The Perils of Publishing

Adele Ferguson is an acclaimed investigative journalist, working for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. She is a regular guest reporter for the ABC's Four Corners and 7.30 programs, and Nine’s 60 Minutes. She is the author of a bestselling unauthorised biography of Gina Rinehart and the award-winning Banking Bad: Whistleblowers. Corporate cover-ups. One journalist's fight for the truth.Ferguson has won a multitude of awards, including the Gold Walkley, nine Walkley awards, a Logie, the Graham Perkin Journalist of the Year, and 20 Quill Awards, including two Gold Quills. 

Grant McAvaney is a senior media and entertainment lawyer with extensive litigation and commercial law experience. He has worked on a variety of complex and high-profile matters coming from all areas including publishing, print media, radio, television, news, comedy, and online. As well as working within major organisations such as Nine MSN, ABC, Australian Copyright Council and News Corp Australia, Grant has also received several Pro Bono Awards from the Arts Law Centre of Australia. 

Louise Milligan is an investigative reporter for ABC TV’s Four Corners. Her award-winning stories for ABC’s 7.30 on the abuse allegations against George Pell led to the book Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of Cardinal Pell, which was awarded the Walkley Book Award in 2017 and won the 2018 Civic Choice Award for the Melbourne Prize for Literature. Her most recent book is Witness: an investigation into the brutal cost of seeking justice. Her debut novel will be published in 2023. 

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Eve Thomson is a partner in a national commercial law firm, where she specialises in litigation, media and defamation. She provides prepublication advice to well-known Australian media clients, and has a special interest in the publication of domestic and sexual violence related matters. In 2018, Eve wrote the outline and first three chapters of She Too, and was accepted into a Curtis Brown Creative (London) selective six-month novel writing course. Following completion of the course, Eve completed her manuscript under the mentorship of Orange Screenwriting Prize and Commonwealth Book Prize winning author Lisa O’Donnell. Eve has two young children and lives in Adelaide, South Australia.