Awards

Estelle is the recipient of:

Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for community service through investigative journalism (2002)
Walkley Award for the most outstanding contribution to journalism (2001)
Perth Press Club Award for sustained excellence in journalism (1999)
Western Australlia’s Clarion Award for the greatest contribution to journalism (1999)
Western Australlian Premier’s Award for non-fiction (1999)
Crime Writers’ Association of Australia’s Ned Kelly Award for Best True Crime (2001)
Churchill Fellowship to research organizations supporting the wrongfully convicted (2007)

She was one of LotteryWest/Scoop Magazine’s twenty-five most inspirational Australians (2003); won the Magazine Publishers’ Association Story of the Year (2002) and was the Inaugural Brownes Yoghurt Woman of the Year (2005).



			Awards Estelle is the recipient of: Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for community service through investigative journalism (2002) Walkley Award for the most outstanding contribution to journalism (2001) Perth Press Club Award for sustained excellence in journalism (1999) Western Australlia’s Clarion Award for the greatest contribution to journalism (1999) Western Australlian Premier’s Award for non-fiction (1999) Crime Writers’ Association of Australia’s Ned Kelly Award for Best True Crime (2001) Churchill Fellowship to research organizations supporting the wrongfully convicted (2007) She was one of LotteryWest/Scoop Magazine’s twenty-five most inspirational Australians (2003); won the Magazine Publishers’ Association Story of the Year (2002) and was the Inaugural Brownes Yoghurt Woman of the Year (2005).