Background Briefing

Even after the black summer Australians have just endured, it's not bushfires that's keeping the nation's insurers awake at night.

Climate change is bringing cyclones further south - towards highly populated areas like Brisbane, the Gold Coast and northern NSW.

Insurers are warning that unless the Federal Government takes drastic action, parts of the country may even become uninsurable.

And as Geoff Thompson discovers, it's not some threat on the horizon - the conditions are already here.

The Morrison Government claims Australia will meet its emissions targets "in a canter".

It points to Australia's status as the world's largest LNG exporter to show how the nation's carbon footprint is getting smaller.

But Background Briefing has seen bombshell emails by government advisors that reveal a very different picture.

Jane Bardon investigates the true extent of Australia's fracking emissions.

It's a long-running ‘dummy director’ scam that’s siphoned tens of millions of dollars from workers, small businesses and the taxpayer.In Victoria, a small group of accountants spent 15 years signing on drug users and homeless Australians to help their clients cheat the system.Reporter Dan Oakes investigates how this was allowed to go on for so long.

Glenn Hartland is a serial rapist who lured four Melbourne women on Tinder. His victims say he continued to use dating apps while on bail. How did the police, the court, and the company behind Tinder allow this to happen?

These Australians were denied a fair hearing by one controversial judge.

Now, for the first time, they're speaking out about their experiences.

Hagar Cohen investigates what happens when the behaviour of a judge inside a courtroom is called into question.