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  1. Long Read | Australia: burnout capital, or how to get a career break right

    This week, Annie Louey discovers what happens when your physical, mental and emotional wellbeing means your career is no longer worth the money.

  2. 05 Agents of Influence | The letters journalists fear

    There’s something shaping what appears in your newsfeed that you might not be aware of. Reporter Gina McKeon investigates.

  3. 04 Agents of Influence | The powerbroker unseated by ‘traitors’

    This week, reporter Annika Blau gets the inside story of a union powerbroker’s rise, and the people who risked it all to stop her

  4. 03 Agents of Influence | The man whose name is all over Sydney

    Take a stroll around Sydney and you'll find his name on many venerated buildings. But this man, a 101-year-old billionaire, has also created machines that risk ruining their users' lives.

  5. 02 Agents of Influence | The Billionaire's New Sport

    A former oil tycoon has just bought the streaming rights to Australia’s great homegrown sports, the AFL and NRL. This week, reporter Marty Smiley investigates one of the richest men in the world - who is Len Blavatnik?

  6. 01 Agents of Influence | The PM's secret strategists

    Millennial content makers can influence election outcomes from their home studios. After witnessing the power of podcasts in the US election, our political leaders are lining up to get a piece of the action.

  7. Introducing... Agents of Influence

    They're not household names. But they wield serious power under the radar.

  8. Long Read | How deepfakes, nudes and teen misogyny have changed growing up

    This week, Bri Lee investigates tech-assisted gendered abuse by schoolboys against their peers and teachers.

  9. Long Read | The church’s disappearing women

    Three decades after the first ordinations of women to the Anglican priesthood, women are still struggling to reach leadership — and now the congregation is changing too.

  10. 05 The Invisible Killer | Did police miss a murder?

    A court found that Garry Davis injected three victims with lethal doses of insulin during a 48 hour period. But what if there was another victim? Is it possible police failed to collect crucial evidence to prove someone else had also been k

  11. 04 The Invisible Killer | Under the bed

    When reporter Anne Connolly discovers that Garry Davis had a collection of strange items under his bed, it changes the course of her investigation, and raises new fears about the true scale of his crimes.

  12. 03 The Invisible Killer | Reasonable Doubt

    Garry Davis has now been convicted of murdering two residents at SummitCare and attempting to murder a third. But all the evidence against him is circumstantial. Is it possible someone else could have been responsible for the insulin inject

  13. 02 The Invisible Killer | 'Who did this?'

    Someone injected three residents with lethal doses of insulin at an aged care facility in Newcastle. Now, the race is on to catch the killer. Will the police find the clues they need to catch the culprit before any more deaths occur?

  14. 01 The Invisible Killer | Doctor’s discovery

    When residents start falling ill at a nursing home in Newcastle, the workers don't think much of it. After all, people die in aged care all the time. But then, one eagle-eyed doctor finds something that makes him suspect a killer is on the

  15. More to the story... Kathy Jackson’s missing millions

    It looked like the Health Services Union might finally be returned millions of dollars owed by the whistleblower turned convicted fraudster, Kathy Jackson. Then, the money went missing again.

  16. More to the story... Who controls the Murdoch empire?

    Lachlan Murdoch is caught in an ongoing court battle with his siblings to maintain control of the family empire when Rupert Murdoch dies. Now there’s been a judgement.

  17. More to the story... Meeting your mum as an adult

    After Background Briefing's investigation, Anna was flooded with messages from Korean adoptees all over the world. The overwhelming response prompted her to embark on an emotional journey to South Korea, where she arranged to meet her birth

  18. More to the story... Sex, lies and 'big coconut balls'

    When Background Briefing last investigated testosterone salesman Michael Farrelly, he was nowhere to be found. Then, a few weeks ago, came a surprising phone call.

  19. More to the Story... My friend, the cop killer

    Police and politicians labelled the Wieambilla killers evil terrorists. But what really went on inside their heads?

  20. More to the story... Inside a scam factory

    Scam baiter Jim Browning recently helped bring down a multinational scam syndicate in Dubai. His next target is a scam with potential links to the Russian mafia.

  21. 03 Births, Deaths, and Marriages | ‘Horror stories’ from inside the funeral industry

    Ani Valatava went to see her sister’s body at a funeral home in suburban Sydney. She could never have prepared for what she saw next. Reporter Gina McKeon investigates what goes on behind the scenes of Australia’s funeral industry, revealin

  22. 02 Births, Deaths and Marriages | Facebook's sperm marketplace

    When a couple are quoted $13,000 to access a sperm donor through a clinic, they decide to take matters into their own hands. On Facebook, they find a thriving sperm exchange, where they hope they'll have more control over the process. But a

  23. 01 Births, Deaths and Marriages | The Wedding Celebrant

    When Becc and Nathan decided to get married, they wanted something intimate — a small ceremony at home with just their closest friends and family. There was just one problem — the celebrant wasn't who he appeared to be.

  24. The inconvenient patients

    Michelle went to hospital on three occasions, complaining of searing chest pains. She was told to go home and seek therapy for her "anxiety issues". It would not be until months later that she was diagnosed with pericarditis — doctors belie

  25. The cop accused of sharing a suspect's explicit video

    After a police squad stages a tense siege against a dangerous fugitive, a phone is recovered from the crime scene, carrying vital information. But the detective in charge soon finds himself accused of a serious crime and loses his career ov

  26. 03 | Murdoch's Endgame

    Will Lachlan Murdoch succeed in brushing his rival siblings aside to command control over the future of his family’s media empire? Or could we be looking at the end of the century-old family dynasty that runs the world's most powerful conse

  27. 02 | Murdoch's Endgame

    For much of his youth, Lachlan Murdoch seemed ambivalent about being next in line to control the family’s global media empire. So why is his father Rupert now fighting a high stakes battle against three of his other children to ensure Lachl

  28. 01 | Murdoch's Endgame

    Are we looking at the end of the Murdoch family's global media empire? That's the question journalists Paddy Manning and Alex Mann investigate in this special three-part series. This week, they take you inside the family's inner sanctum and

  29. Introducing... Murdoch's Endgame

    The Murdoch family is locked in a secret court battle.

  30. Has dot art spread too far?

    Dots are so strongly associated with traditional Aboriginal visual language that Shane gets asked why he doesn’t paint them.

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