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Marian Wilkinson, Australia, is the former deputy editor and national affairs editor of the country's largest daily newspaper, The Sydney Morning Herald.

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She began her journalism career in public radio and at the national weekly paper, The National Times, where she reported on politics, organized crime, and corruption. After eight years with the Times – two of which were spent as a foreign correspondent in Washington, D.C. – Wilkinson joined Four Corners, Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s award-winning investigative news television program. In 1990, she became executive producer of Four Corners. Wilkinson is the author of the 1995 book The Fixer: the untold story of Graham Richardson, about a leading Australian senator, who was the principal political fundraiser for the ruling Labor Party. Wilkinson has won the Walkley Award, Australia’s top journalism prize, and the Logie Award for Australian television reporting. She is currently the Washington correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald.