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Background Briefing brings you true stories not everyone will want you to hear.

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Background Briefing brings you true stories not everyone will want you to hear.

    Dancing with Bulls

    Dancing with Bulls

    Ruby's barely a teenager, and already she's become a champion bull rider. She's also had eight concussions and multiple brain bleeds. Reporter Tynan King investigates how this extreme sport became her obsession — even as it threatens her life.

    • 34 min
    04 Stop and Search | The Botched Backyard Operation

    04 Stop and Search | The Botched Backyard Operation

    There are only two witnesses to Brad Balzan's final moments: the two officers who chased him into his backyard. But their accounts of what happened don't match up.

    • 26 min
    03 Stop and Search | The Numbers Game

    03 Stop and Search | The Numbers Game

    As the investigation into Bradley Balzan's death continues, serious questions are raised about how the country’s largest police force uses its search powers.

    • 34 min
    02 Stop and Search | Last Moments Before Gunshots

    02 Stop and Search | Last Moments Before Gunshots

    Brad Balzan is shot dead in his own backyard after a police encounter goes wrong. In episode two of Stop and Search, a new mini-series by Background Briefing, reporter Paul Farrell asks why was he running away, and why did the officers chase him down?

    • 27 min
    01 Stop and Search | Where's Brad?

    01 Stop and Search | Where's Brad?

    A 20-year-old is chased by four plain-clothes police officers into his western Sydney backyard. But he hasn't committed a crime. He hasn't even done anything wrong. He's shot twice, and then dies. In a special miniseries by Background Briefing, the final moments that led to this tragic incident are pieced together. The reporter is Paul Farrell. 

    • 39 min
    What's the price of a freebirth?

    What's the price of a freebirth?

    There are women choosing to “freebirth” completely outside the medical system.

    • 37 min

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