- Journalism
- National Centre for Australian Studies
- Monash Indigenous Centre
- Communications & Media Studies
- Publishing & Editing
- Tourism
JournalismJournalism at Monash is the largest undergraduate journalism program in the country and that provides economies of scale that enable a range of elective options... Read more
National Centre for Australian StudiesNational Centre for Australian Studies engages the world through teaching, community outreach and research... Read more
Monash Indigenous CentreMonash Indigenous Centre (MIC) where students have opportunities to gain knowledge and understanding of Australian Indigenous cultures, traditions and histories... Read more
Communications & Media StudiesThe National Centre for Australian Studies (NCAS) offers an innovative, vocationally oriented graduate program in communications and media studies... Read more
Publishing & EditingMonash University has offered a Graduate Publishing and Editing program since 1996, and graduates of the program have been employed widely in the publishing industry, both in Australia and overseas... Read more
TourismIn the twenty-first century the ‘international tourism industry’ can more accurately be described as the global movement of people around the world for a variety of motivations... Read more
The School of Journalism, Australian and Indigenous Studies (JAIS) is based at the Caulfield campus and houses the Journalism program, the National Centre for Australian Studies and the Monash Indigenous Centre.
The School has an innovative teaching and research culture with strong performance in competitive grants and publications. It has a particularly strong record in collaborative research with partners from government and industry, and staff in the School have leading roles in three of the Faculty of Art’s ten Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage grants.
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Congratulations to Professor Jenny Hocking whose biography of Gough Whitlam: His Time (MUP/Miegunyah Press 2012) has been short-listed in the 2013 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, Australian History Prize . This is a tribute to the high standard of scholarship, ground breaking research and hard work that Jenny invested in this innovative ARC Linkage project based ... Read more
Collingwood president Eddie McGuire’s week has seen him go from – to use the American sporting vernacular – hero to zero. Having been lauded for his response to a young female Collingwood supporter calling Sydney Swans star Adam Goodes an “ape” over the fence, McGuire then suggested on his breakfast radio show that Goodes could be ... Read more
One of our post grads here in MIC Phil Adgemis has just been awarded this quite prestigious scholarship. Phil also tutors in our first year unit: ATS1254Culture , Power and Difference For Details See here: http://history.cass.anu.edu.au/minoru-hokari-scholarship Read more
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Monash University journalism graduate Sam Landsberger and his News Ltd sports colleagues have won the 2012 Quill Award for Best use of the Digital or Online Medium. Sam’s contribution to the live coverage and reporting of AFL has earned him this prestigious accolade with his colleagues Finn Bradshaw, former Monash student Alistair Paton and Gilbert Gardiner. Sam ... Read more
Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow Nathalie Nguyen took part in a GOMA Talks APT7 panel on “Events that shape the world” at the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane on 7 March 2013. Other panelists included Paula Abood, Beck Cole and Parastou Forouhar. The panel provided perspectives on cultural memory, history and place in ... Read more
THE ‘Dangerous Ground’ website and program of student involvement has been recognised with two awards. And, journalism student Melanie Barrie was highly commended in the annual Ossie awards for student journalism. Well done everyone! The ‘Dangerous Ground‘ site won a Monash Arts Faculty award, announced by Arts Dean, Rae Frances, and students who contributed to the ... Read more
Andrea Baker, Virtual Radio Ga Ga, Exploring Subcultural Models of Audiences, Hampton Press, 2012 Jenny Hocking, Gough Whitlam: His Time Vol II of Gough Whitlam: The Biography Melbourne University Publishing/Miegunyah Press. 2012 Jane Lydon, The Flash of Recognition: Photography and the Emergence of Indigenous Rights, New South Books, 2012 Tony Moore, Dancing With Empty Pockets: Australia’s Bohemians Since ... Read more
Instead of lamenting politics we should celebrate Parliament’s brutal hostilities. THESE past weeks have given me cause for optimism about the state of Australian politics. Doubtless, thousands of readers will conclude that I am stark raving mad. How is it possible to perceive a political environment hallmarked by ”relentless negativity” and ”sleaze and smear” in an ... Read more
Recent Monash journalism graduate Ashley Argoon was a key member of team on The Border Mail newspaper that has been awarded a prestigious Walkley Award.. The Albury-Wodonga based newspaper’s campaign to end the silence about youth suicide won the Walkley’s ‘Coverage of Community and Regional Affairs’ category on November 30. Everyone at Monash’s School of Journalism, Australian ... Read more
Mr White examines the ways in which the Australian past had become an object of the tourist gaze by the 1920s, as a society that imagined it was new began to discover it had a past worth visiting. Much of the stimulus came from popular tourism’s fascination for the lurid, the macabre and the sensational, ... Read more
Calls for Australia to become ‘Asia-literate’ are not new — they are as Australian as Vegemite, only older. Indeed, claims from politicians and authors that we are in new territory with the rise of Asia have been a feature of Australian public life for 150 years. In this original, compelling and often surprising account of ... Read more
The issue was guest edited by JAIS staff Dr Johan Lidberg and Professor Chris Nash. The editorial calls for greater industry engagement in media accountability. For details see here Read more
Richard White is a graduate of the University of Sydney and has taught Australian history and the history of travel and tourism there since 1989. He taught in the History Department at Monash University from 1975 to 1979. His publications include Inventing Australia, The Oxford Book of Australian Travel Writing, Cultural History in Australia, On Holidays: ... Read more
