Josie Taylor

Josie Taylor is an award winning journalist who hosted the 7.30 Victoria program from 2011 to 2014. She was Victorian state political reporter for ABC TV from 2008 to 2010. Josie has reported for 730, Lateline, AM, PM and The World Today, and was the Associate Producer for Insiders with Barrie Cassidy. She is currently part of the National Reporting Team, based in Melbourne.

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• Locked up in a notorious prison for protesting at university

  7.30

  By the National Reporting Team's Josie Taylor

  Posted February 24, 2017 13:49:25 | Updated February 24, 2017 14:32:17

  Barry York and Brian Pola were thrown into a maximum security prison for protesting against the Vietnam War, but almost five decades on they still say they have no regrets and they're certainly not after any apologies.

  Topics: activism-and-lobbying, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, university-and-further-education, education, government-and-politics, melbourne-3000, coburg-3058, vic, australia

• Private training giant Evocca set to close more campuses

  By the National Reporting Team's Josie Taylor and Alison Branley

  Posted February 24, 2017 06:08:50

  Evocca College is closing more of its remaining campuses in Queensland and Victoria and a further 60 staff have been made redundant, the ABC understands, in the latest sign of instability in the scandal-plagued private training sector.

  Topics: education, distance-education, university-and-further-education, education-industry, vocational, australia, qld, brisbane-4000, caboolture-4510, vic, geelong-3220, corio-3214, frankston-3199, melbourne-3000

• Melbourne train contractor accused of underpaying guards

  By the National Reporting Team's Josie Taylor and Sam Clark

  Posted February 16, 2017 06:01:17 | Updated February 16, 2017 15:45:11

  Security guards that patrol Melbourne's train stations and depots claim they are being underpaid for risky and dangerous work.

  Topics: work, industrial-relations, rail-transport, community-and-society, melbourne-3000, vic, australia

• Evicted landowner living illegally in shed after battle with bank

  By the National Reporting Team's Josie Taylor

  Posted February 04, 2017 06:00:17 | Updated February 04, 2017 14:22:41

  Former interior decorator and graphic artist Deborah Parkhouse lives in a shed with a rack of clothes and her rescue pets in country Victoria after being evicted from her home following a long battle with her bank Credit Union Australia.

  Topics: homelessness, community-and-society, banking, industry, business-economics-and-finance, kyneton-3444, vic, australia

• Former LJ Hooker agents charged over misappropriating customers' money

  Exclusive by Josie Taylor and Sam Clark

  Posted January 27, 2017 10:43:59 | Updated January 27, 2017 23:58:05

  Real estate giant LJ Hooker says it is pleased two of its former agents will face court for allegedly misappropriating more than $2 million of customers' money.

  Topics: law-crime-and-justice, australia, melbourne-3000, vic

• Prisoner's sister pleads for punishment rethink as jail figures soar

  By National Reporting Team's Josie Taylor

  Posted December 20, 2016 09:05:56

  As the prison population grows, the sister of a serious violent offender pleads for a community rethink on punishment, saying going to jail as a teenager ruined her brother's life.

  Topics: law-crime-and-justice, prisons-and-punishment, community-and-society, rehabilitation, australia

• Decades after being gang raped, victim takes centre stage in her own nightmare

  7.30

  By the National Reporting Team's Josie Taylor

  Posted November 03, 2016 15:22:22 | Updated November 03, 2016 20:54:53

  In an empty Perth theatre, Xan Fraser takes the stage and tells the story of her gang rape.

  Topics: sexual-offences, theatre, perth-6000

• Victorian prisoners 'maxing out' jail sentences to avoid strict parole laws

  7.30

  By the National Reporting Team's Josie Taylor

  Posted September 09, 2016 13:07:29 | Updated September 09, 2016 21:24:23

  Prisoners are choosing to remain in jail for their maximum sentences to avoid being monitored under Victoria's strict new parole laws, prompting a warning from legal experts the laws could be putting the community at risk.

  Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, laws, state-parliament, parliament, government-and-politics, vic, australia

• United Petroleum audit uncovers 'disturbing' staff underpayment

  By the National Reporting Team's Josie Taylor

  Posted August 31, 2016 05:01:45 | Updated August 31, 2016 10:23:43

  The Fair Work Ombudsman finds six United Petroleum service stations across Australia breaking workplace laws, including underpaying staff thousands of dollars.

  Topics: work, community-and-society, laws, law-crime-and-justice, waterloo-2017, nsw, pooraka-5095, sa

• Reformed offenders 'missing link' to slashing prisoner numbers: research

  By the National Reporting Team's Josie Taylor

  Posted August 24, 2016 06:53:21

  Using reformed offenders to mentor inmates could help reduce reoffending and cut Australia's growing prison population, research suggests.

  Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, community-and-society, melbourne-3000, vic, australia

• 'I'm in tears': Flood of donations saves much-loved men's shed

  By the National Reporting Team's Josie Taylor

  Posted July 26, 2016 16:14:47 | Updated July 26, 2016 18:49:05

  A Brimbank men's shed regular is brought to tears after a flood of donations from members of the public saves the service from imminent closure.

  Topics: social-policy, government-and-politics, community-and-society, suicide, melbourne-3000, sunshine-3020, australia, vic

• 'I'd be dead without it': Life-saving men's shed under threat

  By the National Reporting Team's Josie Taylor

  Posted July 24, 2016 06:06:33 | Updated July 24, 2016 15:55:16

  With funding drying up, a program in Melbourne some regulars say has saved their lives will be forced to close its doors in weeks.

