Estelle Blackburn

Estelle Blackburn has been a newspaper journalist for The West Australian, a radio and television journalist for the ABC and a publicist for two police ministers and a premier. A chance social meeting with a convicted killer’s brother started a six year search for the facts about the death of Rosemary Anderson. In 2001 Estelle added the prestigious Walkley for Most Outstanding Contribution to Journalism to her ever-increasing list of awards for her book Broken Lives. Previously Broken Lives won the1999 West Australian Premier’s Award for Historical and Critical Studies and the Ned Kelly Award for true crime. Estelle lives in Perth, Western Australia.

Estelle's investigative journalism has won her many awards:

Awards for Estelle and Broken Lives

2003 Lottery West/Scoop Magazine oneof 25 Most Inspirational Western Australians (WA) 

2002 Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for community service through investigative journalism

2002 Magazine Publishers’ Associationfor Story of the Year

2001 Walkley Award for the most outstanding contribution to journalism

2001 Ned Kelly Award for Best TrueCrime Book

1999 Perth Press Club Award forsustained excellence in journalism

1999 WA Premier’s Book Award for Historical and Critical Studies