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A/Professor Bridget Griffen-Foley was interviewed by filmmaker Brendan Young for You Only Live Twice, about four generations of the Hughes family, ABC1 TV, 18 February 2010.

A/Professor Bridget Griffen-Foley was interviewed for a column about FM radio, Sunday Telegraph magazine, 10 January 2010.

A/Professor Bridget Griffen-Foley’s Party Games: Australian Politicians and the Media from War to Dismissal, was quoted in an article about politicians’ media strategies, Weekend Australian, 9 January 2010.

A/Professor Bridget Griffen-Foley was interviewed for a profile of the Albert family in the Australian Financial Review magazine, 4 December 2009.

A/Professor Bridget Griffen-Foley’s Sydney Institute lecture, ‘“Dial-in democracy”?: Forty years of talkback, from Andrea to Kyle’, was podcast and filmed by A-PAC, Sky TV, 2 December 2009. An edited version of the talk was published in the Weekend Australian, 6-7 February 2010.

A/Professor Bridget Griffen-Foley was interviewed about Changing Stations: The Story of Australian Commercial Radio on: Drive with Mike Welsh, 2CC Canberra, 3 November 2009; Connections with Ross Clifford, 2CH, 8 November 2009; Nightline with Graham Mabury, 6PR Perth, 16 November 2009; Breakfast with Steve Block, 2AY Albury, 17 November 2009; Mornings with Bob Rogers, 2CH, 19 November 2009; Afternoons with Peter Dick, 4BC Brisbane, 19 November 2009; Mornings, ABC Tasmania Local Radio, 20 November 2009; Afternoons with Peter Harrison, 2BS Bathurst, 20 November 2009; Drive with Ben Carew, Eastside Radio 89.7, 20 November 2009; midnight-to-dawn with John Kerr, 2UE, 21 November 2009; Remember When, 3AW Melbourne, 22 November 2009; Afternoons with Graham Archer, 2TM Tamworth, 25 November 2009; Nightline with Rod Quinn, ABC Local Radio, 14 December 2009 2009; ABC Queensland Statewide with Steve Austin, 4 February 2010.

A/Professor Bridget Griffen-Foley’s book, Changing Stations: The Story of Australian Commercial Radio, featured in Mark Day’s media column, The Australian, 9 November 2009, p. 31.

Don Perlgut was interviewed about media technology, the Australian, 29 September 2009.

Dr Michelle Arrow has been a regular guest on ABC 702 Afternoons with James Valentine, discussing aspects of the history of popular culture. She has appeared on 24 August 2009 (discussing the impact of new technologies on pop culture), 21 September 2009 (the Ocker in Australian film and television) and 19 October 2009 (the impact of the Beatles' tour here in 1964).

Dr Michelle Arrow appeared on ABC Radio National’s Life Matters to discuss nostalgia and her new book, Friday on Our Minds, on Friday 7 August 2009.

Margarat Ven Heekeren’s receipt of Charles Sturt University’s Faculty of Arts Award for Academic Excellence (Teaching and Professional Excellence) was reported in the Western Advocate on 7 July 2009.

Director Bridget Griffen-Foley was interviewed by Neville Petersen about the Centre for the Australian edition of the Global Media Journal, vol. 3, no. 1, 2009.

Dr Michelle Arrow spoke about nostalgia and popular culture and her new book, 'Friday on our Minds: Popular culture in Australia since 1945' on ABC Radio National's Life Matters program on Friday 7 August 2009.

Harvey Broadbent, Director of Macquarie University’s Gallipoli Centenary Research Project and Senior Research Fellow, Dept. of Modern History gave nine interviews on ABC radio stations across the country to promote the ABC ‘s new innovative interactive web-site, Gallipoli, The First Day, for which he was the historical consultant, 20-25 April 2009.

Harvey Broadbent appeared as historical commentator throughout the morning on ABC 702 Sydney’s Simon Marnie Anzac Day Special Morning Program, 25 April 2009.

