Results archive
1998
Reporter of the Year
Susanna Lobez, ABC Radio National Law Report
Best Report in Print
Gary Tippet, The Age for ‘Slay the Monster- trauma behind a brutal
death’
Best Report on Television
Sarah Henderson, ABC 7.30 report for ‘High Court under attack’
Best Report on Radio
Caroline Quinn and Alison Rogers, ABC Radio Warrnambool for their radio
forum on legal issues in rural communities
Best report in the Ethnic Media
Gina Wilkinson, SBS Radio for ‘People with Disabilities’
News Breaking Report - All Media
Geoff Wilkinson, The Herald Sun
Columb Brennan Award for excellence in court reporting
Peter Gregory, The Age for the Brian Quinn trial
1999
Reporter of the Year
Belinda Hawkins, SBS TV for a series of reports on Wik, the waterfront
dispute, class actions, prison reform and abortion law reform.
Highly commended: Susanna Lobez, ABC Radio Law Report; Liz porter, The
Sunday Age for ‘Untying the knot’ and ‘Legal aides’
Best Report in Print
Gary Tippet, The Age for ‘Little Boy Lost’
Highly commended: Liz Porter, Sunday Age for ‘Dead Reckonings’;
Caroline Milburn, The Age for ‘Baby Evelyn’; and Melinda Brown,
Law Institute Journal for general excellence in a series of reports
Best Report on Television
Belinda Hawkins, SBS TV for ‘Kicking the Dust’
Highly commended: Steve Letts, ABC 7.30 Report for Tanner and Yorta
Yorta cases
Best Report on Radio
Susanna Lobez, ABC Law Report for ‘Sexual Assault Trials’
Best News Breaking Report - All Media
Geoff Wilkinson, The Herald Sun
Best Legal Image
Leigh Hobbs, Law Institute Journal for three cartoons illustrating a
series on copyright
Highly commended: Les O’Rourke for a photograph of the Chief Justice
of the Family Court from his Chambers
Columb Brennan Award for excellence in court reporting
Jane Hodgkinson, GTV 9 for Tanner and Domaszewicz cases
Service to the Community Award
Richard Schmeiszl, Sentinel Times for ‘Pyramid Scheme’ series
2000
Reporter of the Year
Susana Lobez, ABC Law Report for a series of programs on family law,
children in court and privatisation
Best Report in Print
Melinda Brown, Law Institute Journal for ‘Ramifications of the
Osland verdict’
Highly commended: Graeme Hammond, Sunday Herald Sun for ‘Fatal
fibre’; and Lorrie Liston, Ballarat Courier for ‘Predator
Locked Up’
Best Report on Television
Gabby Hils, SBS TV Insight for ‘Judicial Independence’
Best Report on Radio
Susanna Lobez, ABC Law Report for ‘Family Law’
Best News Breaking Report - All Media
Geoff Wilkinson, The Herald Sun
Best Deadline Report - All Media
Kelly Graham, 3AW News
Highly commended: Melissa Aston, Channel Ten
Best Legal Image
Leigh Hobbs, Law Institute Journal for three cartoons illustrating a
series on copyright
Highly commended: Les O’Rourke for a photograph of the Chief Justice
of the Family Court from his Chambers
Columb Brennan Award for excellence in court reporting
Carolyn Batt, The Age for ‘Insider trading’
2001
Reporter of the Year
Steve Butcher, The Age
Highly commended: Darrin Farrant, The Age
Best Report in Print
Steve Butcher, The Age
Highly commended: Geoff Wilkinson, The Herald Sun; Ben Potter, The Eye;
and Liz Porter, The Sunday Age
Best Report on Television
Melissa Aston, Ten News
Best Report on Radio
Chris Richards and Pauline Spencer, ABC Radio Law Report
Best News Breaking Report - All Media
Geoff Wilkinson, The Herald Sun
Best Deadline Report - All Media
Kelly Graham, 3AW News
Highly commended: Melissa Aston, Channel Ten
Best Illustration
Kery Millard, Law Institute Journal
Highly commended: Andrew Weldon, law Institute Journal; and Glenda Brigham,
