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The Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award, often known simply as the Graham Perkin Award, is one of Australia's pre-eminent prizes for journalism. It was established and named in honour of
Graham Perkin Edwin Graham Perkin (16 December 1929 – 16 October 1975) was an Australian journalist and newspaper editor. Early life Perkin was born at Hopetoun, Victoria, elder son of Herbert Edwin Perkin, baker, and his wife Iris Lily, née Graham, bo ...
, who was editor of ''
The Age ''The Age'' is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854. Owned and published by Nine Entertainment, ''The Age'' primarily serves Victoria (Australia), Victoria, but copies also sell in Tasmania, the Austral ...
'' from 1966 until his death in 1975. Administered by the
Melbourne Press Club The Melbourne Press Club, commonly referred to as MPC, is a not-for-profit association of journalists in the city of Melbourne, Australia. The Melbourne Press Club provides awards in the State of Victoria for outstanding journalism, presenting th ...
, the award carries a prize of $20,000.


Winners

*1976 – Denis Butler ('' The Newcastle Morning Herald'') *1977 –
Robert Gottliebsen Robert Norman Gottliebsen (born 4 February 1941) is a columnist for '' Business Spectator'' and an economics writer at ''The Australian''. He was the original columnist "Chanticleer" for the '' Australian Financial Review'' and founder of ''Busin ...
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The Australian Financial Review ''The Australian Financial Review'' (abbreviated to the ''AFR'') is an Australian business-focused, compact daily newspaper covering the current business and economic affairs of Australia and the world. The newspaper is based in Sydney, New Sou ...
'') *1978 – Lenore Nicklin (''
The Sydney Morning Herald ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (''SMH'') is a daily compact newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and owned by Nine. Founded in 1831 as the ''Sydney Herald'', the ''Herald'' is the oldest continuously published newspaper ...
'') *1979 – Peter Rodgers (''The Sydney Morning Herald'') *1980 – Ron Saw ('' The Bulletin'') *1981 – Norman Aisbett and David Tanner (''
The West Australian ''The West Australian'' is the only locally edited daily newspaper published in Perth, Western Australia. It is owned by Seven West Media (SWM), as is the state's other major newspaper, ''The Sunday Times''. It is the second-oldest continuousl ...
'') *1982 – Peter Smark (''
The Age ''The Age'' is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854. Owned and published by Nine Entertainment, ''The Age'' primarily serves Victoria (Australia), Victoria, but copies also sell in Tasmania, the Austral ...
'') *1983 –
Evan Whitton Evan Whitton (5 March 1928 – 16 July 2018) was an Australian journalist. Whitton was raised in Murgon in Queensland, and went away to boarding school at age eight. He worked as a teacher for 14 years in Toowoomba before securing a ful-time rol ...
(''The Sydney Morning Herald'') *1984 –
Creighton Burns Creighton Lee Burns, AO (19 March 1925 – 19 January 2008) was an Australian journalist and academic, who was editor-in-chief of ''The Age'' newspaper in Melbourne from 1981 to 1989. Early life and naval career Born in Melbourne, Burns attend ...
(''The Age'') *1985 –
Jack Waterford John Edward O'Brien Waterford AM (born 12 February 1952), better known as Jack Waterford, is an Australian journalist and commentator. He has a long affiliation with ''The Canberra Times''. Waterford graduated in law from the Australian Natio ...
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The Canberra Times ''The Canberra Times'' is a daily newspaper in Canberra, Australia, which is published by Australian Community Media. It was founded in 1926, and has changed ownership and format several times. History ''The Canberra Times'' was launched in ...
'') *1986 – Bruce Dover and Cameron Forbes ('' The Herald'', Melbourne and ''The Age'') *1987 – Terry McCrann (''The Age'' and ''The Herald'', Melbourne) *1988 –
Michelle Grattan Michelle Grattan (born 30 June 1944) is an Australian journalist who was the first woman to become editor of an Australian metropolitan daily newspaper. Specialising in political journalism, she has written for and edited many significant Austr ...
(''The Age'') *1989 – Peter Ellingsen (''The Age'') *1990 – Paul Kelly (''The Australian'') *1991 – Robert Haupt (''The Age/The Sydney Morning Herald'') *1992 – Colleen Ryan (''The Sydney Morning Herald'') *1993 –
Les Carlyon Leslie Allen Carlyon (10 June 1942 – 4 March 2019) was an Australian writer and newspaper editor. Early life Carlyon began his career in journalism with ''The Herald and Weekly Times'' as a cadet on the ''Sun News-Pictorial'' (now the ''H ...
*1994 – Kate Legge (''The Australian'') *1995 – Rowan Callick (''The Australian Financial Review'') *1996 – Andrew Rule (''The Age'') *1997 –
Paul McGeough Paul McGeough is an Irish Australian journalist and senior foreign correspondent for ''The Sydney Morning Herald''. In 2001, when covering events in Afghanistan with the Northern Alliance, he and French journalist Véronique Reyberotte survived ...
(''The Sydney Morning Herald'') *1998 – Pamela Williams (''The Australian Financial Review'') *1999 – John Lyons (''The Bulletin'') *2000 – Paul Toohey (''
The Australian ''The Australian'', with its Saturday edition, ''The Weekend Australian'', is a broadsheet newspaper published by News Corp Australia since 14 July 1964.Bruns, Axel. "3.1. The active audience: Transforming journalism from gatekeeping to gatew ...
