The Stupid Country: How Australia is Dismantling Public Education (co-authored with Chris Bonnor) (2007), ISBN 9781742246246.

Ĭaro stood as a Reason Party candidate for a New South Wales Australian Senate seat in the 2022 Australian federal election. 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 2018, Caro won the Women in Leadership Award in the 2018 Walkley Awards. 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. Ī proponent of public education, Caro is also a feminist and atheist. In Australia, Caro is represented by Wall Media management. She is on the boards of the NSW Public Education Foundation and Bell Shakespeare, and is an ambassador for the National Secular Lobby. Caro was a speaker at the 2014 Festival of Dangerous Ideas.

Caro has worked in the advertising industry and lectures in advertising at the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at University of Western Sydney. Ĭaro has appeared on Channel Seven's Sunrise, ABC television's Q&A and as a regular panellist on The Gruen Transfer. Working life Ĭaro started her career in marketing, however soon moved into advertising. She attended Macquarie University, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with a major in English literature in 1977. ( September 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Ĭatherine Jane Caro AM (born 24 June 1957) is a feminist social commentator, writer and lecturer based in Australia.Ĭaro was born in London in 1957 and emigrated to Australia with her parents as a five-year-old in 1963. Several templates and tools are available to assist in formatting, such as Reflinks ( documentation), reFill ( documentation) and Citation bot ( documentation). Please consider converting them to full citations to ensure the article remains verifiable and maintains a consistent citation style. This article uses bare URLs, which are uninformative and vulnerable to link rot.

The F Word by Jane Caro