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Julianne Schultz FAHA (born 1956) is an Australian academic, media manager, author and editor. She was the founding editor of the Australian literary and current affairs journal '' Griffith Review''. She is currently a professor at
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's Centre for Social and Cultural Research.


Early years and education

Schultz was born on 2 January 1956 in
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. Her father, Dr Noel Schultz, was born and brought up in the
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in
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and married Dr Cynthia Weiss in
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in 1955 after he graduated from Concordia Lutheran College. Cynthia was a deaconess of the Lutheran Church in South Australia. Noel Schultz was appointed the Lutheran pastor at Hamilton, Victoria, and was subsequently appointed pastor at Gilgandra, New South Wales, Tabor in Victoria and Brisbane, before joining the Uniting Church in
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. Cynthia Schultz trained as a psychologist at the
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and subsequently taught at La Trobe University, Melbourne. Schultz completed her school education at St Peters Lutheran College in
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and went on to gain a Bachelor of Arts in journalism at the
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, graduating in 1976. She was co-editor, with Jane Camens, of the University of Queensland student newspaper '' Semper Floreat.'' Schultz later completed a PhD at the
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in 1996, in which she explored the contemporary relevance of the fourth estate to the practice of journalism in Australia. /sup> She was awarded a Graduate Certificate in management from the Australian Graduate School of Management,
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in 2003.


Career

Schultz began her career as a researcher and producer in radio with the ABC in Brisbane and in 1977 moved to ''
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'' in Melbourne as a reporter. After working as a journalist in London, she became a producer for ABC TV on ''
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'' in Sydney in 1981 and was appointed as lecturer in journalism at the NSW Institute of Technology (later UTS) the following year. She was promoted to senior lecturer in 1986 and to associate professor in 1989, when she became the founding director of the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism, which she led until 1994. She was a visiting fellow at the Research School of Social Sciences at the
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between 1991 and 1994, and after moving to Brisbane in 1994, was appointed adjunct professor in journalism at the
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. She joined ''
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'' as associate editor and columnist between 1995 and 1997. In 1998, Schultz took up the position of general manager, corporate strategy and communications for the ABC in Sydney, where she was employed until 2000. She has been a director of Strategies & Solutions Group Pty Ltd, and undertook many consulting projects focusing on media, digital futures and culture. In 2003, Schultz was appointed professor and founding editor of ''Griffith Review'', published by Griffith University. ''Griffith Review'' has since published work from almost one thousand authors, and more than 150 fiction and non-fiction books have been developed from essays and stories first published in the journal, which marked its 50th edition in 2015. Schultz became publisher of ''Griffith Review'' in 2018, with author Ashley Hay taking over the role of editor.


Personal life

Schultz is married to technology consultant Ian Reinecke AM and has two children. She has a sister, Cindy Schultz Ferguson, a former management consultant, and a brother, Andrew Schultz, a well-known classical music composer. Julianne wrote the libretti of two operas written by Andrew – ''Going into Shadows'' (2001) and ''Black River'' (1992).


Honours

Schultz was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for services to the community as a writer, editor and academic in 2009. She was elected the following year as an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities. She was awarded a special commendation from the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission for excellence in commentary at ''The Courier-Mail'' in 1997. The film adaptation of ''Black River'', (directed by Kevin Lucas) won the Opera Screen Grand Prix at
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, Paris in 1993.


Professional roles

Schultz has held numerous board-level roles in her professional career, including member of the Ideas for Australia Advisory Committee, National Centre for Australian Studies,
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(1991–1994); coordinator, Brisbane Women's Media Forum (1997); member, Appeal Committee, Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance (1997); Member of ABC Independent Complaints Review panel (1996–1998); ambassador, Australian Indigenous Educational Foundation (2008–13); advisory board, Centre for Advancing Journalism,
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(2000–present). She has been a judge of major literary and journalism awards, including chairing the panel for the Premier's award for work of state significance at the Queensland Literary Awards in 2015. Schultz was appointed as co-chair with actress
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of the Creative Australia Stream for the 2020 Summit at Parliament House, Canberra, in 2008. From 2009 to 2013, she was chair of the Queensland Design Council and chair of the National Cultural Policy Reference Group (2011–13). Schultz was chair of the Council of the Australian Film Television and Radio Authority from 2012 to 2015, and resumed the position for one year from March 2016. From 2009 to 2014, she was a director of the board of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and between 1998 and 2013 she was a director of the Grattan Institute, Melbourne. She was director of the
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between 1997 and 2000 and a director of the Communications Law Centre between 1990 and 1994.


Bibliography


Books

* * ''Steel City Blues'' (1985) * ''Not Just Another Business'' (1994) * ''Reviving the Fourth Estate'' (1998) * ''Journalism: Print Politics & Popular Culture'' (edited with
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, 1999) * ''The Idea of Australia: A search for the soul of the nation'' (2022) *


Essays and reporting

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Critical studies and reviews of Schultz's work

;''The idea of Australia'' *


References


External links


Australian Centre for Independent Journalism

''Griffith Review''
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