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Nick McKenzie is a Fairfax investigative journalist whose work appears regularly in The Age, the Sydney Morning Herald and the Australian Financial Review. He also works occasionally as a reporter for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's 4 Corners television program.
You can tip off Nick to a story you want investigated by emailing him at Fairfax Media or calling him via The Age switchboard (+61 3 8667 2000)
McKenzie has won Australia's highest journalism honour, the Walkley award, six times, including a Walkley for investigative reporting in 2011 for his expose (with colleague Richard Baker) of alleged bribery and corruption involving two firms owned by the Reserve Bank of Australia. McKenzie and Baker also won the George Munster prize for independent journalism for this story.
McKenzie began his career as an cadet journalist at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, before joining the ABC investigative unit in 2003, where he broke major national stories on terrorist financing and abuse in immigration detention centres. In 2003, he also exposed in a series of reports the first links between senior European Al Qaeda figures and extremist networks in Melbourne and Sydney.
In 2004, he won his first Walkley award and a Melbourne Press Club investigative reporting award for his expose on Victoria police corruption and the murder of a state corruption witness. One of the stories led to an independent inquiry by Tony Fitzgerald QC, later tabled in state parliament.
While at the ABC, he worked on investigative stories for the 7.30 Report and 4 Corners, before joining The Age's investigative unit in 2006. In 2008, he won a Gold Quill and and his second investigative reporting Quill for his work exposing the misconduct of one of Australia's leading surgeons.
Nick McKenzie won another Walkley award in 2008 for his expose of organised crime in the horse racing industry, including the bribing of a major jockey by organised crime figure Tony Mokbel.