Guardian Australia wins award for series exposing economic abuse at Centrepay

Reporters Christopher Knaus and Lorena Allam win outstanding consumer affairs category at Kennedy Foundation awards for excellence in journalism

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Guardian Australia reporters Christopher Knaus and Lorena Allam have won an award for a series of stories that revealed the government-run controversial debit pay system was being used as a vehicle for economic abuse.

The reporters won the outstanding consumer affairs category at this year's Kennedy Foundation awards for excellence in journalism.

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