Adele Ferguson AM joins the ABC as an investigative journalist

The ABC has welcomed Adele Ferguson as an investigative journalist and senior business commentator.

Ferguson’s work has initiated major national and state inquiries, including a royal commission and instigated legislative changes. 

Adele Ferguson started her journalism career at Adelaide’s The Advertiser. She has also worked at Business Review Weekly, The Australian and as investigative journalist and senior business commentator for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.

Ferguson has been a regular guest reporter on the ABC’s Four Corners and 7.30. Her reporting on the banking sector and on life insurance was instrumental in bringing about the Hayne Royal Commission into Australia’s banks and financial institutions and earned her Australian journalism’s highest accolade, the Gold Walkley Award.

Her reporting has also exposed retirement villages ripping off retirees, lack of regulation in the multi-billion-dollar cosmetic surgery industry, systemic wage fraud, Medicare waste, failing workers' compensation schemes and the extraordinary powers of the Australian Tax Office.

Ferguson will join the ABC Investigations team led by Sean Nicholls. She will also offer her expert analysis on business issues in a regular column for ABC News online and regular appearances on 7.30.

Adele Ferguson said: “I am thrilled to be joining Australia’s largest investigations team. There has never been a more important time for investigative journalism to give a voice to vulnerable people and hold the powerful to account.”

ABC director, news Justin Stevens said: “We are so excited to have Adele Ferguson join the ABC News team. Adele is an incredible journalist whose brilliant and brave public interest journalism has had an enormous impact on our nation and on people’s lives. Adele will have a key role across the ABC’s digital and broadcast services as one of our most senior journalists and commentators.”