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The John Curtin Prize for Journalism: Shortlist 2007
Judges: Eric Beecher ( Convenor), Greg Hywood and Liz Jackson
Shortlist
| Hicks on TrialAmanda Collinge and Jenny Brockie
(‘Insight’/SBS Television)
It's not often that a televised forum brings together the main players in a highly charged public controversy for an open debate, but the SBS Insight program achieved that in 'Hicks On Trial' earlier this year. The debate brought together the chief protagonists in the David Hicks affair - the prosecution, the defence, the Australian government and the Hicks family. The result was an unvarnished insight into the logic and emotions of one of Australia's most important legal sagas. |
| Muslim Leader Blames Women for Sex Attacks (plus associated stories)Richard Kerbaj
(The Australian)
In a series of front-page stories that astounded readers and created an immediate political response, Richard Kerbaj reports the thoughts of Australia's most senior Muslim cleric on the subject of women and rape. Kerbaj reveals that in a religious address to some 500 worshippers in Sydney, Sheik Taj Din al-Hilali had claimed that women were 'weapons' used by 'Satan' to control men and - in words that ricocheted around the world - 'the uncovered meat is the problem'. |
| Cruising Malcolm Knox
(The Monthly)
'The death of Dianne Brimble has taken the public imagination captive,' writes Malcolm Knox. But after taking a P&O Pacific cruise to find out why, Knox discovers that life on board is 'no different from life in any suburb, life in any apartment block. Terrible things happen.' | |
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