Guardian Australia has won the innovation award at the 63rd Walkley Awards.
Held in Brisbane, Australia, this week, the annual Walkley Awards honour excellence in journalism with stories that chronicle Australia’s history, people and events.
Guardian Australia won for its Deaths inside project, which tracked Indigenous deaths in custody since 2008. It showed that since the royal commission released its 339 recommendations in 1991, there have been 407 Indigenous deaths in custody.
“The numbers only tell part of the story,” said Lorena Allam, Guardian Australia’s Indigenous affairs editor. “We have worked with families and their representatives to tell the human stories behind these terrible numbers. This was a big undertaking; it took hundreds of hours to complete.”
The project’s reporting team – Lorena Allam, Calla Wahlquist, Nick Evershed, Helen Davidson, Jack Banister and Miles Herbert – spent months reading every coronial finding relating to an Indigenous death in custody. Developer Andy Ball and illustrator Charlotte Allingham were also recognised.
A full list of winners can be found here.
