Rick Morton
Rick Morton is the author of four non-fiction books and a two-time Walkley Award winner. Mean Streak is his latest book.
BottomRick Morton is the author of four non-fiction books and a two-time Walkley Award winner. Mean Streak is his latest book.
BottomRick Morton is the author of four non-fiction books, including the critically-acclaimed bestseller One Hundred Years of Dirt, which was long listed for the Walkley Book of the Year 2018 and shortlisted for the National Biography Award (NBA) 2019. He has since been a three-time judge of the NBA. Rick is the senior reporter with The Saturday Paper and a two-time Walkley Award winner for his coverage of the Robodebt Royal Commission. He documented this saga in his latest work, Mean Streak, a book about the illegal and fake debt trap set by the Australian government, bureaucratic harm and the fight to put people back into policy. He lives in Queensland.
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