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Walkley Documentary Award
The Walkley Documentary Award is an Australian award presented annually since 2011 as part of the 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 .... It recognises excellence in documentary production grounded in journalistic principles. List of award winners References {{reflist Australian journalism awards Walkley Documentary Award 2011 establishments in Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walkley Foundation
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. 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 ceremony was held on 3 December at Crown Casino in Melbourn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liz Jackson
Liz Jackson (1951 – 27 June 2018) was an Australian journalist and barrister noted for her work on the ''Four Corners'' and '' Media Watch'' television programs. She received nine Walkley Awards for excellence in journalism. Career Jackson grew up in Melbourne, Australia and commenced work with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) in 1986. Prior to her career with the ABC, Jackson also worked in a community legal centre in Australia and practised law in London as a barrister at Gray's Inn. Jackson returned to Australia and worked for the NSW Premier's Department, in the Women's Coordination Unit, dealing with laws to protect women from violence. After joining ''Four Corners'' as an investigative reporter in 1994, Jackson was awarded Walkley Awards, Australia's awards for journalism, on five occasions for her work on the following: *The situation in Somalia (1993); *The suicide of Aboriginal activist Rob Riley; *"Fixing Cricket", a report about cricket match-fix ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Journalism Awards
Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal Australians, indigenous peoples of Australia as identified and defined within Australian law * Australia (continent) ** Indigenous Australians * Australian English, the dialect of the English language spoken in Australia * Australian Aboriginal languages * '' The Australian'', a newspaper * Australiana, things of Australian origins Other uses * Australian (horse), a racehorse * Australian, British Columbia, an unincorporated community in Canada See also * The Australian (other) * Australia (other) * * * Austrian (other) Austrian may refer to: * Austrians, someone from Austria or of Austrian descent ** Someone who is considered an Austrian citizen, see Austrian nationality law * Austrian German dialect * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tall Man (2011 Film)
''The Tall Man'' is a 2011 Australian documentary film directed by Tony Krawitz. It is about the death of Cameron "Mulrunji" Doomadgee in police custody on Great Palm Island, Palm Islands, Queensland on 19 November 2004. The film premiered at the 2011 Adelaide Film Festival on 2 March 2011. Synopsis ''The Tall Man'' explores the community reaction and events surrounding the death of Cameron Doomadgee, a 36-year-old Palm Island man who, while walking home intoxicated singing his favourite song ''Who Let the Dogs Out?'', was arrested for harassing and attacking public bystanders. Doomadgee was arrested by Sergeant Chris Hurley, or 'the tall man', and was 45 minutes later found dead in police custody with his liver almost split in two, four broken ribs, a ruptured spleen, severe bruising to his head and a torn portal vein. The police claimed that his death was caused by him tripping on a step and colluded to protect Chris Hurley from facing any charges over the incident. In respo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blackfella Films
Blackfella Films is an Australian documentary and narrative film production company is Sydney, founded in 1992 by Rachel Perkins. The company produces distinctive Australian short and feature-length content for film and television with a particular focus on Aboriginal Australian stories. Its productions have included the documentary series ''First Australians'', the documentary '' The Tall Man'', the television film '' Mabo'', and the TV series ''Redfern Now''. History Blackfella Films was founded in 1992 by Arrernte writer, producer, and director Rachel Perkins. Producer Darren Dale joined the company in 2002, while former Head of Drama at the ABC, Miranda Dear, joined in 2010 with a focus on producing the company's dramatic content. The company's most successful production has been the multi-award-winning seven-part 2008 documentary series ''First Australians''. This series experienced both national and international success, including screening to over 2.3 million viewers in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chloe Hooper
Chloe Melisande Hooper (born 1973) is an Australian author. Her first novel, ''A Child’s Book of True Crime'' (2002), was short-listed for the Orange Prize for Literature and was a ''New York Times'' Notable Book. In 2005, she turned to reportage and the next year won a Walkley Award for her writing on the 2004 Palm Island death in custody case. '' The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island'' (2008) is a non-fiction account of the same case. Her 2019 book, ''The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire'', published in the United States by Seven Stories Press in 2020, investigates the Black Saturday bushfires, one of the most devastating wildfires in Australian history. Books * ''A Child's Book of True Crime'' (2002) * '' The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island'' (2008) (released as ''Tall Man: The Death of Doomadgee'' in the USA) * ''The Engagement'' (2012) * ''The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire'' (2019) * ''Bedtime Story'' (2022) Awards and recognition Hooper was a recipient of a Sidney ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darren Dale
