Background Briefing

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.

When he rediscovered the elusive night parrot in 2013, John Young became a hero in the bird world.

But his reputation is now in tatters after the veracity of his latest fieldwork was criticised by a panel of experts.

Did the charismatic naturalist fake evidence of the green and yellow feathered creature?

Ann Jones investigates a scandal that threatens to undermine conservation efforts.

On Friday 15 March 2019 an Australian man opened fire on two mosques in Christchurch, killing 50 people and wounding as many.

There has been much speculation since about where he came from and what his motivations were.A manifesto published online by the shooter before the attacks bears many of the hallmarks of white supremacist rhetoric, including anti-immigrant sentiments and white genocide conspiracy theories – views that align with those of Australia’s Alt Right, which we investigated in a program late last year.

In this replay of our investigation into how Australia’s Alt Right has been covertly influencing mainstream politics, Alex Mann tracks operatives from a secretive fight club in Sydney to the moment one member was elected to the NSW executive of the Young Nationals.  

He also confronts the men involved and asks: what is their vision for Australia, and how far are they willing to go to achieve it?

We’re not suggesting these men were in any way involved in the Christchurch mosque shooting.Since we first broadcast this story – the members we exposed have been kicked out of the Young Nationals.

This is a repeat of a program that aired in October 2018.

Jacki Whittaker thought one of the bedrooms in her Melbourne rental home smelt like "cat piss". But the real culprit was something far more sinister.

The previous tenants had been cooking methamphetamine in the bathroom resulting in significant contamination.

Jacki and her two adult children were told by a testing company they must leave immediately because it wasn’t safe to stay in the house.

But no one really knows how many of us are actually at risk from meth residues because even scientists haven’t even worked it out.

In this episode, Hagar Cohen investigates how some operators in an unregulated meth testing industry are scamming the public and profiting from our fear.