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Australian feminist writer
Catherine Jane Caro
AM (born 24 June 1957)
[3] is a
feminist
social commentator , writer and lecturer based in Australia.
Early life and education
Caro was born in London in 1957 and emigrated to Australia with her parents as a five-year-old in 1963. She attended
Macquarie University , where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with a major in
English literature in 1977.
[4]
Working life
Caro started her career in marketing, however soon moved into advertising.
[4]
[5]
Caro has appeared on
Channel Seven 's
Sunrise , ABC television's
Q&A and as a regular panellist on
The Gruen Transfer . Caro has worked in the advertising industry and lectures in advertising at the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at
University of Western Sydney .
[6] Caro was a speaker at the 2014
Festival of Dangerous Ideas .
[7]
She is on the boards of the
NSW Public Education Foundation
[8] and
Bell Shakespeare ,
[9] and is an ambassador for the
National Secular Lobby .
[10]
In Australia, Caro is represented by Wall Media management.
[11]
A proponent of
public education , Caro is also a
feminist and
atheist .
[12]
[13] Caro had been tipped to run against
Tony Abbott in the 2019 Australian federal election, for his long-held Sydney seat in the Australian
House of Representatives , the
Division of Warringah , but instead publicly advocated voting for the
Australian Greens ,
Sarah Hanson-Young specifically.
[14]
Caro stood as a
Reason Party candidate for a New South Wales
Australian Senate seat in the
2022 Australian federal election .
[15]
Awards and recognition
In 2018, Caro won the Women in Leadership Award in the 2018
Walkley Awards .
[16] She was appointed a
Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the
2019 Queen's Birthday Honours in recognition of her "significant service to the broadcast media as a journalist, social commentator and author".
[17] In 2023 she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the B & T Women in Media Awards.
[18]
Publications
The Stupid Country: How Australia is Dismantling Public Education (co-authored with Chris Bonnor) (2007),
ISBN
9781742246246
The F Word. How we learned to swear by feminism (co-authored with
Catherine Fox ) (2008),
ISBN
9780868408231
Just a Girl (2011),
[19]
ISBN
9780702238802
Chris Bonner & Jane Caro, What makes a good school? , New South Books (2012),
ISBN
9781742241418
Contributor to For God's sake: An Atheist, A Jew, A Christian and a Muslim debate religion (2013),
ISBN
9781742612232
Editor of Destroying the Joint: Why women have to change the world (2013),
[20]
ISBN
9780702249907
Just a Queen (2015), sequel to Just a Girl ,
ISBN
9780702253621
Plain-speaking Jane , biography and memoirs (2015),
ISBN
9781743534847
"Unbreakable" Women Share Stories of Resilience and Hope (2017),
[21]
ISBN
9780702259678
Just Flesh and Blood (2018),
ISBN
9780702260018
Accidental Feminists (2019),
ISBN
9780522872835
The Mother (2022),
[22]
ISBN
9781760879662
References
^ Gregory, Helen (2 July 2011).
"The Brains behind Jane" . Newcastle Herald . Retrieved 25 November 2014 .
^ Caro, Jane (29 September 2015).
"Jane Caro reveals the devastation of miscarriage, and being fired while pregnant" . Retrieved 14 February 2018 .
^ Who's Who in Australia . ConnectWeb. 2018.
^
a
b Dick, Tim (15 January 2011).
"A rebel, generally speaking: Lunch with Jane Caro" . The Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 25 November 2014 .
^
Overington, Caroline (14 March 2011).
"Ten Questions: Jane Caro" . The Australian . Retrieved 26 November 2014 .
^
Jane Caro , University of Western Sydney
^
"What I Couldn't Say" . Archived from
the original on 5 January 2015.
^
Our People
Archived 12 April 2012 at the
Wayback Machine , Public Education Foundation
^
Staff & Board
Archived 20 October 2020 at the
Wayback Machine , Bell Shakespeare
^
"Our Ambassadors - Jane Caro" . National Secular Lobby . Retrieved 26 July 2021 .
^
Jane Caro at Wall Media.
^
Jane Caro at Twitter.
^ CARO, Jane (26 January 2019).
"Jane Caro" . Twitter . Retrieved 27 January 2019 . I am third generation atheist (at least) on my father's side. Devout Methodist on my mothers, though she is now more of an atheist than my father who calls himself agnostic
^ Davidson, Helen (21 October 2018).
"Jane Caro poised to run against Tony Abbott in seat of Warringah" . the Guardian . Retrieved 21 October 2018 .
^ Curtis, Katina (24 February 2022).
" 'We're heading in precisely the wrong direction': Jane Caro chases Senate spot" . The Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 24 February 2022 .
^
"Winners announced for 2018 Walkley Mid-Year Awards" . The Walkley Foundation . 18 July 2018. Retrieved 18 February 2019 .
^
"Catherine Jane Caro" . honours.pmc.gov.au . Retrieved 9 June 2019 .
^ Geraghty, Sofia (25 August 2023).
"The WINNERS Of B&T's Women In Media Awards Are HERE!" . B&T . Retrieved 26 August 2023 .
^ Caro, Jane (2011).
Just a Girl . University of Queensland Press.
ISBN
9780702238802 . Retrieved 22 July 2023 .
^ Caro, Jane (2013).
Destroying the Joint: Why Women Have to Change the World . University of Queensland Press.
ISBN
9780702249907 . Retrieved 22 July 2023 .
^
"Unbreakable Women Share Stories of Resilience and Hope" . Penguin Books. 17 July 2017. Retrieved 23 July 2017 .
^
"The Mother" . Allen & Unwin . Retrieved 24 February 2022 .
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