Jane Caro

Catherine Jane Caro and emigrated to Australia with her parents as a five-year-old in 1963. ==Career==

Caro started her career in marketing, but soon moved into advertising. She has since worked for various broadcast media as a journalist and social commentator, and has written several books. ==Politics==

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

Caro has written many articles for publications such as The Saturday Paper; The Conversation; The Guardian; The Sydney Morning Herald; the ABC; and Online Opinion. She has also written many books. ==Other activities==

Caro has been on the boards of the NSW Public Education Foundation (2012) and Bell Shakespeare (2020). She was a speaker at the 2014 Festival of Dangerous Ideas in Sydney. she was an ambassador for the National Secular Lobby. == Awards and recognition ==

In 2018, Caro won the Women in Leadership Award in the 2018 Walkley Awards. 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". In 2023 she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the B & T Women in Media Awards. ==Personal life==

Caro is a feminist and atheist, and also a proponent of public education. She married Ralph Dunning, and has two children. ==Publications==

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