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The West Australian’s Annabel Hennessy and Briana Fiore recognised at Walkley Awards

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Annabel Hennessy and Briana Fiore.
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The West Australian’s Annabel Hennessy and Briana Fiore were tonight recognised among Australia’s best young reporters at the prestigious Walkley Awards.

Hennessy, 27, won the award for best public service journalism for her exclusive revelations about 11-year-old Annaliesse Ugle taking her own life after her alleged rapist was given bail and allowed back into the community.

Her reporting pushed the McGowan Government to vow to fix the State’s bail laws. Judges said her work “gave a voice to the most voiceless in the community, an indigenous child who was not only the victim of alleged sexual abuse but also the justice and housing system.”

It was yet another accolade for Hennessy, who last year won the Young Australian Journalist of the Year and the West Australian Journalist of the Year for exposing the wrongful incarceration of Aboriginal woman Jody Gore, who was convicted of killing her abusive former partner Damian Jones.

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Fiore, who recently joined The West’s State political team after starting her career at the Harvey-Waroona Reporter, won the community and regional affairs category for her series on deadly Bunbury Hospital bungles.

The judges said her reporting exposed “toxic culture and fatal failings” at the hospital.

West Australian Newspapers Editor-in-Chief Anthony De Ceglie said he was incredibly proud of the pair who had showed a relentless dedication to the craft of journalism.

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