Wendy Bacon

Who is Wendy Bacon?

Professor Wendy Bacon is an Australian academic and investigative journalist who now heads the Journalism Program at the University of Technology, Sydney. She was awarded Australian journalism's highest prize, a Walkley Award in 1984 for her articles about police corruption in New South Wales.

Wendy Bacon is the daughter of a doctor and the sister of the late former Premier of Tasmania, Jim Bacon. Educated at the Presbyterian Ladies' College, she attended the University of Melbourne in the mid-1960s where she was active in the anti-Vietnam War campaign.