George Cockerill (1871 – 3 June 1943) was an Australian journalist and writer.
He was born in Bendigo, Victoria, and worked all his life as a journalist, starting on The Bendigo Independent then as Chief of Staff for the Ballarat Star before moving to the Melbourne Age where he covered the Federation campaign 1898–1901, and Federal Parliament 1901–10.
From 1929–39, when he retired because of ill health, he was chief of publicity for the Commonwealth Development and Migration Commission and also leader writer for the Melbourne Herald.
[4] George was married to Mary Ellen Cockerill (who died in 1949), with sons John Leo, Captain George Sampson Cockerill (died 1948) and Dr. John Edward Cockerill and daughters Marjorie Kavanagh and Bernadette, who was killed in an accident in 1941.
[5] He had many close friends in politics, notably William Morris Hughes and King O'Malley.