Awards

I received my first commendation at the Walkley Awards for a story I did with the Adnyamathanha people on a proposed Magnesium Mine in a national park on their sacred land. I have since won two Walkley Awards. My first was for my reporting from the Woomera Detention Centre riots doing live crosses around Australia detailing how water cannon was being used on Australian soil for the first time on detainees. My second Walkley award was for a harrowing six month investigation I did for ABC Radio Current Affairs on how people with intellectual disability were being denied access to South Australia’s justice system because of their disabilities - because they were seen as unreliable witnesses. And how that made them even more vulnerable to sexual abuse.

Two of the Sounds of Summer end of year audio documentaries I did for ABC Radio Current Affairs won international awards - A New Chapter for Stradbroke Island was awarded a silver trophy at the New York Festivals Radio Awards and my audio doco on Blackbirding was also awarded a silver and a bronze trophy by the New York Festival. My audio doco on Indigenous Diggers and their fight to be recognised was given a Highly Commended in the Association of International Broadcasting Awards in London.