After a spate of recent suicides, taxi licence holders and their families are warning of the mounting human toll of deregulating their industry.
Since the arrival of Uber and other ride-sharing apps, a once lucrative investment has plummeted in value.
Who is to blame? Alex Mann investigates.
This is a repeat of a program that aired in August 2018.

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Folge vom 13.01.2019Not fare: How taxi licences collapsed in value, destroying lives and livelihoods
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Folge vom 06.01.2019The drugs don't work: Patients and paramedics expose Queensland Ambulance Service scandalThousands of patients may have been put at risk of exposure to tampered drugs by the Queensland Ambulance Service. One 74-year-old grandmother from Brisbane, Barbara Cook, believes paramedics unwittingly gave her a contaminated IV injection. She also believes that she contracted a life-threatening bacterial infection as a result. With secret recordings, leaked documents and whistle-blower testimony Hagar Cohen uncovers how the service botched an investigation into one of its biggest-ever drug tampering scandals. This is a repeat of a program that aired in July 2018.
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Folge vom 23.12.2018Dirty rotten phone calls: The anatomy of a scamBinary option scams are one of the biggest financial scams in the world right now and Australians are targets. Scammers use flashy websites to trick victims into thinking they're trading on financial markets. But it's all a charade aimed at encouraging people to hand over their money. Reporter Mario Christodoulou speaks to a former scammer and Australian victims who lost hundreds of thousands of dollars. This is a repeat of a program that aired in March 2018.
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Folge vom 16.12.2018From verbal abuse to axe murder: The death of Canberra mum Tara CostiganThree years ago Marcus Rappel murdered 28-year-old Tara Costigan with an axe. The murder continues to confront our definition of domestic violence because despite a pattern of verbal aggressions, Rappel had never previously physically abused Costigan, the mother of his child. Canberra journalists Elizabeth Byrne and Susan McDonald investigate how health professionals, and law enforcement could have prevented the death, were they equipped with the right information at the right time. Family members of both Tara Costigan and Marcus Rappel speak out for the first time since the death. This is a repeat of a program that aired in February 2018.