Prisons and aged care providers are sounding the alarm over the growing number of elderly convicted sex offenders and other serious criminals, and the lack of appropriate aged care facilities to take care of them their twilight years. Alex Mann reports.

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Folge vom 17.09.2017No place for paedophiles
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Folge vom 10.09.2017A whisky businessIt was a whisky investment scheme marketed by a famous cricketer and a fast yacht, but it turned into an almighty hangover, with hundreds left wondering where their barrels went. David Lewis investigates.
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Folge vom 03.09.2017South Sudan: a failure to actWhen local and international aid workers came under attack in South Sudan's capital, why did UN peacekeepers just over a kilometre away fail to respond?
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Folge vom 27.08.2017Critical failure: the preventable deaths that keep happening in hospitalsHow a series of blunders and the death of an 18-year-old girl have fed a wave of anger over the treatment of suicidal patients in hospitals. Tim Roxburgh investigates.