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# Jane Caro - feminist, public school advocate, & writer
- URL: https://katecarruthers.com/jane-caro/
- Published: 2021-03-23T22:27:52.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-03T13:31:26.000Z
- Author: Kate Carruthers
- Tags: feminism, ideas, podcast, women, Writer, #wp, #Import 2026-10-03 23:30

This time our guest is the delightfully feisty and articulate [Jane Caro](http://wallmedia.com.au/jane-caro/?ref=katecarruthers.com). We had a fascinating discussion that ranged across issues from how to be your authentic self to why women should not burn it all down right now.

> The common thread running through her career is a delight in words and a talent for using them to connect with other people. Today she runs her own communications consultancy.  
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> She has published nine books; “The Stupid Country: How Australia is Dismantling Public Education” co-authored with Chris Bonnor (New South 2007), “The F Word. How we learned to swear by feminism” co-authored with Catherine Fox (New South, 2008) “Just a Girl” her first novel (UQP, 2011) and “What Makes a Good School?” co-authored with Chris Bonnor (New South, 2012).  
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> Her book “For God’s Sake! An atheist, Christian, Jew and Muslim battle it out” co-authored with Antony Lowenstein, Simon Smart and Rachel Woodlock, was published in 2013 by Pan MacMillan.“Just a Queen” (UOP) was published in May 2017 and “plain-speaking jane” and “Just Flesh and Blood” were published in 2018\. In February 2019 she published “Accidental Feminists” (MUP).  
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> Jane is sought after as a speaker, MC and workshop facilitator by a wide range of organisations, in both the public and private sectors. She has created, written, presented and co-produced for ABC Radio and Television. She is a weekly regular on Channel 7 Weekend Sunrise and Mornings on Channel 9.  
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> Jane has appeared frequently on ABC’s Q&A, Sunrise, The Project, The Drum \*(See her below) and Playbox. She has also been a regular panellist on the ABC’s top-rating show on advertising “The Gruen Transfer.” She is a regular on radio and has filled in as host for RN’s iconic “Life Matters”. She remains in high demand by advertising agencies as a freelance writer and her advertising work has won many national and international advertising awards including Cannes, AWARD, London International, ATV, Asia Pacific, One Show, Mobius, Kinsale, and Caxton.  
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> She is the only woman to have been Chair of Judges of AWARD (Australasian Writers and Art Directors Association) and both Adelaide and Brisbane Art Directors Awards. She has a BA in English Literature from Macquarie University. She writes a regular column in Mt Magazine and contributes articles and oped’s regularly to The SMH, The Drum, The Conversation, Mamamia and New Matilda.  
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> In July 2018 Jane was awarded the Walkley Award for Women in Leadership.  
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> Jane mentors young business people through McCarthy Mentoring. She is on the Boards of Bell Shakespeare and the NSW Public Education Foundation. She is also the mother of two daughters, a wife, a beef producer and a timber grower.   
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> **J**ane was awarded an AM in June 2018 for significant service to the broadcast media as a journalist, social commentator and author.