Caroline Overington

Caroline Overington has twice won Australia’s most prestigious award for journalism, the Walkley Award for Investigative Journalism; she has also won the Sir Keith Murdoch award for Journalistic Excellence; and the richest prize for business writing, the Blake Dawson Prize. She writes thrillers for HarperCollins, and she’s the author of Last Woman Hanged, which won the Davitt Award for True Crime Writing.

Caroline Overington

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Richard Flanagan speaks at the Stop the Salmon Sea Grab public meeting at Town Hall. Picture: Zak Simmonds

‘My soul would be troubled’: Flanagan’s $100k book-prize protest

WATCH | Tasmanian writer Richard Flanagan says he can’t immediately accept a $100,000 winner’s cheque from Baillie Gifford because the company invests in fossil fuels.

Caroline Overington

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British writer Samantha Harvey and Booker Prize 2024 shortlisted author for her book "Orbital" poses on the red carpet upon arrival for the Booker Prize Award announcement ceremony, at the Old Billingsgate, in London, on November 12, 2024. Six authors, including five female authors, a record number, are vying to win the prestigious English-language literary award, of the Â£50,000 ($64,500) prize to be announced at a glitzy ceremony in London. (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP)

Samantha Harvey’s Orbital wins 2024 Booker Prize

Samantha Harvey has won the prestigious honour for her book which follows six astronauts from Japan, Russia, the United States, Britain and Italy aboard the International Space Station and touches on mourning, desire and climate change.

Caroline Overington

AnalysisNation

Jamie Oliver during a visit to Great Bradfords Junior School, in Braintree, Essex, as he launches his new book, Billy and the Epic Escape. Picture date: Thursday May 23, 2024. (Photo by Joe Giddens/PA Images via Getty Images)

Jamie Oliver’s recipe for cultural disaster

I haven’t read Jamie Oliver’s controversial new kids book in its entirety, but that’s OK. It seems like he hasn’t either. The celebrity chef is now in the ignominious position of having to apologise for his ghostwriter.

Caroline Overington

commentaryNation

Trump, and perhaps Dutton, are now the parties of the working class.

Conservatives parties – Trump, and perhaps Dutton – are now the champions of the working class

Talk to anyone outside the media bubble and they’ll tell you they saw Donald Trump’s comeback a mile off. These clear-eyed Australians clearly predicted the defeat of the Indigenous voice referendum, too.

Caroline Overington

commentaryUS Politics

Oprah Winfrey, left, walks with Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris during a campaign rally outside the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Monday, Nov. 4, 2024, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

White House has place for a woman – just not this one

Voters will elect a female candidate. They’ve decided that Kamala Harris’s place isn’t in the White House. Why not?

Caroline Overington

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Jodi Picoult says she has unearthed evidence that Shakespeare's best known plays were written by a woman

Heresy! A play by any other gender

Writer Jodi Picoult aims to ‘convince you all’ that Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and more of the Bard’s other best-known works were in fact written by a female poet.

Caroline Overington

ExposeAviation

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 31: (L-R) Jodie Haydon, Alan Joyce and Anthony Albanese at the Qantas 100th Gala Dinner at hangar 96 at Sydney's International Airport on March 31, 2023 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by James D. Morgan/Getty Images)

The Qantas flight path under Joyce: high-flyer to nosedive

Joe Aston’s book about Qantas examines the murky relationship between the nation’s politicians and the Flying Kangaroo.

Caroline Overington

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Michelle Baker and Rai Gaita, who are the wife, and father in law, of Mark Baker, at home in St Kilda, Melbourne. Michelle was married to Mark, who died before he was able to complete his book. She completed it for him, with her father in law.. Picture: Alex Coppel

The gift of eternal love: brave author’s moving triumph over death

Mark Raphael Baker died of cancer last year. His family has ushered his stirring memoir toward publication.

Caroline Overington

JourneysThe Weekend Australian Magazine

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The truth about travelling to Vegas

Take away the gambling, the mega-casinos, the strip, and what do you have left? You’ll be surprised by the thriving cultural life of this iconic desert destination.

Caroline Overington

EXCLUSIVEReview

Thursday 10th October 2024. The Australian.John Safran, Author and comedian has written a book about how he broke in to Kanye West's house while investigating his antisemitism, the book is called SQUAT.Photograph by Arsineh Houspian.

‘Gas the Jews’ or ‘Where’s the Jews’?: Why John Safran can’t tell us about the Opera House protest

John Safran joined the Palestinian-flag waving crowds gathered at the Sydney Opera House after the October 7 attacks – specifically because police warned Jews to stay away. But he still doesn’t know what was chanted.

Caroline Overington

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