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Walkley Award for Non Fiction The Walkley Award for Best Nonfiction Book is awarded as part of the annual Walkley awards for excellence in journalism. |
| 2009 |
| Shortlist |
Churchill and Australia
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Author: Graham Freudenberg
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ISBN: 9781405039444
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The Mother of Mohammed
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Author: Sally Neighbour
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ISBN: 9780522856682
Born and raised in Mudgee, New South Wales, Rabiah Hutchinson seems an unlikely jihadist. But this former country girl turned marijuana-smoking beach bunny and hippy backpacker is a veteran of the global holy war. To Western intelligence analysts she is 'the matriarch of radical Islam'. Hutchinson spent four years working as a doctor in a mujahideen hospital and orphanage on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in the early 1990s. She later returned to Afghanistan under the Taliban and married a leading al-Qaeda ideologue and member of Osama bin Laden's inner circle. Her fellow jihadists know her as 'Umm Mohammed', meaning the mother of Mohammed. Today Rabiah Hutchinson is one of the most watched women in the world. She believes she's under 24-hour surveillance, her home and telephone bugged. She is officially designated as 'a threat to national security', and prevented from travelling abroad. So who is this mysterious black-veiled woman, with the broad Australian accent and fiery Scottish temperament? This is Rabiah Hutchinson's story.
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Firepower
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Author: Gerard Ryle
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ISBN: 9781741753554
A magic pill that cuts fuel consumption and reduces emissions - that was the miracle promised by Tim Johnston's company, Firepower. Everyone believed him prime ministers and presidents, doctors and diplomats, business leaders and sporting heroes - even ASIC, the corporate watchdog, went along with the myth. Millions of shares were sold to investors, and by 2007, Firepower had become the biggest sporting sponsor in the country. But it was all a sham. In this compelling account, Gerard Ryle demolishes the fairytale, exposing a wobbly financial pyramid and the greatest fraud ever committed in Australia.
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| 2008 |
| WINNER |
American Journeys
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Author: Don Watson
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ISBN: 9781741666212
Only in America - the most powerful democracy on earth, home to the best and worst of everything - are the most extreme contradictions possible. In a series of journeys, acclaimed author Don Watson set out to explore the nation that has influenced him more than any other. Travelling by rail gave Watson a unique and seductive means of peering into the United States, a way to experience life with its citizens: long days with the American landscape and American towns and American history unfolding on the outside, while inside a tiny particle of the American people talked among themselves. Watson's experiences are profoundly affecting: he witnesses the terrible aftermath of Hurricane explores the savage history of the Deep South, the heartland of the Civil War and journeys to the remarkable wilderness of Yellowstone National Park. Yet it is through the people he meets that Watson discovers the incomparable genius of America, its optimism, sophistication and riches - and also its darker side, its disavowal of failure and uncertainty.
Beautifully written, with gentle power and sly humour, American Journeys investigates the meaning of the United States: its confidence, its religion, its heroes, its violence, and its material obsessions. The things that make America great are also its greatest flaws.
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| 2007 |
| WINNER |
Jonestown
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Author: Chris Masters
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ISBN: 9781741753202
"How do we rank a man who raises millions for people in need but whose actions waste millions in support of unworthy mates and poor public policy?" Masters examines the many paradoxes of talk radio host, Alan Jones. He reaches deep into a powerful industry and exposes the myth and the magic of a very powerful man.
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