Jane Caro

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Jane Caro
AM
Caro at the 2010 Global Atheist Convention
Personal details
Born
Catherine Jane Caro

(1957-06-24) 24 June 1957 (age 66)
London, England
Political partyReason
SpouseRalph Dunning[1]
Children2[2]
Alma materMacquarie University (BA 1977)
Websitejanecaro.com.au

Catherine Jane Caro AM (born 24 June 1957)[3] is a feminist social commentator, writer and lecturer based in Australia.

Early life and education[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

  • 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[edit]

  1. ^ Gregory, Helen (2 July 2011). "The Brains behind Jane". Newcastle Herald. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
  2. ^ Caro, Jane (29 September 2015). "Jane Caro reveals the devastation of miscarriage, and being fired while pregnant". Retrieved 14 February 2018.
  3. ^ Who's Who in Australia. ConnectWeb. 2018.
  4. ^ a b Dick, Tim (15 January 2011). "A rebel, generally speaking: Lunch with Jane Caro". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
  5. ^ Overington, Caroline (14 March 2011). "Ten Questions: Jane Caro". The Australian. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
  6. ^ Jane Caro, University of Western Sydney
  7. ^ "What I Couldn't Say". Archived from the original on 5 January 2015.
  8. ^ Our People Archived 12 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine, Public Education Foundation
  9. ^ Staff & Board Archived 20 October 2020 at the Wayback Machine, Bell Shakespeare
  10. ^ "Our Ambassadors - Jane Caro". National Secular Lobby. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  11. ^ Jane Caro at Wall Media.
  12. ^ Jane Caro at Twitter.
  13. ^ 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
  14. ^ Davidson, Helen (21 October 2018). "Jane Caro poised to run against Tony Abbott in seat of Warringah". the Guardian. Retrieved 21 October 2018.
  15. ^ 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.
  16. ^ "Winners announced for 2018 Walkley Mid-Year Awards". The Walkley Foundation. 18 July 2018. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
  17. ^ "Catherine Jane Caro". honours.pmc.gov.au. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
  18. ^ Geraghty, Sofia (25 August 2023). "The WINNERS Of B&T's Women In Media Awards Are HERE!". B&T. Retrieved 26 August 2023.
  19. ^ Caro, Jane (2011). Just a Girl. University of Queensland Press. ISBN 9780702238802. Retrieved 22 July 2023.
  20. ^ Caro, Jane (2013). Destroying the Joint: Why Women Have to Change the World. University of Queensland Press. ISBN 9780702249907. Retrieved 22 July 2023.
  21. ^ "Unbreakable Women Share Stories of Resilience and Hope". Penguin Books. 17 July 2017. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
  22. ^ "The Mother". Allen & Unwin. Retrieved 24 February 2022.

External links[edit]

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