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Samantha Maiden

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Samantha Maiden is a highly acclaimed Australian political journalist. She is widely recognized for her tenacious reporting, ability to break significant stories, and her strong focus on accountability in Canberra. She has been a fixture in the Canberra Press Gallery for over two decades, covering numerous federal elections, budgets, and the tenures of multiple Prime Ministers. Her experience gives her deep insights into the workings of Australian politics.

Samantha is one of Australia's most decorated journalists, having received numerous prestigious awards for her work, including: The Gold Walkley Award in 2021, the highest honor in Australian journalism, for her groundbreaking reporting on "Open secret: The Brittany Higgins story," as well as 2021 The Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award, another top accolade, for her coverage of abuse in Parliament House. She has also won multiple Walkley Awards, the Kennedy Award for Journalist of the Year, the 2021 Our Watch Award for excellence in reporting on violence against women and children, and Press Gallery Journalist of the Year.
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[on the Australian Republican Movement] I think the more significant issue is - the Republican Movement has got to get its act together. Because I think that there is a legitimate criticism that it's become too captured by the wealthy, by the Eastern Seaboard, by media elites and all the rest of it.
[on Aboriginal suppression of child abuse] I'm very troubled by the idea that we're having this debate that 'Oh, child abuse happens everywhere' or 'Children get raped everywhere'. One case like this is not ok, and there are clearly more cases than one in Alice Springs. And so, I find myself very troubled by this debate where people seem to want to minimise the sexual assault of children. Or act as if it happens everywhere, and somehow that makes it ok.

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