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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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

MAGAZINEThe Weekend Australian Magazine

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‘This drug is going to be used for great good and for great harm’

British author Johann Hari breaks down the emotional reckoning that followed his own Ozempic-induced weight-loss, and asks, do the benefits of the drug really outweigh the societal and health risks?

Caroline Overington

‘MY DAD’S GONE AWAY’Review

1990. St Kilda's Tony Lockett with Jimmy Krakouer and son Andrew Krakouer, aged 7. Jim Krakouer. [Sun 18/3/1990]

AFL sensation helps kids cope with the pain of a parent in prison

Forget how tough you think you are: going to prison is scary. If that’s true for grown men, imagine how it feels for a child, having to visit their dad in there.

Caroline Overington

BARK PETITIONSReview

How the people of Yirrkala changed the course of Australian democracy

Sixty thousand years. That is how long the Yolngu people believe they have lived on lands they call Yirrkala, in northeast Arnhem Land. Sixty years ago, local tribes were told they did not in fact own that land. So a plan was hatched.

Caroline Overington

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Rivals green with envy at the red and the white

Sydney’s beauty and glory are mirrored by the Swans — the richest, most popular and arguably most successful team in the league. Melbourne (and Brisbane this weekend) can only dream of such exalted status.

Caroline Overington

ExclusiveArts

Clare Wright is the first female chair of the National Museum of Australia council. Inset: Wright, left, on country. Picture: Nadir Kinan

Museum chair uses her voice in pursuit of truth-telling in Australian history

The new chair of the National Museum of Australia council, Clare Wright, took an activist position during the voice referendum last year – and she’s not sorry.

Caroline Overington

‘he’s uncancellable’Books

Sydney author Anthony Sharwood has written a book about the man who gave his name to Australia’s highest mountain, Mount Kosciuszko.

‘The big lie’: the mounting case to change Mount Kosciuszko’s name

The real-life Kosciuszko never even set foot in Australia, let alone climbed our highest peak. Is it finally time to call it by a name Indigenous people have used for tens of thousands of years?

Caroline Overington

LiteratureBooks

Australian author Charlotte Wood. Wood is the first Australian to be shortlisted for the prize since Richard Flanagan won in 2014. No Australian female writer has ever won the prize. Picture: Henry Simmons

Wood’s beautifully spare Devotional Bookers her place on exalted list

No Australian woman has ever won the Booker Prize but Sydney’s Charlotte Wood is now on the shortlist.

Caroline Overington

BooksBooks

Will Kostakis, one of the winners of the Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2024 in the young adult category. Picture: Dion Nucifora

PM’s award proves Kostakis really is something

A former scholarship kid from an exclusive all-boy private school has won a Prime Minister’s Literary Award for a story that celebrates his Greek ancestry.

Caroline Overington

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