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Background Briefing brings you true stories not everyone will want you to hear.
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Dots are so strongly associated with traditional Aboriginal visual language that Shane gets asked why he doesn’t paint them.
In a caravan park in central NSW, a group of grey nomads were sold a Utopia - a “home base” to hang up the keys and enjoy “real estate security”. They sunk their life savings into houses in the park, with the ads promising it “couldn’t be sold out from underneath” them. But then, it was.
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?
1A 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.
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.
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.
Testosterone is often marketed as a silver bullet that can help you build muscle mass, improve your energy levels and fix your sex life. But as reporters Tynan King and Maddison Connaughton discover, the reality doesn’t always live up to the hype, and the people running testosterone replacement therapy clinics don’t always have their clients' best interests at heart
Anna grew up believing she was an orphan. But she later discovered she’d been lied to. And that she's one of many Australian adoptees who has been misled.
Nathaniel Train was renowned as a distinguished principal who could deliver impressive results for disadvantaged schools. His childhood friend, reporter Josh Robertson, investigates what fateful events led to Nathaniel's transformation into a cold-blooded killer.
One morning reporter Josh Robertson woke up, read the headlines, and made a terrible realisation.
He is shut off from the outside world. Locked inside a makeshift jail in north Syria for the past five years, Hamza doesn’t even know who the Prime Minister is. This Australian citizen is one of thousands of suspected ISIS members imprisoned with no charges.
Sometimes they’re armed with a chainsaw, sometimes a bottle of poison, and often they’re operating in broad daylight. So why is it so hard to catch Sydney’s tree killers?
Daniel Duggan’s career was spent pushing warplanes to their limits. Now the United States wants him extradited from Australia and prosecuted for conspiracy. The Australian pilot says he innocent, and believes he’s a pawn in the geopolitical contest between the US and China.
Olivia went on Australia’s biggest show to find love. She came out as Australia's "most hated" reality TV star and lost almost everything.Reporter Annika Blau investigates the making of a TV villain.
It was the infamous Royal prank call that shattered lives. One woman took her own life; another is haunted to this day. Reporter Rachael Cusick investigates - how did a joke go so wrong?
On the outskirts of Dubai there is a secret scam factory, where hundreds of employees smoke, eat, and pretend to be glamorous women — but one has a secret plan to shut it all down.
There's a saying that every good story needs a bad guy.
How the Commonwealth Bank tried to stop a royal commission by using dirt files, intimidation, threats and surveillance against whistleblowers and journalists. Reporter Adele Ferguson investigates.
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May turn out to be a trial by media.... he sounds very inauthentic to say the least. His poor parents and sister.
#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.