On Sunday’s 60 Minutes a significant investigation into the failings that risked compromising operations and lives of AFP cops.
Breaking Cover
Being a police officer can typically be harmful, however throughout the Australian Federal Police there’s a particular division of cops whose function is so continually treacherous that daily is a matter of life and dying. They’re undercover operatives who work on the very entrance line of crime-fighting in Australia and internationally. The safety of those officers ought to be a precedence, however remarkably, when the AFP performed a high-level inquiry into its personal undercover program, it discovered main failings that risked compromising operations and lives. In a significant investigation by 60 Minutes, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, Nick McKenzie reviews that police insiders are actually so frightened in regards to the security of their courageous colleagues they’re breaking cowl within the hope of attaining long-term accountability and reform.
Reporter: Nick McKenzie
Producers: Amelia Ballinger, Hannah Bowers, Serge Negus
First Aid
Over the previous 15 years Australia has given the Solomon Islands greater than three billion {dollars} in assist – excess of every other nation has given. Without doubt the assistance is way wanted, however whether or not it’s appreciated is one other matter. It appears the Solomon Islands authorities is way more grateful for the far much less assist it receives from China. In a particular report for 60 Minutes, Eryk Bagshaw, North Asia correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, travels to the Solomons to research the very decided battle between east and west to win hearts and minds on this strategically essential Pacific nation.
Reporter: Eryk Bagshaw
Producer: Natalie Clancy
Sole Destroying
When somebody goes to a physician or a surgeon for remedy, the expectation is they are going to be seen by an expert with a correctly accredited medical qualification, proper? Well, it’s arduous to imagine, however that’s not all the time the case. In Australia there’s a bunch of practitioners performing sophisticated operations who don’t have medical levels. They fairly lawfully name themselves podiatric surgeons and so they say they’ve their very own particular credentials which allow them to deal with foot and ankle issues. But on this joint investigation with The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, Amelia Adams meets sufferers who’ve been left in persistent ache and with life-long scars, after surgical procedures they want that they had by no means agreed to.
Reporter: Amelia Adams
Producers: Serge Negus, Charlotte Grieve
7pm Sunday on Nine.