Harvey Broadbent’s documentary music production, “Minstrels of War”, was broadcast in the Into the Music series on ABC Radio National, 5 p.m. 25 April 2009 (repeated on 26 April 2009).

A/Professor Bridget Griffen-Foley was interviewed about the past and future of commercial radio, Connections, 2CH, 15 March 2009.

Associate Member Kyle Harvey was interviewed by the Lawrence Journal-World (Kansas) about the 25th anniversary of the controversial TV movie The Day After, and an interview project he conducted in Lawrence about the film, 16 November 2008. A special event organised by Kyle for the anniversary was also featured in the University Daily Kansan, the Journal-World, and on 6News Lawrence, 20-21 November 2008.

Denis Cryle’s Murdoch’s Flagship: Twenty-five Years of the Australian Newspaper, was launched at an event in Sydney co-hosted by the Centre, the Australian, 5 December 2008.

A/Professor Marnie Hughes-Warrington was presented with the 2008 Prime Minister’s University Teacher of the Year award ($50,000) at a ceremony at Parliament House, Canberra, the Australian, 26 November 2008.

A/Professor Bridget Griffen-Foley was interviewed about James Packer and PBL Media, Today Tonight, Channel Seven, 27 October 2008.

The Australian reported that Tom Murray’s film, In My Father’s Country, has won the Australian Directors Guild award for Best Direction in a Documentary Feature, 29 September 2008.

A/Professor Bridget Griffen-Foley was interviewed about the axing of Sunday, The Age, 4 August 2008.

Margaret Van Heekeren was interviewed by ABC Radio (Central West) about her research into the first newspaper of Bathurst, 26 May 2008.

A/Professor Bridget Griffen-Foley was interviewed about the establishment of the Centre for Media History by ABC Radio National's Media Report, 3 April 2008.

A profile of the Centre for Media History appeared in the Macquarie Globe, 20 March 2008.

The Australian reported on the establishment of the CMH, 21 February 2008.

A/Professor Bridget Griffen-Foley was interviewed about closure of the Bulletin by ABC 774 Melbourne, 24 January 2008; ABC 936 Hobart, 25 January 2008; Age, 25 January 2008.

Dr Bridget Griffen-Foley was interviewed about the Centre for Media History by David Myton for 2SER-FM, 6 December 2007.

Professor Murray Goot’s major survey of Australian attitudes to the United States, conducted for the United Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, was the subject of numerous press, radio and television reports and interviews in Australia and overseas, October–December 2007.

Report on Margaret Van Heekeren’s organisation of the Australian Media Traditions: Distance and Diversity Conference at Charles Sturt University, Western Advocate, 21 November 2007.

Dr Bridget Griffen-Foley wrote an article revealing details of John Laws' salary negotiations, The Bulletin, 20 November 2007.

Dr Bridget Griffen-Foley was interviewed about role of media companies in election campaigns, ABC News Radio, 8 November 2007.

Dr Bridget Griffen-Foley’s research on midnight-to-dawn radio was discussed on John Kerr's midnight-to-dawn program, 2UE, 21 October 2007.

Dr Michelle Arrow’s obituary of playwright Mona Brand appeared in the Australian Writers’ Guild magazine, Storyline, 20 October 2007.

Dr Marnie Hughes-Warrington was interviewed about her book, History Goes to the Movies, for MQ TV, 15 October 2007.

Harvey Broadbent’s article, ‘Camera connections in the footsteps of Mr Darcy and Harry Potter’, reviewed the British National Trust village in Wiltshire as a location and set for historical films for the National Museum of Australia Friends magazine, June 2007.

Harvey Broadbent produced a radio documentary, Minstrels of War, a historical survey of popular and protest music emanating from war and conflict, ABC Radio National, broadcast 21 and 27 April 2007.

Harvey Broadbent wrote an article, ‘Gallipoli from the Turkish Perspective’, detailing new information appearing from Turkish military and press archives and recent Turkish publications, WARTIME: Official Magazine of the Australian War Memorial,Issue 38, April 2007.