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| Bruce Petty
| Bruce Petty's cartoons have been described as “doodle-bombs” .... as the victory dance of a fly escaped from the ink pot. As journalist Martin Flanagan once observed, Bruce Petty “re-invented the world as a vast scribbly machine with interlocking cogs and levers that connected people in wholly logical but unlikely ways.”
For the best part of half a century, not only has Bruce’s pen irreverently depicted society and politics, he’s also helped to define Australian political life.
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| Geoff Hook and William Ellis Green (WEG)
| In 1946 William Ellis Green – affectionately known as WEG – drew his first cartoon for The Melbourne Herald. And in 2002 Geoff Hook screwed the lid back onto his ink bottle and retired from editorial cartooning.
In those years – between 1946 and 2002 – Victorians had been treated to 56 years of the best examples of our craft by two of our finest and best-loved cartoonists.
Click on the icon to the left for an appreciation of WEG and Hook by George Haddon, based on his speech at the 2008 Quills.
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| | 2007
| Michelle Grattan and Laurie Oakes
| MICHELLE GRATTAN
Joint 2007 winner Michelle Grattan has explained the intricacies and twists and turns in Australia’s political and economic fortunes for almost 40 years.
LAURIE OAKES
Joint 2007 winner Laurie Oakes announced the details of a federal Budget before the Federal Government did thanks to a leak and has broken the biggest political news stories for 40 years.
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| | 2006
| Bruce Postle and John Lamb
| Two of the best photographers in Australia: Bruce Postle was an artist; John Lamb a gunslinger, fast, cunning and cool. They revolutionised the way newspapers use photos.
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| | 2005
| John Fitzgerald
| John Fitzgerald, a former editor of The Herald, never lost his zeal for journalism or his enthusiasm for the craft. Until just months before he died in 2007, “Fitzie” would email newspaper executives chiding them for using clichéd words.
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| | 2004
| Les Carlyon
| Words are the only thing readers judge journalists by says Les Carlyon, one of the finest wordsmiths around.
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| | 2003
| Claude Forell
| In a career spanning more than 50 years, Claude Forell distinguished himself in many fields of journalism, from reporting violent student riots in Paris, to persecuting politicians to reviewing restaurants.
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| | 2002
| Harry Gordon
| Crusading editor, war correspondent, author and Olympic Games writer and historian, Harry Gordon won acclaim wherever he turned his writing.
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| | 2001
| John Sorell
| Aggressive, quick and with an instinctive understanding of what readers and viewers want, John Sorell changed the face of newspapers and television in Australia.
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| | 2000
| Peter Game
| Peter Game is the journalist who cracked one of the biggest political scoops of all time - revelations that led to the dismissal of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam in tumultuous circumstances in 1975.
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| | 1999
| Les Tanner
| One of the greats of Australian cartooning and whimsical observation, Les Tanner influenced many of today’s newspaper artists.
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| | 1998
| Peter McFarline
| “Do you remember when bloody McFarline …’’ Sportsmen, reporters and the occasional barman love remembering Peter McFarline’s larger-than-life antics.
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| | 1995
| Keith Dunstan
| An endearing and modest man, Keith Dunstan is Victoria’s best-known and longest-serving newspaper columnist.
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