Program: Background Briefing

Background Briefing brings you true stories not everyone will want you to hear.

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Summer Season: Prisoner of the State

In a nursing home lives an elderly man who is being held against his will. We can’t tell you his name. We can’t tell you his age. We can’t even use his real voice, or the voice of anyone involved in his case.

Published: 14 Dec 2023Thu 14 Dec 2023 at 1:40pm

Duration: 42 minutes 21 seconds

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Summer Season: Remy was 12 when she became a drug dealer

As a teenager, Remy learnt to survive by hustling on the streets of Parramatta. Then she hit the bigtime. Reporter Mahmood Fazal investigates what life is like on the other side of the war on drugs.

Duration: 36 minutes 34 seconds

Published: 14 Dec 2023Thu 14 Dec 2023 at 1:35pm

Summer Season: False Witness

Reporter Heidi Davoren provides an extraordinary insight into a parenting dispute, where a mother and father come together after a Family Court psychologist harmed their family.

Duration: 36 minutes

Published: 14 Dec 2023Thu 14 Dec 2023 at 1:30pm

Summer Season: Darcey and Chloe Part 01 - How the system failed to save two baby girls

Queensland authorities failed to heed multiple serious warnings that a young pair of sisters were in danger, before it was too late. Their grieving family is now desperate to understand why. Reporter Alexandra Blucher investigates.

Duration: 38 minutes 57 seconds

Published: 14 Dec 2023Thu 14 Dec 2023 at 1:25pm

Summer Season: Darcey and Chloe Part 02 - How the system failed to save two baby girls

When two infants die after being left inside a hot car, their family seek answers to how this could have happened.

Duration: 32 minutes 16 seconds

Published: 14 Dec 2023Thu 14 Dec 2023 at 1:20pm

Faulty Towers

Faulty Towers 02 | 'The scummiest landlord in the state'

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that the following program contains references to a deceased Indigenous Australian.

Duration: 38 minutes

Published: 18 Oct 2022Tue 18 Oct 2022 at 11:13pmby Mayeta Clark

Faulty Towers 01 | The birdman of Surry Hills

From piles of rubbish to leaking sewers, rats, and gas leaks.

A man in white inside a room, sitting on arm chair surrounded by framed photographs and parrots.

Duration: 44 minutes

Published: 18 Jul 2023Tue 18 Jul 2023 at 5:28amby Mario Christodoulou

Features

How this Melbourne dad became a one-man consulate, helping Australians and their families get out of Gaza

Ayman Dhlan says he feels a responsibility to answer every message in his WhatsApp chat from people trying to get their family out of Gaza. He's still waiting for news of whether his own mother, brother and sisters have made the list.

Published: 8 Dec 2023Fri 8 Dec 2023 at 6:42pmby Maddison Connaughton Maddison Connaughton, Marty Smiley and Max Chalmers

'The category of domestic animals': Aboriginal people named Hitler, Stalin and Bing Crosby

Across northern Australia, some Aboriginal people have grown up bearing the names of Hollywood stars and fascist dictators. It's a link back to a dark chapter in history.

An Aboriginal man named Bing Crosby and the American singer, Bing Crosby

Published: 4 Dec 2023Mon 4 Dec 2023 at 4:55amby Erin Parke

The odds of becoming a doctor when you live west of the 'Red Rooster line'

You might think all students stand equal at the doorstep of Australia’s universities. But when Fahad tried to become a doctor, he had to navigate a system that seemed to punish him.

Published: 24 Nov 2023Fri 24 Nov 2023 at 7:22pmby Marty Smiley

Natalia started taking Ritalin. Then her career imploded and she lost access to her kids

In the space of 12 months, Natalia derailed her career, ended her relationship, spent $120,000 in savings and lost access to her kids. It started with an ADHD diagnosis.

An unidentifiable woman in a red shirt stands outside in a crowd of people

Published: 18 Nov 2023Sat 18 Nov 2023 at 12:47amby Ange Lavoipierre

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