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About Helen Wellings
Helen Wellings is recognised as Australia's foremost consumer affairs expert. For the past eight years she has been Channel Seven's national reporter on consumer and trade practice issues.
In her consumer advocacy role during the 1970s and 80s, Helen appeared on national news, current affairs and variety shows, including the ABC's This Day Tonight and the 7.30 report, Seven's Willesee at 7 and 11AM, Nine's The Midday Show, weekly radio talk-back shows on 2BL and 2GB and as a weekly panellist on the Inventors program, What'll They Think of Next?
Termed a "crusader for consumer rights", she named defective and unsafe products and exposed companies' malpractices and shonky traders. This was the advent of the "walk-in", a technique used to confront dodgy operators while the cameras rolled. It became her trademark.
In 1986 Helen was appointed to the ABC's consumer watchdog program The Investigators. In 1996 Helen moved to commercial television to host Seven's 6.30pm current affairs program Today Tonight. For the past eight years, she has been the network's consumer expert, presenting investigative reports for Today Tonight, Seven News and Sunrise.
She is a weekly contributor to New Idea for which she writes a consumer issues page. Helen has also written two books, the top-selling Buying Power: A Guide for Consumers in Australia and Home Energy Guide.
Helen won a Logie for most outstanding current affairs story in 1992, The Homefund Scheme scandal, while she anchored The Investigators. She won a Penguin Award for Best Female Presenter in 1987 and the Better Hearing Award in 1990.
As Today Tonight’s consumer Reporter, Helen was also awarded the NSW Department of Fair Trading's Consumer Protection Award for two consecutive years in 2001 and 2002 for her television stories alerting viewers to dodgy traders and practices
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