Caroline Overington
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Caroline Overington is an Australian journalist and author of "Only in New York: How I took Manhattan (with the kids)" (ISBN 978-1-74114-961-6), published by Allen & Unwin in 2006.[1]
Born in May 1970, she moved to New York in 2002, to become a foreign correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
Together with Malcolm Knox, she won a Walkley Award for investigative journalism in 2004 for their "Norma Khouri Investigation".[2]
She contributed a chapter to the best-selling Come Away With Me (Random House) in 2005.
Overington's second book, "Kickback", is a crime thriller, based on her coverage of the AWB scandal. It tells how hundreds of millions of dollars was sent from Australia's wheat exporter, AWB Ltd, to the brutal regime of Saddam Hussein in the lead-up to the 2003 Iraq war.
Kickback will be published in 2007.
