Ben Hills is an award winning author /journalist

Walkey Award winner
Ben won this Walkley Award -- Australia’s equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize -- in 1991 for investigative journalism. Among other awards, he was “highly commended” in the Graham Perkin Award for Australian journalist of the year. More recently his book Breaking News -- the Golden Age of Graham Perkin won an Alex Buzo Prize for excellence in research, was long-listed for the Walkley Awards and short-listed for the 2010 awards by the Prime Minister and the Premiers of NSW and WA.

Princess Masako
The Tragic True Story of Japan's Crown Princess A brilliant woman sacrifices her career to marry a love-struck prince. Inevitably, the fairy-story turns to tragedy when Masako...
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Blue Murder
A long time ago in the wild north-west of Australia a prospector stumbled across a seam of one of the world's rarest minerals, blue asbestos. He pegged a claim, dug...
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Breaking News – The Golden Age of Graham Perkin
Ben's new book, Breaking News -- the Golden Age of Graham Perkin -- won an Alex Buzo prize for authors short-listed for...
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Japan Behind the Lines
It was the most eventful three years in Japan in half a century. Between 1993 and 1996, when Ben was based there as correspondent for the Fairfax papers the...
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The Islands of the Ancients
In the middle of the Mediterranean Sea lies a small, remote rocky island which for millennia has been the battleground for the competing empires of...
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Alex Buzo Prize
Breaking News won the Alex Buzo prize for books shortlisted for the 2010 Nib award, sponsored by the Copyright Agency Ltd and Waverley Council. There were 159 entries, including books by Tom Keneally, Peter Carey, Ross Fitzgerald and Barry Humphries. Congratulations to Andrew Tink for winning the award (and $20,000) for his new biography of William Charles Wentworth.
Link to the Shortlist ('The Nib ' - CAL Waverley Library Award for Literature)
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Walkley Book Award
Breaking News was one of nine books long-listed for the 2010 Walkley Awards out of 58 entries.Congratulations to the three shortlisted authors: Paul Kelly for The March of the Patriots: The Struggle for Modern Australia, Chris Hammer for The River: A Journey Through the Murray-Darling Basin and Shirley Shackleton for The Circle of Silence: A Personal Testimony Before, During and After Balibo.
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Ben spent more than 30 years working for Australiaʼs two leading broadsheets, The Age in Melbourne and the Sydney Morning Herald. He was a correspondent for both papers in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s covering respectively Africa and the Middle East, East Asia and Japan.
In Australia he was best-known for his hard-hitting investigative journalism which ranged from exposing the Loans Affair -- which led to the downfall of the Whitlam Government -- to exposes of the asbestos industry, the Exxon corporation, quack medicine, genetically modified food and a famous Sydney murder mystery.
Many of his articles are posted on this website.

