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Background Briefing brings you true stories not everyone will want you to hear.
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1A woman has lost the ability to speak and is forced to communicate by blinking. From her hospital bed she tries to blink out a request, but hospital staff refuse to help.Background Briefing can reveal that similar situations are playing out in many public health facilities across Australia, as patients pursue their legal right to die, and healthcare workers say "no".
This week reporter and Dharawal woman Brooke Fryer goes inside a program that's helping violent men turn their lives around.
He left a trail of defect-riddled apartment buildings across Sydney and debts exceeding $600m to his creditors. Police have issued a warrant for his arrest. The NSW Premier has even offered to pay for his flight back to Australia. This week, Background Briefing tracks down the notorious and elusive Jean Nassif, who gives his first exclusive sit-down interview since he left Australia more than a year ago.
Ruby's barely a teenager, and already she's become a champion bull rider. She's also had eight concussions and multiple brain bleeds. Reporter Tynan King investigates how this extreme sport became her obsession — even as it threatens her life.
There are only two witnesses to Brad Balzan's final moments: the two officers who chased him into his backyard. But their accounts of what happened don't match up.
As the investigation into Bradley Balzan's death continues, serious questions are raised about how the country’s largest police force uses its search powers.
Brad Balzan is shot dead in his own backyard after a police encounter goes wrong. In episode two of Stop and Search, a new mini-series by Background Briefing, reporter Paul Farrell asks why was he running away, and why did the officers chase him down?
A 20-year-old is chased by four plain-clothes police officers into his western Sydney backyard. But he hasn't committed a crime. He hasn't even done anything wrong. He's shot twice, and then dies. In a special miniseries by Background Briefing, the final moments that led to this tragic incident are pieced together. The reporter is Paul Farrell.
There are women choosing to “freebirth” completely outside the medical system.
They have anonymous leaders, manifestos, and even a flag with a snake on it.
‘Cities’ are popping up across Bali’s spiritual heartland. Can villagers from Ubud hold back a tsunami of foreign money and preserve the island's culture?
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. Reporter Anne Connolly investigates what happens when the state rules you're incapable of looking after yourself.
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.
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.
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.
When two infants die after being left inside a hot car, their family seek answers to how this could have happened. Reporter Alexandra Blucher tracks down a child safety officer involved in their case, and hears why she believes the girls' deaths could have been prevented.
After an electoral officer helped police arrest a popular state minister, her life began to unravel.
"Simone" arrived on a remote island to help asylum seekers. But she witnessed something there that convinced her to leak over 2000 documents. Reporters Paul Farrell and Maddison Conaughton investigate what happened.
From humble beginnings, Fahad faced hurdles entering medical school. Now, he fights for equal access to medical education. Marty Smiley reports.
Father-of-three Ayman Dhlan started a WhatsApp group to help Australians and their families get out of war-torn Gaza. Now he can barely put his phone down.
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#Bravery.
#courage 🙏
Get your life together Andy, hopefully listening to this will help you stop
excruciating pain is all I can say 😭
This was terrible. Incredibly poor journalism. 32 minutes in and the first mention of climate change. And that was a few seconds in passing without drawing a direct parallel between fossil fuels and climate change. Eraring workers going waaah about the loss of their jobs IN 3 AND A HALF YEARS. Imagine being given 3 1/2 years to transition to a new gig. They are also saying govts not planning for just transition, but gutlessly not calling out LNP govts as the culprits. Also made out like Kean didn't know it was coming, when it is on the record that he did. I am all for just transition. Very strongly so. And it shouldn't just be for coal. But call out the actual govts who failed these people.
What an amazing brave woman. Thank you for another fantastic podcast ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
There is absolutely nothing 'real' about reality tv. It's a formulaic creation that manipulates and edits the "contestants" into specific character types to manufacture conflict, suspense and drama. The networks love these shows because they are relatively cheap and easy to make. No need to pay actual script writers or professional actors let alone all the other people that are needed to create quality shows. It's all about ratings and advertising dollars and the sooner people stop watching and supporting this garbage tv the sooner we can hopefully stop being bombarded by it.
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This is such good journalism!! absolutely incredible. Keep it up! these people are so so dangerous and need to be exposed.
what a nightmare for emergency personnel dealing with idiots who choose to do drugs. he would have overdosed anyway or killed an innocent person so better him than anyone else.
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One of the best podcasts available, keep up the excellent work. just terrible this is occurring in Australia.
Thank you so much for this enlightening and heart-breaking story. Much love and care to all communities 💕
Absolutely frightening, thank you once again you have done an outstanding job. Please pass my gratitude onto the staff at the hospital I can't express how much I appreciate the fact they keep going to work.
these idiots that think it's funny to do drugs put such a burden on our emergency services. 😒
An interesting counterpoint to the podcast Wrong Skin
Why is it when people hear voices that aren't Jesus it God they are treated as having a psychiatric illness but it seems to be OK if it's Jesus and God? Another great podcast.
I can't believe that the African dude wanted asylum because of a family tiff. he could have gone to another part of Kenya to live but scammed a student visa with full intent to apply for asylum. 😒
I am appalled by the Judges behavior and apparant complete lack of empathy to the point of callousness. The image of him pacing atop his perch of pompous privalage as he throws out case after case without a second thought was shameful. Thanks to the ABC for shedding light on this, an excellent show with solid reporting. An example of the ABC at it's best. would love to hear a follow up episode on some the applicants featured.
Far out. This is a must listen episode. We can't act on what we're not measuring. This is a recipe for disaster.