The Walkley Judging Board

Sally has won a total of four Walkley Awards, including the Outstanding Contribution to Journalism award at the 67th Walkley Awards (pictured left). She is a former ABC TV foreign correspondent, reporter with Four Corners, Lateline, Foreign Correspondent and the 7.30 Report, and was a senior contributor to The Australian, writing on terrorism and security matters.
Sally was Executive Producer of the ABC's nightly flagship current affair program, 7.30, from 2012 to 2015; and Executive Producer of Australia's premier investigative affairs program, Four Corners, from 2015 to 2022. She has authored two books, 'In the Shadow of Swords' and 'The Mother of Mohammed'.

Cameron Stewart is Chief International Correspondent of The Australian. He has worked in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the US where he covered the Donald Trump era from 2017 to early 2021 in Washington and was The Australian’s correspondent in New York in the late 1990s. Cameron combines investigative reporting on foreign affairs, defence and national security with feature writing for The Weekend Australian Magazine. He is a former winner of the Graham Perkin Award for Australian Journalist of the Year.

Sarah Abo has been a reporter with 60 Minutes on the Nine Network since 2019. Before joining the 60 Minutes team, she was a news reporter and presenter with SBS where she contributed to the broadcaster’s Dateline and Insight programs. She started her career as a reporter and presenter on Network Ten in Adelaide and Melbourne. Over her career, Sarah has covered major local and global events, including the US election, FIFA World Cup, the refugee crisis in the Middle East and Europe and the conflict in Afghanistan. In 2014 Sarah completed a CNN Fellowship at the network’s headquarters in Atlanta.

Suzanne Dredge is ABC’s Head of Indigenous News, an investigative journalist and former Supervising Producer for the current affairs program, 7.30. Prior to that, Dredge, a Wiradjuri woman, worked at Koori Radio in Sydney where she produced and presented the station’s flagship program, Black Chat. Suzanne’s work has taken her to the Middle East, reporting on the end of ISIS and investigating a group of Australians who travelled to Syria and Iraq to fight with al Qaeda-linked groups. In 2019, Suzanne produced the Walkley Award-winning film Orphans of ISIS and received a Kennedy Award for her work investigating international drug syndicates targeting romance scam victims. Suzanne has won three Walkley Awards for her work with Four Corners, 7.30 and ABC Investigations. Suzanne recently produced a ground-breaking investigation into Australia’s murdered and missing Indigenous women for Four Corners.

Colleen Egan’s journalism career spanned more than 20 years, from a regional West Australian newspaper to political coverage for The Australian, court reporting at the Old Bailey in London, weekly opinion columns in WA's major newspapers and assistant editor of The West Australian. Colleen is best known for her eight-year investigation into the case of Andrew Mallard, who was jailed in 1994 for a murder he did not commit. Colleen’s work resulted in Mallard’s conviction being overturned and a cold-case review that matched evidence to a convicted murderer. She won the Walkley Award in 2006 for Most Outstanding Contribution to Journalism. Her book, 'Murderer No More: Andrew Mallard and the Epic Fight that Proved His Innocence’, was also long-listed for a Walkley. From 2017 to 2023, she was chief of staff to the WA Attorney General, assisting the government’s law reform agenda. She is now an independent consultant in Perth.

Anton Enus is an award-winning broadcast journalist with more than 30 years of experience. His career spans television, radio and print coverage of international news and current affairs in both South Africa and Australia. Since 1999 he’s anchored SBS World News in the late edition and prime time slots. Anton began his broadcasting career at the South African national broadcaster, SABC. He was part of the team that covered South Africa’s historic return to democracy in 1994 and spent seven years as a correspondent for CNN World Report, where he won Best International Report and also won the prestigious Bokmakierie Award for radio current affairs. Before leaving South Africa, Anton presented the SABC’s major evening national news bulletin.

With over 15 years’ experience Rashell Habib has held several senior positions at 10 News, including News Editor, Social and Digital Editor, and now Head of Digital News and Strategy. Rashell began her career as a cadet for a local newspaper and held senior positions at News Corp for over 10 years, including the first social media editor for NewsLocal and leading social media for news.com.au.

Gabrielle Jackson has been an editor at Guardian Australia since 2014. She is currently associate editor, audio and visual and was an associate editor for news and opinion editor before that. She is the author of Pain and Prejudice: How the Medical System Ignores Women and What We Can Do About It, which has been published in Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Ireland, United States and Canada. She won the 2016 National Medicinewise Award for her reporting on endometriosis. She started her career at the Village Voice in New York and has lived in the US, UK and Spain.

