Sarah Konoski

And I wonder if those great novels can sort of help make sense of lives and loss and gain and fate and meaning.

I mean, they kind of can give a different structure to experience.

I think that's one of the things we turn to fiction for.

I can do Eddie Obeid.

So when you were studying at university, Kate, you came up with a very innovative way of making money.

Can you tell me about your booth in King's Cross?

And what would you say if someone asked for that?

I think of all these skills that you were developing doing that, Kate, of quick thinking and logical argument.

You've really spent your whole career at Fairfax, now Nine, apart from a couple of years at the ABC with Four Corners.

What was it like in the office at Four Corners when you began?

You then went on to break so many stories yourself as a journalist over your career.

And I want to ask you about a fairly recent story.

How did you first come across a woman named Melissa Caddick?

You know, there are these...

remarkable facts and and comic elements almost in in that story in particular but at the same time as you acknowledge these real ordinary people had discovered that their lives were ruined by this woman's crimes what kind of impacted their stories in your meeting with those victims have on you um

This sense of justice that you have of it's just wrong what people are doing wrong, that must be a big part of the motivation for you.

As a result of these investigations, you're often in court looking face-to-face at someone who's there because of your reporting.

What's that like?

What's it like to turn up to court and see the person that you've been writing about face the consequences of their crimes?

I've...