Background Briefing

ABC Australia

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 series include: Hometown Boys exposed how a terrible cr...

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Background Briefing

Episodes (250)

Yesterday TRAILER — Introducing The Road to Bondi
Feb 20th 06 Hometown Boys | Not the only one
Feb 13th 05 Hometown Boys | 'Luke, Maybe'

Background Briefing

Mar 5, 2026
2 minutes
3 MB

In an ordinary Australian suburb, a father and son are secretly planning something terrible. One fateful summer evening, their path brings them crashing into the lives of strangers from around the world whose own stories haven’t yet been told. You might think you know the story, but there's so much more to tell. In a new three-part series, Background Briefing investigates how the road to Bondi began long before the first shots rang out.

Background Briefing

TRAILER — Introducing The Road to Bondi

ABC Australia

00:00 -01:42