Steve Cannane

Steve Cannane
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Born	1970
Occupation	Journalist

Stephen Paul "Steve" Cannane (born 1970) is a news journalist and current affairs reporter for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He is currently posted to the ABC's London bureau as a Europe Correspondent.

He started as a reporter for radio station Triple J's current affairs programme, The Morning Show. In 2003, after Francis Leach left the station, Cannane took on the position of host of the show. As a journalist, Cannane has an interest in exposing unscrupulous behaviour, having reported on child abuse within the Church of Scientology, the harassment of the parents of a deceased child by the anti-vaccination lobby and the failure of the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) to protect consumers from dodgy products.

He temporarily presented breakfast on ABC Radio National while the regular presenter pursued other projects.

Cannane was the founding presenter of Triple j’s current affairs program, Hack, beginning in 2004. In 2006 he won the Walkley Award for Broadcast Interviewing for a series of three interviews - Petrol Sniffing, Pilltesting and The Cost of War. He was also commended in the same category of the Walkleys in 2005.

In 2006 Cannane won the Excellence in Alcohol and Drug Media Reporting Award at the National Drug and Alcohol Awards and visited the US as the Australian representative on the US Department of State's Edward R Murrow program for journalists.

In 2008, Cannane presented The Hack Half Hour on ABC2.

In 2009, he fronted the ABC1 documentary series Whatever! The Science of Teenagers and published a book, First Tests: Great Australian Cricketers and the Backyards That Made Them.

In July 2010, Cannane was appointed presenter of ABC News 24's The Drum, a panel discussion program providing news and analysis on issues of the day.

Also in July 2010, Cannane broke the story of harassment of the parents of a child who died of whooping cough by the anti-vaccination lobby, the Australian Vaccination Network (AVN) on Lateline. His story was the first to expose the lobby group as callous and cruel, with revelations that their President Meryl Dorey, had sought to access medical records of the child as evidence she had died from a pertussis infection. The story also described a complaint about the AVN which was under investigation by the NSW Health Care Complaints Commission, alleging the group disseminated misleading and dangerous health information regarding vaccination. The complaint was eventually upheld, resulting in revocation of the group's charity licence and the issuing of a public warning by the HCCC. Both these actions were overturned following a successful Supreme Court challenge by the AVN in 2011.

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