Adele Ferguson
Investigative Journalist and Senior Business Commentator at ABC News (Australia)
Award winning journo at The ABC investigative unit. Author of Gina Rinehart and Banking Bad. TIPS: [email protected] or PO Box 3262, Tamarama NSW 2026.
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1 week ago |
abc.net.au | Adele Ferguson
As tens of thousands of pages of regulatory childcare documents continue to pour into NSW parliament exposing systemic failures including abuse, neglect and expired or missing Working With Children Checks, the Albanese government has released a new suite of child safety measures. Touted as "tougher child safety rules" and backed by every state and territory, the new measures include 24 hour mandatory reporting of abuse, a vape ban and stricter rules on technology use in childcare centres.
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2 weeks ago |
abc.net.au | Adele Ferguson
Millions of Australians sold dud insurance with their home loans, car loans or credit cards may be entitled to compensation but a looming deadline of June 30 could see many miss out. For decades, the big four banks, other lenders and insurers raked in billions from these policies, while paying out as little as 11 cents in the dollar, rendering these financial products effectively junk insurance.
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1 month ago |
abc.net.au | Adele Ferguson
Nearly four years after a landmark media investigation sparked outrage and long overdue reforms, Australia's multi-billion-dollar cosmetic surgery industry remains a work in progress. Key legal cases are still dragging on, a regulatory investigation is ongoing and the system is far from fixed.
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1 month ago |
abc.net.au | Adele Ferguson
It's been slammed as "cruel", "dark-alley backstabbing," and "as morally bankrupt as a Kings Cross rubbish bin". The outrage from unions, academics, lawyers and some medical experts, is largely directed at proposed changes to how psychological injury claims would be handled under the country's largest workers compensation scheme, which is managed by icare.
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1 month ago |
abc.net.au | Adele Ferguson |Chris Gillett
The screams in the background were unmistakably from her son. WARNING: This story contains graphic footage and imagery of injuries to a child. An educator from the childcare centre had called to say there had been an incident and could someone come and collect him. From the sound of her child, she knew something was very wrong. "His screams, I will never forget them," she said.
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