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 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
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:
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Night Skies of Aboriginal Australia: a Noctuary, Oceanic Publications, University of Sydney, 1998.
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Mandatory Injusice Compulsory Imprisonment in the Northern Territory, (co-authored with George Zdenkowski), University of Technology, Sydney, 2000.
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Lighting the Way: Reconciliation Stories, The Federation Press, Annandale, 2002.
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Report on the Cultural Significance of Upper Kedumba Valley for Declaration as an Aboriginal Place, (with Dawn Colless), NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service, 2002.
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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
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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).
Any enquiries for Dr Johnson, please contact ACIJ Manager on 9514 2295 or acijmanager@uts.edu.au
