ABC Investigations journalist Anne Connolly on her crowdsourced probe into aged care and the shocking stories it uncovered

ABC Investigations journalist Anne Connolly has spent the past three years looking into the state of aged care in Australia.

The federal government called a royal commission the day before her first in-depth story on Four Corners went to air and her reporting on the issue has won several awards — the Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year award, the Kennedy Journalist of the Year award and the Australian Human Rights Commission award.

In this interview with ABC Backstory, Connolly says aged care is an issue that’s been neglected in media coverage but she sensed there was widespread suffering that needed to be exposed.

How did your long-running investigation into aged care come about?

When I joined the ABC Investigations unit in…