Adele Ferguson AM joins the ABC – The ABC is delighted to welcome Adele Ferguson as an investigative journalist and senior business commentator.
One of Australia’s best and most highly awarded journalists, Ferguson’s work has initiated major national and state inquiries, including a royal commission, instigated legislative changes and significantly bettered the lives of millions.
Ferguson has been a regular guest reporter on the ABC’s Four Corners and 7.30. Her reporting on the banking sector (“Banking Bad”) and on life insurance (“Money for Nothing”) was instrumental in bringing about the Hayne Royal Commission into Australia’s banks and financial institutions and earned her Australian journalism’s highest accolade, the Gold Walkley Award.
Her reporting has also exposed retirement villages ripping off retirees (“Bleed Them Dry”), lack of regulation in the multi-billion-dollar cosmetic surgery industry (“Cosmetic Cowboys”), systemic wage fraud (“7-Eleven: The Price of Convenience”), Medicare waste (“Medicare scandal”), failing workers compensation schemes (“Immoral and Unethical”) and the extraordinary powers of the Australian Tax Office (“Mongrel Bunch of Bastards”).
Ferguson will join the ABC Investigations team led by Sean Nicholls. She will also offer her expert analysis on business issues in a regular column for ABC News online and regular appearances on 7.30.
Adele Ferguson:
“I am thrilled to be joining Australia’s largest investigations team.
“There has never been a more important time for investigative journalism to give a voice to vulnerable people and hold the powerful to account.”
ABC Director, News Justin Stevens:
“We are so excited to have Adele Ferguson join the ABC News team.
“Adele is an incredible journalist whose brilliant and brave public interest journalism has had an enormous impact on our nation and on people’s lives.
“Adele will have a key role across the ABC’s digital and broadcast services as one of our most senior journalists and commentators.”
ABOUT ADELE FERGUSON
Adele Ferguson started her journalism career at Adelaide’s The Advertiser. She has also worked at Business Review Weekly, The Australian and as investigative journalist and senior business commentator for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
Included in her many journalism awards are nine Walkley Awards, including the 2014 Gold Walkley for “Banking Bad” – for which she also won a Logie Award; the Graham Perkin Journalist of the Year Award; 20 Melbourne Press Club Quill Awards, including two Gold Quills; 14 Kennedy Awards, including two Gold Kennedy Awards; and National Press Club awards including Journalist of the Year.
In the 2019 Australia Day Honours Adele was made a Member of the Order of Australia for significant service to the print and broadcast media as a journalist and business commentator.
She has written two best-selling books, “Gina Rinehart: The Untold Story of the Richest Woman in the World” and “Banking Bad, Whistleblowers, Corporations and Coverups. One journalist’s fight for the truth.”
She is also Chair of the Walkley Foundation.
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