Walkley Awards finalists announced for 2022

Melissa Cunningham, The Age, “The Melbourne ICU where the unvaccinated die in disbelief” 

Aisha Dow, Nick McKenzie and Joel Tozer, The Age, “Triple-zero crisis” 

Samantha Maiden, news.com.au, “Captain’s Pick” 

Anne Connolly, Stephanie Zillman and Ali Russell, ABC Four Corners, “State Control” 

Ruby Jones, Georgia Cranko, Erik Jensen and Elle Marsh, Schwartz Media, 7am, “The killing of Ann Marie Smith” 

Katri Uibu, ABC News, “Bad parent: Life at the hands of Australia’s child protection system” 

Anna Caldwell and the Daily Telegraph documentary team, The Daily Telegraph, “The War” 

Matt Liddy, ABC News, “The Australian election map has been lying to you” 

Mark Doman and Michael Slezak, ABC, “Using 3D techniques to tell immersive stories” (1, 2, 3)  

Anna Caldwell, The Daily Telegraph, “Need a rapid test? Play the Poms”, “Thor-assic Park”, “Return Serb” 

Simon Firth, News Corp Australia, “Oscars Slap”, “Packer sells Crown”, “Taking care of business” 

Patrick Lenton, The Conversation, “The explosive history of the 2,000-year-old Pompeii ‘masturbating’ man”, “Cardboardeaux, bag-in-box, and goon: why Australia’s love affair with boxed wine endures”, “Did everyone in Bridgerton have syphilis? Just how sexy would it really have been in Regency era London?” 

Chloe Hooper, The Monthly, “Goddamn bloody adult: Jacqui Lambie” 

Anna Krien, The Monthly, “A Shooting in Yuendumu” 

John van Tiggelen, The Monthly, “The Wash-up” 

Greg Bearup, The Weekend Australian Magazine, “The Parish Uprising” 

Peter Hartcher, The Sydney Morning Herald, “Radioactive: Inside the top-secret AUKUS subs deal” 

Will Swanton, The Australian, “The Babushka Smuggle” 

Brooke Fryer, Claire Aird, Sissy Reyes and Patrick Forrest, SBS, The Feed, “Vanished: The unsolved cases of First Nations women” 

Charlotte King and Carly Williams, ABC, Background Briefing, “The Fight for Control Over Black Births” 

Louise Milligan, Naomi Selvaratnam and Lauren Day, ABC TV, Four Corners, “Heart Failure” 

Sam Carmody, Anthony Pancia, Wayne Webb and Zac Webb, ABC, Background Briefing, ABC South West and Undalup Association, “The Ghosts Are Not Silent” 

Samantha Jonscher and Alex Barwick, ABC Alice Springs, “Gendered violence in Central Australia” 

Joanne Shoebridge, Julie Ray, Renata Gombac and Justine Frazier, ABC North Coast, “Northern Rivers flood catastrophe” 

Matt Golding, Nine Media, “Voice to Parliament” 

Fiona Katauskas, Australian Community Media, “Propertied” 

Mark Knight, Herald Sun, “Not everyone has to be Scott Morrison” 

Craig Butt and Concussion Project Team, The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, “Concussion in sport” 

Lorna Knowles, Nikki Tugwell and Clare Blumer, ABC, “Painful Past: the John Wright series”  

Jeremy Story Carter, ABC National Regional Reporting Team, “Death of a footy club” 

Robert Cianflone, Getty Images, “A Glamorous Job” 

Quinn Rooney, Getty Images, “Swimming World” 

Cameron Spencer, Getty Images, “Sport is Back!” 

Andrew Probyn and Matthew Doran, ABC, “The Macron-Morrison Spat” 

Sean Rubinsztein-Dunlop, ABC, “Ukraine war crimes” 

David Sparkes, ABC, “Northern NSW floods”  

Patrick Abboud and Simon Cunich, Audible / Amazon, “The Greatest Menace: Inside the Gay Prison Experiment” 

Alex Mann, Rachael Brown, Mahmood Fazal and the Background Briefing team, ABC Background Briefing, “What happened to the Saudi sisters?” 

