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 Caro at the2010 Global Atheist Convention | |
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| Born | Catherine Jane Caro (1957-06-24)24 June 1957 (age 68) London, England |
| Party | Reason |
| Spouse | Ralph Dunning |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | Macquarie University (BA 1977) |
| Website | janecaro |
Catherine Jane CaroAM (born 24 June 1957), known as Jane Caro, is an Australiansocial commentator, writer, and lecturer.
Catherine Jane Caro[1] was born inLondon on 24 June 1957[2] and emigrated to Australia with her parents as a five-year-old in 1963.[3]
She attendedMacquarie University, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with a major inEnglish literature in 1977.[3]
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 onChannel Seven'sSunrise, ABC television'sQ&A and as a regular panellist onThe Gruen Transfer.[citation needed]
Caro lectured in advertising[when?] at the School of Humanities and Communication Arts atUniversity of Western Sydney.[when?][5][citation needed]
Caro had been tipped to run againstTony Abbott in the2019 Australian federal election, for his long-held Sydney seat in theAustralian House of Representatives, theDivision of Warringah, but instead publicly advocated voting for theAustralian Greens,Sarah Hanson-Young specifically.[6]
Caro stood as aReason Party candidate for a New South WalesAustralian Senate seat in the2022 Australian federal election.[7]
Caro has written many articles for publications such asThe Conversation;[8]The Guardian;[9]The Sydney Morning Herald;[10] theABC;[11] andOnline Opinion.[12]
She has also written many books.
Caro has been on the boards of theNSW Public Education Foundation (2012)[13] andBell Shakespeare (2020).[14]
She was a speaker at the 2014Festival of Dangerous Ideas in Sydney.[15]
As of 2021[update] she was an ambassador for theNational Secular Lobby.[16]
In 2018, Caro won the Women in Leadership Award in the 2018Walkley Awards.[17]
She was appointed aMember of the Order of Australia (AM) in the2019 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.[18]
Caro is afeminist andatheist, and also a proponent ofpublic education.[19][20]
She married Ralph Dunning,[21] and has two children.[22]
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
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