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Alexandra De Blas
Alexandra de Blas (born 1965) is an Australian journalist and environmentalist who was awarded the 2003 3rd World Water Forum Journalists prize in Kyoto, Japan and the 2004 United Nations Association of Australia World Environment Day Award. She is best known as presenter of the ABC Radio National environment program Earthbeat. Since 2004, de Blas has been on the Editorial Advisory Board of CSIRO's Ecos magazine and currently runs an environment communications agency. Education and early life de Blas completed a Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Sydney in 1985 and later completed a Graduate Diploma in Environmental Studies (Hons) at the University of Tasmania in 1992. She spent several years working on a PhD in environmental communication at the University but returned to the ABC before it was completed. Career de Blas started work as a Rural Reporter for the ABC in Queensland. She later worked on the ABC Radio program 'The Country Hour,' reporting from Tasm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio National
Radio National, known on-air as RN, is an Australia-wide public service broadcasting radio network run by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). From 1947 until 1985, the network was known as ABC Radio 2. History 1937: Predecessors and beginnings From 1928, the National Broadcasting Service, as part of the federal Postmaster-General's Department, gradually took over responsibility for all the existing stations that were sponsored by public licence fees ("A" Class licences). The outsourced Australian Broadcasting Company supplied programs from 1929. In 1932 a commission was established, merging the original ABC company and the National Broadcasting Service. It is from this time that Radio National dates as a distinct network within the ABC, in which a system of program relays was developed during the subsequent decades to link stations spread across the nation. The beginnings of Radio National lie with Sydney radio station 2FC, which aired its first test broadcast on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Sydney
The University of Sydney (USYD), also known as Sydney University, or informally Sydney Uni, is a public university, public research university located in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and is one of the country's six sandstone universities. The university comprises eight academic faculties and university schools, through which it offers bachelor, master and doctoral degrees. The university consistently ranks highly both nationally and internationally. QS World University Rankings ranked the university top 40 in the world. The university is also ranked first in Australia and fourth in the world for QS graduate employability. It is one of the first universities in the world to admit students solely on academic merit, and opened their doors to women on the same basis as men. Five Nobel Prize, Nobel and two Crafoord Prize, Crafoord laureates have been affiliated with the university as graduates and faculty. The university has educated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Tasmania
The University of Tasmania (UTAS) is a public research university, primarily located in Tasmania, Australia. Founded in 1890, it is Australia's fourth oldest university. Christ College (University of Tasmania), Christ College, one of the university's residential colleges, first proposed in 1840 in Lieutenant-Governor Sir John Franklin's Legislative Council, was modeled on the University of Oxford, Oxford and University of Cambridge, Cambridge colleges, and was founded in 1846, making it the oldest tertiary institution in the country. The university is a Sandstone universities, sandstone university, a member of the international Association of Commonwealth Universities, and the Association of Southeast Asian Institutions of Higher Learning. The university offers various undergraduate and graduate programs in a range of disciplines, and has links with 20 specialist research institutes and co-operative research centres. Its Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies has strongly c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Centre For Independent Journalism
The Australian Centre for Independent Journalism (ACIJ)(1990-2017) was a non-profit organisation based at the Broadway campus of the University of Technology, Sydney. The ACIJ was founded in 1990 as a Centre with close links to the University's Journalism School. The ACIJ ceased to operate in 2017, after campus authorities "killed it off", according to Pacific Journalism Review. The ACIJ's aims included assisting in the production of quality journalism, especially investigative journalism; to support research into journalism and the media and to contribute to scholarly debate and research about journalism. The last Director of the Centre was Associate Professor Tom Morton who also teaches in the Journalism School at the University of Technology, Sydney. Staff and students of UTS and working journalists across Australia could apply for membership of the Centre. Many high-profile Australian journalists have worked and been associated with the Centre, which was founded by Professo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bush Heritage Australia
Bush Heritage Australia is a non-profit organisation with headquarters in Melbourne, Australia, that operates throughout Australia. It was previously known as the Australian Bush Heritage Fund, which is still its legal name. It's vision is: Healthy Country, Protected Forever. It works under three Impact models: # Purchasing land (see 'Reserves' heading below), assessed as being of outstanding conservation value, from private owners, to manage as wildlife reserves in perpetuity. # Investing in partnerships with Aboriginal groups, who are often owners of vast estates. Bush Heritage supports the development and implementation of Healthy Country Plans. # It partners with farmers to support conservation work and aims to have an influence over 10 million hectares of agricultural land by 2030. It does so to protect endangered species and preserve Australia's biodiversity. It'2020-21 Impact Reportstated it was contributing to the protection of 11.3 million hectares on its reserves ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Australian Freelance Journalists
Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal Australians, indigenous peoples of Australia as identified and defined within Australian law * Australia (continent) ** Indigenous Australians * Australian English, the dialect of the English language spoken in Australia * Australian Aboriginal languages * ''The Australian'', a newspaper * Australiana, things of Australian origins Other uses * Australian (horse), a racehorse * Australian, British Columbia, an unincorporated community in Canada See also * The Australian (other) * Australia (other) * * * Austrian (other) Austrian may refer to: * Austrians, someone from Austria or of Austrian descent ** Someone who is considered an Austrian citizen, see Austrian nationality law * Austrian German dialect * S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
