Rick Morton is the author of four non-fiction books, including the critically-acclaimed bestseller One Hundred Years of Dirt which was long listed for the Walkley Book of the Year 2018 and shortlisted for the National Biography Award (NBA) 2019.

He has since been a three-time judge of the NBA. Rick is the senior reporter with The Saturday Paper and 2 x Walkley Award winner for his coverage of the Robodebt Royal Commission. His latest book, Mean Streak, is about this illegal and fake debt trap set by the Australian government, bureaucratic harm and the fight to put people back into policy. Mean Streak won three major literary prizes in 2025, including the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction and the Walkley Book of the Year award. It was shortlisted for two others.

From Queensland, he now lives in Paris where he continues to work on his writing and as a journalist specialising in policy and government decision-making that affects human beings.

Morton is also the author of My Year of Living Vulnerably (Fourth Estate, 2021) and the extended essay On Money (Hachette, 2020) and editor of the collection of essays Growing Up in Country Australia (Black Inc. 2022).