1. Professor Wendy Bacon was born on 1946 and is an Australian academic, investigative journalist, and political activist who was head of the Journalism Program at the University of Technology, Sydney.
13 Facts About Wendy Bacon
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Wendy Bacon was awarded Australian journalism's highest prize, a Walkley Award in 1984 for her articles about police corruption in New South Wales.
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On her own website Bacon describes her approach to journalism and political activism:.
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Wendy Bacon is the daughter of a doctor and the sister of the former premier of Tasmania, Jim Wendy Bacon.
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When she was 23, Wendy Bacon was convicted of exhibiting an obscene publication and given a good behaviour bond.
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Wendy Bacon spent a week in Mulawah Women's Prison while awaiting sentence.
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Wendy Bacon wrote a series of articles in The National Times newspaper on the attempted bribe and murder of Detective Michael Drury in the 1980s and this story formed the basis of the award-winning ABC television mini-series, Blue Murder.
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Wendy Bacon has worked in both print and television, working for the Nine Network on the Sunday program and 60 Minutes, The National Times and The Sun-Herald, and Dateline on the Special Broadcasting Service.
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Justice Reynolds and two other justices of the NSW Court of Appeal found unanimously that Wendy Bacon had lied in her evidence to the court about her role in conspiring with others to illegally get a prisoner out of gaol by putting up a dummy bail surety.
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Wendy Bacon received a Walkley award in 1984 for her exposure of official corruption in New South Wales.
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From 1991 to August 2012 Wendy Bacon was an academic at the University of Technology, Sydney, where she taught journalism at the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism.
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Wendy Bacon continues to write as a freelance investigative journalist, with a series of articles about one police officer's corrupt framing of his ex-wife eventually leading to the overturn of a miscarriage of justice.
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In 2016 Wendy Bacon was arrested at a protest to stop the construction of the WestConnex motorway.