Editing Steve Waugh (section)

==Outside cricket==
Waugh helps to raise funds for a [[leper]] children's colony, Udayan, in [[Kolkata]]. He reportedly also encouraged his players to learn about and enjoy the countries they visited and played in.

Waugh is a keen photographer and has produced several "tour diaries" which feature his images. In his latter years as a cricketer, he wrote for a number of newspapers. He insists on writing them himself rather than with the assistance of professional journalists. He is a prolific author and has written numerous tour diaries,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://biblio.com.au/steve-waugh/author/121088 | title=Steve Waugh Books – Biography and List of Works – Author of 'Out of My Comfort Zone' }}</ref> leadership and self-help books such as ''Never Say Die'' and ''The Meaning of Luck''. as well as an autobiography, ''Out of my Comfort Zone''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Waugh |first1=Steve |title="The Meaning of Luck" – Stories of Learning, Leadership and Love |date=2013 |publisher=SteveWaughBooks |isbn=978-0-9875641-0-8}}</ref>

Waugh was named [[Australian of the Year]] in 2004,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2004/s1031962.htm |title=Waugh named Australian of the Year |access-date=19 July 2008 |publisher=[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]] |date=26 January 2004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041027060513/http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2004/s1031962.htm |archive-date=27 October 2004 |url-status=dead}}</ref> in recognition of both his sporting achievements and charity work. Waugh is married to Lynette with three children and was named [[Australian Father of the Year award|Australian Father of the Year]] in 2005. Following retirement, Waugh established the [http://www.stevewaughfoundation.com.au/ Steve Waugh Foundation]. The foundation is aimed at children who have a disease, an illness or an affliction that does not meet the set criteria of other charitable organisations.

Waugh has stated that he has declined "a number of" approaches by the [[Australian Labor Party]] to run for political office, expressing the view that he is not suited to politics.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2005/s1488982.htm|title=Steve Waugh declines invitation to join political fray|work=AM|publisher=[[ABC News (Australia)|ABC News]]|date=24 October 2005|access-date=23 October 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Durkin|first=Patrick|url=https://www.afr.com/news/politics/steve-waugh--celebs-should-stay-out-of-politics-20130821-jha0r|title=Steve Waugh – celebs should stay out of politics|newspaper=[[The Australian Financial Review]]|date=22 August 2013|access-date=23 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181023121751/https://www.afr.com/news/politics/steve-waugh--celebs-should-stay-out-of-politics-20130821-jha0r|archive-date=23 October 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>