Biography:Jane Caro

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Short description: Australian feminist writer

Jane Caro

AM
Jane Caro.jpg
Caro at the 2010 Global Atheist Convention
Born
Catherine Jane Caro

(1957-06-24) 24 June 1957 (age 66)
London, England
Alma materMacquarie University (BA 1977)
Spouse(s)Ralph Dunning[1]
Children2[2]
Websitejanecaro.com.au

Catherine Jane Caro AM (born 24 June 1957)[3] is a feminist social commentator, writer and lecturer based in Australia.

Early life and education

Caro was born in London in 1957 and emigrated to Australia with her parents as a five-year-old in 1963. She attended Macquarie University, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with a major in English literature in 1977.[4]

Working life

Caro started her career in marketing, however soon moved into advertising.[4][5]

Caro has appeared on Channel Seven's Sunrise, ABC television's Q&A and as a regular panellist on The Gruen Transfer. Caro has worked in the advertising industry and lectures in advertising at the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at University of Western Sydney.[6] Caro was a speaker at the 2014 Festival of Dangerous Ideas.[7]

She is on the boards of the NSW Public Education Foundation[8] and Bell Shakespeare,[9] and is an ambassador for the National Secular Lobby.[10]

In Australia, Caro is represented by Wall Media management.[11]

A proponent of public education, Caro is also a feminist and atheist.[12][13] Caro had been tipped to run against Tony Abbott in the 2019 Australian federal election, for his long-held Sydney seat in the Australian House of Representatives, the Division of Warringah, but instead publicly advocated voting for the Australian Greens, Sarah Hanson-Young specifically.[14]

In 2018, Caro won the Women in Leadership Award in the 2018 Walkley Awards.[15] She was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours in recognition of her "significant service to the broadcast media as a journalist, social commentator and author".[16]

Caro stood as a Reason Party candidate for a New South Wales Australian Senate seat in the 2022 Australian federal election.[17]

Publications

  • The Stupid Country: How Australia is Dismantling Public Education (co-authored with Chris Bonnor) (2007), ISBN:9781742246246
  • The F Word. How we learned to swear by feminism (co-authored with Catherine Fox) (2008), ISBN:9780868408231
  • Just a Girl (2011),[18] ISBN:9780702238802
  • Chris Bonner & Jane Caro, What makes a good school?, New South Books (2012), ISBN:9781742241418
  • Contributor to For God's sake: An Atheist, A Jew, A Christian and a Muslim debate religion (2013), ISBN:9781742612232
  • Editor of Destroying the Joint: Why women have to change the world (2013),[19] ISBN:9780702249907
  • Just a Queen (2015), sequel to Just a Girl, ISBN:9780702253621
  • Plain-speaking Jane, biography and memoirs (2015), ISBN:9781743534847
  • "Unbreakable" Women Share Stories of Resilience and Hope (2017),[20] ISBN: 9780702259678
  • Just Flesh and Blood (2018), ISBN:9780702260018
  • Accidental Feminists (2019), ISBN:9780522872835
  • The Mother (2022),[21] ISBN:9781760879662

References

  1. ↑ Gregory, Helen (2 July 2011). "The Brains behind Jane". Newcastle Herald. http://newsstore.fairfax.com.au/apps/viewDocument.ac?page=1&sy=nstore&docID=NCH1107021S5SD4HUC1I. Retrieved 25 November 2014. 
  2. ↑ Caro, Jane (29 September 2015). "Jane Caro reveals the devastation of miscarriage, and being fired while pregnant". http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/jane-caro-reveals-the-devastation-of-miscarriage-and-being-fired-while-pregnant/news-story/8442dfe7ad379838a01730dfd7c7c6cb. Retrieved 14 February 2018. 
  3. ↑ Who's Who in Australia. ConnectWeb. 2018. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Dick, Tim (15 January 2011). "A rebel, generally speaking: Lunch with Jane Caro". The Sydney Morning Herald. http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/a-rebel-generally-speaking-lunch-with-jane-caro-20110114-19r9m.html#ixzz3K5u8QwFJ. Retrieved 25 November 2014. 
  5. ↑ Overington, Caroline (14 March 2011). "Ten Questions: Jane Caro". The Australian. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/media/ten-questions-jane-caro/story-e6frg996-1226021058238. Retrieved 26 November 2014. 
  6. ↑ Jane Caro, University of Western Sydney
  7. ↑ "What I Couldn't Say". Archived from the original on 5 January 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150105133149/http://aaw.sydneyoperahouse.com/events/couldnt-say. 
  8. ↑ Our People, Public Education Foundation
  9. ↑ Staff & Board, Bell Shakespeare
  10. ↑ "Our Ambassadors - Jane Caro". https://www.nsl.org.au/about/our-ambassadors/jane-caro/. Retrieved 26 July 2021. 
  11. ↑ Jane Caro at Wall Media.
  12. ↑ Jane Caro at Twitter.
  13. ↑ CARO, Jane (26 January 2019). "Jane Caro". https://twitter.com/JaneCaro/status/1089076772497289217. Retrieved 27 January 2019. "I am third generation atheist (at least) on my father’s side. Devout Methodist on my mothers, though she is now more of an atheist than my father who calls himself agnostic" 
  14. ↑ Davidson, Helen (21 October 2018). "Jane Caro poised to run against Tony Abbott in seat of Warringah" (in en). https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/oct/21/jane-caro-poised-to-run-against-tony-abbott-in-seat-of-warringah. 
  15. ↑ "Winners announced for 2018 Walkley Mid-Year Awards". 18 July 2018. http://www.walkleys.com/winners-announced-for-2018-walkley-mid-year-awards/. Retrieved 18 February 2019. 
  16. ↑ "Catherine Jane Caro". https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/2004587. 
  17. ↑ Curtis, Katina (24 February 2022). "'We're heading in precisely the wrong direction': Jane Caro chases Senate spot". The Sydney Morning Herald. https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/we-re-heading-in-precisely-the-wrong-direction-jane-caro-chases-senate-spot-20220223-p59yul.html. 
  18. ↑ http://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/Book.aspx/1131/Just%20a%20Girl
  19. ↑ http://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/Book.aspx/1248/Destroying%20the%20Joint-%20Why%20Women%20Have%20to%20Change%20the%20World
  20. ↑ "Unbreakable Women Share Stories of Resilience and Hope". Penguin Books. 17 July 2017. https://penguin.com.au/books/unbreakable-women-share-stories-of-resilience-and-hope-9780702259678. 
  21. ↑ "The Mother". https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/books/fiction/The-Mother-Jane-Caro-9781760879662. 

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