Jane Caro Explained

Jane Caro
Party:Reason
Birth Name:Catherine Jane Caro
Birth Date:1957 6, df=yes
Birth Place:London, England
Spouse:Ralph Dunning[1]
Children:2[2]
Alma Mater:Macquarie University (BA 1977)

Catherine Jane Caro (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.[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

Edited works

Contribute

Book: Caro, Jane . For God's Sake: An Atheist, a Jew, a Christian and a Muslim Debate Religion . 2013 . 9781742612232 . 2.

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: The Brains behind Jane . Newcastle Herald . 2 July 2011 . 25 November 2014 . Gregory, Helen.
  2. News: Jane Caro reveals the devastation of miscarriage, and being fired while pregnant . 29 September 2015 . Jane . Caro . 14 February 2018.
  3. Book: Who's Who in Australia . 2018 . ConnectWeb.
  4. News: A rebel, generally speaking: Lunch with Jane Caro . The Sydney Morning Herald . 15 January 2011 . 25 November 2014 . Dick, Tim.
  5. News: Ten Questions: Jane Caro . The Australian . 14 March 2011 . 26 November 2014 . Caroline Overington. Overington. Caroline.
  6. http://www.uws.edu.au/hca/school_of_humanities_and_communication_arts/key_people/academic_staff_directory/jane_caro2 Jane Caro
  7. Web site: What I Couldn't Say . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150105133149/http://aaw.sydneyoperahouse.com/events/couldnt-say . 5 January 2015 .
  8. http://www.publiceducationfoundation.org.au/ourpeople.htm Our People
  9. http://www.bellshakespeare.com.au/about/staff Staff & Board
  10. Web site: Our Ambassadors - Jane Caro. National Secular Lobby. 26 July 2021.
  11. http://wallmedia.com.au/jane-caro/ Jane Caro
  12. https://twitter.com/JaneCaro Jane Caro
  13. Web site: CARO . Jane . Jane Caro . Twitter . 27 January 2019 . 26 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.
  14. Web site: Jane Caro poised to run against Tony Abbott in seat of Warringah. Davidson. Helen. 21 October 2018. the Guardian. en. 21 October 2018.
  15. News: Curtis . Katina . 24 February 2022 . 'We're heading in precisely the wrong direction': Jane Caro chases Senate spot . The Sydney Morning Herald . 24 February 2022.
  16. Web site: 18 July 2018 . Winners announced for 2018 Walkley Mid-Year Awards . 18 February 2019 . The Walkley Foundation.
  17. Web site: Catherine Jane Caro . 9 June 2019 . honours.pmc.gov.au.
  18. Web site: Geraghty . Sofia . 2023-08-25 . The WINNERS Of B&T's Women In Media Awards Are HERE! . 2023-08-26 . B&T . en-US.
  19. Web site: Just a Girl . 2023-07-22 . University of Queensland Press.
  20. Web site: "Unbreakable": Women Share Stories of Resilience and Hope . 23 July 2017 . Penguin Books.
  21. Web site: The Mother . 24 February 2022 . Allen & Unwin.
  22. Web site: Destroying the Joint: Why Women Have to Change the World . 2023-07-22 . University of Queensland Press.

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