Anne Connolly is an investigative reporter with ABC Investigations and is best known for her journalism on social policy including aged care, public guardians and trustees and the NDIS.
Her Four Corners reports on aged care in 2018 led to a royal commission into the sector.
Anne has been awarded multiple awards for her reporting, including receiving the Gold Walkley twice and the Graham Perkin award.
A damning report has laid bare serious concerns about the use of Australia's automated aged care funding system.
Aged care providers are charging thousands of dollars extra per year for residents to watch free-to-air TV.
Under government reforms to the sector, providers can now charge new residents for services that were previously included.
People can spend more than $1 million on a room deposit in aged care but now, they won't necessarily get a TV, phone or wi fi.
Advocates and families say the charges are creating a two tier system and will see those that can't afford it, go without.
Aged care residents face paying thousands of dollars a year for everything from a TV in their room to a cooked breakfast or a musical performance under new fees.
If the government wants a true indication of the level of feeling in the community, perhaps it should read the thousands of comments on Facebook where discussions about the algorithm, long waitlists, and people dying are growing by the day.
An ABC investigation has found an algorithm which can determine the funding for aged care supports can get it wrong.
A Four Corners investigation can reveal the number of people waiting for full aged care funding at home stands at almost 154,000 — not 100,000 as officially reported.
Four Corners travels the country to speak with families struggling to care for their loved ones while waiting to be assessed and receive critical funding.
More elderly Australians are missing out on care in their home after computer-based procedures putting the federal government under fresh pressure to re-design the scheme.
Australia's leading expert in the field says the algorithm that determines funding levels should be ditched.
Using expert analysis, evidence revealed by bureaucrats at Senate estimates, and documents obtained under FOI, Four Corners reveals the fullest picture yet of the secretive algorithm affecting the lives of tens of thousands of older Australians and their families.
A long-time ABC reporter is one of nearly 100,000 Australians waiting on a crucial aged-care assessment.
A new algorithm for deciding how much aged care support people can receive to stay living at home is being blamed for reducing care to older Australians.
Attila's shaky phone video of his brother lying dead in aged care documented bruises and blood. It was the start of a long campaign to understand what happened.
More than 1000 unexplained deaths occur in aged care each year and that number is rising. This is the story of a brother who would not stop asking why.
The reforms have unleashed a wave of confusion and despair amongst hundreds of thousands of elderly Australians, from those wanting care to those who already have it.
Families and insiders say the system to assess people for aged care is in crisis, with 116,000 people on the waiting list. Once approved, they join the queue to get a home care package, which stands at more than 120,000.
The Federal Government has been under pressure most of this year over the massive waiting list for aged home-care packages.
Aged-care changes considered "once-in-a-generation" reforms will start from 1 November.
Older Australians entering the aged care system will have to pay for "non-clinical" services such as showers and help with medication under wide-ranging changes taking effect in November.
An investigation by the ABC's Four Corners program has confirmed growing concerns that class action court cases are becoming money-making exercises for lawyers and investors.
Class actions are supposed to deliver justice and compensation for people who have been wronged. But an ABC Four Corners Investigation is raising questions about the payouts of two major class actions for Aboriginal workers who had their wages stolen over decades.
Class actions are supposed to deliver justice and compensation for people who have been wronged. But an ABC Four Corners Investigation is raising questions about the payouts of two major class actions for Aboriginal workers who had their wages stolen over decades.
They are meant to deliver justice for ordinary Australians, but class actions are being used by law firms to profit at the expense of some of the most vulnerable members of society.
A major Sydney hospital is urgently reviewing more than 1,500 patient records after discovering a litany of errors and incorrect advice by one of its leading cancer specialists, the ABC can reveal.
Topic: Doctors and Medical Professionals
For months, I've spent my Saturdays speaking with a convicted killer, writes Anne Connolly. He says he's innocent, others fear he's guilty of even more.