Honorary appointments

Research Associates of the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism

Louise Williams

Louise Williams is a senior Australian journalist with considerable experience as a foreign correspondent in the Asia-Pacific region and international affairs. She has worked as Asian Editor and Foreign Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald and has written or contributed to a number of books on regional issues. She has also lectured at the University of Technology, Sydney and Macquarie University and is a long time member of the International Humanitarian Law committee of the Australian Red Cross, NSW Branch. Louise Williams is currently contracted by the Sydney Morning Herald to write editorials and feature articles and is project coordinator for a media internship program in Indonesia, administered by Murdoch University.

Louise Williams has won various major awards throughout her career, including the Walkley Award for Excellence in Journalism, the Australia Council's Asia-Pacific Writers' Fellowship and the Citibank Pan Asia Journalism Award in conjunction with Columbia University.

Any enquiries for Louise Williams, please contact ACIJ Manager on 9514 2295 or acijmanager@uts.edu.au

Dr Kasun Ubayasiri

Dr Kasun Ubayasiri is a Sri Lankan born Australian Journalist and media academic. He has a PhD in media and political violence, and has conducted extensive research on the role of cyber-media in terrorist conflicts. His doctoral thesis titled: 'Media, Tamil Tigers, terrorism and the Internet: The cyber interface between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and mainstream media' focuses on the use of cyber media in Sri Lanka's thirty year civil war.

Kasun Ubayasiri has worked as a journalist in both the Sri Lankan and Australian press as a news and features reporter and photo-journalist. He currently teaches Journalism at Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Dr Ubayasiri's research and professional interests include the role of media in counter insurgency (COIN), reportage of armed conflict, photo-journalism and journalism in the cyber age.

His recent publications include:

Book chapter:

Asian Cyberactivism: Freedom of Expression and Media Censorship (2004). Chapter title: A virtual Eelam - Democracy, Internet and Sri Lanka's Tamil struggle. Steven Gan, James Gomez and Uwe Johannen (ed.).Thailand: Friedrich Naumann Foundation .

Refereed journals:

Asia Pacific Media Educator: Issue 12, New Communication Technologies in Asia: Issues of Control and Concerns, 'Internet and Media freedom: A case study of contemporary media censorship in Sri Lanka and the emergence of web-based rebel media' (2002).

Ejournalist:

Vol.2(1), eTerror: Journalism, Terrorism and the Internet, co authored with Prof Alan Knight (CQU), 2002.
Vol 3(2), One Temple, One Bomb and Three lines of Political Narrative, co authored with Linda Brady (CQU), 2003
Vol 4(2), Virtual hostage dramas and real politics, 2004.
Vol 5(1), Separatist politics of a tsunami: A Sri Lankan case study, 2005.
Vol 5(2), Nations: Historical and contemporary - imagined communities and a bloody confl ict, 2005.

Dr Anna Salleh

Dr Anna Salleh is a science journalist with experience in print, television and radio. She has a Bachelor of Science from the University of Sydney, a Masters in Journalism from UTS and a PhD in Science and Technology Studies from the University of Wollongong.

Her main interest as a researcher and journalist is in technological risk controversies and she currently works with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's online science news service.

Any enquiries for Dr Salleh, please contact ACIJ Manager on 9514 2295 or acijmanager@uts.edu.au

Her recent publications include:

The fourth estate and the fifth branch: the news media, GM risk, and democracy in Australia, New Genetics |& Society Journal, Vol 27 No 3, Sept 2008, pp. 233-250, Routledge.
Review: Science and The Fourth Estate, Metascience (2008) 17: 99-103, Springer.

Antony Loewenstein

Antony Loewenstein is a freelance journalist, author and blogger. He has written for The Guardian, Haaretz, The Washington Post, Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, Sydney's Sun-Herald, ZNet, The Big Issue, Crikey, CounterPunch and others.

He is a board member of Macquarie University's Centre for Middle East and North African Studies and appears regularly on radio, in public and at universities in Australia and overseas (including Harvard) discussing current affairs and politics.

A contributor to Not Happy, John (2004), a bestseller on the controversy over the awarding of the Sydney Peace Prize to Hanan Ashrawi and To A Time to Speak Out (2008), on the rise of global Jewish dissent, Antony is also the co-founder of Independent Australian Jewish Voices.

His 2008 book The Blogging Revolution is about the internet in repressive regimes. His bestseller on the Israel/Palestine conflict, My Israel Question (1st edn, 2006; 2nd edn 2007), was re-released in 2009 in a fully updated third edition.

Any enquiries for Antony Loewenstein, please contact Antony through his website http://antonyloewenstein.com or via the ACIJ Manager on 9514 2295 or acijmanager@uts.edu.a

Dr Dianne Johnson

Dr Dianne Johnson, author and Anthropologist, has worked in close collaboration with the Aboriginal Gully people of Katoomba to research and record their personal histories and collective histories. She has also researched the vision and interpretation of Indigenous astronomies.

Her Recent Publications include:

Night Skies of Aboriginal Australia: a Noctuary, Oceanic Publications, University of Sydney, 1998.
Mandatory Injusice Compulsory Imprisonment in the Northern Territory, (co-authored with George Zdenkowski), University of Technology, Sydney, 2000.
Lighting the Way: Reconciliation Stories, The Federation Press, Annandale, 2002.
Report on the Cultural Significance of Upper Kedumba Valley for Declaration as an Aboriginal Place, (with Dawn Colless), NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service, 2002.
Aunty Joan Cooper: Through the Front Door, A Darug and Gundungurra Story, Mountains Outreach Community Service Inc, Lawson, 2003. Report to the Gundungurra Tribal Council concerning Gundungurra Native Title Claim (Federal Court File No NG606/98), 2004
Sacred Waters: the story of the Blue Mountains Gully Traditional Owners, Halstead Press, Sydney, 2006 (Available for sale from the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism).
'The Gully Aboriginal Place', Chapter 8 in Blue Mountains Dreaming, The Aboriginal Heritage (Second Edition), Edited by Eugene Stockton and John Merriman, Blue Mountains Education and Research Trust, pp 201-222. (ISBN 978 0 646 50386 8).
'From Fairy to Witch: Imagery and Myth in the Azaria Case', in The Chamberlain Case: Nation, Law, Memory, edited by Deborah Staines, Michelle Arrow & Katherine Biber, Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty Ltd, North Melbourne, pp. 7-20. (ISBN 978 1921509-09-4).

Any enquiries for Dr Johnson, please contact ACIJ Manager on 9514 2295 or acijmanager@uts.edu.au