Marian Wilkinson

Marian Wilkinson is a multi-award winning journalist with a career that has spanned radio, television and print, who also worked as a foreign correspondent in Washington DC for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. She was a Deputy Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, Executive Producer of the ABC’s Four Corners program and a senior reporter with Four Corners. She has also written for Australian Foreign Affairs magazine, The Monthly, The Saturday Paper and reported for ABC’s 7.30.

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As Environment Editor for the Sydney Morning Herald she reported on the rapid melt of Arctic sea ice for a joint Four Corners-Sydney Morning Herald production which won a Walkley Award for journalism and the Australian Museum's Eureka prize for environmental journalism. In 2018 she was inducted into the Australian Media Hall of Fame.

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She has written several books including The Fixer, Dark Victory which she co-authored with David Marr, and The Carbon Club which investigated Australia’s fraught climate change policy and the network of players who derailed it. Her latest Quarterly Essay, Woodside vs The Planet is a story of power, protest and climate change and the battle over Australia’s most important gas company.