Nick McKenzie

Nick McKenzie is a 16-time winner of the Walkley Award, Australia’s highest journalism honour, and four-time Australian Journalist of the Year. He is a leading Australian investigative journalist who works for newspapers Melbourne’s The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. He’s also presented major investigations for the ABC's Four Corners and 7:30, 60 Minutes and the Australian Financial Review. Nick’s investigations span foreign affairs, defence and national security, corporate wrongdoing, politics, organised crime and corruption, the criminal justice system and social affairs. His work has sparked many international, national and state inquires, including Royal Commissions and parliamentary inquiries, prompted investigations in Australia, the US and Britain into corruption that have led to significant legislative change. Nick has led ground breaking investigations into political corruption that have led to the resignation of state and federal MPs and has also exposed war crimes involving Australian special forces. He’s conducted an unprecedented infiltration of Australia’s neo-nazi movement, revealed a major corruption scandal within Australia’s central bank, exposed organised crime in Australia’s biggest casinos and revealed corruption and doping in elite sport.


Nick is passionate about giving vulnerable people a voice. He works closely with whistleblowers and is an advocate for better laws to protect their critical role exposing corruption and wrongdoing. Whistleblowers have worked with Nick to expose corruption, abuse scandals or other failings in political parties, the defence force, the Catholic church, the health system, law enforcement agencies and sport. His book Crossing the Line: The explosive inside story behind the Ben Roberts-Smith headlines  (2023) shares the powerful untold story of how a small group of brave soldiers and two determined reporters overcame a plot to suppress one of the greatest military scandals in Australian history.

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