Walkley Awards: The Australian’s Robert Gottliebsen, Caroline Graham, Kylie Stevenson and Matilda Colling win prizes
Robert Gottliebsen has been honoured for his more than 50 year-long career, as The Australian wins the Indigenous Affairs award.
The Australian’s columnist Robert Gottliebsen has been honoured for his more than 50 year-long career covering and commenting on the business world at this year’s Walkley Awards in Sydney.
Gottliebsen is a pioneer of business journalism in this country. He started the first national business column in the Financial Review in 1974, became one of the first prominent financial commentators on television, and mentored generations of business journalists from Alan Kohler to Ross Greenwood.
Gottliebsen started his most recent stint with The Australian in 2014, where he has been at the heart of the masthead’s coverage of business, politics and industrial relations. He is already a Walkley winner and a former Australian Journalist of the Year award.
The Australian also won the Indigenous Affairs award at the Walkeys for Caroline Graham, Kylie Stevenson and Matilda Colling’s work on the crisis engulfing the Northern Territory’s education system.
The NT Schools in Crisis team revealed an annual funding shortfall of $214.8m for Territory schools and that 85 per cent of remote Aboriginal students across the NT were not meeting minimal performance standards.
Their series led to a $1.1bn agreement between the NT and the commonwealth to tie new funding to performance.
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