Jane Caro


Catherine Jane Caro is a feminist social commentator, writer and lecturer based in Australia.

Early life and education

Caro was born in London in 1957 and emigrated to Australia with her parents as a five-year-old in 1963. She attended Macquarie University, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with a major in English literature in 1977.

Working life

Caro, following her father's lead, started her career in marketing, however soon moved into advertising.
Caro has appeared on Channel Seven's Sunrise, ABC television's Q&A and as a regular panellist on The Gruen Transfer. Caro has worked in the advertising industry and lectures in advertising at the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at University of Western Sydney. Caro was a speaker at the 2014 Festival of Dangerous Ideas.
She is on the boards of the NSW Public Education Foundation and Bell Shakespeare.
In Australia, Caro is represented by Wall Media management.
A strong proponent of public education, Caro is also a feminist and atheist. Caro had been tipped to run against Tony Abbott in the 2019 Australian federal election, for his long-held Sydney seat in the Australian House of Representatives, the Division of Warringah, but instead publicly advocated voting for the Australian Greens, Sarah Hanson-Young specifically.
In 2018, Caro won the Women in Leadership Award in the 2018 Walkley Awards. She was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours in recognition of her "significant service to the broadcast media as a journalist, social commentator and author".

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