Liz Jackson is an Australia

Australia

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n journalist

Journalist

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 and former barrister

Barrister

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 noted for her work on the Four Corners and Media Watch television programs.

Jackson grew up in Melbourne

Melbourne

Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

, Australia and commenced work with the Australian Broadcasting Centre in 1986. Prior to her career with the ABC, Jackson also worked in a community legal centre in Australia and practiced law in London

London

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After joining Four Corners as an investigative reporter in 1994, Jackson has been awarded Walkley Awards, Australia's awards for journalism, on five occasions for her work on the following:

• The situation in Somalia
  Somalia
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• The suicide of Aboriginal activist Rob Riley
  Rob Riley
  Robert Riley was an Aboriginal activist advancing Indigenous issues in Australia.Soon after his birth, he was removed from his family and placed in state care at Sister Kate's in Queens Park, Western Australia. He was almost ten years old before he knew his mother was alive and was reunited with...
  
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• "Fixing Cricket", a report in to cricket match-fixing (2000);
• "Go to jail", regarding the Northern Territory
  Northern Territory
  The Northern Territory is a federal territory of Australia, occupying much of the centre of the mainland continent, as well as the central northern regions...
  
  's mandatory sentencing laws (2000); and,
• "Putting the Children at Risk", an investigation in to the New South Wales
  New South Wales
  New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...
  
   Department of Community Services (2002).

Jackson has also received three Logie Award

Logie Award

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s (the Australian equivalent of an Emmy award

Emmy Award

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) for "Fixing Cricket" and stories related to the Blackhawk disaster and HIV

HIV

Human immunodeficiency virus is a lentivirus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome , a condition in humans in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive...

 transmission from a doctor's surgery.

At the start of 2005, Jackson hosted the media-criticism program Media Watch, before stepping down in December 2005 and returning to Four Corners; journalist Monica Attard

Monica Attard

Monica Ann Attard OAM is an award-winning Australian journalist. She is of Maltese descent.-Education:Attard was educated at Bethlehem College in Sydney. She attended Sydney University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts...

 was announced as her replacement.

Her daughter, Rose Jackson

Rose Jackson

Rose Jackson is a Councillor for Waverley Council in Sydney, Australia. She was the former President of the Australian National Union of Students...

, is a student politician aligned with the National Labor Students faction and sits on the executive of the New South Wales Labor Party

Australian Labor Party

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