Jane Hammond is an Australian journalist with more than 25 years experience. She specializes in stories of environmental justice, social affairs, science and politics. In 2012 she took redundancy from The West Australian newspaper and went back to university to learn the art of filmmaking. She completed a Masters of Professional Communications at Edith Cowan University in Perth doing her final units of study at the WA Screen Academy in 2016.
A Crude Injustice is Jane’s second half-hour documentary and follows A Fractured State which was released in November 2016 and looks at the high stakes battle to protect water, productive farmland and traditional lands from the gas fracking industry in Western Australia. Jane lives in the Fremantle area of Western Australia with her husband Shane and their three children.