  Topics: social-policy, government-and-politics, community-and-society, suicide, melbourne-3000, sunshine-3020, australia, vic

• Pokies hitting poor suburbs much harder, study finds

  By the National Reporting Team's Josie Taylor

  Posted July 07, 2016 14:59:52 | Updated July 07, 2016 15:13:51

  Gamblers in poorer suburbs are losing more than three times the money to poker machines compared to gamblers in more advantaged areas, an Australian-first study finds.

  Topics: gambling, community-and-society, government-and-politics, federal-government, airport-west-3042, vic

• 'Traumatic' court process for transgender children set to be overhauled

  Lateline

  By the National Reporting Team's Josie Taylor

  Posted July 05, 2016 17:17:37 | Updated July 05, 2016 23:33:16

  The Chief Justice of the Family Court says she will change the way transgender children access hormone treatment, saying the current process is difficult and stressful.

  Topics: sexuality, community-and-society, law-crime-and-justice, australia

• 'Being a girl is amazing': Transitioning at a young age

  By the National Reporting Team's Josie Taylor

  Posted July 05, 2016 17:17:37 | Updated July 05, 2016 17:30:02

  Annabelle was born a boy but as soon as she could start dressing herself, she gravitated towards girl's clothes.

  Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, sexuality, community-and-society, qld, australia

• Consumer advocates question court decision on Aboriginal funeral insurance

  By the National Reporting Team's Josie Taylor

  Posted July 05, 2016 15:25:56 | Updated July 05, 2016 15:27:07

  Consumer advocates are dismayed by a Federal Court judgement allowing a notorious Gold Coast funeral insurance company to access the Government's Centrepay system.

  Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, law-crime-and-justice, qld

• Part-time Coles worker wins Fair Work case

  By the National Reporting Team's Sam Clark, Josie Taylor and Dan Oakes

  Posted May 31, 2016 13:20:16 | Updated May 31, 2016 16:23:27

  Coles could be forced to renegotiate wages and conditions of thousands of employees as a worker wins a David-and-Goliath battle against the supermarket chain and one of Australia's most powerful unions.

  Topics: industrial-relations, work, community-and-society, unions, law-crime-and-justice, australia, brisbane-4000, qld

• Ford faces class action over potentially dangerous transmission

  By the National Reporting Team's Josie Taylor

  Posted May 18, 2016 13:01:28 | Updated May 18, 2016 15:44:55

  A law firm launches a class action on behalf of about 60,000 Australian Ford owners, claiming vehicles containing an automatic "PowerShift" transmission are potentially dangerous.

  Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, australia

• LJ Hooker agents investigated over missing client money

  Exclusive by the National Reporting Team's Josie Taylor and Sam Clark

  Posted April 29, 2016 14:43:29 | Updated April 29, 2016 19:32:20

  More than 100 customers are owed "substantial" sums of money following the collapse of six LJ Hooker branches in Melbourne, with the couple involved in running the business under investigation for allegedly misappropriating their clients' money.

  Topics: consumer-protection, consumer-finance, business-economics-and-finance, law-crime-and-justice, doncaster-3108, vic, australia

• iPhone sales fall for first time ever

  By Josie Taylor and Sam Clark

  Posted April 27, 2016 11:22:56 | Updated April 27, 2016 16:49:21

  Apple reports a first-ever fall in iPhone sales, leading to a slump in revenue for the first time since 2003, with analysts saying global saturation in the smartphone market is having an effect.

  Topics: business-economics-and-finance, mobile-phones, consumer-electronics, united-states

• US compensation deal won't affect Australian VW owners: lawyer

  By Josie Taylor

  Posted April 21, 2016 15:22:04 | Updated April 21, 2016 15:26:28

  The lawyer leading an Australian class action against VW doubts an American compensation deal with the German automaker will have Australian implications.

  Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, manufacturing, road-transport, environmental-impact, australia, united-states, germany

• Mitsubishi investigates Australian links to fuel efficiency scandal

  By the National Reporting Team's Josie Taylor

  Posted April 21, 2016 11:49:41 | Updated April 21, 2016 15:22:04

  Mitsubishi is investigating if any of its vehicles in Australia could be caught up in the manipulation of pollution data.

  Topics: automotive, corporate-governance, pollution, australia, japan

• Millions potentially being 'rorted' from government training scheme

  By the National Reporting Team's Alison Branley and Josie Taylor

  Posted April 16, 2016 06:09:41 | Updated April 16, 2016 10:02:24

  A new frontier of potential rorting is emerging in the troubled private vocational training sector, with unions and employers raising concerns about trainers' so-called "ticking and flicking" of qualifications.

  Topics: adult-education, education, university-and-further-education, government-and-politics, federal---state-issues, federal-government, australia, sydney-2000

• Thousands of students left without courses as training provider collapses

  By the National Reporting Team's Josie Taylor and Alison Branley

  Posted March 22, 2016 14:59:16 | Updated March 22, 2016 15:36:59

  Troubled private vocational training provider Australian Careers Network is entering voluntary administration, leaving 15,000 students without a course.

  Topics: education, adult-education, education-industry, government-and-politics, australia

• Evocca College sacks 220 staff, set to close 17 campuses

  By the National Reporting Team's Josie Taylor and Alison Branley

  Posted March 17, 2016 14:07:57 | Updated March 18, 2016 00:58:21

  Training giant Evocca College sacks more than 200 staff and says it will close more than a third of its campuses around the country.

  Topics: vocational, education, australia, qld, tas, vic, nsw

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