Ellen Fanning is an award-winning public affairs broadcaster and journalist.
She spent the first 10 years of her career at the ABC where she presented both the AM and PM current affairs radio programs. She also served as the ABC's Washington correspondent. She was later a reporter on the Nine Network's 60 Minutes and the last presenter of Nine's prestigious Sunday program. She has produced award-winning documentaries and was most recently the presenter of SBS TV's long-form interview series, The Observer Effect . She later presented ABC TV's The Drum.
After years reporting big national and international stories, Ellen joined ABC Radio Brisbane, back in her home city.
While the Speaker of Queensland parliament says he "just hopes" conduct improves, a respected former Speaker says he was deliberately undermined by the government.
The Queensland government has failed to appoint Indigenous leaders to its hospital boards, despite being legally required to do so.
Queensland's prison guard union says new bail laws will force jails to house three inmates in cells built for one.
A park in Moreton Bay will soon become a free, legal campsite for people experiencing homelessness under a 12-month trial by the local council.
The Queensland government wants to allow Circuit Breaker Program operators to not report child harm if doing so would incriminate themselves. Welfare groups are concerned this would leave children vulnerable to abuse.
Advocates have urged the Crisafulli government to reconsider controversial legislation that would send youth offenders to boot camps, warning that any physical and psychological abuse may never come to light due to a "reasonable excuse" provision.
Queensland's Arts Minister John-Paul Langbroek is facing questions over a series of political appointments to the state's Cultural Centre boards, as the Crisafulli government comes under pressure over "jobs-for-mates" assignments.
Under the direction of Arts Minister John-Paul Langbroek, eight Indigenous directors have disappeared from the boards of south-east Queensland's cultural institutions.
The Queensland government will not deny the existence of "Project Invisibility", a name a barrister says is used internally to refer to the deliberate removal of Aboriginal people from leadership roles.
Topic: State and Territory Government
Coorparoo Bowls Club's committee says a paperwork blunder allowed Bowls Queensland to evict them from the land so they could sell it to developers.
Topic: Urban Development and Planning
Queensland commuters leave scathing reviews after the state's official public transport app was replaced with a new version that is missing critical features.
Labor, LNP, and the Greens are all claiming credit for Brisbane City Council's decision to offer free green bins after satellite photos revealed hundreds of the bins in storage at council depots.
Topic: Recycling and Waste Management
The derelict Newstead House heritage museum was shut to the public in 2021 for repairs, but it is ready to hold a grand reopening.
There's a reason Brisbane has overtaken Canberra and Melbourne for house prices, writes Ellen Fanning, who found herself in the city's cut-throat property market last year — competing with too many newcomers for a limited supply of homes.
Monday's dramatic about-face by Premier Steven Miles was arguably the inevitable result of two totally different visions for the Games that have been on a collision course for about a decade.
In the wake of the 2022 east coast floods, there are signs some insurers may be considering making flood cover mandatory for new customers.
In its final week long-time co-hosts Julia Baird and Ellen Fanning pay tribute to The Drum's legacy of sharing, listening and inclusion.
The union movement warns if Australia doesn’t get on board we will miss a once-in-a-generation opportunity to become a renewable manufacturing powerhouse.
Many working Australians simply won't have enough to make ends meet each week, according to new research provided exclusively to the ABC's The Drum.
Topic: Business, Economics and Finance
Vivian Bullwinkel was the sole survivor of a wartime massacre, but the full extent of the horrors she experienced is only now being told.
In a new half-hour film designed to show the challenges of policing youth offenders, more than 20 shots of children appear in handcuffs. Critics say using this level of force is excessive.
Jordan is 16. She's homeless, disabled and has been in the care of the state since she was four. Jordan has also spent 94 days in detention while on remand. Her case is another example of what advocates say is wrong with Queensland's youth justice system.
The youth justice department will conduct an urgent review into how long a 13-year-old boy was held in solitary confinement at a Townsville detention centre.
The Queensland government may have broken its own laws by locking up two 13-year-old boys in their cells for up to 24 hours a day at the troubled Cleveland Youth Detention Centre in Townsville.
