Background Briefing

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July 13, 2019 The Golden Nugget Affair
The annual Uluru Camel Cup attracts a prize pool of tens of thousands of dollars, but its largely unregulated under NT law.
After a champion camel named “Golden Nugget” won the 2018 race in controversial circumstances, allegations surfaced that the result was rigged.
Reporter Alex Mann delves deep into the Camel Cup operator’s colourful past to investigate what really happened that day.
41 min
June 08, 2019 Coming soon — Who Runs This Place?
Who really holds the power in Australia? Presented by Richard Aedy, the RN four-part series Who Runs This Place? explores who has real clout in Australia, how power works and how it is changing. It examines the power of Canberra’s parliamentary triangle, the big end of town and the lobbyists, the media and people power. Episode one is available online on June 13 and on air replacing Background Briefing from Sunday June 16 at 8am.
6 min
May 25, 2019 "Slaughter" house — the scandal inside ANZ
Porsches and $5 million bonuses, drinking and late night strip clubbing — we go deep into one of Australia’s biggest ever corporate investigations.
This is an alleged rate-rigging scandal that engulfed our third largest bank, dragging in some of the most senior people in the industry. But has everyone involved been held accountable?
Mario Christodoulou investigates.
43 min
May 25, 2019 "Slaughter" house — the scandal inside ANZ
Porsches and $5 million bonuses, drinking and late night strip clubbing — we go deep into one of Australia’s biggest ever corporate investigations.
This is an alleged rate-rigging scandal that engulfed our third largest bank, dragging in some of the most senior people in the industry. But has everyone involved been held accountable?
Mario Christodoulou investigates.
43 min
May 25, 2019 "Slaughter" house — the scandal inside ANZ
Porsches and $5 million bonuses, drinking and late night strip clubbing — we go deep into one of Australia’s biggest ever corporate investigations.
This is an alleged rate-rigging scandal that engulfed our third largest bank, dragging in some of the most senior people in the industry. But has everyone involved been held accountable?
Mario Christodoulou investigates.
43 min
May 11, 2019 Proxy war: The outsiders campaigning for the major parties
This election campaign has involved more than political candidates and parties on the hustings.
We’ve seen grassroots community groups, political activist organisations and social media players getting involved too.
But, just how influential are they? And is there enough scrutiny on them? Katherine Gregory investigates.
45 min
May 11, 2019 Proxy war: The outsiders campaigning for the major parties
This election campaign has involved more than political candidates and parties on the hustings.
We’ve seen grassroots community groups, political activist organisations and social media players getting involved too.
But, just how influential are they? And is there enough scrutiny on them? Katherine Gregory investigates.
45 min
May 11, 2019 Proxy war: The outsiders campaigning for the major parties
This election campaign has involved more than political candidates and parties on the hustings.
We’ve seen grassroots community groups, political activist organisations and social media players getting involved too.
But, just how influential are they? And is there enough scrutiny on them? Katherine Gregory investigates.
45 min
May 11, 2019 Proxy war: The outsiders campaigning for the major parties
This election campaign has involved more than political candidates and parties on the hustings.
We’ve seen grassroots community groups, political activist organisations and social media players getting involved too.
But, just how influential are they? And is there enough scrutiny on them? Katherine Gregory investigates.
45 min
May 04, 2019 From bias to brutality: How Australia is failing minority groups
They’ve been spat on, punched in the face, and told to go back to where they came from.
Minority groups in Australia insist hate crimes are on the rise since the Christchurch massacre.
There have been thousands of reports of property damage as well as verbal and physical abuse arising from racial discrimination.
So why have so few people been convicted? Hagar Cohen investigates.
41 min

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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.