Background Briefing

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.