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| | Australian Walkley Awards: Rewards for services rendered |
 | | Apart from a couple of media union officials and one or two representatives from the government-owned Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the Special Broadcasting Service, the overwhelming majority of the judges are senior officers and journalists from the Murdoch, Packer and Fairfax empires. |
 | | Established in 1956 by Sir William Gaston Walkley, the founder of Ampol Petroleum, the 35 prizewinners are determined according to a two-stage process involving three-member panels for each category, with the final decision made by a 12-member Advisory Board. |
 | | Australias Walkley Awards, the annual trophy night for excellence in the media, have always, therefore, been incestuous, cynical and toadying affairs. |
| www.wsws.org /articles/2001/dec2001/walk-d07_prn.shtml (1200 words) |
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