Caro Meldrum-Hanna | |
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 Meldrum-Hanna accepts Perkin Award at Melbourne Press Club Quills, March 2017. |
Caro Meldrum-Hanna is an Australian investigative journalist. [1]
Meldrum-Hanna is best known for her work with ABC Television's Four Corners program. [2] [3] [4] [5]
Among Meldrum-Hanna's stories on Four Corners, two notable reports are an investigation into the treatment of juveniles at the Don Dale Youth Detention Centre entitled "Australia's Shame" and an investigation into a greyhound racing live baiting scandal entitled "Making a Killing". [6] [7]
For "Making a Killing", Meldrum-Hanna was the co-recipient of the 2015 Gold Walkley, shared with producer Sam Clark and researcher Max Murch. [8]
Also in 2015, she won Journalist of the Year at the Kennedy Awards. [9]
Meldrum-Hanna is also known for a three-part ABC documentary which aired in 2018, Exposed: The Case of Keli Lane, which explored the case of waterpolo player Keli Lane, who was convicted of murdering her newborn daughter in 1996. [10] [11] [12]
In 2015, Meldrum-Hanna spoke of the tribulations of being a female journalist covering sporting issues, recalling an alleged incident in which two male radio presenters in Adelaide insinuated during a live interview that she must have had a sexual relationship with sports scientist Stephen Dank for him to have granted her an interview during the Essendon Football Club supplements saga when he had refused other interview requests. [13] According to Meldrum-Hanna, an apology was offered which she refused. [14]
In 2021, Meldrum-Hanna produced a documentary Exposed: The Ghost Train Fire. [15] The documentary contained allegations about corruption of former premier Neville Wran which were challenged by leaders from both sides of the political spectrum as 'unfair, uncorroborated and stretching credulity'. [16]
Meldrum-Hanna is a graduate of the University of Technology Sydney. [17]