Kate Kyriacou is an award-winning journalist, author, podcaster and The Courier-Mail’s crime and courts editor. She has been a print journalist for 20 years, working for newspapers in South Australia, Victoria and Queensland. Kate is a former Queensland journalist of the year and has covered some of Queensland’s most high profile crimes. Her book, The Sting, was the inspiration for the feature film The Stranger. Kate particularly enjoys mentoring young journalists.

Claire is News Editor of the ABC's South Australia newsroom, leading a news team with a proud record of breaking high impact investigative stories. Claire has been in News and Technology leadership positions for the past 10 years leading and developing the ABC’s multiplatform teams across the country. Claire began her ABC career as a News cadet journalist in the Sydney newsroom in 1998. She has worked as a journalist, producer and presenter reporting on a wide range of stories all the way from India to remote NT communities. Claire has worked for the ABC in NSW, QLD, the NT and SA. Claire grew up in country NSW and began her media career in regional television.

Konrad Marshall is a senior writer with Good Weekend magazine, based in Melbourne and specialising in longform stories about sport, the arts and science. He also hosts its weekly podcast, Good Weekend Talks. Before joining the magazine, he was a features writer for The Age, and deputy editor of The Melbourne Magazine. That followed almost a decade working for various US newspapers in New York, Florida and Indiana. He is the author of several books, most notably Yellow & Black: A Season with Richmond, and has worked with numerous athletes to help tell their stories, including iconic Australian tennis star Ash Barty (My Dream Time) and former AFL player and coach now transgender advocate Danielle Laidley (Don’t Look Away). Konrad has twice been named as Best Print Journalist by the Australian Sports Commission, and is the only two time winner of the Harry Gordon Award for Australian Sports Journalist of the Year.

Solua Middleton is a digital journalist with ABC News interactive digital storytelling team, Story Lab, and a proud Torres Strait Islander with more than 20 years’ experience of telling stories across multiple platforms and mediums. Formerly with the Koori Mail, she earned the Henry Mayer Media Prize before joining NITV as a videojournalist and news producer, and later self-publishing Indigenous newspaper Be Counted. Solua has been with the ABC since 2010, working with ABC Gold Coast as an Open Producer and senior Features reporter before transitioning to Story Lab where she is co-leading a project on Australia’s Indigenous rich history. In 2017 she received a UNAA Media Award for ABC’s Right Wrongs, and in 2012 a Clarion Award for the ‘Aftermath’ flood project. Her impactful ‘DreamBox’ project which captured the dreams of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people nationwide was recognised as a 2012 Human Rights Media Award finalist. Solua also serves as the ABC’s Bonner Committee Deputy Chair.

After leaving a career as a graphic designer in 2003, Jake Nowakowski found himself freelancing both at home and abroad before eventually accepting staff positions at the North West Star in Mount Isa and The Cairns Post. He is currently employed as a staff photographer at the Herald Sun in Melbourne, and won the 2023 Nikon-Walkley Press Photographer of the Year award.

Donna Page is an investigative reporter for The Newcastle Herald, where she previously worked as Chief-of-Staff and Day Editor. She ran a mentoring program at The Newcastle Herald for several years and regularly works on investigations with other staff as part of the paper’s training program. Donna has worked for The South China Morning Post and Portuguese news agency Lusa, covering news and business. She also spent several years as an investigative reporter for a Chinese/English current affairs magazine Macau Closer. Donna has won Walkley Awards for Coverage of Community and Regional Affairs in 2016, 2019 and 2020 and was a finalist in 2013. She was also part of a Newcastle Herald team that won a United Nations Association of Australia award for environment reporting in 2015. The mother of two has taught journalism at the University of Newcastle since 2016.

Mark Riley has been the Seven Network’s Political Editor since 2004, appearing on Seven News, Sunrise and Weekend Sunrise. He also writes a weekly column on politics for The West Australian newspaper. Before joining Seven, Mark was a Chief Political Correspondent and New York Correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald. He led the masthead’s coverage of the September 11 attacks. Mark began his journalistic career with the Newcastle Herald as a cadet in 1979. He has won Walkeys for foreign reporting and best columnist and was the first television journalist to win the National Press Club’s Paul Lyneham Award for Press Gallery Excellence.

Kathryn Wicks is a 36-year veteran of The Sydney Morning Herald and is currently Associate Editor (major projects). After six months as a copygirl straight out of high school, Wicks began as a first-year cadet in 1987. She has previously served the masthead as a news and sports reporter, a news and sports chief subeditor, as state editor/COS and as the masthead’s digital editor. She regularly steps in for the Herald’s news director and occasionally the sports editor and is responsible for the masthead's journalism training and trainee program.