Four Corners (TV series)
Four Corners is a long-running investigative journalism/current affairs television program produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) in Australia. Based on the Panorama concept, the program addresses a single issue in depth each week, showing either a locally produced program or a relevant documentary from overseas. The program has won many awards for investigative journalism.
In 1983 Four Corners aired allegations that former NSW Premier Neville Wran had tried to influence the magistry over the dropping of fraud charges against Kevin Humphries, charged with misappropriation of funds from the Balmain Leagues Club. Wran stood down and the Street Royal Commission, headed by Justice Lawrence Street, was set up to inquire into this matter. Street exonerated Wran of all allegations laid against him.
A 1987 Four Corners report into political corruption in Queensland when Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen was Premier resulted in a royal commission. This inquiry, known popularly as the Fitzgerald Inquiry covered issues such as corruption in the police force and how Queensland became a police state amongst other things. The same programme has also investigated other cases of corruption in the New South Wales and Victoria police forces.
Another memorable report from 1985 helped to reveal that the French secret service had been responsible for the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior.
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