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  Successful radical advocacy journalism: Direct Action
  The origins of Wantok niuspepa
  On a roller-coaster with Maxwell Newton Publications 1968-1974: Leaks, police raids, the government and the press gallery
  Public Affairs in the Australian Public Service: More than a flash in the pan
  Andrew Bent and the birth of the free press in the Australian colonies
  “This is the people’s golden day… dedicated to national enjoyment”: The contribution of Anniversary Day press coverage in mid-nineteenth century New South Wales to the development of national consciousness
  The industrial politics of cold type: Towards a trans-national perspective on News Limited
  The ebb and flow of the Tasman mediasphere: A century of Australian and New Zealand print media development, 1840–1940
  On getting one’s hands dirty: Journalism, immorality and the public interest
  The ABC’s digital transformations: a continuing (hi)story
  The fable and necessity of the “free” press
  Frustrating globalisation: The battle over international communications between the wars
  The emergence of talkback radio as a political tool
  Before the Parrot: The “news commentator” on Australian commercial radio
  “A vibrant, oppositional culture”: The media and Australian political culture, 1880–1910
  Bodyline: The test series and the mini-series in Australian media, politics and history
  When media histories collide: Researching the development of print media in Australia and New Zealand, 1840–1940
  The toxic triangle of interdependency: The Australian media, defence forces and government before, during and after the 2003 Iraq war
  The role of the Spanish press in multicultural Australia
  Looking good? The appearance of Australian daily newspapers’ front pages over the years
  Bombs, “reds under the bed”, and the media: The Menzies Government’s manipulation of public opinion, 1949–1957
  Speaking secrets: How are untellable stories told?
  The use of independent media as a means of creating teenage cultural change in Australia during the late 1960s and early 1970s
  Can the children’s television industry in Australia sustain itself without government support?
  The regional daily unafraid to stand alone
  Lost in the wilderness? Celebrities, political conflict and the news
  Australian cartoonists’ caricatures of women politicians: From Kirner to Stott-Despoja
  The cultural cold war in the media
  Imagining the heights: Media, mountains and the Australian wilderness
  The “secret power” of David Syme: Strategies behind the late nineteenth-century dominance of the Melbourne daily Age
  Re-evaluating Alan Morehead
  Liberal allies: Robert Menzies and The Age in the 1920s and ’30s
  Political journalism in Australia
  The Labour movement, America, and broadcasting in Britain from Beveridge to Pilkington, 1949–62
  Covering Gallipoli: A New Zealand war correspondent in the age of empires
  ABC bias: A recent history
  The role of Reuters in the distribution of propaganda news in Australia during World War I
  “Lord Southcliffe” and the Prime Minister: A re-examination of Keith Murdoch in the 1930s
  Where’s the writer? Revisiting John Bryson’s Evil Angels
  Australia’s journalist politicians
  And its ghost may be heard – Matilda: A case of defamation and demise
  Nobody heard his cries: The New York Times’s coverage of two key incidents in the “Chicago eight” trial
  Andrew Fisher and the media
  “Our mob…against the Comms”: Osmar White reports the Colombo Plan
  “It’s perfectly obvious that the Commonwealth is after this man.” The press and the prosecution of W. F. Burns for criminal sedition
  Indian media and Hindutva: Reshaping the debate post-2004 Indian elections
  Media reporting of government advertising in Australia