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ABC’s Mridula Amin is Young Australian Journalist of Year
Mridula Amin is a reporter and photojournalist with ABC News. She has also worked with The New York Times, National Geographic, The Wall Street Journal, SBS and VICE. She graduated from Macquarie University in 2018 with a Bachelors of Media/Bachelors of Law and is an admitted lawyer of the Supreme Court.
ABC reporter and photojournalist Mridula Amin has been named Young Australian Journalist of the Year at the Walkleys Mid-Year Celebration of Journalism. The award recognises outstanding achievement by a reporter aged 28 and under.
Amin, who is part of the NSW State news team and based in the ABC’s Western Sydney bureau, was awarded for her Background Briefing story “The hidden park of last resort“, which told the story of a community fighting for their homes inside one of Sydney’s last long-term caravan parks. The story also won the longform, feature or special category and Amin also won the category fo
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By Quentin McDermott
image captionKathleen Folbigg, pictured after a court hearing in 2004
Imagine for a moment what it must feel like if, as a mother, you give birth to four children, one after another, each of whom, as infants, dies from natural causes over a 10-year period.
Then imagine being wrongly accused of smothering them all and being sentenced to 30 years in jail for four terrible crimes you did not commit.
That narrative is emerging as potentially the true story of Kathleen Folbigg, an Australian mother from the Hunter Valley region of New South Wales (NSW).
Branded at her trial in 2003 as Australia s worst female serial killer , Folbigg has already spent nearly 18 years in prison after being found guilty of the manslaughter of her firstborn Caleb, and the murder of her three subsequent children, Patrick, Sarah and Laura.
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