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Published on: 11/5/2007
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Geoff Wilkinson
Geoff has been reporting on police and criminal justice matters for most of the past 35 years.
He has been chief police reporter and deputy chief of staff of The Sun News-Pictorial, chief of staff at GTV9 News, producer at A Current Affair and, since 1994, a senior writer for the Herald Sun.He was the first media director for Victoria Police, from 1981-89, and during that time was awarded a Churchill Fellowship, which enabled him to create the Crime Stoppers program in Australia in 1987.
He won the Melbourne Press Club's Quill Award for the best news story of 1995 for his work on the sensational departure of Finance Minister Ian Smith from state politics, and the Grant Hattam Award in 2000 for his coverage of the Beljajev saga - the longest, costliest and most complex case in Australian criminal history.He has been highly commended in the Quills three times in recent years for both news and investigative reporting.
Geoff won the Victoria Law Foundation award for consistent best news-breaking of legal stories in all media in 2000 and was the foundation's reporter of the year on legal issues in 2002 and 2006.He was named News Ltd specialist writer of the year at the 2006 News Awards.