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List Of Walkley Awards Won By The Australian
List of Walkley awards won by ''The Australian'' is a list of Walkleys won by journalists while writing for the national Australian newspaper ''The Australian ''The Australian'', with its Saturday edition ''The Weekend Australian'', is a broadsheet daily newspaper published by News Corp Australia since 14 July 1964. As the only Australian daily newspaper distributed nationally, its readership of b ...''. __TOC__ Wakleys Gold Walkleys References {{reflist Australian journalism awards Walkley Awards, List of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walkley Awards
The annual Walkley Awards are presented in Australia to recognise and reward excellence in journalism. They cover all media including print, television, documentary, radio, photographic and online media. The Gold Walkley is the highest prize and is chosen from all category winners. In 2023, Not all awards were open to male journalists. The awards are under the administration of the Walkley Foundation for Journalism. The Nikon Photography Prizes are also awarded by the Walkley Foundation at the awards ceremony, on behalf of Nikon. History The awards were instituted in five categories in 1956 by businessman Sir William Walkley, founder of Ampol. After his death, the awards were handled by the Australian Journalists' Association which, in 1992, was merged into the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance. In 2000, the alliance voted to establish the Walkley Foundation. In that same year, the Walkley Awards were merged with the Nikon Press Photographer of the Year Awards. The 2015 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Nicholson (cartoonist)
Peter Nicholson (born 1946) is an Australian political cartoonist, caricaturist and sculptor. He has won five Walkley Awards. Nicholson has also produced animated political cartoons for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the TV series '' Fast Forward'', and was involved in the Rubbery Figures television series. He married Mary Nicholson in 1972 and had three children. Tom Nicholson, Emily Nicholson and Dan Nicholson. Walkley awards "Avenue of Prime Ministers" in the Botanical Gardens in Ballarat Nicholson created the busts of Malcolm Fraser, Bob Hawke, Paul Keating, John Howard, Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard, which are part of the Prime Ministers Avenue in the Ballarat Botanical Gardens The Ballarat Botanical Gardens Reserve, located on the western shore of picturesque Lake Wendouree, in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, covers an area of 40 hectares which is divided into three distinct zones. The central Botanical Gardens reserve .... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HIH Insurance
HIH Insurance was Australia's second-largest insurance company before it was placed into provisional liquidation on 15 March 2001. The demise of HIH is considered to be the largest corporate collapse in Australia's history, with liquidators estimating that HIH's losses totalled up to $5.3 billion. Investigations into the cause of the collapse have led to conviction and imprisonment of a handful of members of HIH management on various charges relating to fraud. A Royal Commission was formed in the wake of the collapse. It also led to the 2002 Review of the Law of Negligence led by David Ipp and subsequent Tort reform. History In 1968, Ray Williams and Michael Payne formed M W Payne Underwriting Agency Pty Ltd, which was acquired in 1971 by British company CE Heath plc. Ray Williams was appointed to the board of CE Heath in 1980. The business operations of CE Heath were subsequently transferred to CE Heath International Holdings Limited in 1989 with CE Heath plc retaining 90% ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Leak
Desmond Robert "Bill" Leak (9 January 1956 – 10 March 2017) was an Australian editorial cartoonist, caricaturist and portraitist. Raised in Condobolin and Beacon Hill, Sydney, Leak attended Julian Ashton Art School during the 1970s. His cartoons were first published in 1983 in '' The Bulletin'' and after he drew for ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' until 1994, when he was recruited by News Limited to contribute to '' The Daily Telegraph-Mirror'' and later to ''The Australian''. As an artist and illustrator, Leak was acclaimed by journalist Peter FitzSimons as "colossally talented, driven, and passionate for his craft". Leak entered paintings into the Archibald on several occasions, having won the People's Choice Award in 1994 for his portrait of Malcolm Turnbull and the Packing Room Prize twice, in 1997 and 2000 for his portraits of Tex Perkins and Sir Les Patterson respectively. Leak's novel ''Heart Cancer'' was published in 2005 and in 2008 ABC TV aired his six-part seri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Smith (journalist)
Patrick Smith (20 January 1952 – 12 November 2023) was an Australian sports journalist and Walkley award recipient. He was noted for long career writing for ''The Age'' and then ''The Australian'' newspapers' sports section. Smith started his journalism career in 1972 with Melbourne's ''Sun'' as a copyboy, before moving to ''The Age'' in 1976. There he was promoted from sport subeditor to deputy sports editor, and then to sports editor, which he remained for six years. In 1993, he was a senior columnist for ''The Age,'' leaving for ''The Australian'' in 2000. Smith also appeared on '' Hungry for Sport'' with Kevin Bartlett on SEN 1116. He wrote pieces on political issues in sport, including the internal workings of Australian rules football, Cricket and Athletics Australia. Smith won Walkley awards for his commentary and analysis of sport in 1997, 2002 and 2004. In 2001 and 2002, Smith won "Most Outstanding Columnist" at the AFL Media Awards. In 2009, he was awarded a Hig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Whittaker
