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Revisit the biggest environmental movement Australia has ever seen: the 1982 Franklin River Blockade. This story is nuts. Missing people, death threats, savage political moves, young people flooding into Tasmania to put their bodies in front of bulldozers. Host Jo Lauder investigates how this moveme...
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44 EpisodenINTRODUCING — The Weather That Changed Us
Australia is a wild continent with some of the most intense weather on the planet. From massive bushfires to severe cyclones and devastating flooding;...
Back to school with no bus
Hey Dig listeners. It’s been a while, we know. But we’ve been working on some new stories and will be adding them here when they’re ready.
Dirty Business
In July 2022, floods killed 45 people and caused more than a billion dollars of damage in eastern Kentucky. Then, the people who were supposed to help...
BONUS 2 | The Palawa perspective: Michael Mansell
The Franklin campaign isn't just an environmental conservation story, it's also a story about Aboriginal heritage.
Tasmanian Palawa man, activis...
BONUS 1 | ‘Just keep going’: The persistent protestor, Christine Milne
Christine Milne is a name synonymous with the Greens in Australia, and for her, like so many others, her environmental career began after she was arre...
06 | West Coast shockwaves; a new era for politics and protest
The Franklin river's fate all comes down to a legal challenge between state and federal powers.
In the final episode of Saving the Franklin: the...
05 | Threats, accusations and a Federal election
In this episode of Saving the Franklin, scenes on the West Coast get uglier and uglier, and the campaigners turn to the mainland for support as a Fede...
04 | 'All we had was our bodies': The blockade begins
In this episode of Saving the Franklin, thousands of protesters fly into the sleepy town of Strahan to prepare for the biggest moment in the campaign:...
03 | Secret cave: a game-changing rediscovery no one expected
The campaigners had painted the Franklin River as an untouched natural wonder, a place free from human interference: a wilderness.
But the redis...
02 | The battle lines: 'Greenies' vs workers
The Franklin Dam proposal symbolised a lifeline to struggling communities on Tasmania's West Coast, recovering from the end of a mining era. Yet for e...
01 | A mystery in paradise, before the Franklin River fight
The fight to save the Franklin River started in a totally different part of Tasmania's wilderness: with a proposal to dam the paradise inland beach of...
INTRODUCING — Saving The Franklin
Australia's biggest-ever environmental battle was over a wild river in a remote part of Tasmania: the Franklin. Protesters flooded in from all over Au...
Bonus | Sirens Are Coming — Katherine Wants To Talk
For the first time since taking the stand at the Fitzgerald Inquiry, Katherine James (not her real name) has decided to speak publicly. In this exclus...
Bonus - Sirens Are Coming | New leads
There have been some exciting developments since we published Sirens Are Coming, so stay tuned to this feed for further episodes. In the meantime, if...
06 | Sirens Are Coming – The Greatest Show In Town
The Rat Pack has its day of reckoning: The Fitzgerald Inquiry. Katherine James is key to exposing the corruption that's infiltrated the Queensland pol...
05 | Sirens Are Coming – Change is Coming
Fresh criminal networks emerge and flood Brisbane's streets, in an era known as the New Joke. A determined young hustler, Katherine James, rises throu...
04 | Sirens Are Coming – Old Dogs, New Tricks
A new generation of madams and sex workers begin to find their place in the Sunshine State. An enterprising Simone Vogel stands out in the crowd, unti...
03 | Sirens Are Coming – The Fallout
Just when the Rat Pack look set to crumble, Shirley Brifman is found dead. Meanwhile Dorothy Edith Knight, fresh from taking down Glen Hallahan in the...
02 | Sirens Are Coming – From Kickbacks to Payback
In the early 1970s, The Rat Pack faced a challenge. Shirley Brifman — who lied at the National Hotel Inquiry to protect these crooked cops — would tur...
01 | Sirens Are Coming – The Great Survivor
In 1958, the Rat Pack were born — three dirty cops who would use bribery and extortion for the next forty years in Queensland to wield power over sex...
INTRODUCING — Dig: Sirens Are Coming
Three crooked cops. Four courageous women. A decades-long power struggle that remains full of mysteries to this day.
08 | The Ring In – The Double Sting
What happened to our hapless hero Hayden Haitana and his merry band of race fixers? Before we put our story to bed, there's one more mind-bending twis...
07 | The Ring In – Who's Kidding Who?
When a Sydney gangster is gunned down, speculation is rife that he may have been the mastermind behind the Fine Cotton ring-in. But then, a surprise c...
06 | The Ring In – Stainless Steel Bracelets
Hayden Haitana has become the most well-known — and loved — fugitive in Australia. But the law finally catches up with him and the other culprits. But...
05 | The Ring In – Follow The Dough
In the wake of Haitana's television expose, new players enter the story — in particular, one dogged racing official determined to get beyond the denia...
04 | The Ring In – Hold All Tickets
When the disqualification is announced, all hell breaks loose and the Gillespie crew scatter to the winds. Soon the failed ring-in is making headlines...
03 | The Ring In – Race Day
By some sort of miracle, the horse (that vaguely looks like Fine Cotton) makes it to the barrier. At 33-1 odds, the gang looks set to make a motza, bu...
02 | The Ring In – The Painted Pony
A week out from race day disaster strikes. The fast horse meant to replace Fine Cotton is injured and his sub-in is the wrong colour. The creative sol...
01 | The Ring In – My Friends Call Me Haitch
Meet Hayden Haitana, the lovable, ever-so-slightly dodgy horse trainer who lands himself in Australia's biggest racing scandal. He's going straight, n...
INTRODUCING — Dig: The Ring In
The Fine Cotton Ring In was one of the biggest scandals in Australian horseracing history. A plan to swap a slow horse with a much faster look-alike i...
6: 'Who's Gonna Be Next?'
So much has changed since Louisville first proclaimed itself a model city for policing reform: the police chief was fired. The city was upended by pro...
5: Say Her Name: Breonna Taylor
“Early this morning, we had a critical incident involving one of our officers who was shot and another person at the scene who was killed.”
4: Might As Well Appeal
For LMPD to become the police department it claimed to want to be, the department would have to recruit the best of the best, retain experienced offic...
3: People, Places and Narcotics
Even as city leaders were making big promises about the model city they claimed Louisville was going to become, they were making decisions that underm...
2: Promises
In 2016, the police chief laid out his vision: Louisville was going to become the kind of place where everyone across the city, no matter what neighbo...
1: The Eye of the Storm
Barbecue chef David McAtee, the man they called Yaya, was a staple at 26th and Broadway in Louisville’s predominately Black West End. He was a friend...
Available Now... Dig Season 2
Louisville, Ky., the city now known for the police killing of Breonna Taylor, once made ambitious promises to transform its police department and mend...
The Hearing
Jen Sainato had been waiting for this day for a long time. She’d woken up early, put on her black striped suit, and drove five hours to attend the Lou...
Update: Prosecution... Declined?
It’s been two months since we released the first season of Dig. And a lot has changed: city leaders are calling the police department to account, and...
Cleared By Exception
Episode 4: In the final episode of this investigation, we learn more about Jen Sainato’s rape case - why it was closed, and how much evidence the poli...