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Thursday 10 November
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
The Wheeler Centre’s inaugural feminist year in review
Brave, bold and tenacious – Caroline Wilson is a star of Australian sports journalism and she knows a thing or two about blazing trails. Who better to deliver the Wheeler Centre’s inaugural F Word Address – an annual event that will be part feminist stocktake, part personal reflection, from an outstanding Australian woman.
Starting her career in the early 1980s, Wilson has won many significant firsts, including first female recipient of the AFL Gold Media award. In recent years she’s won praise – and gained a few powerful enemies – for her fearless opinion writing on the Essendon supplements scandal. Throughout her career at the Age, she’s won a Walkley Award, a Graham Perkin Award, a Melbourne Press Club Quill Award and if there was an award for staring down reactionary nonsense – she definitely would have won that too.
At the first F Word Address in November, Wilson will reflect on the year that was. How have the last 12 months altered or entrenched her personal sense of feminism? How do milestones, such as the launch of the AFL Women’s League this year, bolster her sense of progress? What does she see as the wins this year for Australian women and what are the ongoing challenges?
Join us for an evening with an exceptional talent in Australian sports journalism.
Featuring
Caroline Wilson
Caroline Wilson has been chief football writer for the Age since 1999.
Caroline was the first woman to cover Australian Rules football on a full-time basis and the first woman to win the AFL’s gold media award. She has won the AFL Players Association’s football writer of the year (1999) and the AFL Media Association’s most outstanding football writer and most outstanding feature writer (2000, 2003, 2005). She also won a Melbourne Press Club Quill Award in 2003.
Before joining the Age, Caroline covered four Wimbledon’s, three British Open’s and an FA Cup final and worked in radio (winning the 1995 RAWARD for best current affairs commentator). At the Sunday Age Caroline won journalist of the year (1993) and best feature writer (1994). She has covered both the Sydney and Athens Olympic Games for the Age. And she has covered three Commonwealth Games – she reported on the Edinburgh Games in 1986, the Auckland Games in 1990 and the Melbourne Games in 1996.