Adele Ferguson AM is an award-winning investigative journalist, columnist and author, best known for her series on franchising, wage fraud, cosmetic surgery and financial services sectors. She has won a Gold Walkley, nine Walkley awards, a Logie and the Graham Perkin Journalist of the Year. She wrote the unauthorised biography Gina Rinehart: The untold story of the richest woman in the world and Banking Bad.