ABC Investigations journalist Anne Connolly on her crowdsourced probe into aged care and the shocking stories it uncovered By Anne Connolly TueTuesday 16 MarMarch 2021 at 5:50am Journalist Anne Connolly at the Prime Minister's media conference on the day the Aged Care Royal Commission report was released. ( Print text only Cancel ABC Investigations journalist Anne Connolly has spent the past three years looking into the state of aged care in Australia. The federal government called a royal commission the day before her first in-depth story on Four Corners went to air and her reporting on the issue has won several awards — the Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year award, the Kennedy Journalist of the Year award and the Australian Human Rights Commission award.