Four Corners

Four Corners looks at how being pregnant can still cost Australian women their jobs.

Being pregnant or a mother can still cost women their jobs, decades after the Sex Discrimination Act started. From the factory floor to the executive suite, pregnancy discrimination remains part of workplace culture in Australia.

One of the organisations that tracks the issue across three states says calls have increased significantly in the last two years, with 600 complaints about pregnancy discrimination in the last financial year alone. Experts say many women don't pursue a legal claim and those who do must navigate a complex and expensive system, often with lengthy delays. Some are now calling for change, including a legislative overhaul to address systemic issues that prejudice women during this significant time in their lives and careers.

Four Corners' reporter Avani Dias has spoken to women who say they've been fired, demoted, discriminated against, or offered sham redundancies when they were pregnant or returning to work after the birth of a child. More than 100 women told Four Corners they experienced pregnancy discrimination and, after analysing the data, the program reveals the tactics used by employers against working mothers and pregnant women in the workplace.

Four Corners on Monday returns to serious concerns in Childcare centres around Australia.

Australia's childcare system has undergone its biggest safety crackdown in years. But has it gone far enough?

The Gold Walkley-winning Four Corners team that exposed serious failures across the sector is putting the reforms to the test.

Reporter Adele Ferguson reveals some of the most shocking CCTV vision of children being assaulted, a horrifying reality of what can happen in childcare when safety standards fail, and in this centre in far north Queensland when no one was watching.

The case exposes a largely hidden part of the childcare system. Four Corners has identified 473 services operating outside the National Quality Framework, without the same national standards and scrutiny.

From remote centres to some of our big for-profit chains, this investigation lays bare just how vulnerable children can be when safeguards fail, and interrogates whether the government is doing enough, fast enough, to keep children safe.

Americans go to the polls in what might be one of the most consequential elections in modern United States history.

Donald Trump isn't on the ballot paper, but this will be a referendum on his presidency.

With his approval rating at a record low, the president is whipping up the MAGA base, warning of electoral fraud and the threat of impeachment if the Democrats take control of Congress.

Former Trump insiders are alarmed by the president's campaign to undermine voter confidence in the electoral process, including the possibility of his administration deploying ICE agents at polling places.

They have a warning of their own —  a desperate president could do anything to cling to power.

From Washington DC to Mississippi, South Carolina and Colorado, Four Corners reporter Mark Willacy investigates whether the greatest threat to these elections is the Trump administration itself.

A police officer with more than two decades in the force commits suicide. Her bereaved family looks for answers, but a coroner's report doesn't offer any solace.

Months later, Victoria Police's internal integrity division is tasked with investigating activities at the station where she worked, exposing an ugly culture of sexism, bullying and harassment, conduct that Victoria's Police Commissioner Mike Bush condemns as "unacceptable".

With questions raised around material withheld from the Coroner, the officer's family say the force failed her. They want a public inquest.

In this episode of Four Corners, reporter Louise Milligan investigates who's policing the police and reveals what happened when investigators exposed a hidden trail of illegal and unethical conduct.