Award winning journalist, Paul Farrell takes us behind the scenes of the investigation that prompted Gladys Berejiklian’s resignation. He gives us a detailed account of how ICAC built its case against the former premier and the romantic relationship that destroyed her political career. He explores her enduring popularity in a male-dominated political world and how this popularity endured despite the accusations against her.

Paul will be in conversation with Kate McClymont and they will be discussing Gladys: A Leader’s Undoing and integrity in the political landscape more broadly, and the role that organisations like ICAC have in times when our trust in our political institutions is at the lowest level is has ever been.

Paul Farrell Paul Farrell is an investigative reporter at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s flagship current affairs program 7.30. He previously worked at The Guardian and Buzzfeed News, breaking major national and international stories. He led The Guardian’s Nauru files reporting team, which published thousands of pages of leaked documents from Australia’s offshore detention regime and won a number of journalism awards. He has worked on global investigations led by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, including the Panama Papers and the HSBC tax files. He has reported extensively on the way politicians wield public funds for political purposes, and his award-winning reporting on Gladys Berejiklian formed a key line of inquiry for the corruption probe into the former premier. He has also extensively covered the intersection of tech and government, such as the Australian government’s Robodebt program.

Kate McClymont Kate McClymont is an investigative journalist with the Sydney Morning Herald. She is a nine-time winner of journalism’s most prestigious award, the Walkley, including the Gold Walkley for her coverage of the Bulldogs salary cap rorts.
She was named the 2012 NSW Journalist of the year for her investigations into the fraudulent activities of Michael Williamson, the head of the Health Services Union and the business activities of former NSW Labor minister, Eddie Obeid.
McClymont is also the recipient of numerous other awards including eight Kennedy Awards, the Australian Shareholders’ Association award for excellence in financial reporting (1992), The NSW’s Law Society’s Golden Quill award for excellence in legal reporting (1990 and 1992), Australian Racing Writer of the Year (1995), Australian Sports Commission Media Award (2002). She also won the 2012 George Munster Award for Independent Journalism.

In 2017 she was inducted into the Media Hall of Fame for her contribution to the industry. With her colleague Linton Besser, she has published He Who Must Be Obeid, which chronicles corruption in NSW. Her second book Dead Man Walking detailed the murder of Michael McGurk and other murky dealings of colourful Sydney business identities. In 2020 she was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for her services to the print media and to investigative journalism.

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