Åsa Wahlquist

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Åsa Wahlquist is an Australian journalist. For twenty years she has been writing and speaking on rural issues, focusing mainly on Australian climate and water issues. She currently works as the rural writer for the newspaper The Australian.

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In 1996 Wahlquist won a Walkley Award for a three part series, published in Australian newspaper The Land, called The Gutting of NSW. In 2005 she won the Peter Hunt Eureka Prize for Environmental Journalism; in 1993 The European Community Journalist Award, and several Dalgety Awards and McKell awards for rural journalism.