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Background Briefing
ABC Australia
Topics: News · Documentary
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...
Latest episodes
- 02 The Unbreakable Cult | The recruiter
- 01 The Unbreakable Cult | Hands on
- INTRODUCING... The Unbreakable Cult
- 03 Dark Menace | Operation Queenstown
- 02 Dark Menace | What Happened At Sunrise
- 01 Dark Menace | The Chairman's Secrets
- INTRODUCING — Dark Menace
- 03 'This Bloody Machine' | The Empty Chapel
- 02 'This Bloody Machine' | The Other Plan
- 01 'This Bloody Machine' | Jewel in the Crown
Background Briefing is No. 26 in Australia on Apple Podcasts today. On Apple Podcasts' topic charts: No. 6 in News. The latest episode came out on October 29, 2026. A new episode comes out about once a week.
Its place on the chart, day by day
All the numbers, day by day
Its place on the chart, day by day
| Day | Australia |
|---|---|
| November 2, 2026 | 26 |
| November 1, 2026 | 28 |
| October 31, 2026 | 30 |
Today's places
| Chart | Place | Since yesterday |
|---|---|---|
| Australia: All podcasts | 26 | ▲2 |
| Australia: News | 6 | ▲1 |
| New Zealand: News | 54 | ▼5 |
| Ireland: News | 148 | New |
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