Background Briefing

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April 01, 2017 Nightmare build
Buying a new apartment?
Defects are driving many owners to court to get their leaks and defects fixed after they discover changes to insurance law means they are no longer covered.
It's you versus the builder, so bring your lawyer. Tim Roxburgh investigates.
39 min
March 26, 2017 Katherine Hospital: Back from the brink
Just five years ago this Northern Territory hospital was facing closure. Its doctors were out of their depth and indigenous patients were leaving the wards in droves. This is the remarkable story of how Katherine Hospital turned its fortunes around and the lessons to be learned.
42 min
March 25, 2017 Katherine Hospital: Back from the brink
Just five years ago this Northern Territory hospital was facing closure. Its doctors were out of their depth and indigenous patients were leaving the wards in droves. This is the remarkable story of how Katherine Hospital turned its fortunes around and the lessons to be learned.
42 min
March 19, 2017 The schools squeeze: how the apartment boom is overcrowding classrooms
Too many students and not enough classrooms. How did government's get it so wrong? David Lewis investigates.
38 min
March 18, 2017 The schools squeeze: how the apartment boom is overcrowding classrooms
Too many students and not enough classrooms. How did government's get it so wrong? David Lewis investigates.
38 min
March 12, 2017 How did Westpac's e-waste end up on the worst dump in the world?
There's a roaring international racket in hazardous e-waste. This is the story of how one of our biggest banks discovered its e-waste dumped on West Africa's notorious Agbogbloshie dump in Ghana. Rebecca Le Tourneau investigates.
37 min
March 11, 2017 How did Westpac's e-waste end up on the worst dump in the world?
There's a roaring international racket in hazardous e-waste. This is the story of how one of our biggest banks discovered its e-waste dumped on West Africa's notorious Agbogbloshie dump in Ghana. Rebecca Le Tourneau investigates.
37 min
March 05, 2017 How Centrelink's 'robodebt' ran off the rails
The government's troubled debt recovery system has caused an uproar. Thousands of welfare recipients have been hit with debts which they have no idea how they were calculated. Colin Cosier investigates.
35 min
March 04, 2017 How Centrelink's 'robodebt' ran off the rails
The government's troubled debt recovery system has caused an uproar. Thousands of welfare recipients have been hit with debts which they have no idea how they were calculated. Colin Cosier investigates.
35 min
February 26, 2017 No shelter at the showground
An Australian town rises up against homeless people who set up a tent shantytown at the local showground. Bronwyn Adcock reports on a big city problem that's come to Nowra on the NSW south coast.
43 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.