Sean Nicholls

@SeanNic

Editor, ABC Investigations [email protected] or [email protected] Signal: +61 411219654 Opinions my own, not necessarily those of the ABC.

Sydney

Joined January 2011

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Sean Nicholls@SeanNic · 4 h

A Queensland childcare worker has been charged with torturing and repeatedly assaulting a one-year-old baby boy. abc.net.au/news/2025-07-2…

SeanNic's tweet card. A Queensland childcare worker has been charged with torturing and repeatedly assaulting a one-year-old baby boy.

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Sean Nicholls@SeanNic · Jul 25

Why Barnaby’s war on net zero’s already sunk smh.com.au/environment/cl…

SeanNic's tweet card. Barnaby Joyce gave three reasons for dumping net zero climate change targets. They’re all wrong.

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Sean Nicholls@SeanNic · Jul 23

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SeanNic's tweet card. The unusual decision, which came after years of negotiations, provides a rare glimpse into the ATO's inner workings when overturning its own decisions on tax debt.

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Sean Nicholls@SeanNic · Jul 16

Accused sexual abuser Joshua Dale Brown was sacked from a Melbourne childcare centre over his handling of an incident report months before he started working at the centre where his alleged assaults took place. By ⁦@pjmcgrth⁩ of #ABCInvestigations abc.net.au/news/2025-07-1…

SeanNic's tweet card. Joshua Dale Brown was sacked from a Melbourne childcare centre months before joining another centre, where he is accused of committing child sex offences.

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Sean Nicholls@SeanNic · Jul 15

Childcare workers still don't have to take sleep safety training abc.net.au/news/2025-07-1… Analysis by @adele_ferguson #ABCInvestigations

SeanNic's tweet card. Despite repeated warnings from experts and a formal recommendation from a coroner more than three years ago, safe sleep training isn't mandatory for childcare workers everywhere in Australia.

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Sean Nicholls@SeanNic · Jul 8

The ABC Investigations unit is looking for a senior reporter to join our award-winning team. Check out the job and apply here careers.abc.net.au/en/job/504810/…

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Sean Nicholls@SeanNic · Jul 7

Children are being exposed to childcare staff who lack basic training in first aid, child protection or hygiene practices, resulting in serious injury and presenting "suffocation risks", documents reveal. By ⁦@adele_ferguson⁩ #ABCInvestigations abc.net.au/news/2025-07-0…

SeanNic's tweet card. Kids face down asleep in hoodies, electrical sockets exposed and one child locked in a shed. Documents reveal disturbing revelations from inside Australia's childcare sector in crisis.

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Sean Nicholls@SeanNic · Jul 6

Thousands of students are getting fast-tracked qualifications to work in childcare centres and it's compromising safety standards, experts warn. Latest investigation by ⁦@adele_ferguson⁩ #ABCInvestigations abc.net.au/news/2025-07-0…

SeanNic's tweet card. Thousands of students are getting fast-tracked qualifications to work in childcare centres and it's compromising safety standards, experts warn.

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Sean Nicholls@SeanNic · Jul 4

In Australia's childcare centres profit comes before safety abc.net.au/news/2025-07-0… Latest analysis from @adele_ferguson #ABCInvestigations

SeanNic's tweet card. For those like me who have been investigating childcare for almost a year now, the news was horrifying but not a surprise.

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Sean Nicholls@SeanNic · Jul 3

At least half the sunscreens that failed to meet their SPF claims in Choice testing had their original SPF certification conducted at a widely used lab whose test results are now being called into question by senior industry experts. #ABCInvestigations abc.net.au/news/2025-07-0…

SeanNic's tweet card. At least eight sunscreens that failed to meet their advertised SPF50 sun protection claims in a recent review had their original tests for certification done by an overseas laboratory whose results...

