Guardian Australia has won two mid-year Walkley awards for excellence in journalism for reporter Fleur Connick’s series on rural water quality and contributor Anna Verney’s investigation that found a Miles Franklin-nominated novelist had plagiarised parts of his book.
Connick, a reporter for Guardian Australia’s rural and regional network, won the short-form journalism award for her three stories on how poor water quality in the Murray-Darling River was leading to mass animal and fish kills.
