Background Briefing
ABC Australia
Background Briefing is the ABC's flagship investigative journalism podcast. Its award-winning investigations and documentaries expose cover-ups, corruption, real-life mysteries, whistleblowing, crime, fraud and miscarriages of justice — often before these stories receive mainstream attention.
The Background Briefing podcast brings you true stories not everyone will want you to hear, told by trusted reporters across Australia.
This Australian podcast makes investigative journalism bingeable. From scams and fraud to schooling and health scandals, tech and social media digs, police exposes and various unsolved cases, each episode of the Background Briefing podcast is a must-listen.
Recent series include:
Hometown Boys exposed how a terrible crime fractured a local community around a local football club.
The Invisible Killer: a forensic investigation into unexplained deaths in aged care after a doctor makes an unusual discovery.
The Favourite: how a schoolyard secret stayed hidden for years.
Stop and Search, which uncovered the mechanics of power and police accountability.
Before and After investigated medical hype, telehealth, body image, cosmetic procedures and consumer risk.
Beef: how small feuds escalate into serious disputes.
The Background Briefing podcast brings you true stories not everyone will want you to hear, told by trusted reporters across Australia.
This Australian podcast makes investigative journalism bingeable. From scams and fraud to schooling and health scandals, tech and social media digs, police exposes and various unsolved cases, each episode of the Background Briefing podcast is a must-listen.
Recent series include:
Hometown Boys exposed how a terrible crime fractured a local community around a local football club.
The Invisible Killer: a forensic investigation into unexplained deaths in aged care after a doctor makes an unusual discovery.
The Favourite: how a schoolyard secret stayed hidden for years.
Stop and Search, which uncovered the mechanics of power and police accountability.
Before and After investigated medical hype, telehealth, body image, cosmetic procedures and consumer risk.
Beef: how small feuds escalate into serious disputes.
Episodes
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Mar 2, 2023 • 33min
Dead Man's Secrets | 01
A shocking murder takes place in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea.
Feb 23, 2023 • 32min
How the system failed to save Darcey and Chloe | 02
When two infants die after being left inside a hot car, their family seek answers to how this could have happened.
Feb 15, 2023 • 39min
How the system failed to save Darcey and Chloe | 01
Queensland authorities failed to heed multiple serious warnings that a young pair of sisters were in danger, before it was too late.
Feb 9, 2023 • 37min
The psychiatrist and his star patient
Kate thought she'd finally found a psychiatrist who cared about her.
Feb 3, 2023 • 38min
Under the Eye of Iran | 02
Massoud was heading to a protest outside Tehran's embassy in Canberra when a phone call confirmed his worst fears had come true.
Jan 26, 2023 • 37min
Under the Eye of Iran | 01
Protesters say they're being ordered to read false confessions and their activities are under surveillance.
Jan 19, 2023 • 38min
The tiny device that can cause huge pain
It's one of the most effective forms of contraception available.
Jan 12, 2023 • 39min
Summer Season | Meet the teens at the frontline of organised crime
There's a violent territorial dispute between rival gangs in Sydney’s west.
Jan 5, 2023 • 40min
Summer Season | Catching a Fugitive | 02
Charles Batham has been in hiding for years, and after two narrow escapes the trail goes cold. Then, reporter Erin Parke gets a tip-off that that brings the global investigation back from the brink – but will the truth ever come out about Batham’s dark past?
Dec 29, 2022 • 35min
Catching a fugitive | part 1
A tall, eccentric Englishman with a secret double life flees Australia. For nine years he remains on the run. What he doesn't know is that two Australian women are tracking his movements from afar. Reporter Erin Parke was one of them.
