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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Delightful news! Shellybanks is shortlisted for 2026 Booktopia Book Awards. If you’re one of the many people who told me you loved it, I’d be so grateful for your vote. You’ll be in running for $250 prize. Thanks for supporting my writing, means the world. ❤️📚 www.booktopia.com.au/booktopia-bo...

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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Please watch Monday 8.30 ABC #4Corners: Christian Brothers Inc. Deep dive into Catholic order adopting litigation strategies more akin to a corporation than a religious body. Did expecting survivors to line up like creditors in a corporate collapse happen in a vacuum? I went to Ireland to find out.

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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

All of this sheds significant light on this statement tonight from the Christian Brothers that victims/survivors are their highest priority, given they are seeking an urgent stay on all current proceedings by victims of child abuse against them because of their terrible financial situation.

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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Question for the Christian Brothers: Exactly how much property did they transfer without monetary consideration (ie, for free) to EREA, half of which of its billion dollars in revenue comes from taxpayers? A pertinent question, given EREA refuses to give the brothers enough funds for compensation.

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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

We at 4 Corners are very proud that last night we won the Walkley Awards' Women’s Leadership in Media Prize for our story, Scarred, on #endometriosis surgeon Simon Gordon. We thank all the patients and doctors who spoke up to help us tell this awful history and make change. Women deserve better. 💪

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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Thanks to the beautiful people of Williamstown who came to Willy Lit writers’ festival today to hear me talk to ABC colleague Sarah L’Estrange about Shellybanks, which sold out at the festival today. So grateful for the support of my fiction. Love these community events & the people I meet at them.

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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Thank you! Yes, (phew) that has been the standard response, which is a relief and a joy. I loved writing that book so very much. There is so much of my family and my heart in it. This is me in the “wet rain” at Shellybanks, out watching the tides.

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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Very proud our #4Corners story, Scarred, on #endometriosis surgeon #SimonGordon is shortlisted for the The Walkey’s Women’s Leadership in Journalism prize. Thanks so much to the former patients & medical professionals who bravely stood up for women, to expose a terrible history & make change. ❤️💪

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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

#MothersDay message from harried working mother multitasking in her car to other mothers. 📚❤️

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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

This was an amazing experience interviewing Prince Andrew slayer Emily Maitlis and Virginia Giuffre’s cowriter Amy Wallace in the Opera House today.

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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Premier Jacinta Allan on our #4Corners: “I’ve also referred these allegations to Victoria Police. Without commenting on specific case, let me be clear: Performing unnecessary surgery is a crime, removing a woman's organs without a clinical need is a crime, & assisting in that conduct is a crime."

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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

A 7-month investigation into allegations of why tissue & reproductive organs were removed from young women. #Endometriosis affects 1 in 7 women. They're relieved it's in spotlight. But when does acknowledging suffering become something altogether different? Scarred, #4Corners Monday, 8.30pm, ABC TV.

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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

I’d better pick up my headgear game because delighted to report the lovely Marieke Hardy will be in conversation with me at Cinema Nova, Thursday March 5 for Readings Books for my Melbourne launch of my forthcoming novel, Shellybanks. Booking details here: www.readings.com.au/events/louis...

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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

BREAKING: I have just received this from the Adelaide Festival Board as a (former) Adelaide Writers Week participant. They have apologised to Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah, cancelled Writers’ Week, expressed regret and the remaining festival board members will now step down.

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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

For the record as I am being asked, I made a personal decision as an author to send this to my friend Louise Adler earlier today. #Adelaidewritersweek

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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

RIP #RobertRedford. This was his best. Inspiration to all of us journalists whose mission is holding truth to power. Still such an important message on the corrosion of democracy. Solidarity to my colleague John Lyons, preparing a story on the current climate for our program #4Corners. #journalism

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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

COVER REVEAL! My new novel Shellybanks will be published by Allen & Unwin in March. “Haunting, fearless and unforgettable… Shellybanks is a gripping novel about trauma, survival, and the courage of women facing the shadows of Ireland’s past from the bestselling author of Pheasants Nest.” #books

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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Following our God Complex story on #4Corners on Monday on issues including gender politics of neurosurgery, #surgeon and fmr AMA Vic President Dr Jill Tomlinson lamented that of Epworth’s 25 neurosurgeons, none are women. This was #Epworth neurosurgeon Paul D’Urso’s (now-deleted – 🤷🏻‍♀️) reply:

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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

“I’ve been waiting for this. And I’m so glad I’m part of this. Because now he can see me.” These are the words of former Greg Malham patient Nyrob, who along with Rick & Annie, just wants to be heard. See their stories of their encounters w the corflute #surgeon on God Complex, #4Corners, tonight.

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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I think it is former Justice Ian Callinan.

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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I’ve been working on Monday's election #4Corners. It's a bit spicy. A bit sweary. IMHO, a cracking good watch. Spent some time on the buses. It was... real. Or, to be precise, it wasn't real at all. But insight into a high stakes election in a high stakes world. #auspol

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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Sláinte! Celebrating by watching my brother play Pogues songs. Here with his beloved and her cousin who hail from a tiny town in County Limerick called Effin. We all wish you an Effin marvellous St Patrick’s Day. And for this moment, all is right. 💚

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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Adelaide’s beautiful town hall packed last night for Writers’ Week’s hilarious Great Debate with Annabel Crabb, David Marr, @amyremeikis.bsky.social, Nick Ryan, John Crace & me. Topic: True friends stab you in the front. Alas Crabb & co on the negative did a good job of doing to David John & I!

