Marian Wilkinson

In the 1980s, Wilkinson joined the staff of the National Times, which was edited by Brian Toohey and saw her work alongside reporters like David Marr, Colleen Ryan and Wendy Bacon.

[7] Wilkinson became the National Times' Washington Correspondent, and from there joined the ABC, where she started working on the network's flagship current affairs program.

In 2002, she moved back to writing duties, being appointed the Washington correspondent for the paper, also filing for sister title The Age.

[12] In 2009, when the paper's environment editor, she won the Eureka Prize for Environmental Journalism for The Tipping Point, a report on the melting of the arctic sea ice.

[3] In 2016, she was nominated for a Walkley Award for her work as the ABC's lead reporter on the Panama Papers.