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→2020 ABC article: Tighten prose. I feel this info might be best put in a different article, though; Willacy may have authored the article but it also passed editorial review. Will check how much the sources criticize Willacy specifically
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Boldly removing this section. The sources don’t give Willacy much weight in the sloppy reporting, but ABC as a whole. Per WP:BLPRESTORE I request any reverters open a TP discussion first
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Willacy's third book, ''Rogue Forces,'' was published by [[Simon and Schuster]] in August 2021.<ref>{{cite web |title=Rogue Forces |url=https://www.simonandschuster.com.au/books/Rogue-Forces/Mark-Willacy/9781761101786 |publisher=Simon and Schuster. |access-date=21 November 2021 |language=en |date=18 August 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Kelly |first1=Fran |title=New book reveals details of alleged war crimes by Australian forces in Afghanistan |url=https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/new-book-alleged-war-crimes-afghanistan-sas/13502196 |access-date=28 August 2021 |work=[[Radio National]] |publisher=[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]] |date=19 August 2021 |language=en-AU}}</ref> The book describes alleged Australian Special Forces war crimes in Afghanistan, self-described as an insider account of alleged unlawful killings and cover-ups by [[Special Air Service Regiment|SAS]] patrols. It was published shortly after the official [[Brereton Report]] in 2020 which investigated these and other allegations made against Australian forces in Afghanistan.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Doran |first1=Matthew |title=SAS soldiers made to shoot prisoners to get their first kill, 39 Afghans 'murdered', inquiry finds |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-19/afghanistan-war-crimes-report-igadf-paul-brereton-released/12896234 |access-date=29 August 2021 |work=www.abc.net.au |agency=ABC News |date=19 November 2020 |language=en-AU}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author1=Inspector General of the Australian Defence Force |title=Afghanistan Inquiry Report |url=https://afghanistaninquiry.defence.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-11/IGADF-Afghanistan-Inquiry-Public-Release-Version.pdf |publisher=Commonwealth of Australia |access-date=29 August 2021 |date=2020 |issn=2207-6069}}</ref> It was shortlisted for the Douglas Stewart Prize for Nonfiction at the 2022 [[New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards]].<ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=2022-04-05 |title=NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2022 shortlists announced |url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2022/04/05/212651/nsw-premiers-literary-awards-2022-shortlists-announced/ |access-date=2022-04-05 |website=Books+Publishing |language=en-AU}}</ref>
Willacy's third book, ''Rogue Forces,'' was published by [[Simon and Schuster]] in August 2021.<ref>{{cite web |title=Rogue Forces |url=https://www.simonandschuster.com.au/books/Rogue-Forces/Mark-Willacy/9781761101786 |publisher=Simon and Schuster. |access-date=21 November 2021 |language=en |date=18 August 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Kelly |first1=Fran |title=New book reveals details of alleged war crimes by Australian forces in Afghanistan |url=https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/new-book-alleged-war-crimes-afghanistan-sas/13502196 |access-date=28 August 2021 |work=[[Radio National]] |publisher=[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]] |date=19 August 2021 |language=en-AU}}</ref> The book describes alleged Australian Special Forces war crimes in Afghanistan, self-described as an insider account of alleged unlawful killings and cover-ups by [[Special Air Service Regiment|SAS]] patrols. It was published shortly after the official [[Brereton Report]] in 2020 which investigated these and other allegations made against Australian forces in Afghanistan.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Doran |first1=Matthew |title=SAS soldiers made to shoot prisoners to get their first kill, 39 Afghans 'murdered', inquiry finds |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-19/afghanistan-war-crimes-report-igadf-paul-brereton-released/12896234 |access-date=29 August 2021 |work=www.abc.net.au |agency=ABC News |date=19 November 2020 |language=en-AU}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author1=Inspector General of the Australian Defence Force |title=Afghanistan Inquiry Report |url=https://afghanistaninquiry.defence.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-11/IGADF-Afghanistan-Inquiry-Public-Release-Version.pdf |publisher=Commonwealth of Australia |access-date=29 August 2021 |date=2020 |issn=2207-6069}}</ref> It was shortlisted for the Douglas Stewart Prize for Nonfiction at the 2022 [[New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards]].<ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=2022-04-05 |title=NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2022 shortlists announced |url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2022/04/05/212651/nsw-premiers-literary-awards-2022-shortlists-announced/ |access-date=2022-04-05 |website=Books+Publishing |language=en-AU}}</ref>

