Jane Caro
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Personal details | |
Born | Catherine Jane Caro (1957-06-24) 24 June 1957 (age 67) London, England |
Political party | Reason |
Spouse | Ralph Dunning[1] |
Children | 2[2] |
Alma mater | Macquarie University (BA 1977) |
Website | janecaro.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
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
- ——; Bonnor, Chris (2007). The Stupid Country: How Australia Is Dismantling Public Education. ISBN 9781742246246.
- ——; Fox, Catherine (2008). The F Word: How We Learned to Swear by Feminism. ISBN 9780868408231.
- —— (2011). Just a Girl. University of Queensland Press. ISBN 9780702238802.[19]
- ——; Bonner, Chris (2012). What Makes a Good School?. New South Books. ISBN 9781742241418.
- —— (2015). Just a Queen. ISBN 9780702253621.
- —— (2015). Plain-Speaking Jane. ISBN 9781743534847.
- —— (2017). "Unbreakable": Women Share Stories of Resilience and Hope. ISBN 9780702259678.[20]
- —— (2018). Just Flesh and Blood. ISBN 9780702260018.
- —— (2019). Accidental Feminists. ISBN 9780522872835.
- —— (2022). The Mother. ISBN 9781760879662.[21]
Edited works
- Caro, Jane, ed. (2013). Destroying the Joint: Why Women Have to Change the World. University of Queensland Press. ISBN 9780702249907.[22]
Contribute
—— (2013). For God's Sake: An Atheist, a Jew, a Christian and a Muslim Debate Religion. ISBN 9781742612232.
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.
- ^ "Just a Girl". University of Queensland Press. Retrieved 22 July 2023.
- ^ ""Unbreakable": Women Share Stories of Resilience and Hope". Penguin Books. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
- ^ "The Mother". Allen & Unwin. Retrieved 24 February 2022.
- ^ "Destroying the Joint: Why Women Have to Change the World". University of Queensland Press. Retrieved 22 July 2023.
External links
- Official website
- Jane Caro on The Conversation
- Jane Caro's articles on The Guardian
- Jane Caro's articles on Online Opinion
- Jane Caro's articles in The Sydney Morning Herald
- Jane Caro on The ABC