'') *2001 – Andrew Rule (''The Age'') *2002 – John Spooner (''The Age'') *2003 – Peter Wilson (''The Australian'') *2004 –
Paul McGeough Paul McGeough is an Irish Australian journalist and senior foreign correspondent for ''The Sydney Morning Herald''. In 2001, when covering events in Afghanistan with the Northern Alliance, he and French journalist Véronique Reyberotte survived ...
(''The Sydney Morning Herald/The Age'') *2005 – Michael Gordon (''
The Age ''The Age'' is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854. Owned and published by Nine Entertainment, ''The Age'' primarily serves Victoria (Australia), Victoria, but copies also sell in Tasmania, the Austral ...
'') *2006 – Tony Koch (''
The Australian ''The Australian'', with its Saturday edition, ''The Weekend Australian'', is a broadsheet newspaper published by News Corp Australia since 14 July 1964.Bruns, Axel. "3.1. The active audience: Transforming journalism from gatekeeping to gatew ...
'') *2007 – John Silvester (''The Age'') *2008 – Cameron Stewart (''
The Australian ''The Australian'', with its Saturday edition, ''The Weekend Australian'', is a broadsheet newspaper published by News Corp Australia since 14 July 1964.Bruns, Axel. "3.1. The active audience: Transforming journalism from gatekeeping to gatew ...
'') *2009 – Gary Hughes (''The Australian'') *2010 –
Laurie Oakes Laurie Oakes (born 14 August 1943 in Newcastle, New South Wales) is an Australian retired journalist. He worked in the Canberra Press Gallery from 1969 to 2017, covering the Parliament of Australia and federal elections for print, radio, and t ...
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, ''
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'' and ''
The Daily Telegraph ''The Daily Telegraph'', known online and elsewhere as ''The Telegraph'', is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally. It was fo ...
'') *2011 – Neil Mitchell (
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and ''
The Herald Sun The ''Herald Sun'' is a conservative daily tabloid newspaper based in Melbourne, Australia, published by The Herald and Weekly Times, a subsidiary of News Corp Australia, itself a subsidiary of the Murdoch owned News Corp. The ''Herald Sun ...
'') *2012 – Joanne McCarthy (''
The Newcastle Herald The ''Newcastle Herald'' (formerly branded as ''The Herald'') is a local tabloid newspaper published daily, Monday to Saturday, in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. It is the only local newspaper that serves the greater Hunter Region and ...
'') *2013 – Caroline Wilson (''
The Age ''The Age'' is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854. Owned and published by Nine Entertainment, ''The Age'' primarily serves Victoria (Australia), Victoria, but copies also sell in Tasmania, the Austral ...
'') *2014 –
Chris Reason Chris Reason (born 1 October 1965) is a senior reporter and presenter for ''Seven News'' in Sydney, Australia. He was awarded the Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award for his coverage of the Lindt Cafe siege in December 2014. ...
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Seven News ''7NEWS'' is the television news service of the Seven Network and, as of 2021, the highest-rating in Australia. National bulletins are presented from Seven's high-definition television, high definition studios in Martin Place, Sydney, while f ...
'') *2015 –
Adele Ferguson Adele Ferguson is an Australian investigative journalist, best known for her series of exposés of malfeasance in the franchising, aged care, and financial services sectors in Australia which have resulted in major inquiries including the Hayn ...
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The Age ''The Age'' is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854. Owned and published by Nine Entertainment, ''The Age'' primarily serves Victoria (Australia), Victoria, but copies also sell in Tasmania, the Austral ...
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'') *2016 – Caro Meldrum-Hanna (''
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'') *2017 – Richard Baker and
Nick McKenzie Nick McKenzie is an Australian investigative journalist. He has won ten Walkley Awards, been twice named the Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year and also received the Kennedy Award for Journalist of the Year in 2020 and 2022. He is ...
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The Age ''The Age'' is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854. Owned and published by Nine Entertainment, ''The Age'' primarily serves Victoria (Australia), Victoria, but copies also sell in Tasmania, the Austral ...
'') *2018 – Anthony Dowsley (''
The Herald Sun The ''Herald Sun'' is a conservative daily tabloid newspaper based in Melbourne, Australia, published by The Herald and Weekly Times, a subsidiary of News Corp Australia, itself a subsidiary of the Murdoch owned News Corp. The ''Herald Sun ...
'') *2019 – Anne Connolly (''
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'') *2020 –
Nick McKenzie Nick McKenzie is an Australian investigative journalist. He has won ten Walkley Awards, been twice named the Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year and also received the Kennedy Award for Journalist of the Year in 2020 and 2022. He is ...
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'', ''
Good Weekend ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (''SMH'') is a daily compact (newspaper), compact newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and owned by Nine Entertainment Co., Nine. Founded in 1831 as the ''Sydney Herald'', the ''Herald'' is t ...
'') *2021 –
Samantha Maiden Samantha Louise Maiden is an Australian political journalist. She is currently political editor for news.com.au, a subsidiary of News Corp Australia. Early life and education Maiden was born in Adelaide. As a student at Adelaide University ...
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