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UNSW Press
The University of New South Wales Press Ltd. is an Australian academic book publishing company launched in 1962 and based in Randwick, a suburb of Sydney. The ACNC not-for-profit entity has three divisions: NewSouth Publishing (the publishing arm of the company), NewSouth Books (the sales, marketing and distribution part of the company), and the UNSW Bookshop, situated at the Kensington campus of the University of New South Wales, Sydney. UNSW Press Board The board of directors of University of New South Wales Press Ltd is appointed by the Council of the University of New South Wales. Professor Merlin Crossley is Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic, UNSW and the Chair of UNSW Press Ltd. Lynette Petrie is director of management reporting and analysis, in the Finance division of UNSW Sydney. George Williams AO is Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Planning and Assurance, Anthony Mason Professor and a Scientia Professor at UNSW. He has served as Dean of UNSW Law. He has written and edited 37 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randwick, New South Wales
Randwick is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Randwick is located 6 kilometres south-east of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre for the local government area of the City of Randwick. Randwick is part of the Eastern Suburbs region. The postcode is 2031. History Randwick was named after the village of Randwick, Gloucestershire, England, birthplace of Simeon Henry Pearce, who became Mayor of Randwick six times. Simeon, who migrated to Australia in 1842, and his brother James who arrived in 1848, were responsible for the founding and early development of Randwick. Simeon built the first stone house in the area in 1848, called Blenheim House, which can still be seen in Blenheim Street. It was neglected for some time in the mid-1900s, but was eventually acquired by Randwick City Council and restored. Proclaimed as a Municipality in February 1859, and as a City in 1990, Randwick has a rich history and a number of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Blay
John Charles Blay, born on 5 October 1944, is an Australian writer and naturalist who has written extensively about the Australian bush and its people in drama, prose and poetry. His work unveiling local landscape has had many consequences including, in 1982, discovering a new species of wattle, '' Acacia blayana'', named in his honour. Personal life Blay was born in Parramatta, NSW, Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by ... and lived in the inner city of Sydney until 1970 when he moved to a spotted gum forest at Bermagui, on the far south coast of NSW, a move detailed in his memoir, ''Part of the Scenery''. In following years his immersion in the wild forests and understanding of their wildlife led to him receiving the inaugural Parks Writer Award to spend 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivien Johnson
Vivien Joan Johnson (born 1949) is an Australian sociologist, writer on Indigenous Australian art, and former editor-in-chief of the Dictionary of Australian Artists Online. Johnson is notable for the publication of several key reference works in the field of contemporary Indigenous Australian art, including ''Western Desert Artists: A Biographical Dictionary'' (1995), ''Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists'' (2008) and ''Once Upon a Time in Papunya'' (2010). In 2005 she was made Professor of New Media Narrative and Theory at the University of New South Wales. she is Adjunct Art and Design Professor. She was a longtime friend of artist Kumantje Jagamara Kumantje Jagamara (1946 – November 2020), also known as Kumantje Nelson Jagamara, Michael Minjina Nelson Tjakamarra, Michael Nelson Tjakamarra and variations (Kumantye, Jagamarra, Jakamara), was an Aboriginal Australian painter. He was one of ..., and spoke at his funeral in March 2021. References 1949 births Living ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Gorman
Alice Gorman (born 1964) FSA is an Australian archaeologist, heritage consultant, and lecturer, who is best known for pioneering work in the field of space archaeology and her Space Age Archaeology blog. Based at Flinders University, she is an expert in Indigenous stone tool analysis, but better known for her research into the archaeology of orbital debris, terrestrial launch sites, and satellite tracking stations. Gorman teaches modern material culture studies, cultural heritage management, and Australian stone tools. Gorman is also a founding member of the Archaeology, Science and Heritage Council of For All Moonkind, Inc., a nonprofit organisation developing and seeking to implement an international convention to protect human cultural heritage in outer space. Traditional archaeology Gorman graduated from Melbourne University, The University of Melbourne in 1986 with a B.A. (Hons) before working as an archaeological consultant in the Indigenous heritage management sector. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane R
Jane may refer to: * Jane (given name), a feminine given name * Jane (surname), related to the given name Film and television * ''Jane'' (1915 film), a silent comedy film directed by Frank Lloyd * ''Jane'' (2016 film), a South Korean drama film starring Lee Min-ji * ''Jane'' (2017 film), an American documentary film about Jane Goodall * ''Jane'' (2022 film), an American psychological thriller directed by Sabrina Jaglom * Jane (TV series), an 1980s British television series Music * ''Jane'' (album), an album by Jane McDonald * Jane (American band) * Jane (German band) * Jane, unaccompanied and original singer of "It's a Fine Day" in 1983 Songs * "Jane" (Barenaked Ladies song), 1994 * "Jane", a song by Ben Folds Five from their 1999 album '' The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner'' * "Jane" (Century song) * "Jane", a song by Elf Power * "Jane", a song by EPMD from '' Strictly Business'' * "Jane" (Jefferson Starship song), 1979 * "Jane", a song by the Loved Ones f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerryn Goldsworthy
