Four Corners
27 Oct 2025
Hunting Ground
A searing exposé that reveals the true scale of sexual abuse in Australia's childcare sector — far worse than previously known.
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ABC Investigative Journalist
Adele Ferguson — Investigative Journalist
Breaking stories that hold power to account. Adele Ferguson is a multi-award winner with 13 Walkley Awards including two Gold Walkleys, two Logies, and two Graham Perkin Awards — the highest individual honour in Australian journalism.
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Adele Ferguson wins the 50th Graham Perkin Award — Australia's most prestigious individual journalism honour
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Hunting Ground
Hunting Ground is reported by Adele Ferguson and produced by Chris Gillett — went to air Monday 27 October at 8.30pm on ABC TV and ABC iview.
Drawing on over a year of reporting and newly obtained data, Ferguson shows the crisis is far worse than previously known, and far from over.
Despite government promises of reform after the first Four Corners investigation, Ferguson uncovers more than a hundred cases of alleged paedophiles who worked or are working in child care, enabled by systemic failures, weak oversight and a profit-driven industry.
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Four Corners
17 Mar 2025
Betrayal of Trust
A one-hour ABC Four Corners special revealing deep failures and systemic issues in Australia's childcare sector.
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Investigation
12 Feb 2025
The fake qualifications and financial fraud of Australia's shadowy private college sector
Uncovering the fake qualifications and financial fraud inside Australia's shadowy private college sector.
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7.30
16 Nov 2024
CBUS Super Scandal
Australia's super funds hold over $3.9 trillion. Ferguson investigates the governance failures at the heart of the Cbus scandal.
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Investigations
Every major investigation with a full detail page — from the 2014 Banking Bad series that triggered a royal commission to Betrayal of Trust, the 2025 Gold Walkley winner.
Four Corners
27 Oct 2025
ABC Four CornersHunting Ground
The true scale of sexual abuse in Australia's childcare sector
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Four Corners
Gold Walkley2025
17 Mar 2025
ABC Four CornersBetrayal of Trust
Deep failures and systemic issues in Australia's childcare sector
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Four Corners
9 Apr 2024
ABC Four CornersPain Factory
Exposing the exploitation of Australia's chronic pain patients
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Four Corners
25 Oct 2021
ABC Four CornersCosmetic Cowboys
Inside Australia's unregulated $1.4 billion cosmetic surgery industry
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Investigation
Walkley Award
26 Jun 2017
The Age / SMHBleed Them Dry Until They Die
The retirement villages ripping off Australia's elderly
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Investigation
7 Mar 2016
The Age / SMH / ABCMoney for Nothing
The Commonwealth Bank's unscrupulous tactics in life insurance
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Four Corners
Walkley Award
31 Aug 2015
ABC Four Corners7-Eleven: The Price of Convenience
How Australia's biggest convenience chain systematically underpaid its workers
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Investigation
Gold Walkley2014
5 May 2014
The Age / SMHBanking Bad
The investigation that triggered Australia's Banking Royal Commission
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8 investigations with full detail pages
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13Walkley Awards
2Gold Walkleys
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2Logie Awards
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Australia's most prestigious individual journalism honour
50th Graham Perkin Award — 2026One of only four journalists ever to win it twice — 2015 & 2026
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700 Harris Street
Ultimo NSW 2007
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PO Box 3262
Tamarama NSW 2026