Background Briefing

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October 27, 2018 Breaking point: Australia under pressure to evacuate sick children from Nauru (Part 1)
Has the federal government been ignoring a mental health crisis among child refugees and asylum seekers on Nauru?
Background Briefing has obtained dozens of questionnaires that provide a snapshot of how kids on the island were faring between 2015 and 2017.
A prominent psychiatrist says the results would have been given to senior immigration department bureaucrats yet requests for medical evacuations were repeatedly denied.
Olivia Rousset investigates.
38 min
October 21, 2018 Seeds of doubt: The strawberry punnet whodunit
Across the country, there have been more than 100 reports of needles found inside strawberries picked and packed for public consumption.
The contamination scandal brought an industry to its knees and police are no closer to the truth. It's a mystery ripe for investigation.
Hagar Cohen reports.
44 min
October 20, 2018 Seeds of doubt: The strawberry punnet whodunit
Across the country, there have been more than 100 reports of needles found inside strawberries picked and packed for public consumption.
The contamination scandal brought an industry to its knees and police are no closer to the truth. It's a mystery ripe for investigation.
Hagar Cohen reports.
44 min
October 14, 2018 Haircuts and hate: The rise of Australia's alt-right
In this episode, Alex Mann investigates how Australia's alt-right movement is covertly influencing mainstream politics.
He 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?
45 min
October 13, 2018 Haircuts and hate: The rise of Australia's alt-right
In this episode, Alex Mann investigates how Australia's alt-right movement is covertly influencing mainstream politics.
He 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?
45 min
September 29, 2018 More than a fight: Was the death of an Indigenous teenager an accident or murder?
On New Year's Eve, 1983, the driver of a train passing through Kempsey in NSW made a grim discovery. The body of Lewis "Buddy" Kelly was strewn across the tracks.
Police said the 16-year-old's death was an accident, but his family suspects foul play. The case is one of three eerily similar mysteries. Is there a pattern here? Allan Clarke investigates.
45 min
September 29, 2018 More than a fight: Was the death of an Indigenous teenager an accident or murder?
On New Year's Eve, 1983, the driver of a train passing through Kempsey in NSW made a grim discovery. The body of Lewis "Buddy" Kelly was strewn across the tracks.
Police said the 16-year-old's death was an accident, but his family suspects foul play. The case is one of three eerily similar mysteries. Is there a pattern here? Allan Clarke investigates.
45 min
September 22, 2018 Update: The talented Mr Daly
It was a $20 million investment scheme that saw the retirement savings of more than 100 investors used as a piggy bank for company directors who borrowed funds to cover cash flow problems and even a divorce settlement.
This week, Mario Christodoulou updates his investigation after sighting internal documents suggesting the firm behind the scheme was lying to regulators and associating with "undesirables".
44 min
September 22, 2018 Update: The talented Mr Daly
It was a $20 million investment scheme that saw the retirement savings of more than 100 investors used as a piggy bank for company directors who borrowed funds to cover cash flow problems and even a divorce settlement.
This week, Mario Christodoulou updates his investigation after sighting internal documents suggesting the firm behind the scheme was lying to regulators and associating with "undesirables".
44 min
September 08, 2018 The clinic of last resort: Why it's so hard to get a late surgical abortion
They're legal in most states, subject to conditions, so why are women so often denied late surgical abortions?
In this episode, Hagar Cohen goes inside the only private clinic in the country where pregnancies can be terminated between 20 and 24 weeks.
45 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.