Marian Wilkinson

Marian Wilkinson is a multi-award-winning journalist with a career that has spanned radio, television and print. She has covered politics, national security, refugee issues and climate change as well as serving as a foreign correspondent in Washington, DC for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age . She was a deputy editor of the Sydney Morning Herald , executive producer of the ABC's Four Corners program and a senior reporter with Four Corners . As environment editor for the Sydney Morning...See more

Marian Wilkinson is a multi-award-winning journalist with a career that has spanned radio, television and print. She has covered politics, national security, refugee issues and climate change as well as serving as a foreign correspondent in Washington, DC for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age . She was a deputy editor of the Sydney Morning Herald , executive producer of the ABC's Four Corners program and a senior reporter with Four Corners . As environment editor for the Sydney Morning Herald , she reported on the rapid melt of Arctic sea ice for a joint Four Corners - Sydney Morning Herald production that won a Walkley Award for journalism and the Australian Museum's Eureka prize for environmental journalism. She also covered the UN climate conferences in Bali and Copenhagen. As a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), she reported on the Panama Papers and the Paradise Papers for Four Corners . She has written several books, including the political biography The Fixer , on former Labor powerbroker Graham Richardson, and Dark Victory , on Australia's response to asylum seekers, which she co-authored with David Marr. In 2018 she was inducted into the Australian Media Hall of Fame. See less