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Journalism award

The Walkley Book Award is an Australian award presented annually by the Walkley Foundation for excellence in long-form journalism and nonfiction, with subjects ranging from biography to true crime to investigative journalism and reporting.

Winners

  • 2005: Bob Connolly, Making Black Harvest
  • 2006: Neil Chenoweth, Packer's Lunch: A Rollicking Tale of Swiss Bank Accounts and Money-Making
  • 2007: Chris Masters, Jonestown: The Power and the Myth of Alan Jones
  • 2008: Don Watson, American Journeys
  • 2009: Graham Freudenberg, Churchill and Australia
  • 2010: Shirley Shackleton, The Circle of Silence: A Personal Testimony Before, During and After Balibo
  • 2011: Russell Skelton, King Brown Country: The Betrayal of Papunya
  • 2012: George Megalogenis, The Australian Moment: How We Were Made For These Times
  • 2013: Pamela Williams, Killing Fairfax: Packer, Murdoch and the Ultimate Revenge
  • 2014: Paul Kelly, Triumph and Demise: The Broken Promise of a Labor Generation
  • 2015: Chip Le Grand, The Straight Dope: The Inside Story of Sport's Biggest Drug Scandal
  • 2016: Stan Grant, Talking To My Country
  • 2017: Louise Milligan, Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of George Pell
  • 2018: Helen Pitt, The House: The dramatic story of the Sydney Opera House and the people who made it
  • 2019: Leigh Sales, Any Ordinary Day : Blindsides, Resilience and What Happens After the Worst Day of Your Life
  • 2020: Lucie Morris-Marr, Fallen: The inside story of the secret trial and conviction of Cardinal George Pell
  • 2021: Kate Holden, The Winter Road
  • 2022: Bronwyn Adcock, Currowan: The story of a fire and a community during Australia’s worst summer
  • 2023: Antony Loewenstein, The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel exports the technology of occupation around the world
  • 2024: Andrew Fowler, Nuked: The submarine fiasco that sank Australia's sovereignty

References

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  12. "DT Editor Paul Whittaker picks up third Walkley". PerthNow. 2014-12-04. Retrieved 2020-10-25.
  13. Le Grand, Chip (2015). The straight dope: the inside story of sport's biggest drug scandal. Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University Press. ISBN 978-0-522-86850-0. OCLC 908193018.
  14. "Milligan wins 2017 Walkley Book Award for 'Cardinal'". Books+Publishing. 2017-11-30. Retrieved 2020-10-25.
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  16. "Guardian Australia wins Walkley award for coverage of Indigenous affairs". The Guardian. 2019-11-28. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-10-25.
  17. "Morris-Marr's 'Fallen' wins 2020 Walkley Book Award". Books+Publishing. 2020-11-23. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
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  19. "'Currowan' wins Walkley Book Award". Books+Publishing. 2022-11-18. Retrieved 2022-11-20.
  20. "Loewenstein's 'The Palestine Laboratory' wins 2023 Walkley Book Award". Books+Publishing. 2023-11-24. Retrieved 2023-11-23.
  21. "'Nuked' wins 2024 Walkley Book Award". Books+Publishing. 2024-11-20. Retrieved 2024-11-20.
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