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The Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award, often known simply as the Graham Perkin Award, is one of Australia's pre-eminent prizes for journalism. It was established and named in honour of
Graham Perkin Edwin Graham Perkin (16 December 1929 – 16 October 1975) was an Australian journalist and newspaper editor. Early life Perkin was born at Hopetoun, Victoria, elder son of Herbert Edwin Perkin, baker, and his wife Iris Lily, née Graham, bo ...
, who was editor of ''
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 Austral ...
'' from 1966 until his death in 1975. Administered by the
Melbourne Press Club The Melbourne Press Club (MPC), is a not-for-profit association of journalists in the city of Melbourne, Australia. It runs the annual Quill Awards for Excellence in Victorian Journalism. Governance MPC is a not-for-profit association of journal ...
, the award carries a prize of $20,000.


Winners

*1976 – Denis Butler ('' The Newcastle Morning Herald'') *1977 –
Robert Gottliebsen Robert Norman Gottliebsen (born 4 February 1941) is a columnist for '' Business Spectator'' and an economics writer at ''The Australian''. He was the original columnist "Chanticleer" for the ''Australian Financial Review'' and founder of '' Busi ...
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'') *1978 – Lenore Nicklin (''
The Sydney Morning Herald ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (''SMH'') is a daily Tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, Australia, and owned by Nine Entertainment. Founded in 1831 as the ''Sydney Herald'', the ''Herald'' is the oldest continuous ...
'') *1979 – Peter Rodgers (''The Sydney Morning Herald'') *1980 – Ron Saw ('' The Bulletin'') *1981 – Norman Aisbett and David Tanner (''
The West Australian ''The West Australian'' is the only locally edited daily newspaper published in Perth, Western Australia. It is owned by Seven West Media (SWM), as is the state's other major newspaper, ''The Sunday Times''. It is the second-oldest continuousl ...
'') *1982 – Peter Smark (''
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 Austral ...
'') *1983 – Evan Whitton (''The Sydney Morning Herald'') *1984 – Creighton Burns (''The Age'') *1985 –
Jack Waterford John Edward O'Brien Waterford AM (born 12 February 1952), better known as Jack Waterford, is an Australian journalist and commentator. He has a long affiliation with ''The Canberra Times''. Waterford graduated in law from the Australian Natio ...
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'') *1986 – Bruce Dover and Cameron Forbes ('' The Herald'', Melbourne and ''The Age'') *1987 – Terry McCrann (''The Age'' and ''The Herald'', Melbourne) *1988 –
Michelle Grattan Michelle Grattan (born 30 June 1944) is an Australian journalist who was the first woman to become editor of an Australian metropolitan daily newspaper. Specialising in political journalism, she has written for and edited many significant List ...
(''The Age'') *1989 – Peter Ellingsen (''The Age'') *1990 – Paul Kelly (''The Australian'') *1991 – Robert Haupt (''The Age/The Sydney Morning Herald'') *1992 – Colleen Ryan (''The Sydney Morning Herald'') *1993 – Les Carlyon *1994 – Kate Legge (''The Australian'') *1995 – Rowan Callick (''The Australian Financial Review'') *1996 – Andrew Rule (''The Age'') *1997 –
Paul McGeough Paul McGeough is an Irish Australian journalist and senior foreign correspondent for ''The Sydney Morning Herald''. In 2001, when covering events in Afghanistan with the Northern Alliance, he and French journalist Véronique Reyberotte survived ...
(''The Sydney Morning Herald'') *1998 – Pamela Williams (''The Australian Financial Review'') *1999 – John Lyons (''The Bulletin'') *2000 – Paul Toohey (''
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'') *2001 – Andrew Rule (''The Age'') *2002 – John Spooner (''The Age'') *2003 – Peter Wilson (''The Australian'') *2004 –
Paul McGeough Paul McGeough is an Irish Australian journalist and senior foreign correspondent for ''The Sydney Morning Herald''. In 2001, when covering events in Afghanistan with the Northern Alliance, he and French journalist Véronique Reyberotte survived ...
(''The Sydney Morning Herald/The Age'') *2005 – Michael Gordon (''
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'') *2006 – Tony Koch (''
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 ...
'') *2007 – John Silvester (''The Age'') *2008 –
Cameron Stewart Cameron Stewart (born 1975) is a Canadian comic book creator. He first came to prominence when he collaborated as an illustrator with writer Grant Morrison, and he went on to illustrate ''Catwoman'' and co-write ''Batgirl''. He won Eisner and S ...
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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 ...
'') *2009 – Gary Hughes (''The Australian'') *2010 – Laurie Oakes (
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, ''
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'' and ''
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'') *2011 – Neil Mitchell ( 3AW and ''
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'') *2012 – Joanne McCarthy (''
The Newcastle Herald The ''Newcastle Herald'' (formerly branded as ''The Herald'') is a local tabloid newspaper published daily, Monday to Saturday, in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. It is the only local newspaper that serves the greater Hunter Region and ...
'') *2013 – Caroline Wilson (''
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 Austral ...
'') *2014 –
Chris Reason Chris Reason (born 1 October 1965) is a journalist, foreign correspondent and news anchor for the Seven Network Australia. He has been with the network for more than three decades, starting as Crime Reporter at Channel Seven in Brisbane i ...
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'') *2015 – Adele Ferguson (''
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'') *2016 – Caro Meldrum-Hanna (''
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'') *2017 – Richard Baker and
Nick McKenzie Nick McKenzie is an Australian investigative journalist. He has won twenty Walkley Awards, been named twice as Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award, Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year, and received the Kennedy Awar ...
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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 Austral ...
'') *2018 – Anthony Dowsley (''
The Herald Sun The ''Herald Sun'' is a conservative daily tabloid newspaper based in Melbourne, Australia, published by The Herald and Weekly Times, a subsidiary of News Corp Australia, itself a subsidiary of the American Murdoch owned News Corp. The ''Her ...
'') *2019 – Anne Connolly (''
Four Corners Four Corners is a region of the Southwestern United States consisting of the southwestern corner of Colorado, southeastern corner of Utah, northeastern corner of Arizona, and northwestern corner of New Mexico. Most of the Four Corners regio ...
'') *2020 –
Nick McKenzie Nick McKenzie is an Australian investigative journalist. He has won twenty Walkley Awards, been named twice as Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award, Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year, and received the Kennedy Awar ...
(''
60 Minutes ''60 Minutes'' is an American television news magazine broadcast on the CBS television network. Debuting in 1968, the program was created by Don Hewitt and Bill Leonard, who distinguished it from other news programs by using a unique style o ...
'', '' Good Weekend'') *2021 –
Samantha Maiden Samantha Louise Maiden is an Australian political journalist. She is currently political editor for news.com.au, a subsidiary of News Corp Australia. Early life and education Maiden was born in Adelaide. As a student at the University of A ...
(
News.com.au News.com.au (stylised in all lowercase) is an Australian website owned by News Corp Australia. It had 9.6 million unique readers in April 2019 and covers national and international news, lifestyle, travel, entertainment, technology, finance an ...
) *2022 – Hedley Thomas (''The Australian'') *2023 – Neil Chenoweth and Edmund Tadros (''
The Australian Financial Review The ''Australian Financial Review'' (''AFR'') is an Australian compact daily newspaper with a focus on business, politics and economic affairs. The newspaper is based in Sydney, New South Wales, and has been published continuously since its foun ...
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Australian journalism awards Awards established in 1976 1976 establishments in Australia