Grace Tobin
Grace is a two-time Walkley Award-winning investigative journalist and former 7.30 reporter. Before joining the ABC, she worked at 60 Minutes where she travelled extensively around Australia and on overseas assignments. In 2019, she produced a joint investigation with Nine Newspapers on Crown Casino which sparked two Royal Commissions and the Bergin Inquiry in NSW. She's the author of true crime book, Deal with the Devil. Her career began in regional Queensland as a crime and court reporter. Email Grace at Tobin.Grace@abc.net.au. For more secure communication and tip-offs, Grace can be contacted at GTobin@protonmail.com
Latest by Grace Tobin
Major IVF clinic accused of using the wrong sperm asked to destroy thousands of samples
By Grace Tobin and Janelle Miles
An audit of Queensland Fertility Group semen samples frozen before 2020 found thousands to be at high risk of misidentification because of a lack of double witnessing, a report by the state's health ombudsman says.
Maria used a sperm donor to have her son. Then the man tracked her down
Maria thought she was doing the right thing by connecting with the sperm donor she used to conceive her baby. She now wants the clinic to warn other families.
'We're never gonna forget what happened': The trauma of Amelia and Zach's IVF experience lingers
Ten months after their dream of becoming parents turned to tragedy, these families are still fighting a giant IVF company to find out what went wrong.
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'We got the wrong sperm': Anastasia and Lexie are living an IVF nightmare. The clinic won't take responsibility
The mystery of what went wrong at one of Australia's biggest fertility clinics haunts this couple.
Katherine's sperm donor father could have created up to 700 children. She has a message for her siblings
Failings by two of Australia's major IVF companies allowed a man to keep donating sperm over several years using different names. Katherine Dawson is now urgently trying to find her half-siblings.
Rules of Engagement
By Grace Tobin, Mary Fallon, and Dylan Welch
Four Corners goes behind the scenes of former Australian military lawyer David McBride's fight to clear his name.
Duration: 46 minutes 36 seconds
He gave this journalist classified military documents. Both still live with the consequences
Military lawyer David McBride gave journalist Dan Oakes more than a hundred classified military documents. Both are still living with the consequences.
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Terrianne has used ice throughout pregnancies. This time was different
Thousands of babies who've been exposed to their mother's drug use are born in Australia every year. Help is difficult to find.
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Alexander's loving 'wife' lives inside an app. He says she's exactly what he needs
We’re entering a new era of artificial intelligence, where human-like conversation and images can be created with the click of a button. Already, the powerful technology is changing our lives — for better or worse.
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'They shouldn't have to die': The women in a daily battle to save their daughters
The number of eating disorder cases has exploded, but our health system is appallingly underprepared to deal with the crisis.
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Dangerous 'folding up' restraint to be banned in West Australian youth detention
The potentially-deadly practice used on children by youth detention officers in Western Australia will be replaced with an alternative method within weeks.
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Analysis
analysis:'We'll be considered barbarians': Why many countries aren't jailing children anymore, but Australia is
Multiple governments have buried this report. It spells out the dismal failures of youth detention policy in Australia. Why has barely anyone seen it?
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'I can't breathe': A boy is held down, then a guard sits on him
Video footage shows how children are being treated in a youth detention facility facing allegations of excessive force and unlawful confinement.
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'It's basically kill or be killed': The teenagers locked in a violent fight over their suburbs
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By Grace Tobin, Mahmood Fazal, and Naomi Selvaratnam, with photography by Brendan Esposito
The turf war claiming young lives on suburban streets and the people spurred by tragedy to fight the violence.
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As the Coalition feuded over vaping, 'personal' donations were made by the pro-vape lobby
As the Coalition feuded over vaping, Four Corners can reveal a lobby group gave $44,000 to the Liberal Party but declared it as personal gifts from its director on electoral returns.
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Ruby is still in school and wearing nicotine patches. Vaping is to blame
Nicotine vapes are illegal in Australia without a prescription. Four Corners has investigated how Australian kids are buying them.
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John's job at the abattoir was an accident waiting to happen. Then it did
Australia's biggest meat company has an appalling track record on safety, repeatedly failing to protect its workers from death or serious injuries. Employees and family members tell Four Corners their stories.
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What is JBS? The company taking more and more control of the food you eat
Chances are you're eating food from a company built on bribes and corruption, by two billionaire brothers willing to break the law to get what they want.
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Disgraced former Sony Music boss stripped of award days after Four Corners reveals toxic work culture
The Australian Recording Industry Association says it is stripping disgraced former Sony Music Australia chief executive Denis Handlin of a lifetime achievement award, just days after a Four Corners report revealed detailed allegations of systemic bullying and discrimination under Mr Handlin.
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'Still so mad at myself for staying as long as I did': Tamara says sexual harassment at Sony Music was rife
Tamara says she was sexually harassed and had friends sexually assaulted by senior male employees while working for Sony Music Australia. She says head office in New York turned a blind eye and "let this happen for decades".
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Pop stars have sung his praises, but for Sony Music's staff his abuse was traumatising
Senior insiders break their silence to expose what they endured at Sony Music under the reign of Denis Handlin — decades where appalling behaviour was normalised and ignored.
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'I'm a critical witness': Crown whistleblower questions why royal commissions haven't called her to give evidence
A former Crown employee who blew the whistle on the casino giant and helped spark an inquiry has revealed she has not been called as a witness at either of the royal commissions underway in Victoria and Western Australia.
How China's 'crimes against humanity' shattered this Uyghur Australian woman's life
Mehray Mezensof speaks out for the first time about her husband, an Australian permanent resident, who has been jailed in Xinjiang, China.
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MP Craig Kelly accused of ignoring allegations of misconduct by trusted advisor Frank Zumbo
Former Liberal MP Craig Kelly continues to stand by his right-hand man Frank Zumbo, despite mounting allegations the trusted political advisor sexually harassed young interns working at the electorate office.
'Frank would call all of us sisters': Three young women go public with allegations against MP Craig Kelly's senior aide
Three young women identify themselves to speak out about their allegations of inappropriate behaviour by Frank Zumbo, a senior employee and trusted advisor of embattled MP Craig Kelly.
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