Series 2007 (2007)

The Culture
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February 12, 2007 • 45m

It's blokey and it's bolshie, the envy of other unions, with near blanket coverage of its workforce. For decades it has sought to ...Read more

Battling the Booze
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February 19, 2007 • 45m

You don't have to be sitting on a street corner urinating in your trousers and shadow boxing to be a drunk. I'm living proof of that... - Ian

The Denial Machine
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February 26, 2007 • 45m

For years the global warming debate has swirled like a firestorm. Science has been tossed about in a tornado of spin from doomsaye...Read more

The Road to Return
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March 5, 2007 • 45m

Who's tough on crime? It's an election season ritual: the law and order auction to see which party will put more cops on the stree...Read more

Firestorm
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March 12, 2007 • 45m

Across southern Australia, fire chiefs are anxiously waiting for the cool draughts of autumn to extinguish another stress-filled s...Read more

You Only Live Twice
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March 19, 2007 • 45m

Our world might be getting smaller, thanks to technology, but virtual worlds and games are booming. Millions of people venture dai...Read more

A Hidden Life
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March 26, 2007 • 45m

In May 2005, citizens of Spokane, USA, woke to startling news about their city's mayor, Jim West. The outwardly conservative Repub...Read more

David Hicks' Story
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April 2, 2007 • 45m

With a wispy moustache and long, lank hair, it was a different David Hicks who just faced US military court in Guantanamo Bay, Cub...Read more

Treechange
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April 9, 2007 • 45m

Australia is planting trees. After years of debate about logging old growth forests what could seem more sensible or more worthy? ...Read more

Earth, Wind and Fire
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April 16, 2007 • 45m

Picture a windswept hillside lined with slender white skyscrapers, each crowned by a giant whirring rotor longer than a jumbo jet....Read more

Painting the Mind
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April 23, 2007 • 45m

Imagine surviving a massive brain injury, then waking up in hospital to discover your personality has completely transformed.

The Dark Arts
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April 30, 2007 • 45m

"Well mate... let me just say this to you. I mean you wouldn't know this but I'm not a f...... good enemy to have..." (Brian Burke on the telephone)

Dr Rosanna Capolingua
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May 7, 2007 • 45m

A confronting report in which fit and healthy elderly Australians reveal plans to take their own lives before they lose their inde...Read more

Mississippi Cold Case
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May 21, 2007 • 45m

One spring day in 1964, Charles Moore and Henry Dee were hitchhiking in rural Mississippi. The two black men were picked up by the...Read more

A Private Affair
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May 28, 2007 • 45m

Nick off, it's not for sale!... Qantas shareholder's answer to the takeover offer.

Torture
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June 4, 2007 • 45m

"No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment." (Universal Declaration of Human Rights)

Ghost Prisoners
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June 11, 2007 • 45m

Shackled, gagged and blindfolded, they are bundled on to spy planes, spirited to Third World capitals and dumped in prison hellhol...Read more

Tough Calls
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June 18, 2007 • 45m

"We run an absolute dictatorship and that's what's going to drive this transformation and deliver results... If you can't get the ...Read more

The Home Front
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June 25, 2007 • 45m

While politicians clash noisily over global warming and how to fight it, millions of Australians are trying modestly to cut their ...Read more

Forward Base Afghanistan
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July 2, 2007 • 45m

Like Star Wars figures beamed back to the 17th century, Australia's hi-tech, lethally-equipped soldiers cut a surreal presence as ...Read more

Real Spooks
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July 9, 2007 • 45m

Across Britain counter terrorism forces are gathering evidence against the planners of the failed car bomb plots in London and Gla...Read more

The Cape Experiment
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July 16, 2007 • 45m

"If they don't take responsibility then we will step in. We want the system to work so that when people don't take responsibility ...Read more

For The Children's Sake
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July 23, 2007 • 45m

"My baby was the last thing that I thought about until I pulled that needle out of my arm." Sharon, drug user.

Grist to the Mill
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July 30, 2007 • 45m

It started with dinner in a Hobart restaurant. The head of Tasmania's biggest timber company and the then Deputy Premier chatted a...Read more

The Behaviour Business
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August 6, 2007 • 45m

An angry child, lashing out at the world, struggling at school, labelled a 'problem'. The desperate parents, looking for help, hop...Read more

EYES WIDE OPEN
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August 13, 2007 • 45m

When was the last time you had a good night's sleep? Are you one of the million-plus Australians who spend their nights watching t...Read more

Friends of God
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August 20, 2007 • 45m

"I don't think you can win without them. And I think if they're unified, you'll lose if they go against you. John Kerry learned th...Read more

First Do No Harm
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August 27, 2007 • 45m

How do you know if you can trust your doctor? How do you know if they have the skills to heal you? How do you find out, what all t...Read more

When Kids Get Life
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September 3, 2007 • 45m

The crimes are shocking, the perpetrators alarmingly young. A 15-year-old who brutally murdered his parents; a 15-year-old partici...Read more

Hokey Pokie
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September 10, 2007 • 45m

"There's no country in the world that has gambling in clubs and pubs in the way that we do in Australia." Professor Jan McMillen.

Mortgage Meltdown
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September 17, 2007 • 45m

"When the US sneezes the rest of the world gets the cold."

Afghanistan Unveiled
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September 24, 2007 • 45m

The pictures were shocking. A woman swathed in a blue burqa, stumbling across the ground, barely able to see. Forced to her knees,...Read more

The Trials of Dr Haneef
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October 1, 2007 • 45m

On Saturday June 30 an explosives-filled Jeep Cherokee careered into Glasgow's airport terminal. Images of the flaming car and one...Read more

Burma's Secret War
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October 8, 2007 • 45m

Democracy will just have to wait. The rallies have been crushed and the protesters are in captivity, in hiding, or fleeing the cou...Read more

The Brethren Express
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October 15, 2007 • 45m

They don't vote and they repudiate any organised role in politics. It's God's call, they say, whether governments stand or fall.

The Real Godfather
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October 22, 2007 • 45m

They called him The Tractor. "He mowed people down," explained an informant.

Flying Blind
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October 29, 2007 • 45m

"If you think about all the planes that are available as being puppies in a litter, the Super Hornet is the runt." US aviation analyst James Stevenson

Tracking the Intervention
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November 5, 2007 • 45m

After decades of hollow promises, it was time to cut the talk. In Canberra's eyes the rolling scandal of child sexual abuse in Ind...Read more

The Undecided
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November 12, 2007 • 45m

In the political marketplace, their votes are gold dust. People like Matthew, Nicole, Mark, Deanne and George will determine who g...Read more