Australia and NZ shows / Background Briefing
Show
Background Briefing
- Publisher
- ABC Australia
- Country
- Australia
- Topics
- News, Society, Culture, Documentary
- Latest episode
- 20 October 2026
- How often it posts
- About weekly
- Episodes published
- 250
About the show
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...
Recent episodes
- INTRODUCING... The Unbreakable Cult
- 03 Dark Menace | Operation Queenstown
- 02 Dark Menace | What Happened At Sunrise
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- Refer to a recent episode by name, so the host can see you listened.
- Offer two or three specific episode ideas, each with a clear angle.
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Show website: www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/backgroundbriefing