FAIRFAX dominated the print category at the Walkley Awards held in Brisbane last night, which recognises the best in Australian journalism.

The highest accolade - the Gold Walkley award - went to Sarah Ferguson, Michael Doyle and Anne Worthington for their expose on animal cruelty in Australia's live cattle export trade for the ABC's Four Corners.

A photograph from Glenn Campbell's award-winning essay of Arnhem Land elders reburying ancestral bones, which had been held by the Smithsonian Institution in the US for 60 years.

Their report, A Bloody Business, aired in May and led to the government placing a temporary ban on live exports until new, tighter regulations were put in place.