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Sean Nicholls@SeanNic · Jul 1

A Russian-backed organisation that has bankrolled the legal defence of alleged spies and criminals has been sanctioned by the federal government just weeks after an investigation detailed its support for Australia's most prominent pro-Putin propagandist. abc.net.au/news/2025-07-0…

SeanNic's tweet card. A Russian-backed organisation that has bankrolled the legal defence of alleged spies and criminals has been sanctioned by the federal government just weeks after an investigation detailed its support...

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Sean Nicholls@SeanNic · Jun 25

New South Wales' early childhood sector will be a subject to a number of "nation-leading" reforms, following an independent review prompted by an ⁦@adele_ferguson⁩ Four Corners investigation⁩ #ABCInvestigations abc.net.au/news/2025-06-2…

SeanNic's tweet card. The state government has committed to implement a number of reforms, including a new independent regulator, following a review into the early childhood sector by the former deputy NSW Ombudsman.

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Sean Nicholls@SeanNic · Jun 20

Inside Iran’s Fordow nuclear bunker experts say only US weapons can destroy. abc.net.au/news/2025-06-2…

SeanNic's tweet card. Deep below a mountain in Iran sits a once-secret uranium enrichment facility which is threatening to drag the United States into the Israel-Iran conflict.

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Sean Nicholls@SeanNic · Jun 17

The Albanese government has released a new suite of child safety measures, but parents, educators and experts say the reforms ignore the deeper structural failures festering in the childcare system. Analysis by ⁦@adele_ferguson⁩ #ABCInvestigations abc.net.au/news/2025-06-1…

SeanNic's tweet card. Parents, educators and experts say the reforms are tokenistic, a bandaid fix, and ignore the deeper structural failures festering in the childcare system.

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Sean Nicholls@SeanNic · Jun 16

An explosive report alleging Queensland Health failed to refer a young patient to a special care team before he died by suicide was withheld from his distraught parents, prompting claims of a "cover-up". By ⁦@rory_callinan⁩ for #ABCInvestigations abc.net.au/news/2025-06-1…

SeanNic's tweet card. An explosive report alleging Queensland Health failed to refer a young patient to a special care team before he died by suicide was withheld from his distraught parents, prompting claims of a...

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Sean Nicholls@SeanNic · Jun 11

Professional Footballers Australia has demanded Football Australia ban gambling on yellow cards after two separate alleged match fixing incidents in the past 12 months. Exclusive by ⁦@pjmcgrth⁩ for #ABCInvestigations abc.net.au/news/2025-06-1…

SeanNic's tweet card. The professional soccer players' association calls for gambling on yellow cards to be banned in the wake of the A-League's second match fixing scandal in 12 months.

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Sean Nicholls@SeanNic · Jun 6

Football Australia is being investigated over its ability to protect the sport’s integrity after the A-League's second match-fixing scandal in 12 months. Exclusive by ⁦@pjmcgrth⁩ for #ABCInvestigations abc.net.au/news/2025-06-0…

SeanNic's tweet card. Football Australia is being investigated over its ability to protect the sport’s integrity amid the A-League’s second match-fixing scandal in 12 months.

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Sean Nicholls@SeanNic · Jun 5

Australian and NZ anti-corruption bosses embroiled in 'chaos' at PNG’s ICAC abc.net.au/news/2025-06-0…

SeanNic's tweet card. Papua New Guinea's peak anti-corruption body is on the brink of implosion, senior staff say, as its Australian and New Zealand bosses accuse each other of criminal activity.

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Sean Nicholls@SeanNic · May 27

ATO whistleblower Richard Boyle pleads guilty to four charges abc.net.au/news/2025-05-2…

SeanNic's tweet card. Australian Taxation Office (ATO) whistleblower Richard Boyle has pleaded guilty to four charges including taping private conversations without consent.

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Sean Nicholls@SeanNic · May 24

The blood letting continues. “If you’re trying to understand why the Liberal Party today is a smoking ruin, then look no further than Tony Abbott and Peta Credlin”. thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/…

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