Each year, the Melbourne Press Club honours a journalist whose career has left an extraordinary mark on Victorian and Australian journalism.
Jon Faine has been awarded the 2022 Lifetime Achievement award
Caroline Wilson has been awarded the 2021 Lifetime Achievement award
Colin Duck has been awarded the 2020 Lifetime Achievement award
Sports commentator Bruce McAvaney received the MPC 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award
Barrie Cassidy used his LTAA speech to celebrate his colleagues, advocate for a more compassionate journalism and announce his retirement
About the 2017 MPC Lifetime Achievement award
The 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Niki Savva.
Mike Sheahan was the winner of the Melbourne Press Club Lifetime Achiever Award in 2015.
The 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award was awarded to Derryn Hinch.
Mal Walden was the 2013 Melbourne Press Club Lifetime Achievement Award winner.
Dulcie Boling won the 2012 Melbourne Press Club Lifetime Achievement Award.
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.
Geoff Wilkinson of the Herald Sun won the 2010 Melbourne Press Club Lifetime Achievement Award.
Bruce Petty was the winner of the 2009 Melbourne Press Club Lifetime Achievement Award.
Geoff Hook and William Ellis Green (WEG) were the joint winners of the 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award.
Michelle Grattan and Laurie Oakes were the joint winners of the 2007 Melbourne Press Club Lifetime Achievement Award.
Bruce Postle and John Lamb were the joint winners of the 2006 Melbourne Press Club Lifetime Achievement Award.
John Fitzgerald, a former editor of The Herald, won the 2005 Melbourne Press Club Lifetime Achievement Award.
Les Carlyon was the 2004 Melbourne Press Club Lifetime Achievement Award winner.
Claude Forell was the 2003 Melbourne Press Club Lifetime Achievement Award winner.
Harry Gordon was the 2002 Melbourne Press Club Lifetime Achievement Award winner.
John Sorell was the 2001 Melbourne Press Club Lifetime Achievement of the Year winner.
Peter Game was the 2000 Melbourne Press Club Lifetime Achievement Award winner.
Les Tanner was the winner of the 1999 Melbourne Press Club Lifetime Achievement Award.
Peter McFarline was the 1998 Melbourne Press Club Lifetime Achievement Award winner.
Keith Dunstan was the 1995 Lifetime Achievement Award winner.
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