Australian Story Special Edition and Claire Goes to College: Ella Ebery and Claire Cooper (1996– ) watch online HD

At the end of 2000 Ella Ebery beat off droves of much younger rivals to clinch a major national journalism prize, the Shakespeare Award for excellence in editorial writing in country newspapers. Canberra Times editor Jack Waterford was the judge and he describes her winning entry as "quite staggering". It was only after the prize had been awarded that Waterford learned Ella was approaching ninety and very much a "driving force" in her small community. Australian Story profiles the remarkable Ella who only started her journalistic career at the age of sixty. She has also served as the local mayor. The program discovered a warm, funny and feisty woman who has had to deal with more than her fair share of hardship and loss. But over the course of nearly a century, she has always managed to stay in the vanguard of change and provide leadership for everyone around her.