Television Award: About Woomera, Four Corners, ABC Television
About Woomera, Four Corners, ABC Television - Debbie Whitmont and Jo Puccini
About this winner
- Year: 2003
- Level: Winner
- Award category: Media award
About the 2003 nomination
About Woomera, Four Corners, ABC Television - Debbie Whitmont and Jo Puccini
About Woomera has been widely commended as a ground breaking investigation of conditions inside the Woomera detention centre. The program was the product of more than a hundred interviews with staff, detainees and bureaucrats over the past two years.
Judges described the program as 'outstanding' and 'touching' as it took an issue in our society, researched and investigated it in a unique way, which encouraged public debate - dominating talkback radio and editorials throughout the country - causing changes in community attitudes. The program led to a police investigation, which is still ongoing, and its contents were used in evidence in the first successful application to the Family Court for the release of five children from detention.
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