O'Callaghan, Mary Louise

Mary Louise O'Callaghan is a journalist and commentator on regional Pacific affairs. She won a Gold Walkey Award in 1997 for her account of the contoversial Sandline Affair on Bougainville in Papua New Guinea. In the Solomon Islands she has been closely involved with the Winds of Change team, which is the name for Initiatives of Change in that country. Amongst other things she masterminded the communications strategy for their clean-election campaign in 2006. Mary Louise is originally from Melbourne, but she has lived for over two decades in the Solomon Islands.

Events

1980 -	Career in journalism active
1997	Walkley Award (Gold Walkley) - Gold Walkley, 'Papua New Guinea', The Australian - News Ltd
1997	Walkley Award (All Media) - International Reporting, 'Papua New Guinea', The Australian - News Ltd
2004	Walkley Award (Radio) - Radio Feature, Documentary or Broadcast Special, 'Solomon Island Series', Late Night Live, ABC Radio National (with Phillip Adams, Chris Bullock & Paul Gough

Award

• Walkley Awards (1956 - )

Australian Women Exhibitions

• The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html. [ Details... ]

Online Resources

• Kauli, Florence, 'Mary-Louise O'Callaghan: Honiara's 'natural' reporter', Wansolwara, 2002, http://www.usp.ac.fj/journ/docs/wansol/7102/7102louis.html. [ Details... ]