The Australian “From The Heart” The Uluru Statement arose from extensive nationwide dialogues with Indigenous groups on constitutional recognition, followed by a four-day First Nations National Constitutional Convention. The result was a call for the establishment of a First Nations…
Helen JohnstoneNovember 29, 2017
Fairfax Media’s Michael Bachelard and Kate Geraghty have won the Gold Walkley Award for their extraordinary work, “Surviving IS: Stories of Mosul”. The ancient city of Mosul’s devastation by Islamic State may feel unthinkably tragic and distant, but Michael Bachelard…
Helen JohnstoneNovember 29, 2017
SBS Australia, “My Grandmother’s Lingo” My grandmother’s lingo A young Aboriginal woman, Angelina Joshua from in the remote community of Ngukurr, tells her story of fighting to preserve her ancestral language, Marra. This online interactive documentary, produced in consultation with…
Helen JohnstoneNovember 29, 2016
Nikon-Walkley Photo of the Year unveiled; finalists announced for 2016 Nikon-Walkley Awards for Excellence in Photojournalism and Walkley Documentary Award Andrew Quilty’s “The Man on The Operating Table” has been named the 2016 Nikon-Walkley Photo of the Year. The image…
Helen JohnstoneOctober 13, 2016
Three Australian journalists, Myles Morgan (SBS), Phoebe Wearne (The West Australian), and Angela MacDonald-Smith (The Australian Financial Review), along with Walkleys multimedia manager Kate Golden are on exchange in the the land of kimchi and K-pop thanks to DFAT and the Australia-Korea Foundation. In this post…
WalkleyMagSeptember 28, 2016
By Jacquelyn Hole, executive producer of the 2015 Walkleys With the 60th Walkleys coming up next week, we’re in a remembering mood. So we dug through the archives and found these great moments from the past decades. 1956 In the…
WalkleyMagNovember 25, 2015