Investigations
A sceptical climate – media coverage of climate change in Australia
How well is the Australian media reporting climate change? Are Australian audiences getting accurate information? Is the selection of sources fair and accurate?
The Detention Business: ACIJ Associate lifts lid on Serco contract
ACIJ Research Associate Antony Loewenstein and freelance journalist Paul Farrell obtain the recently published contract under FOI between the Federal Government and the British multinational Serco, which runs all of Australia's detention centres.
National Investigative Journalism Conference
In September 2011, Back to the Source, Australia's first national investigative journalism conference, brought together industry professionals and journalism academics to explore the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for investigative journalism.
Australian newspaper coverage of the 'News of the World' hacking
UTS Journalist academic Jenna Price and journalist and professor with the ACIJ, Wendy Bacon, compared the coverage by the Australian national dailies of the 'News of the World' hacking story.
Living in hell at subsidised rates
In August 2011, Crikey and Reportage Online are published a 5-part special investigation by the Centre of the appalling conditions suffered by people with mental illness in public housing in the western suburbs of Sydney.