Channel Ten
Best Photograph
David Johns, Law Institute Journal
Highly commended: Murray Yann, Law Institute Journal
2002
Reporter of the Year
Liz Porter, The Sunday Age
Highly commended: Jason Silverii, Law Institute Journal; Gary Tippet,
The Age
Best Report in Print
Gary Tippet, The Age for ‘The usual suspects’
Highly commended: Steve Butcher, The Age for ‘Lawyers, drugs and
money’
Best Report on Television
Heather Ewart, ABC 7.30 Report for ‘Rape’
Best Report on Radio
Belinda Hawkins, ABC Radio Background Briefing for ‘The battered
defence’
Highly commended: Damien Carick, ABC Radio Law Report for ‘Death,
doctors and the criminal law’
Best News Breaking Report - All Media
Steve Butcher, The Age for ‘Judge Bob Kent’
Best Deadline Report - All Media
Mignon Henne, Channel Ten News for ‘Kalejs extradition decision
cross’
Best Illustration
Glenda Brigham, Ten News, for ‘Child death in car’
Highly commended: Kerry Millard, Law Institute Journal, ‘The law
of bias revisited’
Best Photograph
Craig Abraham, the Age for ‘Konrad Kalejs at court’
Highly commended: David Johns Law Institute Journal for ‘Stalking:
does the law work’
Best Centenary of Federation report
Damien Carrick, ABC Radio Law Report for ‘100 years of Federation’
Tony Smith Award for reporting which promotes an understanding of
the work of the courts
Kate Legge, The Weekend Australian Magazine, for ‘Patrick- a case
in the life of a Family Court Judge’
2003
Reporter of the Year
Geoff Wilkinson- Herald Sun
Best Report in Print
Ian Munro, John Silvester, Peter Gregory, The Age for ‘The Police
Killers’
Highly commended: Geoff Wilkinson and Norrie Ross, The Herald Sun for
‘The future of justice series’; Jason Silverii, Law Institute
Journal for ‘The judicial life- on call 24 hours’; and Lucinda
Schmidt, BRW Magazine for ‘Let’s get ethical’
Best Report on Television
Melissa Aston-Welberry, ABC News for ‘Wales king’
Best Report on Radio
Damien Carrick, ABC Radio National Law Report for ‘Doctors or Parents?’
Best News Breaking Report - All Media
Cameron Smith and Elissa Hunt, Herald Sun for ‘Baby sale’
Best Deadline Report - All Media
Michael Bachelard, The Australian, for ‘The Ali Case’
Best Report in Multicultural Media
Catherine Harper, SBS radio for ‘Legality of war’
Best Illustration
Glenda Brigham, Ten News, for her illustration of Andrew Theophanous
in the Dock at the County Court
Highly commended: Kerry Millard, Law Institute Journal, for her cartoon
‘The ship’s cat’; Katherine Alexander, Law Institute
Journal for her illustration ‘Prisoners of conscience’; and
Stuart Roth, Alternative Law Journal, for his cartoon ‘Pro bono
work for the homeless’
Best Photograph
Norm Oorloff, The Herald Sun, for ‘Porky postie’s prison reprieve’
Highly commended: David Johns and Murray Yann, law Institute Journal,
for photographs illustrating ‘The judicial life- on cal 24 hours’
Columb Brennan Award for excellence in court reporting
Norrie Ross, The Herald Sun
2004
Reporter of the Year
Jason Silverii, Law Institute Journal
Highly commended: Josephine Cafagna, ABC Stateline
Best Report in Print
William Birnbauer, The Age for ‘Tobacco Documents’
Highly commended: Russell Robinson, Herald Sun for ‘Wake-up Call’;
Gary Tippet, Ian Munro and Phillip Hudson, The Age for ‘Degrees
of Separation’
Best Report on Television
Josephine Cafagna and Peter Drought, ABC Stateline for ‘Four Dead
Babies’
Highly commended: Guy Stayner, ABC TV News for ‘The Glennon Verdict’
Best Report on Radio
Damien Carrick, ABC Radio National Law Report for ‘Medical Treatment
or Palliative Care?’
