''The Investigators'' is an Australian consumer affairs television series, which aired on the
ABC
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from 1985 to 1995.
The program's host and chief reporter was
Helen Wellings
Helen Wellings is an Australian journalist and consumer advocate.
Wellings is currently a Consumer Editor for ''Seven News''. She has been a senior reporter for the Seven Network for 20 years.
Education and teaching career
Wellings studied ...
,
[Helen Wellings]
''Today Tonight''. who replaced original host
Sonia Humphrey
Sonia Denise Humphrey (10 November 1947 – 1 January 2011) was an Australian television presenter, newsreader and journalist. Humphrey was a talented ballerina as a child and studied television production before working as an archaeologist for f ...
in 1987. Other reporters who worked on the program include foreign correspondent
Eric Campbell,
politician
,
reporter
Leigh McClusky
Leigh Carol McClusky is an Australians, Australian journalist and presenter who has previously worked for Seven Network, Channel 7 in SAS-7, Adelaide. She held the role of presenter of Today Tonight, Today Tonight South Australia from 30 January ...
, and radio presenter
Jon Faine
Jonathan Eric Faine (born 21 September 1956) is an Australian former radio presenter who hosted the morning program on ABC Radio Melbourne in Melbourne. Faine is recognised as a prominent and influential member of the Australian Jewish communi ...
.
[Jon Faine]
ABC Radio.
''The Investigators'' was one of the ABC's highest-rating programs,
and presenter Helen Wellings claimed the program received an average of 500 complaints per week from consumers about products or services.
''TV Week'', 14–20 October 1995.
The program won the
1993 Logie Award for Most Outstanding Achievement in Public Affairs.
[35th TV Week Logie Awards, 1993]
, ''TV Week Logie Awards'', 1993.
The program was cancelled in 1995, as a result of cost-cutting measures at the ABC which included the axing of the state-based editions of ''
The 7.30 Report
''The 7.30 Report'' is an Australian week-nightly television current affairs program, which was shown on ABC1 and ABC News 24 at from 1986 to 2011. In 2011, it evolved into ''7.30'', a revamped current affairs program.
History
''The 7.30 Report ...
''.
References
Consumer protection television series
Australian Broadcasting Corporation original programming
1985 Australian television series debuts
1995 Australian television series endings
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