9, 2006
Two weeks ago a leaked US intelligence assessment gave powerful new ammunition to critics of the Iraq war.
46x36 - @NZACS
October 16, 2006
From Iraq to Solomon Islands and Afghanistan to East Timor, Australia's Army is stretched tight. The burden of overseas deployments weighs like a straining kitbag on the back of each of Australia's 22,443 regular soldiers.
46x37 - Buyer of Beauty, Beware
October 23, 2006
From marginal to mainstream, once furtive but now flaunted, cosmetic surgery is being eagerly explored by Australians from teens to pensioners, female and male.
46x38 - Journey of No Return
October 30, 2006
Each week more than a thousand Australians are delivered the cruel diagnosis: they have dementia - incurable, untreatable, terminal.

46x1 - The Greenhouse Mafia

46x2 - Wheeling and Dealing

46x3 - The Convert

46x4 - How The Kids Took Over

46x5 - Riot and Revenge

46x6 - The Ice Age

46x7 - Big Fish, Little Fish

46x8 - Sex Slaves

46x9 - Cash Crop

46x10 - Cash Crop Part Two

46x11 - Stockwell - Countdown to Killing

46x12 - The Making of Zarqawi

46x13 - The Boys

46x14 - A Deathly Silence

46x15 - Reigning in Hell

46x16 - The Road to Nowhere

46x17 - Far From Care

46x18 - Monkey Love

46x19 - Stoking the Fires

46x20 - Car Wars

46x21 - Killed by Care

46x22 - Peak Oil

46x23 - The Right Stuff

46x24 - The Price of Life

46x25 - Junk History

46x26 - Execution of a Teenage Girl

46x27 - Sick No Good

46x28 - Seachange

46x29 - What Price Global Warming?

46x30 - Diet Confidential

46x31 - Five Years

46x32 - In the Line of Fire

46x33 - Separate Lives

46x34 - The A Team

46x35 - The War on Al Qaeda

46x36 - @NZACS

46x37 - Buyer of Beauty, Beware

46x38 - Journey of No Return

S23: Series 1983

S44: Series 2004

S46: Series 2006

S47: Series 2007

S49: Series 2009

S50: Series 2010

S51: Series 2011

S52: Series 2012

S53: Series 2013

S54: Series 2014

S55: Series 2015

S56: Series 2016

S57: Series 2017

S58: Series 2018

S59: Series 2019

S60: Series 2020

S61: Series 2021

S62: Series 2022

S63: Series 2023

S64: Series 2024