Dr. Kerryn Lee Goldsworthy (born 14 May 1953) is an Australian freelance writer and former academic. Life and career Goldsworthy has edited four anthologies of Australian writing. She has also written many articles, essays and reviews. She has a B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Adelaide. She taught at the University of Melbourne from 1981 to 1997 as a tutor and lecturer and has also worked briefly at Deakin, Flinders and Adelaide Universities, and at the University of Klagenfurt, in Austria. She was the editor of the ''Australian Book Review'' (May 1986 to Dec 1987), decades later she claimed that the experience involved her "learning more about human nature in those two years than in either the preceding thirty-three or the following nineteen." Goldsworthy also served as a member of the Literature Board of the Australia Council and has also been the recipient of Australia Council grants allocated from its Literature Fund. In 1997, Kerryn Goldsworthy returned to Adelai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Frame (bishop)
Thomas Robert Frame (born 7 October 1962) is an Australian academic, author and Anglican priest. He was formerly the Anglican Bishop to the Australian Defence Force from 2001 to 2007. Early life Frame was born in Stanmore, New South Wales, and raised in Wollongong by his adoptive parents. He was educated at West Wollongong Infants School (1968–70), West Wollongong Primary School (1971–74, awarded dux in 1974) and Wollongong High School (1975–78). Career Naval career Frame joined the Royal Australian Naval College, HMAS ''Creswell'' as a 16-year-old junior entry cadet midshipman in January 1979. Later that year, he was assigned to the destroyer escort as a junior officer under training, where he earned his helmsman's certificate. He graduated from the RAN College in December 1983. Frame completed his studies in Chinese history and economics at the University of New South Wales, graduating with Bachelor of Arts (Honours), and the inaugural W.J. Liu Memorial Prize for Ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delia Falconer
Delia Falconer, born in Sydney in 1966, is an Australian novelist who became famous for her bestselling novel, The Service of Clouds. She has been nominated for multiple literary awards in recognition for her work. Biography Falconer is an only child of two graphic designer parents. She studied for her undergraduate degree at the University of Sydney. She completed a Ph.D. in English Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of the novels ''The Service of Clouds'' and ''The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers'' (which was republished in Australian paperback as ''The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers and Selected Stories''). She also wrote ''Sydney'', a personal history of her hometown for the ''Australian Cities'' series. A nonfiction work, ''Signs and Wonders'', was published in 2021. She frequently publishes essays, journalism, and reviews in newspapers and journals. Her stories and essays have been widely anthologized, including in ''The Macquarie Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Duffy (Australian Journalist)
Michael Duffy (born 1957) is an Australian writer and former editor and publisher. He edited '' The Independent Monthly'', a general magazine owned by Max Suich and John B Fairfax, from 1993 to 1996. Then he and his wife Alex Snellgrove set up a publishing company, Duffy & Snellgrove, that published the first books by Peter Robb, John Birmingham and Rosalie Ham. Other authors included Les Murray, Mungo MacCallum and John Olsen. The company stopped publishing new titles in 2005. Duffy presented ABC Radio National's ''Counterpoint'' with Paul Comrie-Thomson and wrote for News Limited publications and then the Sydney Morning Herald and the Sun Herald until June 2012. He has written the true crime books ''Call Me Cruel'' and ''Bad'', but is best known for the novels ''The Tower'', ''The Simple Death'' and ''Drive By''. The latter was described in the ''Adelaide Review'' as: "a brilliant mix of reportage drawn from life observation and the novelist’s dramatic touch, to paint a p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Megan Davis
Megan Jane Davis is an Aboriginal Australian activist and international human rights lawyer. She was the first Indigenous Australian to sit on a United Nations body, and was Chair of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Davis is Pro vice-Chancellor, Indigenous, and Balnaves Chair in Constitutional Law at the University of New South Wales. She is especially known for her work on the '' Uluru Statement from the Heart''. Early life and education Megan Jane Davis was born in Monto. Her family moved along the Queensland Railway. Her ancestry is Aboriginal Australian ( Cobble Cobble, from south-east Queensland) and South Pacific Islander. She was brought up by a single parent, and one of her earliest interests was the United Nations General Assembly. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Dapin
Mark Dapin (born 1963) is an Australian journalist, author, historian and screenwriter. He is best known for his long-running column in ''Good Weekend'' magazine. Early life Mark Dapin was born in Britain and immigrated to Australia in 1989. Career Dapin was the founding chief sub-editor of the ''Australian Financial Review Magazine'' in 1995. From 1998 to 2002, he was editor and then editor-in-chief of ''Ralph'' magazine. He has written for a variety of publications including ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', ''The Guardian'', ''The Times'', ''Penthouse'' and ''Good Weekend''. He has a Bachelor of Social Science degree and a Masters in Journalism from UTS and has taught journalism courses at the University of Sydney and Macleay College. In 2008, Dapin was thrown out of celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay’s home when he was only minutes into a profile interview for ''Good Weekend'' magazine. The incident – and subsequent attempts by Ramsay’s publicists to control the story – for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Cunningham
Sophie Cunningham is an Australian writer and editor based in Melbourne. She is the current Chair of the Board of the Australian Society of Authors, the national peak body representing Australian authors. Career Publisher Cunningham was publisher at McPhee Gribble/Penguin for two years and Trade Publisher at Allen & Unwin for ten years; there she was known for commissioning and editing innovative fiction and non-fiction. At McPhee Gribble the books she worked on included ''I Was a Teenage Fascist'' by David Greason, ''Glad All Over: The Countdown Years 1974–1987'' by Peter Wilmoth and ''Holding the Man'' by Timothy Conigrave. At Allen & Unwin she published Mark Davis's ''Gangland: Cultural Elites and the New Generationalism''. Author In 2004 her own first novel, ''Geography'', was published. In 2005 she was an Asialink resident in Sri Lanka, which provided research material for her novel ''Bird'', which follows the life of a singer-actress who became a Buddhist nun. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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