Background Briefing

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July 29, 2017 Nowhere to go: Disability housing sell-off sparks fears for vulnerable
A radical move to privatise government group homes for people with disability is underway in NSW ahead of the introduction of the National Disability Insurance Scheme. David Lewis investigates.
36 min
July 29, 2017 Nowhere to go: Disability housing sell-off sparks fears for vulnerable
A radical move to privatise government group homes for people with disability is underway in NSW ahead of the introduction of the National Disability Insurance Scheme. David Lewis investigates.
36 min
July 09, 2017 Europe's drug wars
Twenty years after the assassination of Irish crime reporter Veronica Guerin, gangland killings continue in Dublin. The gangs have links across Europe, where authorities are struggling to keep up with an ever-changing drug trade.
1 min
July 08, 2017 Europe's drug wars
Twenty years after the assassination of Irish crime reporter Veronica Guerin, gangland killings continue in Dublin. The gangs have links across Europe, where authorities are struggling to keep up with an ever-changing drug trade.
1 min
July 08, 2017 Europe's drug wars
Twenty years after the assassination of Irish crime reporter Veronica Guerin, gangland killings continue in Dublin. The gangs have links across Europe, where authorities are struggling to keep up with an ever-changing drug trade.
1 min
July 02, 2017 Drill and fill: dentists up in arms over the risks of corporate dentistry
As health insurance companies and corporate chains buy up surgeries, some dentists say benchmarks and bonuses are influencing the type of treatment you get when you’re in the chair. Paddy Manning reports.
39 min
July 01, 2017 Drill and fill: dentists up in arms over the risks of corporate dentistry
As health insurance companies and corporate chains buy up surgeries, some dentists say benchmarks and bonuses are influencing the type of treatment you get when you’re in the chair. Paddy Manning reports.
39 min
July 01, 2017 Drill and fill: dentists up in arms over the risks of corporate dentistry
As health insurance companies and corporate chains buy up surgeries, some dentists say benchmarks and bonuses are influencing the type of treatment you get when you’re in the chair. Paddy Manning reports.
39 min
June 25, 2017 Shadows of the Sheikh: how an Adelaide Imam with a mysterious past became a media star
He warns we're facing an infestation of radical clerics, and he's called for Islamic schools to be shut down. But Mohammed Tawhidi has a mysterious history that sits awkwardly alongside his new image as reformer-in-chief of Islam in Australia.
41 min
June 24, 2017 Shadows of the Sheikh: how an Adelaide Imam with a mysterious past became a media star
He warns we're facing an infestation of radical clerics, and he's called for Islamic schools to be shut down. But Mohammed Tawhidi has a mysterious history that sits awkwardly alongside his new image as reformer-in-chief of Islam in Australia.
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.