Background Briefing

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Background Briefing episodes

April 03, 2023 PRESENTS - Lazarus Heist series 2
Background Briefing will be back in a few weeks.
5 min
March 23, 2023 Prisoner of the State
In a nursing home lives an elderly man who is being held against his will.
42 min
March 17, 2023 The Psychedelic Rush
Reporters Geoff Thompson and Annika Blau investigate how Australia became the first country to give scripts for trips.
37 min
March 09, 2023 Dead Man's Secrets | 02
In the second and final episode of Dead Man's Secrets, reporter Josh Robertson investigates the grisly murder of the powerful Papuan executive who negotiated one of Australia’s biggest foreign assistance packages.
32 min
March 02, 2023 Dead Man's Secrets | 01
A shocking murder takes place in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea.
33 min
February 23, 2023 How the system failed to save Darcey and Chloe | 02
When two infants die after being left inside a hot car, their family seek answers to how this could have happened.
32 min
February 15, 2023 How the system failed to save Darcey and Chloe | 01
Queensland authorities failed to heed multiple serious warnings that a young pair of sisters were in danger, before it was too late.
39 min
February 09, 2023 The psychiatrist and his star patient
Kate thought she'd finally found a psychiatrist who cared about her.
37 min
February 03, 2023 Under the Eye of Iran | 02
Massoud was heading to a protest outside Tehran's embassy in Canberra when a phone call confirmed his worst fears had come true.
39 min
January 26, 2023 Under the Eye of Iran | 01
Protesters say they're being ordered to read false confessions and their activities are under surveillance.
38 min

About Background Briefing

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Background Briefing is the ABC's flagship investigative journalism podcast. Its award-winning investigations and documentaries expose cover-ups, corruption, real-life mysteries, whistleblowing, crime, fraud and miscarriages of justice — often before these stories receive mainstream attention.