Season 1991

E1. Winning the Peace

Feb 11, 1991 · 45m

With all the problems in the Middle East, is there any chance of an enduring peace?

E2. The Lie of the Land

Feb 18, 1991 · 45m

The recession in the country.

E3. Bad Blood: The Fairfax Story

Feb 25, 1991 · 45m

The collapse of the Fairfax media empire plays out like high drama, filled with family conflict, failed ambition, and public consequences. Journalist David Marr unravels the story behind the downfall, featuring rare insights from key Fairfax family members - James, John, and Lady Fairfax; as they break their silence on the ill-fated attempt by young Warwick Fairfax to privatize the company.

E4. The Home Front

Mar 4, 1991 · 45m

Tonight, a forum examines how Gulf War has tested the racial tolerance of Australians. Hosted by Andrew Olle, broadcast from Bankstown Town Hall.

E5. The New Terror

Mar 11, 1991 · 45m

Vincent Cannistrato, retired chief of the CIA, reveals that the world's most feared terrorist organisations are assembled in Bagdad, and that after the Gulf War, attacks, aimed mainly at western civilians, will be chronic.

E6. The Dancing Bear

Mar 18, 1991 · 45m

The BBC's Gavin Hewitt reports on President Gorbachev's extraordinary fall from public favor in the Soviet Union.

E7. The Birmingham Six: Their Own Story

Mar 25, 1991 · 45m

The six Irishmen talk about their 16 years in jail, imprisioned for a crime they didn't commit.

E8. Six Pack Country

Apr 1, 1991 · 45m

With the Aboriginal Deaths In Custody report due to be handed to the Government next week, David Marr reports on an Aboriginal community who are fighting violence, poverty and a growing death rate.

E9. To Catch A Thief: The Saga Of The National Crime Authority

Apr 8, 1991 · 45m

An insight into Australia's premier law enforcement agency, the NCA, which is now held up to ridicule after a series of disastrous bungles during the past three years.

E10. Labor's Watergate

Apr 8, 1991 · 45m

A report by Deborah Snow on the Labor Party's entanglement with WA Inc how it started and where it will go.

E11. Children Of Chernobyl

Apr 22, 1991 · 45m

Mothers and doctors speak out about the grim reality of life five years after the world’s worst nuclear accident.

E12. Titan of Trash

Apr 29, 1991 · 45m

Brisbane City Council awarded the US company Pacific Waste Management a multi-million dollar contract. Mark Colvin reports on this company and the garbage disposal methods that are being questioned.

E13. Labour Discord

May 6, 1991 · 45m

A report on proposed changes to deplete the power of New Zealand's unions. Andrew Olle questions Liberal Party members about their similar plans for Australian unions.

E14. Sick at Heart

May 13, 1991 · 45m

The circumstances surrounding premature deaths of Aboriginal adults and children.

E15. RIP - Retirement Income Perils

May 20, 1991 · 45m

An investigation into the pros and cons of superannuation funds.

E16. Over a Barrel

May 27, 1991 · 45m

An exploration of the power of the alcohol lobby and the weakness of government regulation.

E17. Debate On The Federal Leadership Challenge

Jun 3, 1991 · 45m

Andrew Oile chairs a studio debate on the latest political events in Canberra.

E18. No Vacancy

Jun 10, 1991 · 45m

Mark Colvin reports on the impact of the recession.

E19. The Flickering Light of the Hill

Jun 17, 1991 · 45m

On the eve of the ALP Centenary National Conference in Hobart, Jonathan Holmes talks to the important, self-important and neglected members of the Australian Labor.

E20. Blood on the Bougainvillea

Jun 24, 1991 · 53m

Deborah Snow's report focuses on the uprising in Bougainville and features an interview with Papua New Guinea's Bougainville commander, Colonel Leo Nuia, admitting that helicopters provided by Australia had been used to dump rebels' bodies at sea. Nuia was sacked after the program aired. The program won a Walkley Award for Best Investigative Report.

E21. Dr Who?

Jul 1, 1991 · 45m

A profile of Opposition Leader Dr John Hewson, the man who could be Australia's next Prime Minister.

E22. Slovenia Independence

Jul 8, 1991 · 45m

Tony Jones backgrounds the long-running struggle within Yugoslavia and the implication of Slovenia's determination to continue its fight for independence.

E23. Escape From Tiananmen

Jul 15, 1991 · 45m

An investigation into what became of those people who led the democracy movement inside China, Hong Kong, the United States and Britain.

E24. Big Buck Territory

Jul 22, 1991 · 45m

State governments are being forced to reexamine the rules surrounding secret political donations, first Queensland, then WA and now the Northern Territory has been called to account.

E25. The Big Finish

Jul 29, 1991 · 60m

A moving portrait of the conductor Stuart Challender, who at the time of filming in 1991 was the chief conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. What the public didn’t know was that he was dying from AIDS. But Stuart Challender was not defeated by his illness. Despite being progressively weakened, he continued to perform, using the short time he had left as a spur to his musical achievement. The program won the 1991 Walkley Award for Best Application of TV Medium to Journalism.

E26. Star Wars

Aug 5, 1991 · 45m

The media circus and the Gulf war.

E27. The Ship Breakers

Aug 12, 1991 · 45m

An report into oil tanker disasters.

E28. Keating's Accounting

Aug 19, 1991 · 45m

Paul Keating defends his record as Labor's Treasurer for the past eight years. He talks about the recession we had to have; the unemployed, the 'Banana Republic', and more.

E29. Cloak and Daggar

Aug 26, 1991 · 45m

On this, the 30th anniversary of the program, Chris Masters presents a report that casts serious doubt on the evidence against six Croatian Australians who were convicted of a terrorist conspiracy to bomb targets around Sydney.

E30. The Soviet Break-Up

Sep 2, 1991 · 45m

David Marr and Monica Attard report live from Moscow on the extraordinary session of the Soviet Congress of Deputies called to overturn the Soviet Union.