===2020 ABC article===
In October 2020, Willacy co-authored an ABC article that alleged in 2012 commandos from [[2nd Commando Regiment (Australia)|2nd Commando Regiment]] (2 Cdo Regt) had killed an Afghan prisoner after a [[United States Marine Corps|US Marine]] helicopter crew member told them that there was no room for him on board the helicopter.<ref name="ABCOct2020">{{cite news |author1=Mark Willacy |author2=Alexandra Blucher |author3=Dan Oakes |title=Australian soldiers killed prisoner because he could not fit on aircraft, American marine says |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-21/soldiers-killed-man-who-could-not-fit-on-aircraft-says-us-marine/12782756 |access-date=14 November 2021 |work=[[ABC News (Australia)|ABC News]] |publisher=[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]] |date=21 October 2020 |language=en-AU}}</ref> The article separately alleged that the US [[Drug Enforcement Administration]] would not operate with November platoon from 2 Cdo Regt.<ref name="ABCOct2020"/><ref name="ABCReview"/> Following a complaint an ABC internal review found that readers could have misinterpreted that the November platoon was alleged to have killed the prisoner.<ref name="ABCReview">{{cite web |author1=Audience and Consumer Affairs |title=Audience and Consumer Affairs Report on ABC Investigations story about Australian Special Forces in Afghanistan |url=https://about.abc.net.au/audience-and-consumer-affairs-report-on-abc-investigations-story-about-australian-special-forces-in-afghanistan/ |website=[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]] |access-date=19 October 2022 |date=29 March 2022}}</ref> The ABC added a clarification that the two parts were separate.<ref name="ABCOct2020"/><ref name="ABCReview"/><ref>{{cite news |last1=Fordham |first1=Ben |title=EXCLUSIVE {{!}} ABC apologises over sloppy war crimes reporting |url=https://www.2gb.com/exclusive-abc-apologises-over-sloppy-war-crimes-reporting/ |access-date=11 October 2022 |work=[[2GB]] |publisher=[[Nine Entertainment]] |date=29 March 2022 |language=en}}</ref> The commander of November platoon at the time [[Heston Russell]] has said the unlawful killing never happened.<ref>{{cite web |author=Peter van Olsen |title=Australian Army Commando Hits Back At Allegations Of Misconduct In Afghanistan |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dewC14D9vmQ |website=YouTube |publisher=[[The Project (Australian TV program)|The Project]] |date=1 November 2020 |access-date=14 November 2021 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Letter to the ABC |url=https://vsf.org.au/abc |website=Veteran Support Force |access-date=24 November 2021 |date=25 October 2021}}</ref>


==See also==
==See also==

Revision as of 16:48, 19 October 2022

Mark Willacy (born 1972) is an Australian investigative journalist for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). He along with ABC Investigations-Four Corners Team won the 2020 Gold Walkley for their special report on Killing Field, which covered alleged Australian war crimes.[1] He has been awarded six other minor Walkley awards and two Queensland Clarion Awards for Queensland Journalist of the Year.[2] Willacy is currently based in Brisbane, and was previously a correspondent in the Middle East and North Asia.[3] He is the author of three books.

Early life

Mark Willacy was born in 1972 in Lae, Papua New Guinea. [citation needed]

Career

Willacy was a Middle East region correspondent based in Jerusalem from 2002 until 2006. He covered the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and spent 93 days in and around Iraq reporting on the 2003 Iraq war with cameraman Louie Eroglu.[4] During his posting, he interviewed Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, and Hamas political leader Khaled Meshaal.[citation needed]

From 2008 until 2013, he was then a North Asia region correspondent based in Tokyo where he covered the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, and Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. He also reported from the Korean peninsula and had an exclusive interview in 2013 with former North Korean agent Kim Hyon-hui who is known for the bombing of Korean Air Flight 858.[5]

Awards

Willacy has won an Australian Walkley Award seven times for his journalism.[6] This includes awards for coverage of the Iraq War in 2003, the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami and Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in 2011, Australian environmental contamination in 2015 (with producer Mark Solomons), a Four Corners report into the Tham Luang cave rescue, and for an investigation with producer Alexandra Blucher into local government corruption.[7]

