Background Briefing

03 Agents of Influence | The man whose name is all over Sydney

Take a stroll around Sydney and you'll find his name on many venerated buildings. But this man, a 101-year-old billionaire, has also created machines that risk ruining their users' lives.  

02 Agents of Influence | The Billionaire's New Sport

A former oil tycoon has just bought the streaming rights to Australia’s great homegrown sports, the AFL and NRL. This week, reporter Marty Smiley investigates one of the richest men in the world - who is Len Blavatnik? 

01 Agents of Influence | The PM's secret strategists

We're now living in an age where millennial content makers can influence election outcomes from their home studios. After witnessing the power of podcasts in the US election, our political leaders are lining up to get a piece of the action. 

Introducing... Agents of Influence

They're not household names. But they wield serious power under the radar.

Long Reads | How deepfakes, nudes and teen misogyny have changed growing up

This week, Bri Lee investigates tech-assisted gendered abuse by schoolboys against their peers and teachers. 

The church’s disappearing women | ABC Long Read

Three decades after the first ordinations of women to the Anglican priesthood, women are still struggling to reach leadership — and now the congregation is changing too.

05 The Invisible Killer | Did police miss a murder?

A court found that Garry Davis injected three victims with lethal doses of insulin during a 48 hour period. But what if there was another victim? Is it possible police failed to collect crucial evidence to prove someone else had also been killed?

04 The Invisible Killer | Under the bed

When reporter Anne Connolly discovers that Garry Davis had a collection of strange items under his bed, it  changes the course of her investigation, and raises new fears about the true scale of his crimes.  

03 The Invisible Killer | Reasonable Doubt

Garry Davis has now been convicted of murdering two residents at SummitCare and attempting to murder a third. But all the evidence against him is circumstantial. Is it possible someone else could have been responsible for the insulin injections?

02 The Invisible Killer | 'Who did this?'

Someone injected three residents with lethal doses of insulin at an aged care facility in Newcastle. Now, the race is on to catch the killer. Will the police find the clues they need to catch the culprit before any more deaths occur?