Elise Worthington is a journalist and the ABC's Andrew Olle Scholar for 2015. She joined the ABC in Brisbane in 2012 after working in commercial TV and completing a Bachelor of Journalism at the University of Queensland. She was selected for an ABC cadetship in 2013 and has won three Queensland Media awards for her work. Elise was also a Young Walkley finalist in the Radio category in 2014 and is now based in Sydney. In 2013 she won the Clarions 'New Journalist of the Year' award. Follow Elise on Twitter at @elisereports or email her at worthington.elise@abc.net.au.
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| UpdatedA Four Corners investigation into residential group homes has found some of the country's most damaged children are being placed in serious danger.
Topics: child-abuse, community-and-society, family-and-children, australia, newcastle-2300
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| UpdatedYoung charity workers were forced to lick underwear, cross dress and take part in obscene cigarette rituals, according to lawyers suing the marketing giant Appco.
Topics: work, community-and-society, law-crime-and-justice, australia
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| UpdatedAs Parliament meets to determine whether the same-sex marriage plebiscite will go ahead, meet some of the key players in the ongoing debate.
Topics: marriage, family-and-children, community-and-society, government-and-politics, federal-government, australia
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| UpdatedAustralian families are re-mortgaging homes, taking out loans, or pulling out their super to get their ice-addicted children into private rehab clinics. Despite the sacrifices, experts fear these largely unregulated clinics may not be getting results.
Topics: community-and-society, drugs-and-substance-abuse, bacchus-marsh-3340
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| UpdatedOne of the guards involved in the tear-gassing incident at the Don Dale Youth Detention Centre says Dylan Voller was put in a mechanical restraint chair on "at least three occasions", which conflicts with claims from the NT Corrections Department.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, youth, nt
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| UpdatedThe Northern Territory Corrections Commissioner says children are held in isolation for a maximum of 24 hours in youth detention, contradicting figures provided by his own department to Four Corners last week.
Topics: community-and-society, youth, law-crime-and-justice, crime, darwin-0800, australia, nt, alice-springs-0870
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| UpdatedHuman Rights Commissioner Gillian Triggs calls for an independent inquiry into the treatment of Northern Territory children in detention, after "extremely distressing" footage is shown on the ABC's Four Corners program.
Topics: community-and-society, youth, law-crime-and-justice, crime, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, australia, nt
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| UpdatedFour Corners obtains a series of chilling videos showing the methods used on at-risk children in youth detention in the Northern Territory.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, human, rights, darwin-0800, nt, australia
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| UpdatedA 17-year-old is strapped into a mechanical restraint chair in the Northern Territory, part of a chilling catalogue of videos, obtained by Four Corners, showing the repeated stripping, assault and mistreatment of the boy.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, child-abuse, government-and-politics, alice-springs-0870, australia, darwin-0800, nt
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| UpdatedShocking vision showing a 13-year-old boy being repeatedly victimised at Northern Territory youth detention centres — including instances where he was stripped naked as well as being knocked to the floor by staff members — comes to light in tonight's Four Corners.
Topics: youth, law-crime-and-justice, states-and-territories, child-abuse, nt, darwin-0800, alice-springs-0870
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| UpdatedMalcolm Turnbull says there is "no suggestion of any impropriety whatsoever" after his name was found in the massive Panama Papers database leaked from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca.
Topics: federal-government, government-and-politics, australia, panama
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| UpdatedA searchable database of more than 200,000 entities found in the Panama Papers investigation is released, stripping away the layers of secrecy shrouding companies, trusts and foundations created in 21 jurisdictions around the world.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, international-financial-institutions, law-crime-and-justice, fraud-and-corporate-crime, international-law, panama, united-states, germany
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| UpdatedThe highly secretive source behind the Panama Papers, known only as John Doe, breaks his silence to explain why he decided to expose the inner workings of law firm Mossack Fonseca.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, international-financial-institutions, law-crime-and-justice, fraud-and-corporate-crime, international-law, panama
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| Updated"John Doe" made a life-endangering decision to make public millions of secret tax haven documents from law firm Mossack Fonseca because it was "doing real harm to the world".
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, tax, law-crime-and-justice, corruption, government-and-politics, australia, panama
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| UpdatedConvicted fraudsters, directors banned by the corporate regulator and former Australian Tax Office officials are among hundreds of Australians linked to companies incorporated by Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, tax, law-crime-and-justice, corruption, government-and-politics, australia, panama
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| UpdatedThe Australian Tax Office investigates 800 Australian residents named in a massive leak of tax and financial records known as the Panama Papers.
Topics: tax, government-and-politics, international-financial-institutions, business-economics-and-finance, australia, panama
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| UpdatedThe unprecedented leak of more than 11 million documents reveals the hidden financial dealings of some of the world's wealthiest people, as well as 12 current and former world leaders including Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, international-financial-institutions, banking, judges-and-legal-profession, world-politics, corruption, company-news, money-and-monetary-policy, journalism, panama, russian-federation, iceland, china, ukraine
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| UpdatedSo much money was pouring so rapidly into Najib Razak's personal bank accounts that it rang internal money-laundering alarms inside a Malaysian bank part-owned by Australia's ANZ.
Topics: corruption, law-crime-and-justice, world-politics, government-and-politics, malaysia
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| UpdatedThe former Malaysian attorney-general put in place a plan to lay criminal charges of misappropriation against Prime Minister Najib Razak before he was suddenly removed from office last year, Four Corners confirms.
Topics: government-and-politics, world-politics, corruption, law-crime-and-justice, malaysia, asia
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| UpdatedThe number of ecstasy users appearing at NSW hospitals has almost doubled in the past six years, as recent deaths linked to the party drug put pressure on the Government to rethink its stance on pill testing.
Topics: dance-music, death, drug-offences, drugs-and-substance-abuse, drug-education, carnivals-and-festivals, australia
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| UpdatedThe shark nets that sit in front of 51 beaches in New South Wales do nothing to reduce the chance of attacks, a statistical analysis finds.
Topics: animals, animal-attacks, human-interest, shark, environment, nsw, ballina-2478, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedFair Work Commission vice-president Michael Lawler reveals he has been secretly recording phone conversations with his boss, as scrutiny intensifies over his role in his partner Kathy Jackson's legal case.
Topics: unions, government-and-politics, corruption, law-crime-and-justice, australia
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| UpdatedFair Work Commission vice-president Michael Lawler confirms he worked on his partner Kathy Jackson's defence while taking nine months' sick leave at a salary of more than $400,000.
Topics: unions, government-and-politics, corruption, law-crime-and-justice, australia
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| UpdatedAustralian researchers are receiving desperate calls from depression sufferers after a promising clinical trial using the drug ketamine to treat the condition was forced to close.
Topics: medical-research, mental-health, australia
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St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney is tackling the complex emotional and psychological needs of carers by starting a unique caring for carers peer support group.
Topics: carers, cancer, diseases-and-disorders, health, kings-cross-2011, australia