Adele Ferguson

A parliamentary inquiry has been called into the troubled childcare sector following a landmark ABC investigation into serious safety breaches in the industry.

Parents say they are being lied to about the quality of food at childcare centres across the country. Some say they were promised in-house chefs but children were served "two-minute noodles".

Sarah Ferguson presents Australia's premier daily current affairs program, delivering agenda-setting public affairs journalism and interviews that hold the powerful to account. Plus political analysis from Laura Tingle.

The fake qualifications and financial fraud of Australia's shadowy private college sector

Whether it's "Faux outrage" or online death threats, it's risky being a whistleblower and vested interests have a lot to answer for.

Federal Financial Services Minister Stephen Jones says state consumer ministers will meet this week discuss ways to stamp out poor behaviour by retirement village operators.

As more cracks appear in the burgeoning super industry, performance won't take centre stage. The trust gap will.

The Victorian government will become the first state to force retirement village operators to sign up to a mandatory code of conduct as part of a crackdown on the sector that also includes more transparency on how fees are calculated.

Financial advisor Kris Ridgway's life began to unravel in early 2022 when it was discovered he was recommending unlisted shares to his clients. As Ridgway faces up to 15 years jail, his wife Kerrilyn says she's lost her past, and her future.

Former military lawyer David McBride has given an interview to the ABC from the Canberra prison where he is serving a sentence of more than five years for leaking secret military documents to journalists.