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A Companion to the Australian Media edited by Bridget Griffen-Foley

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March 2015, no. 369

A Companion to the Australian Media edited by Bridget Griffen-Foley

Australian Scholarly Publishing, $88 hb, 558 pp

Media

A Companion to the Australian Media edited by Bridget Griffen-Foley

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March 2015, no. 369

This impressive collection of knowledge ranges from the history of newspapers and the biographies of radio and television stars to the rise of media owners (the first of whom, Andrew Bent, arrived as a convict in 1812). It covers war reporting, food and sports coverage, children’s radio, blogging and podcasting, and even the life of the radio serial Blue Hills, which ran from 1949 to 1976.

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Geoffrey Blainey

Geoffrey Blainey, a practising historian for some sixty years, has written on Australian and world history. Long attracted to museums, he was deputy chairman of the Whitlam government's Enquiry into Museums and National Collections in 1974–75. Later, he served on the board of the Australian War Memorial for seven years. His book, The Causes of War (1973, 1988), is debated in military academies and in US universities.

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