Adele Marilyn Horin (25 January 1951 – 21 November 2015) was an Australian journalist. She retired in 2012 as a columnist and journalist for ''

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''. A prolific and polarising writer on social issues, she was described as "the paper's resident feminist".

Life and career

Early life

Born at St Anne's Hospital, Mt Lawley in 1951, Horin grew up in

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, a suburb of

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. Educated at Applecross Primary School and

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, she began her journalistic career as a cadet at ''

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'' newspaper, while earning a Bachelor of Arts degree part-time at the

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Career

Horin worked as a correspondent in New York, initially for ''

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'' and ''

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'' magazines, and then for ''

''. She later worked in Washington, New York and London covering politics, society and economics for ''The National Times'' newspaper, considered in its day to be a pioneering exponent of investigative and social issues journalism. In Australia, after a period with the

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''Life Matters'' programme she joined ''The Sydney Morning Herald''. She had a Saturday column on the paper's ''Comment'' page. Normally taking a

left wing Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy. Left-wing politics typically involve a concern for those in soci ...

view point, Horin's writing usually dealt with social issues. In 2010 Stephanie Brown's portrait of Adele Horin was selected for the

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. In her column on 25 August 2012, Horin announced her retirement from ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' "not to spend the day in a dressing gown but to think, write, participate, and to engage with my generation in a different way".

Death

On 15 November 2015, Horin announced via her blog the return of lung cancer, which had been treated aggressively the year before. She indicated she was too unwell to continue to write. She died on 21 November 2015, aged 64.

Awards

*1981 - Received a

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(Print) for Best Feature in a Newspaper or Magazine, at ''The National Times'', Sydney, for a series of articles about sex in Australia. She was a Walkley Award finalist again in 1996 and 2008. *1991 - Won the Australian Human Rights Commission Metropolitan Newspapers Award for her weekly column ''My Generation.'' *1999 - Was a finalist for ''Strewth!'' magazine's ''Earnest Bastard of the Year Award''. * 2011 - Received an Australian Human Rights Commission media award for ''Sad truth behind closed doors'', a series of stories on abuse and neglect of people with disability living in licensed boarding houses.

References

External links

''Coming of Age'' blog
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