Bruce Grundy founded the University of Queensland Journalism Department. He was the first Head of Department and until this year was an Associate Professor. He has since retired. His passion to uphold the public's right to know and his persistence in publishing stories about institutional abuse forced the government to appoint former Queensland Governor Leneen Forde to investigate. Without the work of those journalists, these reports would not have been made.
Journalists describe society to itself.
They convey information, ideas and opinions. They search disclose, record, question, entertain, comment and remember. The inform citizens and animate democracy. They give a practical form to freedom of expression. The media takes for itself the label, Fourth Estate , which simply means it is the fourth level of society.