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 Caro at the 2010 Global Atheist Convention | |
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| Born | Catherine Jane Caro 24 June 1957 London, England |
| Political party | Reason |
| Spouse | Ralph Dunning [1] |
| Children | 2 [2] |
| Alma mater | Macquarie University (BA 1977) |
| Website | janecaro.com.au |
Catherine Jane Caro AM (born 24 June 1957) [3] is a feminist social commentator, writer and lecturer based in Australia.
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]
Caro started her career in marketing, however soon moved into advertising. [4] [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]
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]
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