60 Minutes: Oct 28

On 60 Minutes Liam Bartlett reports on the dangers of Takata air bags.

Car Bombs
Here’s a frightening fact: right now on Australian roads there are more than a million vehicles fitted with airbags that instead of saving lives, could kill. They are the time bombs made by Takata, a company so greedy it wilfully put profits above safety. This saga started two decades ago when the company developed a new, cheaper airbag. The only problem, which Takata knew about at the time, was that these airbags were faulty, filled with a volatile chemical prone to explode without warning. And when they did, it caused horrific injuries and deaths. The Takata airbag scandal is now the biggest auto recall in the world. But as Liam Bartlett asks, why has Australia been slower than many other countries to take the decisive action needed to save lives?
Reporter: Liam Bartlett
Producers: Laura Sparkes, David Hardaker

Over the Influence
Have you noticed how social media is now increasingly dominated by so-called “influencers”? They’re usually young, beautiful – and often impossibly fit – men and women sharing their transformative secrets for better, longer lives. These “influencers” have thousands, and sometimes millions, of adoring fans whose obsession with voyeurism and vanity is only satisfied by an endless stream of filtered, glamorous photos. For most people it’s pretty harmless. But as Allison Langdon discovers, sometimes the health advice dished out in a pithy slogan and apparently “proven” by a revealing selfie is actually so unhealthy it is making people sick. And it’s such a concern for doctors that it now has a name: orthorexia, an officially recognised medical condition.
Reporter: Allison Langdon
Producers: Naomi Shivaraman, Stefanie Sgroi

8:30pm Sunday on Nine.