Bridget Judd
Queensland Deputy Digital Editor at ABC News (Australia)
Queensland digital editor with @ABCNews. Tragic fisho and lover of puns. Views are my own and not my employers. Got a story? - [email protected]
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Jan 10, 2025 |
abc.net.au | Eden Gillespie |Bridget Judd |Jessica Black
Unimaginable abuse took place behind the walls of Wolston Park, but what to do with the symbol of Queensland's dark past remains a vexed issue. Debbie Manson has been haunted by Wolston Park Mental Hospital for almost 40 years. But today, she is confronting her trauma head on. "I live every day with what I went through ... nothing stops that," she says. In the late 1980s, Debbie was detained in Osler House, an adult ward for women judged criminally insane.
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Nov 29, 2024 |
abc.net.au | Antonia O'Flaherty |Sharon Gordon |Bridget Judd
Ashley Paul Griffith abused dozens of children he was trusted to care for, but how he was able to operate undetected has left more questions than answers. Warning: This story contains details of child sexual abuse. Standing by her upstairs window, Kate* looks on as two police officers in a black van pull up outside her Sydney home. She's been waiting for them to arrive.
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Sep 14, 2024 |
abc.net.au | Liz Gwynn |Bridget Judd |Claudia Williams |Luke C. Bowden
A deadly synthetic opioid is spreading across Australia, leaving those left behind to grapple with the consequences. Sue La Velle may never get the chance to bring her son's killer to justice. It's a prospect that keeps her up at night. In June, her son Michael Hodgkinson and three others were found dead in the living room of a home in Melbourne's northern suburbs. In a matter of moments, her world was ripped out from under her.
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Aug 29, 2024 |
abc.net.au | Laura LaVelle |Laura Lavelle |Bridget Judd |Claudia Williams
What began as a routine police job ended in the deaths of six people, but why it occurred may never be fully understood. Warning: This story contains graphic details and imagery that some readers may find upsetting. It was the beginning of a nightmare — one that has been relived and replayed by dozens of people over the past five weeks.
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Jul 24, 2024 |
abc.net.au | Liz Gwynn |Bridget Judd |Romy Stephens
Deep below the ocean's surface lies an underwater graveyard. For more than half a century, the fate of one of Australia's worst maritime disasters has remained a mystery. Twenty-one people died when the MV Noongah sank in heavy seas off the coast of Australia on August 25, 1969. There were five survivors, but only one body was ever recovered. Now, the final resting place of the MV Noongah has been located 55-years after the coastal freighter was lost at sea.
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We're on the hunt for an experienced digital reporter to join the ABC's Queensland team in Brisbane. If you've got an eye for a good story and can work to tight deadlines, apply now: https://t.co/neujZFMsV7
Some excellent reporting by ABC Queensland's @JemimaBurt about the institutional failings that helped create one of the state's youngest killers. You can read it here: https://t.co/Zp6Xbe0SFP https://t.co/DHw0EHi3UN
Phenomenal piece by ABC Queensland's Laura Lavelle - well worth the read: https://t.co/eLOFtyLFuJ https://t.co/kcwPYc2BXC
