The Walkley Non-Fiction Book Award recognises the growing contribution journalists are making to the field of literature. Join Asa Wahlquist and Maureen Helen as they discuss topics of significance to Australia with Walkley Judge Jenny Tabakoff.
Presented by the Walkley Foundation for Journalism.
ASA WAHLQUIST (LOCAL) ASA WAHLQUIST has been the rural business writer for The Australian for the past decade. Before that, she was a freelance journalist with the Bulletin, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Land, among others. In 2005 she won the Peter Hunt Eureka Prize for Environmental Journalism and in 1996 she won a Walkley Award for a three-part series published in The Land. Her book Thirsty Country is a highly informative consumer's guide to the issues concerning fresh water in Australia today and in the future.
MAUREEN HELEN (INTERSTATE) MAUREEN HELEN is adjunct lecturer in the Centre for Social Research at Edith Cowan University, consults for several non-government agencies and is secretary of the Catholic Social Justice Council, Perth. She has published short stories, poetry, book reviews and numerous articles, including travel pieces. She has a PhD in Writing.
JENNY TABAKOFF (LOCAL) JENNY TABAKOFF has worked as a senior journalist on The Sydney Morning Herald and in London on The Times and The Daily Telegraph. She has co-written two books and has started work on another. Jenny participated in the judging of the 2008 Walkley Non-Fiction book award and the 2008 Sydney Morning Herald Young Writers awards.
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