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Australia's leading nightly public affairs program, bringing you more exclusive investigations and real-life stories of extraordinary Australians. Plus, a unique perspective on the issues of the day. Presented by Leigh Sales.

The coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic is crippling London. The NHS is buckling under the sick and the dead, the city's famous pubs and West End shows are closed, and the usually bustling streets deserted as people work from home. Only taxi drivers can't work from home, and there's no work for them on the streets. We investigate how the city's black cab drivers are surviving and adapting, with some delivering food instead of passengers, but many are destined for the black cab graveyard.

Australia's leading nightly public affairs program, bringing you more exclusive investigations and real-life stories of extraordinary Australians. Plus, a unique perspective on the issues of the day. Presented by Leigh Sales.

For six decades, this program has been exposing scandals, triggering inquiries, leading national debate, and confronting the issues that matter to us all. In 2021, Australia's premier investigative journalism program turns 60.

Australia's leading nightly public affairs program, bringing you more exclusive investigations and real-life stories of extraordinary Australians. Plus, a unique perspective on the issues of the day. Presented by Leigh Sales.

David Speers and a panel of political commentators look back on the events of the past sitting week in parliament, including what we learnt from Senate Estimates. Plus, what we can expect in May's Federal Budget.

Australia's leading nightly public affairs program, bringing you more exclusive investigations and real-life stories of extraordinary Australians. Plus, a unique perspective on the issues of the day. Presented by Leigh Sales.

MP Craig Kelly is accused of ignoring allegations and concerns raised about his trusted advisor Frank Zumbo. Floods continue to devastate parts of NSW. New documents shed more light on how NSW bushfire grants were decided.

More than 40 years after the end of the Vietnam war, one brave grandmother is suing the US chemical companies that produced Agent Orange, including Dow Chemical and Bayer-Monsanto. Could this case set a precedent for the millions of Vietnamese victims and their children and grandchildren still impacted by the use of this deadly chemical spray?

The mid-North Coast of NSW has endured six days of relentless rain and flooding, and people are running out of essential supplies like food, fuel and power. The long-running debate over plans to raise the Warragamba Dam wall. Laura Tingle reports on criticisms of Scott Morrison's handling of sexual assault and harassment allegations in federal parliament.

Australian reporter Lily Mayers moved to Spain, the country of her ancestors, in the midst of the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic as the country endures its worst upheaval since the civil war. Filmed over six months, Into the Outbreak paints an intimate portrait of a people struggling to survive through a once-in-a-lifetime crisis.

When former coalition staffer Brittany Higgins came forward to allege that she had been raped in a ministerial office in Parliament House, it horrified the country. Her account of effectively being silenced for political reasons sparked outrage and condemnation of the culture of Canberra. Four Corners investigates how and why Brittany Higgins’ story was kept quiet for almost two years. The program examines the key questions of who knew what, and when, and whether there’s been a cover-up.

Drought, fire and now floods - another massive natural disaster is hitting NSW. Laura Tingle reports on the latest political developments. The flood disaster has added more delays to the national coronavirus COVID-19 vaccine rollout.

David Speers interviews shadow home affairs minister Kristina Keneally. Mike Bowers talks pictures with the Australian columnist Jack the Insider. On the panel are Triple J Hack's Shalailah Medhora, the Age and Sydney Morning Herald's Peter Hartcher and Samantha Maiden from News.com.au to discuss the federal government's response to the Women's March 4 Justice, Christian Porter commencing defamation proceedings against the ABC, and encouraging jobs figures.

In this episode of 7.30, the team reports on the state of the global cruise ship industry a year after the Ruby Princess docked at Sydney Harbour; the future of the Whyalla Steelworks amid financier Greensill Capital's collapse; and Leigh Sales interviews Tina Arena.

Australia's leading nightly public affairs program, bringing you more exclusive investigations and real-life stories of extraordinary Australians. Plus, a unique perspective on the issues of the day. Presented by Leigh Sales.

This is a story no parent can afford to miss. During global coronavirus COVID-19 lockdowns, police reported a huge increase in the number of people viewing and sharing child sexual abuse images online. In the 1990s, there were 10,000 such images - now there are more than 47 million. Evan Williams reports from the UK where the government has pledged to become the safest place in the world for kids to use the internet. He meets the police officers, counsellors and investigators trying to stop the proliferation of abuse material, and he meets victims and perpetrators who bravely share their stories.

Australia will share some of its coronavirus COVID-19 vaccine supply with Papua New Guinea as the country struggles to contain a looming health catastrophe. Health workers in the US are bracing for a possible fourth wave of infections.