Jane Caro

Jane Caro
AM
Caro at the 2010 Global Atheist Convention
Personal details
BornCatherine Jane Caro
(1957-06-24) 24 June 1957
London, England
PartyReason
SpouseRalph Dunning
Children2
Alma materMacquarie University (BA 1977)
Websitejanecaro.com.au

Catherine Jane Caro AM (born 24 June 1957), known as Jane Caro, is an Australian social commentator, writer, and lecturer.

Early life and education

Catherine Jane Caro[1] was born in London on 24 June 1957[2] and emigrated to Australia with her parents as a five-year-old in 1963.[3]

She attended Macquarie University, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with a major in English literature in 1977.[3]

Career

Caro started her career in marketing, but soon moved into advertising.[3][4] She has since worked for various broadcast media as a journalist and social commentator, and has written several books.[1]

She has appeared on Channel Seven's Sunrise, ABC television's Q&A and as a regular panellist on The Gruen Transfer.

Caro lectured in advertising at the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at University of Western Sydney.[5]

Politics

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.[6]

Caro stood as a Reason Party candidate for a New South Wales Australian Senate seat in the 2022 Australian federal election.[7]

Writing

Caro has written many articles for publications such as The Saturday Paper;[8] The Conversation;[9] The Guardian;[10] The Sydney Morning Herald;[11] the ABC;[12] and Online Opinion.[13]

She has also written many books.

Other activities

Caro has been on the boards of the NSW Public Education Foundation (2012)[14] and Bell Shakespeare (2020).[15]

She was a speaker at the 2014 Festival of Dangerous Ideas in Sydney.[16]

As of 2021 she was an ambassador for the National Secular Lobby.[17]

Awards and recognition

In 2018, Caro won the Women in Leadership Award in the 2018 Walkley Awards.[18]

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".[1]

In 2023 she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the B & T Women in Media Awards.[19]

Personal life

Caro is a feminist and atheist, and also a proponent of public education.[20][21]

She married Ralph Dunning,[22] and has two children.[23]

Publications

As author

  • ——; Bonnor, Chris (2007). The Stupid Country: How Australia Is Dismantling Public Education. ISBN 9781742246246.
  • ——; Fox, Catherine (2008). The F Word: How We Learned to Swear by Feminism. UNSW Press. ISBN 9780868408231.
  • —— (2011). Just a Girl. University of Queensland Press. ISBN 9780702238802.[24]
  • ——; Bonner, Chris (2012). What Makes a Good School?. New South Books. ISBN 9781742241418.
  • —— (2015). Just a Queen. Univ. of Queensland Press. ISBN 9780702253621.
  • —— (2015). Plain-Speaking Jane. Pan Macmillan Australia Pty, Limited. ISBN 9781743534847.
  • —— (2017). "Unbreakable": Women Share Stories of Resilience and Hope. University of Queensland Press. ISBN 9780702259678.[25]
  • —— (2018). Just Flesh and Blood. University of Queensland Press. ISBN 9780702260018.
  • —— (2019). Accidental Feminists. Melbourne University Press. ISBN 9780522872835.
  • —— (2022). The Mother. Allen & Unwin. ISBN 9781760879662.[26]
  • —— (2025). Lyrebird. Allen & Unwin. ISBN 9781761471537.[27]

As editor

  • Caro, Jane, ed. (2013). Destroying the Joint: Why Women Have to Change the World. University of Queensland Press. ISBN 9780702249907.[28]

As contributor

  • —— (2013). For God's Sake: An Atheist, a Jew, a Christian and a Muslim Debate Religion. Pan Macmillan Australia. ISBN 9781742612232.

References

  1. ^ a b c "Catherine Jane Caro". honours.pmc.gov.au. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
  2. ^ Who's Who in Australia. 2018 – via ConnectWeb.
  3. ^ a b c Dick, Tim (15 January 2011). "A rebel, generally speaking: Lunch with Jane Caro". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
  4. ^ Overington, Caroline (14 March 2011). "Ten Questions: Jane Caro". The Australian. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
  5. ^ Jane Caro, Staff directory, University of Western Sydney.
  6. ^ Davidson, Helen (21 October 2018). "Jane Caro poised to run against Tony Abbott in seat of Warringah". the Guardian. Retrieved 21 October 2018.
  7. ^ Curtis, Katina (24 February 2022). "'We're heading in precisely the wrong direction': Jane Caro chases Senate spot". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 24 February 2022.
  8. ^ Jane Caro on The Saturday Paper
  9. ^ Jane Caro on The Conversation
  10. ^ Jane Caro's articles on The Guardian
  11. ^ Jane Caro's articles in The Sydney Morning Herald
  12. ^ Jane Caro on The ABC
  13. ^ Jane Caro's articles on Online Opinion
  14. ^ Our People Archived 12 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine, Public Education Foundation
  15. ^ Staff & Board Archived 20 October 2020 at the Wayback Machine, Bell Shakespeare
  16. ^ "What I Couldn't Say". Archived from the original on 5 January 2015.
  17. ^ "Our Ambassadors - Jane Caro". National Secular Lobby. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  18. ^ "Winners announced for 2018 Walkley Mid-Year Awards". The Walkley Foundation. 18 July 2018. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
  19. ^ Geraghty, Sofia (25 August 2023). "The WINNERS Of B&T's Women In Media Awards Are HERE!". B&T. Retrieved 26 August 2023.
  20. ^ Jane Caro at Twitter.
  21. ^ CARO, Jane (26 January 2019). "Jane Caro". Twitter. Retrieved 27 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
  22. ^ Gregory, Helen (2 July 2011). "The Brains behind Jane". Newcastle Herald. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
  23. ^ Caro, Jane (29 September 2015). "Jane Caro reveals the devastation of miscarriage, and being fired while pregnant". Retrieved 14 February 2018.
  24. ^ "Just a Girl". University of Queensland Press. Retrieved 22 July 2023.
  25. ^ ""Unbreakable": Women Share Stories of Resilience and Hope". Penguin Books. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
  26. ^ "The Mother". Allen & Unwin. Retrieved 24 February 2022.
  27. ^ "Lyrebird". Allen & Unwin. Retrieved 5 April 2025.
  28. ^ "Destroying the Joint: Why Women Have to Change the World". University of Queensland Press. Retrieved 22 July 2023.
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