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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ObituaryNation

A flotilla of boats carrying friends and neighbours accompanied Susan Duncan on her final journey back to the mainland.

Final journey for adored pillar of Pittwater

A flotilla of boats accompanied writer Susan Duncan on her final journey from her water-access-only home to the mainland north of Sydney.

Caroline Overington

SHORTLISTReview

Meet the finalists for The Australian Fiction Prize

The first ever fiction prize sponsored by The Australian and HarperCollins Australia has attracted a talented field. Each and every one of these writers deserve their place on the shortlist.

Caroline Overington

Booker Prize 2024Books

The notice on Goodreads preventing readers from posting reviews of the 2024 Booker Prize winner, Orbital.

One-star-review ‘hackers’ swamp Booker winner

Readers can’t rate the winner of the 2024 Booker Prize because of concerns raised about a flood of geopolitical one-star reviews.

Caroline Overington

environmentBooks

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.

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BooksBooks

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

ShakespeareStage

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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