Lucie Morris-Marr

Walkley-winning investigative journalist, writer and broadcaster Lucie Morris-Marr was twice highly commended as Young Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards while working on domestic and international assignments for the Daily Mail in London. In 2006 she moved to Sydney as Associate Editor of Marie Claire where she focused on long form investigative journalism. She went on to work as a senior writer for the Herald Sun in Melbourne where she became the first reporter in the world to uncover a secret police investigation into Cardinal George Pell regarding child sexual abuse allegations. The author covered the subsequent legal case for The New Daily and CNN. Her book on the case, Fallen (Allen & Unwin) won the 2020 Walkley Book Award.

After being diagnosed with young onset stage-four bowel cancer Lucie went on to write a hard-hitting investigative book on the links between processed meats and cancer. Processed was published in Australia and New Zeland by Allen & Unwin in February 2025 and in the UK & Commonwealth by Icon Books in London in April 2025. A Good Weekend cover story which ran an exclusive extract sparked a flurry of media attention and national conversation about the processes meat industry. The book also charted how after multiple operations and systemic drug treatments over nearly five years Lucie underwent a liver transplant in 2024 which has meant she is now cancer free.

As well as being an author  Lucie enjoys freelance news journalism assignments for national and international titles. Most recently she has covered The Mushroom Trial in Victoria for The Saturday Paper. She also dedicates time to mentoring bowel cancer patients, especially those with a stage four diagnosis and raising awareness in areas of prevention and early detection. Lucie lives with her husband and children in Bayside, Melbourne.