Democracy's Watchdogs will provide an oral and visual history through video interviews with past and current Australian investigative reporters who exposed corruption and held powerful government, criminal and corporate interests to account. These reporters helped make society fairer and our democracy healthier.

ANDREW RULE

'They’re the best stories to write … it's like big wave surfing; it's the big stuff.'

Andrew Rule's passions are sport and crime and today he writes about both for the Herald Sun, as well as writing books and podcasting. But it was when he was on The Age earlier in his career that he wrote two award-winning investigative stories that continue to have an impact on the key characters today. Among his many honours, Rule was twice awarded the prestigious Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year.