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Neil Chenoweth and Edmund Tadros have been named journalists of the year and Brad Thompson and Peter Ker scored best business story at the Quill Awards.
s scoop coverage of the PwC tax scandal has won another of the country’s most prestigious journalism awards, and a second reporting team was also honoured for breaking the news of the breakup of billionaire couple Andrew and Nicola Forrest and its likely impact on Fortescue Metals Group.
’s professional services editor Edmund Tadros won the 2023 Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award, part of the Melbourne Press Club’s Quill Awards, for a series of articles that cracked the PwC story.Separately, resources reporter Peter Ker and Perth-based reporter Brad Thompson won the best business news/feature Quill for their story on the Forrests, whichFrom left: Edmund Tadros, Brad Thompson, Peter Ker and Neil Chenoweth.Chenoweth and Tadros broke the news in January that PwC partner Peter Collins had been banned from working as an accountant by the Tax Practitioners Board after it found he had leaked confidential government information that was used to develop tax schemes designed to help multinational companies sidestep the tax Mr Collins was helping Treasury design.– including exposing a cache of internal emails that revealed the extent of the leak – ultimately led to the breakup of PwC in Australia, the biggest crackdown on misconduct by tax advisers in Australian history and unprecedented scrutiny of the consulting sector. The reporting triggered three parliamentary inquiries, an Australian Federal Police investigation, nine additional investigations by the TPB and eight Treasury reviews into the professional services sector. “Tadros and Chenoweth displayed true courage and determination in pursuing various leads, including how governments had become far too reliant on the work of the big consulting firms,” the judges said.In awarding Ker and Thompson, the judges said their story “unravelled the power shift within the Forrest family empire and … meticulously followed the money to put two and two together. This story has major implications for the future of one of Australia’s biggest miners and its efforts for a greener transition.” “Neil Chenoweth and Edmund Tadros were the perfect team to follow all the threads of the PwC scandal originally broken by Neil,” the’s editor-in-chief Michael Stutchbury and editor Fiona Buffini said in a statement. “They combined old-fashioned journalism of dogged forensic document-sifting with deep knowledge of the tax bureaucracy and well-placed contacts inside the big consultancy firms.“They followed the saga through who knew what and when, and importantly why not enough people at PwC thought it was a bad idea to share confidential government information about its global tax avoidance laws. “Their investigation into this breach of trust, and its aftermath, led to Australia’s biggest professional services firm being split to save the non-tax and audit consulting business from being frozen out of Canberra.“It will reverberate through Australia’s professional services sector for years and, hopefully, change it for the better.The pair took out the prestigious investigative journalism and business journalism awards, and together with columnists James Thomson and Joe Aston and The Fin podcast team of Lisa Murray, Alex Gow and Lap Phan, won the award for coverage of a major news event for the PwC story.journalists have won the Graham Perkin journalist of the year award three times since these began in 1976: Robert Gottliebsen in 1977, Rowan Callick in 1995 and Pamela Williams in 1998.
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