Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award
Subcategory of Quill Awards
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History

'For more than 40 years, the Perkin Award has been the most coveted prize in Australian journalism, recognising the most outstanding individual working in all media. The award honours the memory of celebrated Age editor Graham Perkin and includes a $20,000 cash prize.' (https://www.melbournepressclub.com/awards)

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2021

winner Samantha Maiden

Year: 2016

winner Adele Ferguson

Year: 2009

winner Gary Hughes 'For his first-person piece on surviving the [Black Saturday] bushfire.'

Year: 2008

Cameron Stewart

Year: 2007

winner John Silvester
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Works About this Award

Age Investigative Reporter Wins Top Honor at Quills 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 19-20 March 2016; (p. 2)
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