Anne Connolly

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. 

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.

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.

An ABC investigation reveals police may have failed to identify another victim of convicted healthcare killer Garry Davis, who was found guilty of murdering two nursing home residents and attempting to kill a third by injecting them with lethal doses of insulin.

Thousands of Australian women who won a landmark class action settlement more than a year ago over damage done by pelvic mesh have still not received any compensation.

An inquiry ordered following a Four Corners investigation into the Public Trustee concluded that the agency's actions "in the main … were appropriate". Refunds and a misplaced account tell a different story.

An ABC investigation has uncovered a probe into nepotism allegations against a senior executive of the Queensland Public Trustee whose son was employed and promoted by the agency.

Older Australians fear their voices are being drowned out in favour of powerful industry groups who have greater influence over government.

A damning review finds the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission failed to close a controversial program that put children with disabilities at risk of death despite reports from officials and families that it was using prohibited restraints. 

Three years after a bruising royal commission exposed substandard care leading to neglect and abuse in nursing homes, elderly Australians may be asked to fork out more money than ever before, writes Anne Connolly.

NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commissioner Tracy Mackey announces she will “embark on new career opportunities” just two days before an independent report investigating a scandal exposed by Four Corners is due.

NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commissioner Tracey Mackey announces she will “embark on new career opportunities” just two days before an independent report investigating a scandal exposed by Four Corners is due.

The head of the government watchdog for the NDIS swore and said she might have to resign after she discovered she had made a mistake in telling Four Corners the regulator had shut down a program where children with disabilities were abused, court documents allege.

The NDIS regulator commissions an independent inquiry after an ABC investigation found providers had unlawfully restrained children with disabilities in a manner that amounted to a breach of human rights.

The minister for the NDIS says an investigation may be needed following a Four Corners story that revealed children continued to be secluded in small, windowless rooms at a controversial autism service in Melbourne.

Confidentiality laws have long kept the plight of people whose finances are controlled by the state hidden from view, but there are growing calls for the agencies these vulnerable people depend on to be subjected to greater scrutiny.