What are the biggest domestic news stories you remember from the last few years?
Apart from all the natural disasters, I think of stories about George Pell, the coverage that led to the Banking Royal Commission, the SAS in Afghanistan and because I am a law nerd, the reporting on former High Court Justice Dyson Heydon.
Many of these stories are the product of investigative journalism. This is not the sort of “journalism” you see in a tabloid rag or a late-night rant on Sky News. It is the type of high-quality journalism that takes time and patience.
According to the United Nations, investigative journalism is:
Good Weekend Talks podcast: the best of 2020
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Good Weekend Talks podcast: the best of 2020
December 17, 2020
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has skated through scandals before, but the quarantine bungle is of an entirely different order.
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The rise and stall of Premier Daniel Andrews Melissa Fyfe s July 2020 cover story profiles Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews, whom Melissa first interviewed in May, when he was surfing a wave of popularity – before COVID-19 turned the tide
. Hear the story in this podcast, after which, Melissa is joined in conversation by