The Gold Walkley is the major award of the Walkley Awards for Australian journalism.[1] It is chosen by the Walkley Advisory Board from the winners of all the other categories (excluding the Journalism Leadership and Most Outstanding Contribution to Journalism awards). It has been awarded annually since 1978.
Order | Year | Recipient(s) | Program / Title | Location / Publisher | Story / Issue | Reference | |
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1. | 1978 | The West Australian | [2] | ||||
2. | 1979 | The Age | Cartoon: The public and the real Malcolm Fraser | [3] | |||
3. | 1980 | Leslie Grant Heading | [4] | ||||
4. | 1981 | The Newcastle Herald | Attempted takeover of NBN Television. | [5] | |||
5. | 1982 | ATN Channel 7 | Sydney | Circle of Poison, an investigation into adverse health affects arising from the usage of popular chemicals in Australia | [6] | ||
6. | 1983 | Mary Delahunty and Alan Hall | Four Corners | ||||
7. | 1984 | The Age | Melbourne (freelance) | Death of John Pat, a 16-year-old Aboriginal Australian youth who died in police custody | [7] | ||
8. | 1985 | Chris Masters and Bruce Belsham | Four Corners | Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior | [8] | ||
9. | 1986 | The Age | Cartoon highlighting the demarcation dispute between Bob Hawke and Paul Keating | [9] | |||
10. | 1987 | The Courier-Mail | Corruption in the Queensland Police Service which led to the Fitzgerald Inquiry | [10] | |||
11. | 1988 | Allegations of scientific fraud against Foundation 41 founder Dr William McBride | [11] | ||||
12. | 1989 | The Sydney Morning Herald | Sydney | ||||
13. | 1990 | The Good Weekend | |||||
14. | 1991 | [12] | |||||
15. | 1992 | Cop it Sweet, a documentary investigating the police treatment of Indigenous Australians in Redfern | [13] | ||||
16. | 1993 | Labor in Power, a documentary series about the inner workings of a governing political party | [14] | ||||
17. | 1994 | Investigation into air safety following the Monarch Airlines disaster, near Young | [15] | ||||
18. | 1995 | The Courier-Mail | The Helen Demidenko literary scandal | [16] | |||
19. | 1996 | The Australian Financial Review | |||||
20. | 1997 | The Australian | The Sandline Crisis: How the PNG government hired a mercenary group in an effort to crush the Bougainville rebels | ||||
21. | 1998 | The Australian Financial Review | A plan to smash a union: The dispute involving Patricks' stevedores questioned the role of the Federal Government and the Maritime Union | ||||
22. | 1999 | Media Watch | [17] | ||||
23. | 2000 | Dateline | Timor Intelligence: How much Australia's intelligence services knew about the violence surrounding East Timor's independence election | ||||
24. | 2001 | The Age | |||||
25. | 2002 | The Sydney Morning Herald | Sydney | ||||
26. | 2003 | National Nine News | Canberra Bushfires: Filming of the firefighting process of the ACT fires, while still managing to help evacuees | ||||
27. | 2004 | Australian Financial Review | |||||
28. | 2005 | Aceh Tsunami and Jakarta Embassy Bomb: Extensive, innovative and courageous coverage of South Asia | [18] | ||||
29. | 2006 | Four Corners | Stoking the Fires: Arming of a civilian militia in East Timor after the country's independence process | [19] [20] | |||
30. | 2007 | The Australian | [21] | ||||
31. | 2008 | Sunday | Butcher of Bega: Investigation of a doctor's alleged malpractice and incompetence in | [22] | |||
32. | 2009 | The Australian | [23] | ||||
33. | 2010 | Nine News | [24] | ||||
34. | 2011 | Sarah Ferguson, Michael Doyle and Anne Worthington | Four Corners | A Bloody Business: Cruelty inflicted on Australian cattle exported to Indonesian abattoirs | [25] [26] | ||
35. | 2012 | The West Australian | Coverage of Gina Rinehart's feud with her children and an asylum seeker boat tragedy | [27] | |||
36. | 2013 | The Newcastle Herald | Sex abuse in the Catholic Church in the Hunter region | [28] | |||
37. | 2014 | Adele Ferguson, Deb Masters and Mario Christodoulo | Four Corners | Banking Bad: Financial planning and advice offered by the Commonwealth Bank and other organisations | [29] [30] [31] | ||
38. | 2015 | Caro Meldrum-Hanna, Sam Clark, Max Murch | Four Corners | Making a Killing: Live baiting in the Australian greyhound industry | |||
39. | 2016 | Freelance | The Man on the Operating Table | [32] | |||
40. | 2017 | The Age | [33] | ||||
41. | 2018 | The Australian | (podcast) | The Teacher's Pet | [34] | ||
42. | 2019 | Herald Sun | Melbourne | Lawyer X Informer Scandal | [35] | ||
43. | 2020 | Mark Willacy and the ABC Investigations-Four Corners Team | Four Corners | [36] | |||
44. | 2021 | Samantha Maiden | news.com.au | Open secret: The Brittany Higgins story | [37] | ||
45. | 2022 | Anne Connolly, Stephanie Zillman and Ali Russell | Four Corners | ABC TV | State Control: report on Queensland's Public Guardian and Trustee system | [38] |