Before the Storm - S19.E30 - Australian Story
This week’s program goes behind the scenes with a tenacious regional newspaper reporter who last year won Australia’s top journalism award.
Joanne McCarthy’s exposure of a national scandal emerging in the Newcastle and Hunter Valley region played a large part in the establishment of one of Australia’s biggest-ever Royal Commissions.
Her efforts so impressed former Prime Minister Julia Gillard that one of her last acts in office was to send a personal note to Ms McCarthy.
As this program reveals, it’s been a marathon effort for both Joanne McCarthy and some of those closest to her, including her parents and ten siblings....
Before the Storm - S19.E30 - Australian Story
August 25, 2014
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