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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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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

memoirNation

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

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

AFL grand finalAFL

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

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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

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