John Hamilton
John Hamilton won the 2011 Melbourne Press Club Lifetime Achievement Award for a 50-year career at the West Australian, The Age and the Herald & Weekly Times.
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In the 1960s, Hamilton won Walkleys for his coverage of the Tasmanian bushfires and the disappearance of Harold Holt. He was a Washington correspondent in the 1970s and then became a special writer as well as a war historian and author.
He retired in 2011, having seen off 31 editors and editors-in-chief.
John Hamilton's acceptance speech at Quill Awards night