Appendices

Appendices for the year ended 30 June 2012
Appendix 15—ABC Awards 2011–12 continued
2011 LIFE Awards
Outstanding Contribution to
Suicide Prevention in Australia:
triple j, Hack
2012 Logie Awards
Most Popular Presenter:
Adam Hills
Most Outstanding Children’s
Television Program: My Place,
Series 2
Most Outstanding Actor:
Rob Carlton, Paper Giants:
The Birth of Cleo
Most Outstanding Actress:
Melissa George, The Slap
Most Outstanding Public Affairs
Report: Four Corners, “A Bloody
Business”
Most Outstanding Light
Entertainment Program: Spicks
and Specks
Most Outstanding Drama Series,
Miniseries or Telemovie: The Slap
2011 National Basketball
League Media Awards
Best Radio Commentator: Peter
Walsh, ABC Grandstand, Adelaide
Best Radio News Package:
Justin Huntsdale, ABC Illawarra,
“7 000 Points and Counting for
Hawks Legend”.
2011 National Press Club of
Australia Journalism Awards
Paul Lyneham Award for
Excellence in Journalism—Special
Commendation: Mark Simkin and
Chris Uhlmann
Best News Feature/Article or
Presentation—Health, Health
Sciences or Innovation: Dr
Maryanne Demasy, Catalyst,
“Corneal Stem Cells—Window to
the Eye”
Qantas and European Union
Journalism Award: Eleanor Hall,
“Is a Digital Single Market the
key to rejuvenating the European
economy at a time of austerity and
rapid technological change?”
2011 Older People Speak Out
Media National Awards
Best News Item: Jessica Hinchliffe,
90.3 ABC Coast FM, “Surviving
Cyclone Yasi Without Sight”
Best Current Affairs Segment/
Series: Chris Wisbey, 936 ABC
Hobart, “Inspirational and Active
over 80”
2011 Publishers Australia
Excellence Awards
Cover of the Year (Custom): triple j
Magazine, September 2011 Cover,
“Gotye”
2011 Queens Birthday Honours
Public Service Medal: Ian Mannix
2012 Randstad Awards
Most Attractive Employer in
Australia (second place): Australian
Broadcasting Corporation
2011 United Nations of Australia
Media Peace Awards
Special Award—Promotion of
Positive Images of the Older
Person: Compass, “Work Later On”
Special Award—Increasing
Awareness and Understanding of
Children’s Rights and Issues, Four
Corners, “Dangerous Territory”
2011 Walkley Awards
Gold Walkley: Sarah Ferguson,
Michael Doyle and Anne
Worthington, Four Corners,
“A Bloody Business”
Journalism Leadership: Paul
Lockyer (posthumous)
All Media: Broadcast and Online
Interviewing: Tony Jones, Lateline,
Christopher Hitchens, Malcolm
Turnbull and Chris Bowen
Best Online Journalism: Eleanor
Bell, Ed Giles, Suzanne Smith,
“Beating the Odds”
All Media—Sports Journalism:
Caro Meldrum-Hanna, 7.30,
“Harness Racing Under Scrutiny”
Radio news and Current Affairs
Reporting: Mark Willacy, PM,
“Rikuzentakata tsunami”
Radio feature, documentary or
broadcast special: Katrina Bolton,
105.7 ABC Darwin, “Drink, death
and dollars”
2012 Walkley Young Australian
Journalist of the Year Award
Online Award: Miranda Grant,
ABC Open, Southern Queensland
2011 Yooralla Media Awards
Online Award: Brett Williamson,
abc.net.au, “Making the most of
time that is left”
Radio (less than 5 minutes) Award:
Nance Haxton, “Intellectually
disabled people fight for equal
access to justice”
Commendation: Alex Mann, triple j,
Hack, “Barriers to Love”
Radio (more than 5 mins) Award,
Aaron Kearney, 1233 ABC
Newcastle, “When Everything
Changes in an Instant: Andrew’s
Journey”
Commendation: Natasha Mitchell,
ABC Radio National, “Deaf Culture”
Television (more than 5 mins)
Award: Karen Barlow, Lateline,
“Marlon Noble”
Commendation: Monique Schafter,
Hungry Beast, “Trapped in Your
Own Body”
Commendation: Kim Akhurst and
Richard Corfield, Compass,
“A Roof Over Their Heads”
State and Territory
Awards
New South Wales
2011 Australian
Cinematographers Society
Awards (NSW/ACT)
News Directors Award: Taryn
Southcomb, “High Water”,
Gold, Current Affairs: Quentin
Davis, “Shattered”
Bronze, Current Affairs: David
Martin, “Bhutan—The Secret
Garden”
Silver, Single Camera News: Taryn
Southcomb, “Wheat Harvest”
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