'People wanted to wrap me in chains and drop me in the harbour': Sarah Ferguson on the big stories, the blowback and the lure of China

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Sarah Ferguson tells of the intense curiosity that drives her and the toll investigative journalism can take.

Ferguson on the front line with police investigating a domestic violence incident in the documentary Hitting Home.Ferguson can't reveal much publicly about Revelation yet as it's still in production, except to say the interviews with paedophile priests give an insight we've never had before.

But shining a light in the shadows inevitably upsets people — often powerful and nasty people — and the fallout over the years has taken its toll. "I think if we did the Four Corners rugby league sex scandal story now, I don't know if we would be able to protect the woman who spoke out in that story in the way we did then.

 

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yeah me too, but that's means I'm doing my job!

The freedom of the press in China knows no bounds

When i saw that photo of her cosying up with the homophobic racist lying criminal Steve Bannon she lost me for good.....

Take up an opera subscription..you might get close to the throne of XiJinping FergusonNews . Looking forward to your stories .

If people want you dead then you die, without warning, if they want you to experience fear then they just tell you threatening crap.

liz__jackson Well worth a read

stuarthorrex Such a brilliant, intelligent, hard-working journalist.

Sarah Ferguson is an excellent journalist and Four Corners produces some of the best quality current affairs television but I remain baffled by the Steve Bannon interview. I am a bit surprised that wasn’t addressed in this article.

Can abc hire me ...I’d like to go as well ...I need a JOB!!!

this was a great read. sarah is a national treasure

Could be worse...in Malta they use car bombs to dissuade journalists

Great click bait.

What that because she kept interjecting, interrupting and talking over the top of people?

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