Gold Walkley

Template:Short description Template:Use Australian English Template:Use dmy dates The Gold Walkley is the major award of the Walkley Awards for Australian journalism.<ref name = "Walkley">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It is chosen by the Walkley Advisory Board from the winners of all the other categories (excluding the Journalism Leadership and Most Outstanding Contribution to Journalism awards). It has been awarded annually since 1978.

List of award winners

Order	Year	Recipient(s)	Program / Title	Location / Publisher	Story / Issue	Reference
1.	1978	Catherine Martin	The West Australian	Perth	The impact of asbestosTemplate:Endashrelated diseases on the mining community in Wittenoom Gorge	<ref name=obitsmh>Template:Cite news</ref>
2.	1979	Ron Tandberg	The Age	Melbourne	Cartoon: The public and the real Malcolm Fraser	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
3.	1980	Leslie Grant Heading	ABC	Hobart	1980 Ash Wednesday bushfires	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
4.	1981	John Lewis	Newcastle Herald	Template:NSWcity	Attempted takeover of NBN Television.	<ref>(10 October 1981) Journalism award to two staff members, The Canberra Times. Retrieved 8 April 2019.</ref>
5.	1982	Kerry O'Brien	ATN Channel 7	Sydney	Circle of Poison, an investigation into adverse health affects arising from the usage of popular chemicals in Australia	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
6.	1983	Mary Delahunty and Alan Hall	Four Corners	ABC TV
7.	1984	Jan Mayman	The Age	Melbourne (freelance)	Death of John Pat, a 16-year-old Aboriginal Australian youth who died in police custody	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
8.	1985	Chris Masters and Bruce Belsham	Four Corners	ABC TV	Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
9.	1986	Ron Tandberg	The Age	Melbourne	Cartoon highlighting the demarcation dispute between Bob Hawke and Paul Keating	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
10.	1987	Phil Dickie	The Courier-Mail	Brisbane	Corruption in the Queensland Police Service which led to the Fitzgerald Inquiry	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
11.	1988	Norman Swan	Radio National	ABC Radio	Allegations of scientific misconduct against Foundation 41 founder William McBride	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
12.	1989	Alan Tate and Paul Bailey	The Sydney Morning Herald	Sydney
13.	1990	Janet Hawley	The Good Weekend	Fairfax Media
14.	1991	Monica Attard		ABC Radio	1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
15.	1992	Jenny Brockie		ABC TV	Cop It Sweet, a documentary investigating the police treatment of Indigenous Australians in Redfern	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
16.	1993	Phillip Chubb and Sue Spencer		ABC TV	Labor in Power, a documentary series about the inner workings of a governing political party	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
17.	1994	Peter McEvoy	Radio National	ABC Radio	Investigation into air safety following the Monarch Airlines disaster, near Young	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
18.	1995	David Bentley	The Courier-Mail	Brisbane	The Helen Demidenko literary scandal	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
19.	1996	Peter Hartcher	Australian Financial Review
20.	1997	Mary-Louise O'Callaghan	The Australian		The Sandline Crisis: How the PNG government hired a mercenary group in an effort to crush the Bougainville rebels
21.	1998	Pamela Williams	Australian Financial Review		A plan to smash a union: The dispute involving Patricks' stevedores questioned the role of the Federal Government and the Maritime Union
22.	1999	Richard Ackland, Deborah Richards and Anne Connolly	Media Watch	ABC TV	Cash for comment: Exposed Alan Jones, John Laws, and Radio 2UE's cash for comment affair	<ref name="mmm">Template:Cite book</ref>
23.	2000	Mark Davis	Dateline	SBS TV	Timor Intelligence: How much Australia's intelligence services knew about the violence surrounding East Timor's independence election
24.	2001	Andrew Rule	The Age	Melbourne	Geoff Clarke: Power and rape: Allegations of sexual abuse by ATSIC chairman Geoff Clarke
25.	2002	Kate McClymont and Anne Davies	The Sydney Morning Herald	Sydney	Bulldogs salary cap scandal: Overpayment of Bulldogs' players led to a corruption inquiry by the NRL
26.	2003	Richard Moran	Nine News	Nine Network	Canberra Bushfires: Filming of the firefighting process of the ACT fires, while still managing to help evacuees
27.	2004	Neil Chenoweth, Shraga Elam, Colleen Ryan, Andrew Main, and Rosemarie Graffagnini	Australian Financial Review		Rivkin's Swiss Bank Scandal: The unknown business dealings of Rene Rivkin
28.	2005	Tim Palmer		ABC	Aceh Tsunami and Jakarta Embassy Bomb: Extensive, innovative and courageous coverage of South Asia	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
29.	2006	Liz Jackson, Lin Buckfield, Peter Cronau	Four Corners	ABC TV	Stoking the Fires: Arming of a civilian militia in East Timor after the country's independence process	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>"Four Corners: Stoking the Fires"</ref>
30.	2007	Hedley Thomas	The Australian		Dr Haneef: Arrest of Gold Coast doctor Muhamed Haneef	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
31.	2008	Ross Coulthart and Nick Farrow	Sunday	Nine Network	Butcher of Bega: Investigation of a doctor's alleged malpractice and incompetence in Template:NSWcity	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
32.	2009	Gary Hughes	The Australian		The Black Saturday bushfires	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
33.	2010	Laurie Oakes	Nine News	Nine Network	Labor leaks during the 2010 election campaign	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
34.	2011	Sarah Ferguson, Michael Doyle and Anne Worthington	Four Corners	ABC TV	A Bloody Business: Cruelty inflicted on Australian cattle exported to Indonesian abattoirs	<ref>Template:Cite press release</ref><ref>Four Corners: "A Bloody Business"</ref>
35.	2012	Steve Pennells	The West Australian	Perth	Coverage of Gina Rinehart's feud with her children and an asylum seeker boat tragedy	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
36.	2013	Joanne McCarthy	Newcastle Herald	Template:NSWcity	Sex abuse in the Catholic Church in the Hunter region	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
37.	2014	Adele Ferguson, Deb Masters and Mario Christodoulo	Four Corners	ABC TV	Banking Bad: Financial planning and advice offered by the Commonwealth Bank and other organisations	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=SMH1>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=2014Gold>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
38.	2015	Caro Meldrum-Hanna, Sam Clark, Max Murch	Four Corners	ABC TV	Making a Killing: Live baiting in the Australian greyhound industry
39.	2016	Andrew Quilty	Freelance		The Man on the Operating Table	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
40.	2017	Michael Bachelard and Kate Geraghty	The Age	Melbourne	Surviving IS: Stories of Mosul	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
41.	2018	Hedley Thomas and Slade Gibson	The Australian	(podcast)	The Teacher's Pet	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
42.	2019	Anthony Dowsley and Patrick Carlyon	Herald Sun	Melbourne	Lawyer X Informer Scandal	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
43.	2020	Mark Willacy and the ABC Investigations-Four Corners Team	Four Corners	ABC TV	Killing Field: an exposé into alleged Australian war crimes in Afghanistan	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
44.	2021	Samantha Maiden	news.com.au		Open secret: The Brittany Higgins story	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
45.	2022	Anne Connolly, Stephanie Zillman and Ali Russell	Four Corners	ABC TV	State Control: report on Queensland's Public Guardian and Trustee system	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
46.	2023	Edmund Tadros and Neil Chenoweth	Australian Financial Review		"PwC Tax Leaks Scandal'	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
47.	2024	Nick McKenzie, David Marin-Guzman, Ben Schneiders, Garry McNab, Amelia Ballinger and Reid Butler	60 Minutes	Nine Network	"Building Bad"	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>