Building Bad ; Learning to be Different ; In Need of Care
Building Bad
When 60 Minutes, The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald exposed the widespread rottenness in the construction wing of the CFMEU, the federal government was quick to promise to clean it up. And progress seemed to be made. Decent, hard-working unionists were identified and promoted, while the baddies were booted. Or so it seemed. What's emerging now though, 15 months on, is that some suspected corrupt union officials were not sacked, rather the exact opposite. And as Nick McKenzie discovers, believe it or not, they've even been given expanded leadership roles at the CFMEU.
Reporter: Nick McKenzie
Learning to be Different
The number of Australian children who don't ever enrol in mainstream education, or do attend school but then leave it, has doubled in the last five years. It means that more than 48,000 kids don't sit in a traditional classroom now. Instead, they're embracing a different kind of learning. It's mostly known as home-schooling, but now terms like un-schooling or, if you've got enough money, world-schooling, are also being added to the vocabulary. As Adam Hegarty reports, bullying and school refusal are some of the reasons for the increase in numbers, but so too are parents who defiantly think they know better than the teachers.
Reporter: Adam Hegarty
Producer: Sandra Odorisio
In Need of Care
Up until she was eight, Juliette Playford thought she was a normal kid living a normal, happy life. Then everything changed. To escape gambling debts and the fact he had lost his job, her father decided to murder his family and take his own life. Tragically, Stephen Playford succeeded in killing his youngest daughter Sidney, but failed in his attempt to kill Juliette, or her mother Maria. And he didn't die. Ever since that awful night, Juliette, now 18, has been trying to heal from the trauma she has suffered. What she's realised is that child survivors of domestic violence don't receive the care they need. As she tells Dimity Clancey, Australia needs to take urgent action to address this terrible situation.
Reporter: Dimity Clancey
Producers: Anne Worthington, Toni Ambrogetti
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