Mark Cornelius Whittaker (born 29 July 1965Newington College Register of Past Students 1863–1998 (Syd, 1999) pp 214) is an Australian journalist, non-fiction writer and writing coach. He lives in Berry, New South Wales. Early life Whittaker was born in Sydney, New South Wales, the son of horse racing journalist Bill Whittaker, and attended Newington College (1978–1983). Career In 1985 Whittaker commenced as a copy boy with News Limited and became a staff writer on ''The Weekend Australian Magazine'' in 1993. Seven years later he left the ''Magazine'' to travel around Australia and write. In 2005, his book ''Sins of the Brother'' was made into a television mini-series, ''Catching Milat''. He regularly writes for the ''Good Weekend'' magazine and ''The Australian'' newspaper. In 2016, SBS Australia ran a 5-part podcast series called ''Out of Sight: The Untold Story of Adelaide’s Gay Hate Murders'' which was written and narrated by Whittaker. The series highlighted gay- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AWB Oil-for-wheat Scandal
The AWB oil-for-wheat scandal (also known just as the AWB scandal) refers to the payment of kickbacks to the regime of Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in contravention of the United Nations Oil-for-Food Humanitarian Programme. AWB Limited is a major grain marketing organisation based in Australia. For much of the 20th and early 21st century, it was an Australian Government entity operating a single desk regime over Australian wheat, meaning it had the sole ability to export Australian wheat, for which it paid a single, fixed price. In the mid-2000s, it was found to have been, through middlemen, paying kickbacks to the regime of Saddam Hussein, in exchange for lucrative wheat contracts. This was in direct contradiction of United Nations Sanctions, and of Australian law. AWB delivered 90% of the Iraqi wheat market before its practices were questioned in 2005. United Nations investigator Paul Volcker found that the Australian Wheat Board, and later AWB Limited, were not the only, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Overington
Caroline Overington (born 1970) is an Australian journalist and author. Overington has written 13 books. She has twice won the Walkley Award for investigative journalism, as well as winning the Sir Keith Murdoch prize for journalism (2007), the Blake Dawson Waldron Prize (2008) and the Davitt Award for Crime Writing (2015). Life and career Overington was born in Melbourne, Victoria in 1970. She began her journalism cadetship with ''The Melton Mail Express'', and other titles in ''The Age'' Suburban Newspaper Group, covering courts, local council, and school fetes. Melbourne businessman and editor, Alan Kohler, recruited Overington to write for ''The Age'' in 1993, where she became a sports writer. Several of her pieces were selected for the Best Australian Sports Writing and Photography anthologies, published by Random House in the 1990s. She was awarded the Annita Keating Trophy for Female Journalism in Sport. In 2002, Overington assumed a position as foreign correspondent i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Age
''The Age'' is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854. Owned and published by Nine Entertainment, ''The Age'' primarily serves Victoria (Australia), Victoria, but copies also sell in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and southern New South Wales. It is delivered both in print and digital formats. The newspaper shares some articles with its sister paper ''The Sydney Morning Herald''. ''The Age'' is considered a newspaper of record for Australia, and has variously been known for its investigative reporting, with its journalists having won dozens of Walkley Awards, Australia's most prestigious journalism prize. , ''The Age'' had a monthly readership of 5.4 million. , this had fallen to 4.55 million. History Foundation ''The Age'' was founded by three Melbourne businessmen: brothers John and Henry Cooke (who had arrived from New Zealand in the 1840s) and Walter Powell. The first editi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muhamed Haneef
Muhamed Haneef (born 29 September 1979) is an Indian-born doctor who was falsely accused of aiding terrorists, and left Australia upon cancellation of his visa amid great political controversy. His visa was later reinstated and he was given some compensation. Haneef was arrested on 2 July 2007 at Brisbane Airport, Brisbane, Australia on suspicion of terror-related activities. He is the second cousin once removed of Kafeel Ahmed and Sabeel Ahmed, the operatives in the 2007 Glasgow Airport attack. Haneef's ensuing detention became the longest without charge in recent Australian history, which caused great controversy in Australia and India. Haneef was released when the Director of Public Prosecutions withdrew its charge on 27 July 2007, whereby his passport was returned and he departed Australia voluntarily on 29 July 2007. Haneef's visa cancellation was overturned by the Federal Court on 21 August 2007, with the decision being reiterated by the full bench of the court on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fincorp
Fincorp was an Australian property and investment company An investment company is a financial institution principally engaged in holding, managing and investing securities. These companies in the United States are regulated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and must be registered under th ... that collapsed in March 2007. The company promised investors a return of up to 9.25% p.a., but, upon collapse, owed around 8000 investors over A$200 million. References External links Fincorp's homepages Defunct investment companies of Australia {{Australia-company-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Klan
''The Klaxon'' is an independent Australian news website, run by investigative journalist Anthony Klan. It specialises in exposing corruption and misconduct by businesses and governments. Overview ''The Klaxon'' was registered in May 2019 in the state of New South Wales as an independent news outlet. Its articles have been cited in by other independent news websites, such as Crikey, and Michael West Media; and reported in foreign media. Examples of the latter include: *In July 2020, Indian media also reported on Klan's allegations that China and Pakistan might have signed a secret agreement to increase their knowledge of bio-warfare, a claim refuted by both countries. *In March 2021, reporting on the secret development of nuclear weapons for Pakistan, in a deal with a Chinese company. *In May 2022, reporting on Chinese military drills in the Khabarovsk and Ussuriysk regions, near the border with Russia, while world news was focused on the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
