10 Facts About Jane Caro

Catherine Jane Caro was born on 24 June 1957 and is a feminist social commentator, writer and lecturer based in Australia.

Jane Caro attended Macquarie University, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with a major in English literature in 1977.

Jane Caro started her career in marketing, however soon moved into advertising.

Jane Caro has worked in the advertising industry and lectures in advertising at the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at University of Western Sydney.

Jane Caro was a speaker at the 2014 Festival of Dangerous Ideas.

Jane Caro is on the boards of the NSW Public Education Foundation and Bell Shakespeare, and is an ambassador for the National Secular Lobby.

Jane 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.

Jane Caro stood as a Reason Party candidate for a New South Wales Australian Senate seat in the 2022 Australian federal election.

In 2018, Jane Caro won the Women in Leadership Award in the 2018 Walkley Awards.

Jane Caro 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".