Louise Milligan
Louise Milligan is an investigative reporter for the ABC TV Four Corners program. She covered the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Abuse. Her exclusive stories for the ABC TV 7.30 program on the allegations against George Pell won her two Quill Awards from the Melbourne Press Club, including the Gold Quill for best story of the year, the highest honour in Victorian journalism. For this book, in 2017 she was awarded the Walkley Book Award and the Sir Owen Dixon Chambers Law Reporter of the Year Award. In 2018 Milligan was shortlisted for the Australian Book Industry Awards Small Publishers’ Adult Book of the Year, Highly Commended in the Non-Fiction category for the Davitt Awards and won the Civic Choice Award for the Melbourne Prize for Literature. Milligan is Irish-born and was raised a devoted Catholic.
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- MUP at the Brisbane Writers Festival 2018
Join MUP authors Louise Milligan, Joelle Gergis, Nikki Gemmell, Gareth Evans, Amanda Dunn, Ellen Broad, and more at the Brisbane Writers Festival this September.
- Byron Writers Festival 2018, with Louise Milligan, Gillian Triggs, Jenny Hocking and so many more!
Louise Milligan, Gillian Triggs, Jenny Hocking, Joëlle Gergis on climate change ... a great selection of MUP authors will be speaking at Byron Writers Festival this year, 3 – 5 August.
- Cardinal, Whiteley on Trial and Baby Lost longlisted for the Davitt Awards 2018
Australian women crime writing was winning global acclaim. Three MUP titles have been long listed for the award for best crime writing by women.
- Cardinal wins the 2017 Walkley Book of the Year
MUP congratulates Louise Milligan for winning the 2017 Walkley Book of the Year
- MUP statement about Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of George Pell
MUP is taking all reasonable measures to withdraw Cardinal: the Rise and Fall of George Pell by Louise Milligan from sale in Victoria now that Cardinal Pell has been charged.
- Cardinal – an update
It’s been two weeks since we launched Louise Milligan’s exceptional book of investigative journalism – Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of George Pell. Since then the response has been incredible.
- A message about Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of George Pell
This book is not a biography but an examination of a man through the lens of the child abuse scandal in his Church.