Darren Dale is an Indigenous Australian film and television producer. Since joining Blackfella Films as a producer in 2001, he is co-director of the company, along with founder Rachel Perkins. Dale is known for co-producing many films and television series with Miranda Dear since 2010, with their most recent collaboration being the second season of '' Total Control''. Career Dale joined Blackfella Films in 2000, and became co-director with company founder Rachel Perkins. The first stand-out success of this collaboration came with the production of ''First Australians'', a 7-part documentary broadcast on SBS Television in 2008 and was the winner of multiple awards. It remains the highest-selling educational title in Australia, and was also sold overseas. Dale has co-produced many films and television series with Miranda Dear, who joined Blackfella in 2010. In 2011 he produced '' The Tall Man'', a full-length documentary film directed by Tony Krawitz about the death in custo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danny Ben-Moshe
Danny Ben-Moshe is a documentary film maker and an associate professor at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. He has produced and directed several critically praised documentaries. Career In 2001, Ben-Moshe was presented with the Commonwealth Centenary of Federation medal for leadership against and research into racism in Australia. These include ''The Buchenwald Ball'' (2006) about Holocaust survivors in Australia celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of their liberation, which screened on SBS Television in Australia. His 2010 film ''The End of the Rainbow'' was screened on ABC Television in Australia, and was about a week in the life of The Rainbow Hotel, an iconic live music venue in Melbourne, and how community spaces and cultural heritage are threatened by property development. His 2011 documentary ''Carnaby Street Undressed'' was broadcast on the Yesterday Television channel in the UK, was reviewed as pick of the week in The Sunday Times & London’s Time Out awar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Ware
Michael Ware (born 25 March 1969) is an Australian journalist formerly with CNN and was for several years based in their Baghdad bureau. He joined CNN in May 2006, after five years with sister publication ''Time''. His last on-air appearance for the network was in December 2009. He was one of the few mainstream reporters to live in Iraq near-continuously since before the American invasion and gained early acclaim due to his willingness to establish contacts with the Kurdish Peshmerga and the Iraqi insurgency. He reported on the severity of the growing opposition Western coalition forces faced in mid-2003, and his contacts have provided him with controversial videotapes of attacks on coalition forces, including the murder of four Blackwater contractors. Ware has been embedded with American and British military forces on numerous occasions, and the coalition forces have been the focus of many of his reports describing conditions in Iraq. As of 2015 he is working on a book abo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hitting Home (TV Series)
''Hitting Home'' is a Walkley and AACTA winning television documentary series, consisting of two episodes, broadcast on ABC in November 2015. Presenter Sarah Ferguson reported on domestic violence in Australia. Concept Following two years of research, journalist Sarah Ferguson spent six months reporting on domestic violence in Australia. To better understand the statistics of domestic violence, Nial Fulton and Ivan O'Mahoney, series producers of ''Hitting Home,'' spent nearly two years negotiating unprecedented access to specialised police domestic violence units, domestic violence courts and secured unprecedented access to new court safe-rooms for victims, women's refuges, a unique prison rehabilitation program and specialist forensic doctors. During pre-production, the producers worked alongside Corrective Services NSW, The NSW Justice Department, The NSW Police, Domestic Violence NSW, the NSW Coroner and many other agencies and peak bodies to ensure the safety of the partici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is the national broadcaster of Australia. It is principally funded by direct grants from the Australian Government and is administered by a government-appointed board. The ABC is a publicly-owned body that is politically independent and fully accountable, with its charter enshrined in legislation, the ''Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983''. ABC Commercial, a profit-making division of the corporation, also helps to generate funding for content provision. The ABC was established as the Australian Broadcasting Commission on 1 July 1932 by an act of federal parliament. It effectively replaced the Australian Broadcasting Company, a private company established in 1924 to provide programming for A-class radio stations. The ABC was given statutory powers that reinforced its independence from the government and enhanced its news-gathering role. Modelled after the British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC), which is funded by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Four Corners (Australian TV Program)
''Four Corners'' is an Australian investigative journalism/current affairs documentary television program. Broadcast on ABC TV, it premiered on 19 August 1961 and is the longest-running Australian television program in history. The program is one of only five in Australia inducted into the Logie Hall of Fame. History ''Four Corners'' is based on the concept of British current affairs program ''Panorama''. The program addresses a single issue in depth each week, showing either a locally produced program or a relevant documentary from overseas. The program has won many awards for investigative journalism. Including 23 Logie Awards and 62 Walkley Awards. It has broken high-profile stories. A notable early example of this was the show's 1962 exposé on the appalling living conditions endured by many Aboriginal Australians living in rural New South Wales. Founding producer Robert Raymond (1961–62) and his successor Allan Ashbolt (1963) did much to set the ongoing tone of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
