About Adele Ferguson

Adele Ferguson is a multi-award winning investigative journalist and columnist

Adele Ferguson is an acclaimed investigative journalist, working for the ABC's investigative unit, appearing on Four Corners and 7.30 and writing a weekly column. She previously worked at The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and the AFR and was a guest reporter on Nine’s 60 Minutes. She is the author of the best selling unauthorised biography on Gina Rinehart, the richest woman in the world, and the award winning Banking Bad: Whistleblowers. Corporate cover-ups. One journalist's fight for the truth.

Adele has won a multitude of awards, including the nation’s highest journalism award, the Gold Walkley, and nine Walkley awards. She has won a Logie, the Graham Perkin Journalist of the Year, 20 Quill Awards including two Gold Quills, 14 Kennedy Awards including two Gold Kennedy Awards, National Press Club awards including journalist of the year and in 2019 she was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for her contribution to journalism.

Her work has sparked many national and state inquiries, legislative change and a royal commission into the banking sector.

Some of her exposes include the multi-billion dollar cosmetic surgery industry, Cosmetic Cowboys, the broken Medicare system, the franchise sector, systemic wage fraud including 7-Eleven, which resulted in compensation payments of more than $150 million to thousands of vulnerable foreign workers and changes to the law, a series on workers compensation, the ATO, the retirement village racket, scams and the engineered stone scandal killing our tradies.

Her investigations into the banks, including CBA's financial planning scandal, the life insurance sector, NAB and IOOF, helped bring about a royal commission.

Adele started her career in journalism after graduating from Adelaide University with a Bachelor of Economics and Arts.

She is chair of the Walkley Foundation and was previously president of the Melbourne Press Club.

In 2020 Adele joined the La Trobe Business School (LBS) as an Adjunct Professor.

Adele has a Bachelor of Economics, Bachelor of Arts (Honors) from Adelaide University.