Adele Ferguson and Chris Gillett have won the 2025 Gold Walkley, Australian journalism’s highest honour for a series of stories on 7.30, Four Corners and ABC online. The Walkley Judging Board unanimously selected the pair’s multi-month multi-platform investigation into the systemic failures in childcare as the story of the year. Ferguson and Gillett won three Walkley categories: TV/Video: Current Affairs Short, TV/Video: Current Affairs Long, and All Media: Investigative Journalism

Adele Ferguson and Chris Gillett have won the 2025 Gold Walkley, Australian journalism’s highest honour for a series of stories on 7.30, Four Corners and ABC online. The Walkley Judging Board unanimously selected the pair’s multi-month multi-platform investigation into the systemic failures in childcare as the story of the year. Ferguson and Gillett won three Walkley categories: TV/Video: Current Affairs Short, TV/Video: Current Affairs Long, and All Media: Investigative Journalism

Adele Ferguson and Chris Gillett have won the 2025 Gold Walkley, Australian journalism’s highest honour for a series of stories on 7.30, Four Corners and ABC online. The Walkley Judging Board unanimously selected the pair’s multi-month multi-platform investigation into the systemic failures in childcare as the story of the year. Ferguson and Gillett won three Walkley categories: TV/Video: Current Affairs Short, TV/Video: Current Affairs Long, and All Media: Investigative Journalism

Adele Ferguson and Chris Gillett have won the 2025 Gold Walkley, Australian journalism’s highest honour for a series of stories on 7.30, Four Corners and ABC online. The Walkley Judging Board unanimously selected the pair’s multi-month multi-platform investigation into the systemic failures in childcare as the story of the year.

Outstanding Consumer Affairs 

Betrayal of Trust - Four Corners, ABC 

The Logie Awards (officially the TV Week Logie Awards) is an annual gathering to celebrate Australian television, sponsored and organised by magazine TV Week, with the first ceremony in 1959, known then as the TV Week Awards, the awards are presented in 20 categories representing both public and industry voted awards.

Adele Ferguson receives her Honorary Doctorate from the Hon Catherine Branson AC KC and Professor Høj AC outside Bonython Hall.

Journalist of the Year 2023 Health Journalism Awards

2022 Quill Award Business News/Feature

2022 TELEVISION/VIDEO CURRENT AFFAIRS LONG

Cosmetic Cowboys went behind the glitz and glamour of the multi-billion-dollar cosmetic surgery industry and uncovered a litany of dangerous practices, botched procedures and laws that allow anyone with a basic medical degree to call themselves a cosmetic surgeon.

Kennedy Award Outstanding Investigative Reporting: ABC Four Corners & Nine Publications 2022

Chris Gillett, Adele Ferguson & Deborah Snow winners of the Broadcast Media category for their investigation 'An Indigenous community wants to know where their money has gone', aired on the ABC.

2021 Quill Award Best TV/Video Feature

2020 Davitt Awards – Best Non-Fiction Book

Banking Bad by Adele Ferguson showcases her deep research and thorough knowledge about mass financial crimes in Australia for several decades. Despite being a true crime book, it reads like a frightening thriller. Ferguson uses great empathy and skill to explain the injustices and dishonesty that impacts every single Australian household not just in the past or at the time that these crimes were committed but that will continue to cause harm for generations to come. The bad behaviour by financial institutions and their advisers saw people lose their homes, whittle away their superannuation and generally destroy the trust and confidence in our financial system. An important and outstanding book!

The Institute of Certified Management Accountants (ICMA) celebrated the induction of three outstanding champions into its Global Accounting and Management Accounting Hall of Fame at an awards dinner held at the RACV City Club Melbourne on 20 November 2019.

Professor Brendan O’Connell, President of ICMA Australia and host of the awards dinner, said, “While selection to the Hall of Fame is intended to honour the people so chosen, it is also intended to be a recognition of distinguished service contributions in fields related to accounting and management accounting.”

Professor O’Connell explained that while the accounting profession concentrates on compliance and taxation, management accounting professionals are involved in value creation, business analysis, cost, performance and risk management, environmental and social reporting, and strategic auditing.

He said, “Of particular interest to management accountants is ‘enterprise governance’, which includes areas of ethics, transparency and whistle-blower protection. Therefore, it is no surprise that ICMA inducted Adele Ferguson AM for her role in bringing about the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry.”

Ms Ferguson is a multi-award-winning senior business writer and columnist whose investigations go behind the spin to expose corporate wrongdoing. Her exposés include the 7-Eleven wage fraud scandal, which has, to-date, resulted in compensation payments of more than $150 million to thousands of vulnerable foreign workers and brought about changes to the law. Ms Ferguson also exposed wage fraud inside other franchise giants, including Domino’s Pizza and Caltex, and helped trigger a parliamentary inquiry into the $170 billion franchise sector.

MEMBER (AM) IN THE GENERAL DIVISION OF THE ORDER OF AUSTRALIA

For significant service to the print and broadcast media as a journalist and business

commentator.

Business Writer, Columnist and Author, for over 20 years.

Business Commentator and Senior Journalist for a number of Fairfax newspapers including:

'The Sydney Morning Herald', 'The Age' and 'The Australian Financial Review', since 2009.

Guest Reporter, Four Corners Program, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, since 2014.

Guest Reporter, 7.30 Program, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, since 2017.

Business Columnist , 2007-2009 and Journalist, 1993-1994, The Australian.

Business Columnist, BRW Magazine, 1994-2007.

President, Melbourne Press Club, since 2016.

Board Member, Copyright Agency, since 2015.

Author of a range of books including: 'Gina Rinehart: The Untold Story of the Richest Woman

in the World', 2012.

Awards and recognition includes:

Recipient, Quill Awards for Journalistic Excellence, Melbourne Press Club, 2017, 2016 (Gold),

2015 (Gold), 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2008, 2007, 2005 and 2003.

Recipient, Kennedy Journalist Award, Kennedy Foundation, 2018, 2016 (Gold), 2015 and

2014 (Gold).

Recipient, Graham Perkin Journalist of the Year, 2016.

Recipient, Walkley Awards, 2017, 2016, 2015, (Gold), 2014, 2013, 2011.

Recipient, TV Logie Award, 2015 (for Most Outstanding Public Affair Report).

Recipient, Excellence in Journalism Award, National Press Club of Australia, 2017 and 2016.

Recipient, Aviation Journalist of the Year Award, 2003.

Recipient, Citigroup Award for Journalistic Excellence, 1999.

2018 Quill Award Best Business Story in Any Medium

National Press Club Awards: 2018 Global and Economic Reporting Award