Best News Breaking Report - All Media
William Birnbauer, The Age for ‘Tobacco Documents’
Best Deadline Report - All Media
John Silvester, The Age for ‘Death of a Gangster’
Best Report in Community Media
Julian Drape and Tom Wilcox, 3CR Community Radio for ‘Abandoning
Justice’
Best Illustration
Maree Menzel, ABC TV for her sketch of ‘A defendant in the Magistrates’
Court’
Highly commended: Ron Tandberg, The Age for ‘The Chief Justice’;
Pat Campbell, Law Institute Journal for ‘Wanted- Water’; and
Nigel Buchanan, Law Institute Journal for ‘On the Right Track’
Best Photograph
John Hart, Herald Sun for ‘The Adjournment’
Highly commended: David Johns, Law Institute Journal for ‘Trials
of Sexual Assault Victims’; and John Hart, Herald Sun, for ‘Taking
instructions from the bench’
Columb Brennan Award for excellence in court reporting
Peter Gregory, The Age
Tony Smith Award for reporting which promotes an understanding of
the work of the courts
Damien Carrick, ABC Radio Law Report for ‘Inside the High Court’
2005
Reporter of the Year
Ian Munro, The Age
Highly commended: Josephine Cafagna, ABC Stateline
Best Report in Print
Ian Munro, The Age for ‘True Lies’
Highly commended: Liz Porter, The Sunday Age for ‘He said, she
said’
Best Report on Television
Jonathon Holmes, Nick McKenzie & Sarah Curnow, ABC Four Corners
for ‘Speed Trap’
Best Report on Radio
Damien Carrick, ABC law Report for ‘Alistair Nicholson and Koori
Court’
Best News Breaking Report - All Media
Jeremy Kelly, Herald Sun for ‘You Can’t Gag Me’
Highly commended: Josephine Cafagna, ABC Stateline for ‘SIDS Homicide’
Best Deadline Report - All Media
John Silvester and Jamie Berry, The Age for ‘Police Swoop on Gangland
Killing Suspect’ and profile of Keith George Faure
Best Illustration
Gregory Baldwin, Law Institute Journal for ‘Fortress Australia’
Highly commended: Pat Campbell, Law Institute Journal for ‘Evidence
by Audio-visual Link’ and ‘The Evolution of Sentencing’
Best Photograph
Craig Borrow, Herald Sun for ‘Runaway Bride’
Highly commended: John Hart, Herald Sun for ‘Westminster Wig meets
Modern Miss’
Columb Brennan Award for excellence in court reporting
Phil Johnson, 3AW
Tony Smith Award for reporting which promotes an understanding of
the work of the courts
Damien Carrick, ABC Law Report
Highly commended: Jason Silverii, Law Institute Journal
2006
Reporter of the Year
Damien Carrick, ABC Radio National, The Law Report
Best Report in Print
Gary Tippet and Peter Gregory, The Age for ‘Death of a Sportsman’
Highly commended: Ian Munro, The Age for ‘Brief Encounter’;
John Silvester, The Age for ‘The Stalker’ and Steve Butcher,
The Age for ’Saving Citizen Nguyen’
Best Report on Television
William Birnbauer and Terry Carlyon, Carlyon Miller Productions for
‘The Big Lie’
Best Report on Radio
Catherine Harper, SBS Radio for ‘Hoa Nguyen: a people smuggler
and proud of it’
Highly commended: Phil Johnson, 3AW for ‘The Hookes Verdict’
Best News Breaking Report - All Media
Geoff Wilkinson, Herald Sun for ‘Jail Break’
Best Deadline Report - All Media (Two winners)
Katie Lapthorne, Herald Sun for ‘The Hookes Verdict’ &
Phil Johnson, 3AW for ‘The Hookes Verdict’
Best Report in Community Media
Rachael Brown, ABC Radio for ‘Marist Victim’
