2004 Consensus IT Writers Awards
Award Results

Congratulations to Australia's best IT journalists  

The photo shows those who were still standing at the end of the gala dinner held at the Sheraton on the Park Sydney. Mr Douglas Wong Managing Director of Optima Technology Solutions - event sponsors (left) and Senator Kate Lundy, Shadow Minister for Information Technology (right).

 The Kester Cranswick Lifetime Achievement Award

Winners and Finalists

Beverley Head

The 2004 Kester Cranswick Lifetime Achievement Award goes very deservedly to Beverley Head, who has been writing about IT in Australia for longer than most of us (and she) cares to remember. Bev has always been a true professional, cutting her teeth on Fleet Street in the early 1980s before moving to Computerword Australia in 1986.

She has worked for many of the industry’s leading publications, and was for ten years the IT editor of the Australian Financial Review, where she was instrumental in turning that publication’s IT pages into the enormously respected section it is today. The IT section went daily while she was editor, and when she left in 1997 she was Features Editor for the entire publication.

In recent years Bev has worked on a freelance basis, allowing her more time to devote to her family. She continues to contribute to the AFR and other Fairfax publications, and was for some years a columnist in BRW. Rumours that she was the “junket queen” in the IT boom years of the mid 1990s are only partially true – she did go on those trips, but she worked very hard and always wrote the best stuff afterwards.

Graeme Philipson on behalf of the judging panel

Most Controversial

Most Entertaining

Best Feature

Best News

Best Investigative

Best Technical

Best Headline

Best Web-site

Best Editor

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Category Winners

Most Controversial

Winner

 Finalists

Ashton Mills

for

Time to act

All presentations made by Mr Douglas Wong Managing Director of Optima Technology Solutions - event sponsors and Senator Kate Lundy, Shadow Minister for Information Technology

William Maher

Weapons of Mass Restriction

Tim Dean

Apples and oranges

2004 Consensus IT Writers Awards

Most Entertaining

Winner

 Finalists

William Maher

for

101 Classic Computing Moments

Julian Bajkowski

RFID needs ‘forky’ toughness

John Davidson

Three Columns from the Australian Financial Review

2004 Consensus IT Writers Awards