Guardian Australia has picked up four nominations in the 70th annual Walkley awards for excellence in journalism.

The Indigenous affairs team was nominated twice – in coverage of Indigenous affairs and digital media: innovation journalism – for The Descendants project.

The multi-part series, which built on Guardian Australia’s 2019 Walkley-award winning series The Killing Times , explored the deeply personal process of truth-telling about some of the most horrific incidents in Australia’s past, from both sides of the frontier.

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The team was led by Lorena Allam, Guardian Australia’s former editor of Indigenous Affairs, now industry professor at the Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research at UTS, as well as former Guardian Australia Ind

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