Tom Steinfort and The Sydney Morning Herald and 60 Minutes team, Nine, “Liar Liar: Melissa Caddick and the Missing Millions” 

Patrick Abboud and Simon Cunich, Audible/ Amazon, “The Greatest Menace: Inside the Gay Prison Experiment” 

Mark Stehle and The Journey through Ukraine Team, The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, “6000km journey” 

Mark Willacy, Stephanie March, Josh Roberston and Kyle Taylor, ABC Four Corners, “Ghosts of Timor”  

Simon Benson, Geoff Chambers and Samantha Maiden, The Australian, “Ministry of Secrets” 

Kirsty Needham, Reuters, “China’s push for Pacific security deals” 

Bevan Shields, The Sydney Morning Herald, “‘I don’t think, I know’” 

Anthony Galloway and Kate Geraghty, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, “The invasion of Ukraine” 

Heath Gilmore and the Hell on High Water Team, The Sydney Morning Herald, “Hell on High Water” 

Chris Reason and Seven News Ukraine Team, Channel Seven, “Ukraine War” 

Stephen Dupont, Stephen Dupont Instagram and Facebook, “War in Ukraine” 

Natalie Grono, The Saturday Paper and Surfing World Magazine, “Peter takes a moment” 

Christopher Hopkins, The Age, “Day 1: Anti Lockdown” 

Sarah Danckert, The Age and TheSydney Morning Herald, “Secrets at Stake.com” 

Nick Evans and John Stensholt, The Australian, “Twiggy’s Green Dream” 

Nick McKenzie, Joel Tozer, Amelia Ballinger, Nine, 60 Minutes, “Star and the gambling industry’s reckoning” 

Matthew Abbott, National Geographic Magazine, “Saving forests with fire” 

Kate Geraghty, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, “Invasion of Ukraine – Civilian Impact” 

Andrew Quilty, Rolling Stone, “Return of the Taliban” 

Matthew Davis, ABC Foreign Correspondent, “Myanmar’s Forgotten War” and “Keep Hawaii Hawaiian” 

Ryan Grimshaw, NBN News and Nine Today Show/Nine News, “Ryan Grimshaw floods” 

Ryan Sheridan, ABC Four Corners, “Despair and Defiance” and “Feral” 

Carrie-Anne Greenbank, Nine Network, “The War in Ukraine” 

Chris Reason, Channel Seven, “Frontline in Ukraine” 

Sean Rubinsztein-Dunlop and Phil Hemingway, ABC, “Ukraine war coverage” 

Christine Ahern and Thea Dikeos, Nine Network, 60 Minutes, “Dying for Help” 

Lorna Knowles and Nikki Tugwell, ABC, 7.30, “Painful Past: the John Wright series” [1, 2, 3]  

Josh Robertson, Mark Willacy, Kyle Taylor and Echo Hiu, ABC, 7.30, “Fallen Star”  

Anne Connolly, Stephanie Zillman and Ali Russell, ABC, Four Corners, “State Control” 

Adele Ferguson, Klaus Toft and Lauren Day, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Four Corners, “Cosmetic Cowboys: The unregulated world of cosmetic surgery” 

Belinda Hawkins, Kristine Taylor and Roger Carter, ABC, Australian Story, “No Place Like Home” 

Adele Ferguson, Joel Tozer, Klaus Toft and Lauren Day, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, 60 Minutes, and Four Corners, “Cosmetic Surgery in Crisis” 

Nick McKenzie, Joel Tozer and Amelia Ballinger, Nine, “The downfall of the gaming industry” 

Hedley Thomas, David Murray, Isaac Irons, and Slade Gibson, The Australian, “Shandee’s Story” 

Nikki Gemmell, News Corp, The Weekend Australian “Election Aftermath”, “A Son’s Accident”, “The Untameable New Female” 

Erik Jensen, The Saturday Paper, “The Morrison editorials” (Because I said; The halfway man; Scott of the autarchic) 

Jacqueline Maley,The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, “When Power Shifts” (Morrison, a well-primed minister for everything; You deserve what you get: the Depp-Heard trial was the voice in every victim’s ear; I am one of the hordes turned sleepless by the pandemic) 

Christopher Kamen, Franklin, Rock Island Bend Productions 

Ben Lawrence and Gabriel Shipton, Ithaka, Shipton House and ABC 

Karl Malakunas, Delikado, Thoughtful Robot Productions 

Bronwyn Adcock, Currowan, Black Inc Books 

Van Badham, QAnon and On, Hardie Grant 

Anna Clark, Making Australian History, Penguin Random House 

Sean Kelly, The Game: A Portrait of Scott Morrison, Black Inc Books 

Louisa Lim, Indelible City, Text Publishing 

Nathan Lynch, The Lucky Laundry, HarperCollins 

Anthony Sharwood, The Brumby Wars, Hachette Australia 

Alexandra Smith, The Secret, Pan Macmillan Australia 

Andrew Quilty, August in Kabul, Melbourne University Publishing 

Brendan Esposito, ABC 

Christopher Hopkins, The Age and The Guardian 

Brook Mitchell, The Sydney Morning Herald