Background Briefing

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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
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
April 21, 2019 Shitposting to the Senate: How the alt-right infiltrated Parliament
The global rise of the alt-right movement has caught the attention of politicians and police in Australia.
But few could have predicted its followers would have already found a home in our federal parliament.
Background Briefing has obtained leaked messages revealing Senator Fraser Anning has employed staff with connections to fascist groups.
The messages also detail a secret plan to disrupt the current election campaign with racist stunts in order to help re-elect him.
Alex Mann investigates.
45 min
April 20, 2019 Shitposting to the Senate: How the alt-right infiltrated Parliament
The global rise of the alt-right movement has caught the attention of politicians and police in Australia.
But few could have predicted its followers would have already found a home in our federal parliament.
Background Briefing has obtained leaked messages revealing Senator Fraser Anning has employed staff with connections to fascist groups.
The messages also detail a secret plan to disrupt the current election campaign with racist stunts in order to help re-elect him.
Alex Mann investigates.
45 min
April 20, 2019 Shitposting to the Senate: How the alt-right infiltrated Parliament
The global rise of the alt-right movement has caught the attention of politicians and police in Australia.
But few could have predicted its followers would have already found a home in our federal parliament.
Background Briefing has obtained leaked messages revealing Senator Fraser Anning has employed staff with connections to fascist groups.
The messages also detail a secret plan to disrupt the current election campaign with racist stunts in order to help re-elect him.
Alex Mann investigates.
45 min
April 13, 2019 The sexual abuse scandal nobody's talking about
When you place a parent or loved one into a nursing home, you trust they'll be looked after by staff.
But sexual abuse in aged care is on the rise and the perpetrators are often the very people paid to care for residents.
The disturbing trend has been allowed to flourish in the absence of mandatory reporting and a national register of employees.
Anne Connolly investigates.
44 min
April 13, 2019 The sexual abuse scandal nobody's talking about
When you place a parent or loved one into a nursing home, you trust they'll be looked after by staff.
But sexual abuse in aged care is on the rise and the perpetrators are often the very people paid to care for residents.
The disturbing trend has been allowed to flourish in the absence of mandatory reporting and a national register of employees.
Anne Connolly investigates.
44 min
April 13, 2019 The sexual abuse scandal nobody's talking about
When you place a parent or loved one into a nursing home, you trust they'll be looked after by staff.
But sexual abuse in aged care is on the rise and the perpetrators are often the very people paid to care for residents.
The disturbing trend has been allowed to flourish in the absence of mandatory reporting and a national register of employees.
Anne Connolly investigates.
44 min
April 13, 2019 The sexual abuse scandal nobody's talking about
When you place a parent or loved one into a nursing home, you trust they'll be looked after by staff.
But sexual abuse in aged care is on the rise and the perpetrators are often the very people paid to care for residents.
The disturbing trend has been allowed to flourish in the absence of mandatory reporting and a national register of employees.
Anne Connolly investigates.
44 min
April 06, 2019 How some of Australia's biggest live music shows were funded by a Ponzi scheme
The 2000s were a great time for Australian live music lovers with some of the biggest artists of the decade touring the nation.
It was also a time when many of these acts were financed by an elaborate Ponzi scheme.
With an exclusive interview with the man behind the fraud, Mario Christodoulou reveals the threats and behind-the-scenes deals that fans never get to see.
Welcome to the brutal and high risk world of concert promotion.
40 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.