ABC journalists and teams won six awards at the 2023 Kennedy Awards and had 18 finalists overall.
Anne Connolly and Hannah Meagher took the Mike Willesee Award for Nightly Television Current Affairs Reporting for a 7.30 story that formed part of the long-running investigation into the public trustee system, a years-long fight to be able to tell the stories of people who have been stripped of their assets and gagged by state control.
Emily Barker, Amy Donaldson and Madeleine King won Outstanding Consumer Affairs Reporting for Four Corners investigation “Do No Harm“, which revealed that Australia’s system of health regulation is allowing doctors who have groped, dated and even raped their patients to continue practicing.
Grace Tobin, Patrick Begley, Mary Fallon and Meghna Bali won Outstanding Reporting on Human Rights, Social or Religious Affairs for another Four Corners report, “Locking Up Kids“, about children in detention being exposed to abuse, torture, solitary confinement and other degrading treatment.
Hagar Cohen, Alex Mcdonald and Alice Mulheron won the Peter Frillingos Award for Outstanding Sport Reporting for a third Four Corners investigation, “Paralympic Scandal: Gaming the Games“.
Matt Garrick from ABC News Darwin took the Chris Watson Award for Regional Reporting – Print and Online for his online story “Wadeye’s Fight for Peace“.
Kamin Gock was named as Young Journalist of the Year.
Full list of ABC finalists and winners
Outstanding Consumer Affairs Reporting
WINNER Emily Barker, Amy Donaldson and Madeleine King: Do No Harm (Four Corners)
Outstanding Finance Reporting
- Paul Farrell, Ali Russell, Meghna Bali and Nick Wiggins: Dirty Deeds: Inside Australia’s Biggest Tax Fraud (Four Corners)
The Tom Krause Award for Outstanding Foreign Correspondent
- Stephanie March, Naomi Selvaratnam, Shaun Kingma and Nikki Stevens: Philippines: Saving the Children (Foreign Correspondent)
Outstanding Political Reporting
- Sean Nicholls, Stephanie March and Naomi Selvaratnam: The War Within (Four Corners)
Outstanding Reporting on Human Rights, Social or Religious Affairs
WINNER Grace Tobin, Patrick Begley, Mary Fallon and Meghna Bali: Locking Up Kids (Four Corners)
- Matthew Davis and Peter O’Donoghue: Myanmar’s Forgotten War (Foreign Correspondent)
The Peter Frillingos Award for Outstanding Sport Reporting
WINNER Hagar Cohen, Alex Mcdonald and Alice Mulheron: Paralympic Scandal: Gaming the Games (Four Corners)
Young Journalist of The Year
WINNER Kamin Gock
PRINT/TEXT
The Chris Watson Award for Regional Reporting – Print and Online
WINNER Matt Garrick: Fight for Peace (ABC News Darwin)
TELEVISION/VIDEO
The Mike Willesee Award for Nightly Television Current Affairs Reporting
WINNER Anne Connolly and Hannah Meagher: Investigation into the Public Trustee System (7.30)
The David Leckie AM Award for Television Current Affairs Reporting-Long Form
- Bridget Brennan, Suzanne Dredge, Brooke Fryer and Stephanie Zillman: How Many More? (Four Corners)
- Grace Tobin, Naomi Selvaratnam, Mahmood Fazal, Patrick Begley and Annabel Hennessy: The Postcode Wars (Four Corners)
The Paul Lockyer Award for Regional Broadcast Reporting
- Steven Schubert: Regional health system failing country people (ABC NT)
- Matt Garrick: Behind a Social Breakdown (ABC NT)
AUDIO JOURNALISM
The Sean Flannery Award for Outstanding On the Road Radio News Reporting
- Gavin Coote: La Nina takes toll on flood-prone inland communities (ABC Radio)
- Peter Ryan: LIVE FROM MARTIN PLACE – Reserve Bank shocks with aggressive interest rate rises sending households into shock (ABC Radio)
Outstanding Radio Current Affairs
- Alexandra Blucher and the Background Briefing team: How the system failed to save Darcey and Chloe (Background Briefing)
- Sean Rubinsztein-Dunlop: Turkiye Earthquake Disaster (AM)
Related links – ABC News awards in 2023
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- ABC winners at 2023 SA Media Awards
- ABC Celebrates Mid-Year Walkley Winners
- ABC News nominations for 2023 Logie Awards
- ABC’s Katri Uibu named Tasmanian Journalist of the Year
- ABC wins Melbourne Press Club Gold Quill for ‘How Many More?’
- ABC’s Tracey Holmes awarded ASC Lifetime Achievement Award
