Four Corners celebrates 50 years of broadcasting

Four Corners today celebrates 50 years of broadcast. At the forefront of Australian current affairs for half a century ABC News 24 will air a selection of programs from each decade over the coming five weeks, starting Sunday 28 August.

To coincide, a multimedia exhibition at Ultimo’s ABC Atrium from Monday 22 August to Friday 25 November, open Monday to Friday 9am-6pm.

Highlights over the five weeks include:

The Price of Equality by reporter Frank Bennett examining the action of the Gurindji stockmen, striking over the right to equal pay at Wave Hill station in the Northern Territory which would later lead to the first return of land to Aboriginal people when Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, Originally broadcast  on 1 October 1966, to be aired Sunday 28 August