Democracy's Watchdogs: Adele Ferguson (7-Day Rental)

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Democracy's Watchdogs will provide an oral and visual history through video interviews with past and current Australian investigative reporters who exposed corruption and held powerful government, criminal and corporate interests to account. These reporters helped make society fairer and our democracy healthier.

ADELE FERGUSON

'You have to give people a voice which is what I try to do in my work.'

Adele Ferguson has exposed deceptions, scams and heartless profiteering by financial institutions and weak oversight by the nation's regulators. Her work has led to hundreds of millions of dollars being refunded to bank customers and ripped-off workers, as well as a Royal Commission and other inquiries.

She has won more than fifty key journalism and other awards including the Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year, the top prize in the Walkley, Quill and Kennedy awards, a Logie, and was made a Member of the Order of Australia for her services to journalism.

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