This is a wonderful opportunity to connect with fellow Old Girls, parents and staff, and to hear from this year's remarkable award recipients. You will enjoy canapes and welcome drinks on the Terraces, followed by a sit down dinner and drinks.
We congratulate this year's winners:
2022 Young Past Student of Distinction | Grace Tobin
Grace Tobin ('05) is an investigative reporter at the ABC's premier current affairs program, Four Corners. She previously worked as a reporter at 7:30 and as a producer at Nine's 60 Minutes, where she travelled the world extensively on overseas assignments.
Grace is a two-time Walkley Award winner for excellence in journalism. In 2019, she produced a joint investigation with Nine Newspapers on Crown Casino, which sparked two Royal Commissions and the Bergin Inquiry in NSW and triggered a clear-out of the board. In 2017, she was recognised for the 60 Minutes story on the death of Matthew Leveson, subsequently authoring the true crime book Deal with the Devil, a first-hand account of the Leveson family’s ordeal throughout the four-year police reinvestigation of the case.
Grace completed a Bachelor of Journalism (QUT) and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism’s Summer Investigative Reporting course. Her journalism career began in regional Queensland as a crime and court reporter.
2022 Distinguished Past Student Award | Christine Wells
Christine Wells (Diehm, '91) is an award-winning, internationally bestselling author of 14 historical novels. Her books have been published by New York houses Penguin, HarperCollins and Macmillan, as well as Penguin (Australia), with more than 250,000 copies sold worldwide and translations in nine languages. Her new novel, One Woman's War, A Novel of the Real Miss Moneypenny, is out from HarperCollins (New York) in October 2022, and her next book, The Royal Windsor Orphan, will be published in 2023.
Christine was school captain in her final year at St Margaret’s. She then completed a Bachelor of Laws and became a solicitor specialising in corporate law at a city firm, while writing in her spare time. She was the first Australian to win the American Golden Heart Award for her debut novel, which was published by Penguin (New York).
Christine is also a writing teacher and mentor, helping people achieve their dreams of becoming published authors of commercial fiction.
Time:
Pre-dinner drinks and canapes at 6:30pm followed by dinner at 7:00pm (including awards and presentation)
Tickets:
Tickets: $79 (adult) and $55 (student). Tickets can be purchased by clicking the 'Register' button below.
Enquiries: Development and Community Office on (07) 3840 0768 or oga&alumni@stmargarets.qld.edu.au.