Three decades of investigations holding corporations, governments and institutions to account across banking, childcare, superannuation, education and more.
27 Oct 2025
In a powerful follow-up to Betrayal of Trust — her Logie Award-winning childcare investigation — Adele Ferguson returned to Four Corners with Hunting Ground, a searing exposé that revealed the true scale of sexual abuse in Australia's childcare sector. Drawing on over a year of reporting and newly obtained data, Ferguson showed the crisis was far worse than previously known, and far from over.
Read More17 Mar 2025
Gold WalkleyA one-hour ABC Four Corners special that revealed deep failures and systemic issues in Australia's childcare sector. Adele Ferguson uncovered shocking cases of child abuse, neglect and injury, highlighting gaps in childcare safety and accountability.
Read More12 Feb 2025
The fake qualifications and financial fraud of Australia's shadowy private college sector.
Read More16 Nov 2024
Australia's super funds have assets of over $3.9 trillion. For an industry holding so much money you would expect the highest standards of corporate governance. Investigative reporter Adele Ferguson spoke to 7.30's Sarah Ferguson about the Cbus scandal.
Read More30 Sep 2024
Retirement villages are billed as worry-free independence for Australians but many have few options once they move in.
Read More16 Jul 2024
Lifestyle Communities promises retirees affordable, resort-style living. But some say they're a "financial prison".
Read More9 Apr 2024
More than three million Australians are living with chronic pain, and it became a breeding ground for exploitation. The investigation exposed the ugly side of medicine, with patients left in worse pain after surgery and lives put at risk.
Read More10 Nov 2023
The whistleblowers who stared down threats from Australia's biggest bank.
Read More23 Oct 2023
WorkCover patients being turned into 'unpoliced pots of gold'.
Read More18 Sep 2023
Calls to strengthen whistleblower protections.
Read More21 Aug 2023
Nuix insider lifts the lid on share market float disaster as calls grow to reform ASIC.
Read More14 Aug 2023
How a sleeper issue inside the big four accounting giants could topple the economy.
Read More14 Aug 2023
Serious questions about conflicts of interest in the business of financial auditing.
Read More17 Jul 2023
How the big four accounting firms infiltrated governments, earning more than $10b over a decade.
Read More16 Apr 2023
The disgraced financial adviser tells of how he extracted hundreds of thousands of dollars from dozens of investors all while he made fat - and illegal - commissions that allowed his family to live the high life. Then he turned on them, too.
Read More19 Feb 2023
The dust from cutting engineered stone for Australian kitchens and bathrooms is killing our tradies.
Read More17 Oct 2022
Billions of dollars are being rorted from Medicare each year, including by billing dead people and falsifying patient records to boost profits.
Read More3 Mar 2022
Hundreds of foreign workers left in limbo by Australia's biggest construction company.
Read More3 May 2021
Millions of dollars of mining royalty payments are feared to have been squandered and special administrators are scrambling to unravel a maze of entities associated with one of the country's most prominent native title organisations.
Read More2 Oct 2020
Australia's biggest listed honey company and some of the country's largest supermarket chains face accusations of selling fake honey.
Read More27 Jul 2020
The financial scandal and human cost of Australia's failing workers compensation schemes.
Read More2 Mar 2020
Chinese-owned energy giant Alinta is accused of potentially putting consumer information of their million-plus customer base at risk. And Australia's Foreign Investment Review Board, which reviews large takeover deals, is under fire for not vigorously enforcing the rules they set.
Read More4 Jun 2018
One of the country's biggest mortgage brokers, Mortgage Choice, is in damage control as it faces an uprising from its franchisees on the back of a business model that is pushing many into financial ruin, depression and cutting corners on arranging loans.
Read More9 Apr 2018
The Australia Taxation Office is a formidable enforcer with extraordinary powers. It can raid your home or business without a warrant, it can compel you to answer questions and treat you as guilty until proven innocent.
Read More26 Jun 2017
Bleed Them Dry Until They Die: The retirement villages ripping off retirees. "It's a financial trap. It's a financial sinkhole. Once you're in, it's very hard to get out."
Read More7 Mar 2016
The Commonwealth Bank's unscrupulous tactics in the life insurance industry.
Read More5 May 2014
Gold WalkleyAdele Ferguson examines a sales-driven culture inside the Commonwealth Bank's financial planning division described as "profit at all cost" — the investigation that triggered Australia's Banking Royal Commission.
Read MoreThe journalism above didn't stop at broadcast. Two of Adele's biggest investigations became landmark books — read the full story.
Whistleblowers. Corporate cover-ups. One journalist's fight for the truth.
The book behind Australia's Banking Royal Commission — the full story of how Adele's investigations into the Commonwealth Bank exposed a system that put profits before people.
