Shelley Gare
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Shelley Gare is a Walkley award-winning Australian freelance journalist, editor and author. She has held some of Australia's most senior magazine editor positions including editor of both Good Weekend and Sunday Life.
, metaphysician and environmental philosopher.
Her family moved from Carnarvon to Geraldton then to Perth with her father's employment and Shelley was educated in Perth then trained as a cadet journalist on The Daily News there. She moved to Sydney and in her early 20s and became editor of Cleo magazine.
She moved to London to work for Australian Consolidated Press's Fleet St bureau, then as deputy editor on Company magazine and finally as deputy editor on the Look section of The Sunday Times, returning to Australia in 1986, where, after working as an assistant editor on The Herald in Melbourne, and then as editor of Good Weekend, she eventually became the first woman deputy editor appointed to The Australian
newspaper. Gare was responsible for all newspaper features. She was also a consultant editor on the start-up of WHO magazine.
Gare was a founding editor of The Australian’s Review of Books, now called "The Australian Literary Review
", for which she won a Walkley Award, a recognition of excellence in journalism. She is now a freelance journalist and regular contributor to a variety of publications.
Early life and career
Gare was born Helen Shelley Gare in Carnarvon, Western Australia in 1952, the fourth and youngest child of public servant Frank Ellis Gare (Commissioner for Native Welfare for the State of Western Australia) and artist and novelist Nene Gare. Her brother is Arran GareArran Gare
Arran Gare is an Australian philosopher known mainly for his work in environmental philosophy, philosophy of culture and the metaphysics of process philosophy...
, metaphysician and environmental philosopher.
Her family moved from Carnarvon to Geraldton then to Perth with her father's employment and Shelley was educated in Perth then trained as a cadet journalist on The Daily News there. She moved to Sydney and in her early 20s and became editor of Cleo magazine.
She moved to London to work for Australian Consolidated Press's Fleet St bureau, then as deputy editor on Company magazine and finally as deputy editor on the Look section of The Sunday Times, returning to Australia in 1986, where, after working as an assistant editor on The Herald in Melbourne, and then as editor of Good Weekend, she eventually became the first woman deputy editor appointed to The Australian
The Australian
The Australian is a broadsheet newspaper published in Australia from Monday to Saturday each week since 14 July 1964. The editor in chief is Chris Mitchell, the editor is Clive Mathieson and the 'editor-at-large' is Paul Kelly....
newspaper. Gare was responsible for all newspaper features. She was also a consultant editor on the start-up of WHO magazine.
Gare was a founding editor of The Australian’s Review of Books, now called "The Australian Literary Review
Australian Literary Review
The Australian Literary Review was a monthly supplement to The Australian newspaper established in September 2006 and published on the first Wednesday of each month. It was considered to be a continuation of The Australian's Review of Books, which was a supplement published between 1996 and 2001...
", for which she won a Walkley Award, a recognition of excellence in journalism. She is now a freelance journalist and regular contributor to a variety of publications.
Articles
- Death by Silence in the Writers' Combat Zone, July 2010, No. 36, Quadrant (magazine)Quadrant (magazine)Quadrant is an Australian literary and cultural journal. The magazine takes a conservative position on political and social issues, describing itself as sceptical of 'unthinking Leftism, or political correctness, and its "smelly little orthodoxies"'. Quadrant reviews literature, as well as...
- E-types reign in a rude new world, Dec 14 2009 National Times
- Making Trouble, August 2010The MonthlyThe MonthlyThe Monthly is an Australian national magazine of politics, society and the arts, which is published eleven times per year on a monthly basis except the December/January issue. Founded in 2005, it is published by Melbourne property developer Morry Schwartz...