Liz Jackson, Lin Buckfield & Peter Cronau, Four Corners, ABC TV, “Stoking the Fires”

JOURNALISTIC LEADERSHIP

Michelle Grattan, political editor, The Age, and political commentator, ABC Radio National, Breakfast

MOST OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO JOURNALISM

Colleen Egan, investigative journalist, The Sunday Times

NIKON WALKLEY PRESS PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR

Kate Geraghty, The Sydney Morning Herald, “Lebanon”

NON-FICTION BOOK

Neil Chenoweth, Allen & Unwin, “Packer’s Lunch”

PRINT

NEWS REPORT

Michael Beach and Viva Goldner, Daily Telegraph , “Marcus Einfeld”

THREE HEADINGS

Warwick McFadyen, The Age, “Heads and Tales”

NEWSPAPER FEATURE WRITING

Jack Marx, Fairfax, “I was Russell Crowe’s Stooge”.

MAGAZINE FEATURE WRITING

Chloe Hooper, The Monthly, “The Tall Man”

CARTOON

Alan Moir, The Sydney Morning Herald, “There’s a Cartoonist on the Bus”

ARTWORK

Karl Hilzinger, The Australian Financial Review, “DVD Piracy”

NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY

Craig Greenhill, The Daily Telegraph, “Cronulla Race Riots – Train Bashing”

DAILY LIFE PHOTOGRAPHY

Angela Wylie, The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, “A Windy Oaks Day”

SPORT PHOTOGRAPHY

Phil Hillyard , News Limited, “Giving Your Best”

PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY FINALISTS

Kate Geraghty, The Sydney Morning Herald, “Lebanon”

RADIO

RADIO NEWS REPORTING

Tim Palmer, ABC Radio, “Bali Suicide Bombings”

RADIO CURRENT AFFAIRS

David Hardaker, ABC Radio,  “The Israeli Wars”

RADIO FEATURE, DOCUMENTARY OR BROADCAST SPECIAL FINALISTS

Antony Funnell, Background Briefing, ABC Radio “Financial Abuse of the Elderly”

ALL MEDIA

TELEVISION NEWS REPORTING

Robert Penfold, National Nine News, Nine Network, “Hurricane Katrina”

TELEVISION CURRENT AFFAIRS REPORTING (LESS THAN 20 MINUTES)

Stephen Dupont and Jacques Menasche, Foreign Correspondent, ABC TV, “Brothers of Kabul”

TELEVISION NEWS AND CURRENT AFFAIRS CAMERA

Neil Harms and Dave Ollier, World News, SBS, “East Timor Crisis”

TELEVISION CURRENT AFFAIRS, FEATURE, DOCUMENTARY OR SPECIAL (MORE THAN 20 MINUTES)

Olivia Rousset, Dateline, SBS TV, “Abu Ghraib”

ALL MEDIA

BEST USE OF THE MEDIUM

Matthew Absalom-Wong, Darren Connell, Paul McGeough and Kimberley Porteous, The Sydney Morning Herald, “The Iraq DVDs and the War of Ideas”

COVERAGE OF SUBURBAN OR REGIONAL AFFAIRS

Anthony Radford, Bendigo Weekly, “Every Drop Counts”

INTERNATIONAL JOURNALISM

Mark Simkin, ABC News, ABC TV, “Hurricane Katrina”

COVERAGE OF THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION

Liz Jackson, Lin Buckfield and Peter Cronau, Four Corners, ABC TV, “Stoking the Fires”

BUSINESS JOURNALISM

Morgan Mellish, The Australian Financial Review, “The Robert Gerard Tax Scandal”

INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM

Caroline Overington The Australian and The Weekend Australian, “AWB Kickback Scandal”

COVERAGE OF INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS

Nicolas Rothwell and Ashleigh Wilson, The Australian, “Aboriginal Art”

SPORTS FEATURE JOURNALISM

Ben Cheshire, Jessica Daly and Kristine Taylor, Australian Story, “One Perfect Day”

SPORT NEWS REPORTING

Danny Weidler, National Nine News, “Russell’s Rabbits”

SOCIAL EQUITY JOURNALISM

Steve Pennells, The West Australian, “Halls Creek Crisis”

COMMENTARY, ANALYSIS, OPINION AND CRITIQUE

Paul McGeough, The Sydney Morning Herald, “Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran”

BROADCAST INTERVIEWING

Steve Cannane, Hack, Triple J, “Petrol Sniffing, Pill Testing and the Cost of War”