Liz Jackson

Jackson grew up in Melbourne, Australia and commenced work with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) in 1986. Prior to her career with the ABC, Jackson also worked in a community legal centre in Australia and practised law in London as a barrister at Gray's Inn. Jackson returned to Australia and worked for the NSW Premier's Department, in the Women's Coordination Unit, dealing with laws to protect women from violence.[1]

After joining Four Corners as an investigative reporter in 1994, Jackson was awarded Walkley Awards, Australia's awards for journalism, on five occasions for her work on the following:

• The situation in Somalia (1993);
• The suicide of Aboriginal activist Rob Riley;
• "Fixing Cricket", a report about cricket match-fixing (2000);
• "Go to jail", regarding the Northern Territory's mandatory sentencing laws (2000); and,
• "Putting the Children at Risk", an investigation into the New South Wales Government Department of Community Services (2002).[2]

Jackson received three Logie Awards for "Fixing Cricket" and stories related to the Blackhawk disaster and HIV transmission from a doctor's surgery.[2]

At the start of 2005, Jackson hosted the media-criticism program Media Watch, before stepping down in December 2005 and returning to Four Corners.[3]

Her daughter, Rose Jackson, is a Labor member of the New South Wales Legislative Council.

In November 2016, Jackson revealed she had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2014, with the release of a documentary called "A Sense of Self" broadcast as an episode of Four Corners.[4]

She died in her sleep while on holiday in Greece on 27 June 2018, at the age of 67.[5]