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...personify the industry’s most ubiquitous trait: self-importance. “Fought,” because that’s exactly what the two of them did, made all the better by the fact that they scuffled on stage at the country’s annual Walkley awards for journalism, an event deemed so important it is beamed live nationally on free-to-air television...
...generally well-paid, have stimulating jobs, and don't need the lure of prizes to motivate them to excel. But peer recognition in this highly competitive game is always welcome - and should be celebrated. Last week, this magazine's Editor at Large, Tom Dusevic, was honored at the Walkley Awards, Australia's most prestigious journalism prizes. He won the all-media Commentary, Analysis, Opinion and Critique category for three pieces in the areas of politics, economics and diplomacy, including a major story on former Labor leader Mark Latham in the run-up to last year's federal election ("Latham...
...Michael, 44, is well equipped to continue this progress. A 1968 graduate in economics and politics from Melbourne's Monash University, he had a distinguished newspaper career in Australia and London before he joined TIME as a senior writer in February 1988. Eight months later, he won the Walkley Award, Australia's most prestigious journalism prize, with his first TIME cover story, an analysis of the debate over proposed Nazi war crimes trials in Australia. He became assistant editor of the edition in November 1989, while continuing to write articles and an occasional column called "Reflections...
...Correspondent Frank Robson to find out why a number of Aborigines were dying in prisons and jails under mysterious circumstances. At the same time that Robson's cover story ran, a Royal Commission was established to investigate the problem. Last month TIME AUSTRALIA won two of the prestigious W.G. Walkley awards, Australia's highest journalism prizes, for Robson's story and for Photographer David May's cover picture of jailed Aborigines. The prizes and the special issue are, as they say in Australia, real bobby-dazzlers, mates...
...propound," says Shaw to Walkley, "a certain social substance, sexual attraction to wit, for dramatic distillation; and I distill it for you." Thus the main plot of Man and Superman, a sort of Love's Labour's Won with woman as the laborer and man as the winnings; a "serio-comic love chase"; a nimble game in dead earnest of Higher Hide-and-Seek...