Paul Farrell is an award-winning investigative reporter with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s flagship current affairs program 7.30. He previously worked at The Guardian and BuzzFeed News, breaking major national and international stories. He led The Guardian’s Nauru files reporting team, which published thousands of pages of leaked documents from Australia’s offshore detention regime and won a number of journalism awards.

He has also worked on global investigations led by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, including the Panama Papers and the HSBC tax files. He has reported extensively on the way in which politicians wield public funds for political purposes, and has extensively covered the intersection of tech and government, such as the Australian Government’s Robodebt program.