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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

So many victims have predeceased Ridsdale. Thoughts, always, with their families, and those who still manage the trauma of what he did to them and the church’s catastrophic failure in creating more victims by allowing him to be moved to yet more parishes. www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victori...

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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Just want to say I am so blown away by the humble, caring, philosophical attitude of men, once little boys, who have so many reasons to be hurt and angry but think of others before themselves. It’s a lesson for people far more powerful & wealthy than them. This stuff keeps me going in this job.

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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Dear followers, friends, fans of Pheasants Nest (see what I did?), if you loved my book, please do me a solid and help it shine. Vote here in the Dymocks Top 101 list, spread the word (you could also win a $101 gift card). Thanks so much, lovely readers. ❤️ www.dymocks.com.au/voting/top-1...

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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

This was so great. Get into it. Yayoi #Kusama at the NGV. Blending perfect design principles with beauty in sadness. A [secular] prayer for love. I accidentally dressed to match the Flower Obsession installation. Great way to spend last day of holidays before getting back on the 4 Corners express.

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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

So looking forward to this Wheeler Centre event on March 11. I will be interviewing Lucia Osborne-Crowley on the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell. There are obvious parallels in our journalism, so fascinated to hear Lucia’s story. Details here: www.wheelercentre.com/events-ticke.... Come along!

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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Airlie Walsh wasn’t one of them. Although I knew who she was & (broadly) what happened as the industry is small. But this is timely given my earlier post. Good luck to her. Good on her for standing up for herself. One of many TV women @joshbornstein.bsky.social is acting for, going through this.

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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

RIP David Lynch, the patron saint of nerds and weirdos and lovers of strange beauty everywhere. The only thing, via Twin Peaks, this one paused study for during my final year of school.

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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

A little teary my first novel, Pheasants Nest has been shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards. Huge thanks to all the bookshops & readers who have embraced my characters Kate Delaney, Liam Carroll & the other imaginary friends I created in my head during a dark period. Congrats to all the authors.

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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Mark Gibson, still going gangbusters in Perth media & Mia Brankov, who has guts of steel, stood up on behalf of many others who had terrible experiences at Channels 7 & 9 Perth. * Amy Taueber was sexually harassed & wants to demonstrate the silent mass of people who sign NDAs & the corrosive effect.

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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

* Whistleblower Arturo Béjar, who stared down the likes of Mark Zuckerberg on behalf of teenagers harmed on Instagram. * Travis Mathews told his story of being let down by his school as a vulnerable child. * Eddie Perez is highlighting threats posed to democracy by social media, in particular, X.

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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

* Lori Schott is taking on a social media empire in the name of her late teenage daughter, Anna, who tragically died of suicide. * Fiona Richards, still teaching and standing up for women teachers everywhere, was the original impetus for our Old School story about Cranbrook.

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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

* Matthew McGrane suffered a terrible accident while living with a disability spoke out about a powerful organisation still employing him. * Brothers Shane & Jeff O'Hare exposed a principal who left in place for months & gave a generous payout to a paedophile after notified of serious allegations.

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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

* Olivia Babb was unbelievably brave speaking out about the culture in her workplace while still employed on a very low income and had no job to go to. * Jason Graham-Nye, at some risk did an incredibly candid interview about a school community he had devoted his professional & personal life to.

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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Happy Christmas from me and the Puppy Fairy at the top of my tree. Hope you all had a lovely day, whether you celebrate it or not. Sláinte!

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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Beautiful way to round out the year and see in Christmas. My brother’s Pogues tribute band, Streams of Whiskey, doing Fairytale of New York. Happy Christmas, everyone! ❤️☘️🎄

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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Thinking today of the families of Myuran Sukumaran & Andrew Chan, who must welcome the news of the return of the Bali 5, but it must also hurt. I took this photo at Cilicap ferry terminal the night those men died as we waited. 10 years ago in April. I don’t think I’ll ever forget that grim night.

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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Anyone else have an Irish twin? This is mine - my brother Stephen. We were both born in the SAME calendar year and for the next six weeks, we are the same age. It helps that he is an excellent human and I love him to bits. Happy birthday, Stephen!

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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

My kid has decided that rather than an angel or a star, our dog Augie belongs at the top of the tree. And I am all for it.

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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I wrote Pheasants Nest for time poor people like me who didn’t want to be intellectually patronised but also didn’t want to feel like they were consuming the literary equivalent of All-bran. Who wanted a propulsive page-turner with characters they wanted for their friends. Bring it on holiday!

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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Sharing my Spotify fave only bc if you haven’t discovered Sam Fender, he’s SO great. My brother introduced me to him in Ireland & he’ll forever remind me of driving through my birth country, opening the fiction portal in my mind, formulating storylines for my next book. m.youtube.com/watch?v=WAif...

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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

1. That’s a wrap for my year at Four Corners. Attached is an Insta reel behind the scenes. It’s been such an incredible year - travelling everywhere from Toronto to London, Washington to Wyoming, with a fair pounding of Australian pavements too… www.instagram.com/reel/DDB0r07...

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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

This is so creepy. They have even used pics of my dog. If you are still on X (I am only there so people can contact me and, ironically, so they don’t use my handle), block and report this person as they seem to have blocked me before impersonating me.

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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

ABC class of 2024 with the PM at Parliament House yesterday. Bluey, Sammy J and Costa stole the show. Love this photo with Costa discussing plant seeds with these little kids.

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