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Steve Pennells (The West Australian) with Mark Boyd (SBS)
Winners of the 2011 Media Peace Awards were announced at the Awards Presentation Dinner on Friday 21 October, hosted by Virginia Trioli, ABC News Breakfast.
Winners and Finalists of the 2011 Media Peace Awards are:
Major Categories
BEST PRINT
News
Winner: Steve Pennells, The West Australian - ‘The Malaysian Deal’
Finalist: Nicole Precel, Dandenong Leader Newspaper - ‘Young and Trapped in Aged Care’
Finalist: Matt Wade, Sydney Morning Herald - ‘The East African Famine’
Feature
Finalist: Jodie Duffy, Illawarra Mercury - ‘Suffer the Little Children’
Finalist: Dr Vicki Grieves, National Indigenous Times - ‘No River, No People: The Fight for the Mardoowarra in WA’
Finalist: Rosemarie Milsom, The Newcastle Herald - ‘The Long and Winding Road’
Winner: Steve Pennells, The West Australian - ‘Dadaab’
Finalist: Denise Ryan, The Age - ‘Lost for Answers’
BEST TELEVISION (Sponsored by SBS)
News
Finalist: Nathalie Ahmat and Daniel Bourchier, National Indigenous Television News - ‘New Intervention’
Finalist: Zoe Daniel, ABC International Operations - ‘Burma Election 2010’
Winner: Brian Thomson, SBS TV - ‘Unfinished Business’
Finalist: Jeff Waters, ABC News - ‘Pilbara Series’
Current Affairs
Winner: Yaara Bou-Melhem, SBS TV Dateline - ‘Series: Struggle for Freedom (Freedom's Call & Bahrain's Dark Secret)’
Finalist: Steve Cannane, Jo Puccini and Alison McClymont, ABC TV Lateline - ‘Inside the Malaysia Deal’
Finalist: Fouad Hady, Geoff Parish and Melanie Morrison, SBS TV Dateline - ‘Breaking Point’
Finalist: Hamish Macdonald and Mathew Marsic, Network Ten - ‘Malaysia – No Solution’
Documentary
Winner: Cordell Jigsaw Productions for SBS - ‘Go Back to Where You Came From’
Finalist: Michael Cordell, Cordell Jigsaw Productions - ‘Three Boys Dreaming’
Finalist: Ben Knight, Greg Wilesmith, Geoffrey Lye and Simon Brynjolffssen, ABC TV - ‘Kenya – A Place in the Sand’
Finalist: Victoria Midwinter Pitt and Penny Chapman, The Indian Pacific Pictures Company - ‘Leaky Boat’
Finalist: Electric Pictures and Doclab Srl, Electric Pictures - ‘Skin Deep’
BEST RADIO
Finalist: Kathy Bedford, ABC Local Radio Statewide Drive Victoria - ‘Giving Voice to Victims of Family Violence’
Finalist: Mark Colvin, Eleanor Hall, Tanya Nolan, Annie White, Jess Hill, Edmond Roy and Connie Agius, ABC Radio Current Affairs, ‘Arab Spring’
Winner: Sacha Payne, Stefan Armbruster, Ron Sutton, Jennifer Curtis, Karen Ashford, Greg Dyett, Michelle Lovegrove and Lindsey Arkley, SBS - ‘Two Decades, Too Little, Too Late for Many: What became of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody’
Finalist: Luke Waters, SBS World News Australia - ‘A “PM”... a dinner party and a legacy’
BEST PHOTOJOURNALISM
Finalist: Andy Drewitt, Leader Community Newspapers - ‘Carers in Crisis’
Finalist: Meredith O’Shea - ‘Westies’
Winner: Steve Pennells, The West Australian - ‘Dadaab’
BEST ONLINE
Winner: David Fullerton, John Steward and Sally Morgan - ‘www.RwandanStories.org’
Finalist: Tim Lester, Tim Young and Ricky Sutton, Fairfax Media - ‘Patriots & Traitors’
Special Commendation: Matt Smith, John-Paul Marin, Nick Doherty, John MacFarlane and John Connell, SBS Online and Indian Ocean Productions - ‘Africa to Australia’
FINALISTS – Special Award Categories
Promotion of Aboriginal Reconciliation
(Sponsored by the Australian Government Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs)
Finalist: Miriam Corowa, ABC Television Message Stick - ‘Pecan Summer: The Opera’
Winner: Natasha Gadd, Rhys Graham, Phillipa Campey and Sarah Bond, Daybreak Films - ‘Murundak – Songs of Freedom’
Special Commendation: Mary Gearin, Vince Tucci, Jonathon Lee and Greg Field, ABC Television - ‘A Walk to Remember’
Promotion of Positive Images of the Older Person
Winner: Sharon Connolly, Kim Akhurst, Jeannine Baker and Meredith Hopes, ABC TV - ‘Work Later On’
Finalist: Natasha Johnson, Tony Connolly and Pru Kingsmill, ABC TV 7.30 - ‘Lis Kirkby’
Finalist: Emily Rice, 630 with George Negus, Network Ten - ‘Never too old to learn’
Increasing Awareness and Understanding of Women’s Rights and Issues
(Sponsored by the Office of Women’s Policy)
Finalist: Trent Dalton, The Courier Mail - ‘Home is where the hurt is’
Finalist: Philippa McDonald, ABC - ‘Nowhere to Hide’
Winner: Matt Moran and Hugh Riminton, Network Ten - ‘Skype Scandal’
Finalist: Giselle Wakatama and Philip Ashley-Brown, 1233 ABC Newcastle - ‘The Baby Snatchers’
Increasing Awareness and Understanding of Children’s Rights and Issues
(Sponsored by the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development)
Finalist: Jenny Brockie, Jane Worthington, Kym Middleton and Sarah Alleyly, SBS TV - ‘SBS Insight – Gay in School’
Finalist: Jodie Duffy, Illawarra Mercury - ‘Hard Labour’
Finalist: Joanna McCarthy, ABC - ‘Deadly Legacy of US Cluster Bombs in Laos’
Winner: Quentin McDermott, Deborah Masters, Karen Michelmore, Kate Wild and Shaun Hoyt, ABC - ‘Dangerous Territory’
Promotion of Multicultural Issues
(Sponsored by the Australian Multicultural Foundation)
Winner: Cordell Jigsaw Productions for SBS - ‘Go back to where you came from’
Special Commendation: Dan Fill, Frank Verheggen and Chris Sullivan, Chocolate Liberation Front commissioned by SBS Online - ‘Asylum: Exit Australia’
Finalist: Matt Smith, Nick Doherty, John Connell, John-Paul Marin and John MacFarlane, SBS Online and Indian Ocean Productions - ‘Africa to Australia’
For photographs of the 2011 UNAA Media Peace Awards recipients and the Awards ceremony click here.
Winners of the 2011 Media Peace Awards from UNAA Victoria on Vimeo.
For information about winners and finalists from previous years, please contact the UNAA Victoria on (03) 9670 7878 or via email.
