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Louise Milligan

Louise's powerful investigation for the ABC’s 7:30 program focused on the mistreatment of young people with disability by institutions tasked with their care and protection.

About this finalist

  • Year: 2016
  • Level: Finalist
  • Award category: Young People's Award

About the 2016 nomination

Louise's powerful investigation for the ABC's 7:30 program focused on the mistreatment of young people with disability by institutions tasked with their care and protection. It revealed disturbing evidence of young people being locked up, secluded and abused, including cases in which young people had been held in a lockable box and a student had been left to sit outdoors all day in winter for a whole school term.

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