In 2010, he was awarded local Queensland Clarion Awards' Journalist of the Year for his investigation into the Mindanao massacre in the Philippines,[8] and again in 2019, for his Four Corners investigation into children being locked up in adult watch houses.[2]

Willacy was awarded a Eureka Prize in 2011 for Environmental Journalism in reporting of alleged systemic corruption inside Japan's scientific whaling program.[9]

In 2019, Willacy was part of the Four Corners team that won the Logie Award for Most Outstanding News Coverage or Public Affairs Report for their Thai cave rescue story.[10] In 2020, Willacy and the ABC Investigations-Four Corners Team were awarded the Gold Walkley and the Investigative Journalism Walkley for reporting alleged war crimes by Australian Special forces in Afghanistan and broadcasting helmet camera footage showing the apparent unlawful killing of an unarmed Afghan man.[1] He also won Scoop of the Year at the 2020 NSW Kennedy Awards for the same story.[11]

In 2021, Mark Willacy and Rory Callinan, on behalf of ABC News Online, were awarded a Queensland Clarion Award for Investigative Journalism.[2]

Writing

In 2007, Willacy wrote his first published book about his experiences covering the conflict in the Middle East, entitled The View From the Valley of Hell, published by Pan Macmillan.[12]

Willacy's second book Fukushima: Japan's Tsunami and the Inside Story of the Nuclear Meltdowns, on the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami disaster, was published in 2013.[13] Fukushima was long-listed for the 2013 Walkley Book Award.[14]

Willacy's third book, Rogue Forces, was published by Simon and Schuster in August 2021.[15][16] The book describes alleged Australian Special Forces war crimes in Afghanistan, self-described as an insider account of alleged unlawful killings and cover-ups by SAS patrols. It was published shortly after the official Brereton Report in 2020 which investigated these and other allegations made against Australian forces in Afghanistan.[17][18] It was shortlisted for the Douglas Stewart Prize for Nonfiction at the 2022 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards.[19]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "ABC's "Killing Field" wins the 2020 Gold Walkley Award". The Walkley Foundation. 20 November 2020. Retrieved 29 August 2021.
  2. ^ a b c "Queensland Clarion Awards". MEAA. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
  3. ^ "Mark Willacy". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 20 January 2009. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
  4. ^ Willacy, Mark (30 June 2006). "Mark Willacy looks back on his time in Jerusalem". AM. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
  5. ^ Willacy, Mark (10 April 2013). "North Korean Super Spy". The 7.30 Report. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
  6. ^ "Walkley Winners Archive". The Walkley Foundation. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
  7. ^ WalkleyMag (22 November 2018). "Hit podcast The Teacher's Pet wins the 2018 Gold Walkley Award". The Walkley Foundation. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
  8. ^ Willacy, Mark (6 April 2010). "Philippines - Pet Monsters". Foreign Correspondent. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
  9. ^ Willacy, Mark (10 June 2010). "Japanese Whaling accused of corruption". Foreign Correspondent. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
  10. ^ Idato, Michael (30 June 2019). "ABC, Ten win big, Tom Gleeson takes gold at Logie Awards". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
  11. ^ "The NRMA Kennedy Awards – Excellence in Journalism". Retrieved 26 November 2020.
  12. ^ Bruce Elder; reviewer (20 August 2007). "The View from the Valley of Hell". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
  13. ^ Fensom, Anthony (27 July 2013). "Incredible stories that should not be forgotten". The Japan Times. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
  14. ^ "Walkley Book Award". The Walkley Foundation. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
  15. ^ "Rogue Forces". Simon and Schuster. 18 August 2021. Retrieved 21 November 2021.
  16. ^ Kelly, Fran (19 August 2021). "New book reveals details of alleged war crimes by Australian forces in Afghanistan". Radio National. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
  17. ^ Doran, Matthew (19 November 2020). "SAS soldiers made to shoot prisoners to get their first kill, 39 Afghans 'murdered', inquiry finds". www.abc.net.au. ABC News. Retrieved 29 August 2021.
  18. ^ Inspector General of the Australian Defence Force (2020). "Afghanistan Inquiry Report" (PDF). Commonwealth of Australia. ISSN 2207-6069. Retrieved 29 August 2021.
  19. ^ "NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2022 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 5 April 2022. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
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