Rick Morton has been a journalist and writer for over 15 years. Rick’s specialties include coverage of key national affairs such as the National Disability Insurance Scheme, aged care policy and the Australian welfare system.
His first book, One Hundred Years of Dirt (Melbourne University Publishing, 2019) was shortlisted for the 2019 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards and the 2019 National Biography Award, longlisted for the 2018 Walkley Book of the Year, and longlisted for both Biography of the Year and the Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year at the 2019 Australian Book Industry Awards. He has since been a 3-time judge of the National Biography Award.
Morton is also the author of the extended essay On Money (Hachette, 2020).
His second book was the bestselling and critically acclaimed My Year of Living Vulnerably (Fourth Estate, 2021). He is the winner of the 2013 Kennedy Award for Young Journalist of the Year and the 2017 Kennedy Award for Outstanding Columnist.
He edited Growing up in Country Australia (Black Inc, 2022).
In 2019, Rick left The Australian where he worked as the social affairs writer with a particular focus on social policy and is now a senior reporter for The Saturday Paper.
His latest book about the robodebt scandal Mean Streak: a moral vacuum and a multi-billion-dollar government fraud has been commissioned for an ABC drama series. Rick won a Walkley Award for his coverage of the Robodebt Royal Commission.
Rick regularly appears on television (eg The Drum), radio and panels across both the ABC and commercial networks discussing politics, the media, writing and social policy.
He lives in Queensland. |