Best Illustration
Glenda Brigham, Ten News for 'Herman'
Highly commended: Nigel Buchanan, Law Institute Journal for ‘Pre-nuptual
agreements’ and
Pat Campbell, Law Institute Journal for ‘The growing acceptance
of surrogacy’
Best Photograph
John Hart, Herald Sun for 'The angry show a violent response'
Columb Brennan Award for excellence in court reporting
Stephen Moynihan, The Age
Tony Smith Award for reporting which promotes an understanding of
the work of the courts
Peter Gregory, The Age
2007
Reporter of the Year
Geoff Wilkinson, Herald Sun
Best Report in Print
William Birnbauer, The Sunday Age for 'Cheated by the law'
Best Report on Television
Rachael Brown, ABC for 'Pong Su acquittal' and 'Korp finding'
Best Report on Radio
Damien Carrick and Anita Barraud, ABC Radio National Law Report for
'Parole Boards'
Best News Breaking Report - All Media
William Birnbauer, The Sunday Age for 'Cheated by the law'
Highly commended: Penelope Debelle, The Age for 'Hicks launches freedom
bid in Australian court'
Best Deadline Report - All Media
Katie Lapthorne, Herald Sun for 'Police corruption'
Best Illustration
Nigel Buchanan, Law Institute Journal for 'Obviousness of Risk'
Highly commended: Shane McGowan, Law Institute Journal for 'Battered
Women's Syndrome and Self-defence'
Best Photograph
John Hart, Herald Sun for 'Sympathy vote'
Highly commended: Pat Scala, The Age for 'Cattore leaves court'
Columb Brennan Award for excellence in court reporting
Rachael Brown, ABC
Highly commended: Daniella Miletic, The Age for 'NAB rogue traders'
Tony Smith Award for reporting which promotes an understanding of
the work of the courts
Katherine Kizilos, The Age for 'Law and a new order'
2008
Reporter of the Year
John Silvester, The Age
Best Report in Print
John Silvester, The Age for ‘Anatomy of a Murder
Highly commended: Geoff Wilkinson, Herald Sun for portfolio of various
articles on parole, Adult Parole Board, new sentencing laws; Russell
Robinson, Herald Sun for 'Judges are Human', interview with former judge,
Len Ostrowski; Karen Kissane, The Age for portfolio of work; Harriet
Morely, Law Institute Journal for ‘Breaking the Barriers’
Best Report on Television -Long Form
Kathy Bowlen, ABC Stateline for interview with OPP prosecutor Geoff
Horgan SC
Best Report on Television - Same Day
Kate McGrath, Channel 10 for portfolio of work
Highly commended: Rachael Rollo, Channel 9; Kate Osborn, Channel 7;
Emma O’Sullivan, ABC TV
Best Report on Radio
John Burns, Ross Stevenson & John Silvester, 3AW Breakfast for OPI
police hearings
Best Deadline Report - All Media
Peter Gregory, The Age
Best Illustration
Nigel Buchanan, Law Institute Journal for ‘The tort of deceit and
misrepresentations of paternity
Best Photograph
Norm Oorloff, Herald Sun for ‘Forgive and Forget’
Columb Brennan Award for excellence in court reporting
Kate McGrath, Channel 10
Highly commended: Peter Gregory, The Age and Kate Hagan, The Age
Tony Smith Award for reporting which promotes an understanding of
the work of the courts
Kathy Bowlen, ABC Stateline for interviews with OPP Prosecutor Geoff
Horgan SC, discussing the DPP's deal with Carl Williams; and Justice
Murray Kellam, Adult Parole Board
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