Reflecting on the 30th anniversary of The Moonlight State and Fitzgerald Inquiry, one of Australia’s best investigative journalists says it’s an apt time to celebrate what journalism can achieve.
Chris Masters’ expose The Moonlight State ultimately led to a change of government in Queensland after it showed the extent of corruption in the state went right to the very top, to the Police Commissioner Terry Lewis himself.
The next day after it screened on Four Corners, acting Premier Bill Gunn declared a Commission of Inquiry would investigate corruption.
The cabinet minutes from this period have been released at the State Archives in a special exhibition Sunshine Rebooted, produced in partnership with Griffith University.
Chris Masters says seeing Four Corners mentioned in those cabinet discussions vindicated his experience.
“I hear people sometimes saying that nothing changes, nothing has changed and I think no that is wrong,” Mr Masters said.
“We don’t automatically have a Police Commissioner who’s a
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