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.

NICK MCKENZIE

'When you find things that the public deserve to know … it's absolutely exhilarating.'

As an investigative reporter on The Age, Nick McKenzie has covered the local Mafia, allegations of war crimes, Crown Casino's links to criminal figures, political donations by Chinese interests, national security issues, foreign bribery by the Reserve Bank and other companies, and much more.

The award-winning journalist's work also is published in The Sydney Morning Herald, and his investigations have aired on the ABC's Four Corners and Nine's 60 Minutes.