Publications
The ACIJ publishes a range of books and other scholarly work throughout the year. Please download our publications order form to place an order. Follow the navigation links on the right for further information.
ACIJ and affiliate publications include:
Sacred Waters: The Story of the Blue Mountains Gully Traditional Owners
Author: Dianne Johnson
Date: 2007
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 1 920831 37 1
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Sacred Waters is the story of the Aboriginal people in a unique and beautiful part of Australia - the Burragorang Valley, now profoundly changed by the flooding of the valley in the 1950s by Warragamba Dam, the dam that provides Sydney's water supply. It is the story of the valley's Gundungurra people, and the Darug people of the lower Hawkesbury.
The emotions and impact of history are conveyed in part, through the loss of their traditional lands, and through their descendents. It is a fascinating insight into the wya of life and generations of Aboriginal people who lived in the valley and trod its ancient pathways. Their story can also be traced through the history of Sydney: from Governor Arthur Phillip and Lieutenant Watkin Tench's first meeting with the Gully people's direct ancestors at Pitt Town Bottoms in 1791, through to the diaspora of familiar surnames throughout Richmond, Blacktown and Parramatta.
Their story - a Sydney story - celebrates the Upper Blue Mountains Gully people's survival in a changing world and their ongoing struggle to protect their sacred lands and waters.
Careers in Journalism
Authors: Fran Molloy & Helena Janson
Date: 2004
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 0 7314 0112 3
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Can you spot a scoop when you see one? Then stop the press... a career in journalism might just be what you're looking for. Journalism is a fast-paced, rewarding and highly competitive career. Whether you're on location, reporting the news 'live to air' or writing an informative article for a magazine or newspaper, it is a job that it always challenging.
So, if you've got a critical eye, good writing skills, an interest in people's lives and a desire to report on what is happening in the world, then journalism might be the perfect career for you. In this book, journalists Fran Molloy and Helena Janson help you discover what it takes to become part of this diverse industry.
Fran Molloy and Helena have both worked in a variety of journalism roles, including teaching journalism at the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism (ACIJ).
Dog Whistle Politics and Journalism
Author: Peter Manning
Date: 2004
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 0 9586754 5 7
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The 'dog whistle' is a sheep-farmer's image, conveying the concept of a subliminal message, not literally apparent but heard by some sections of a community.
This study examines the representations of Arabic and Muslim people in two major Sydney newspapers, the Sydney Morning Herald and the Daily Telegraph, over a two-year period including the twelve months before and after September 11, 2001.
Covering peak events such as the Palestinian intifada, the controversial gang rape trials in Sydney's south-western suburbs, an increase in arrivals of asylum seekers, September 11 itself, the 2001 Federal Election, the war in Afghanistan and debate about Iraq, this report examines how the global impact of September 11 increased coverage of Arabic and Muslim affairs.
Peter Manning is an Adjunct Professor in Journalism at the University of Technology, Sydney. He is a former Executive Producer of the investigative journalism program 'Four Corners' and former Head of News and Current Affairs at ABC TV and the Seven Network.
Signposts - A guide for journalists to reporting Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and ethnic affairs
Author: Kitty Eggerking, Diana Plater and ACIJ
Date: 1996
Price: $8.95
ISBN: 1 86365 052 0
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The area of 'Aboriginal affairs' and 'ethnic affairs' is unfamiliar territory to many journalists. Signposts is offered not only as a very basic survival guide for journalists reporting in these very specific rounds, but also as an invitation to all journalists to explore a larger slice of Australian society and to accept a challenge to find stories in areas outside their known world.
She's my wife, He's just sex
Author: Sue Joseph
Date: 1997
Price: $10.95
ISBN: 0 9586754 2 2
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"When retired NSW Supreme Court Judge David Yeldham gassed himself in the family car rather than confront the Police Royal Commission - and his family - his secret life of sexual liaisons with other men made major headlines. Sensational, major headlines. But the only factor making him different from thousands of other men, was his position.
"Undisclosed sexual duality amongst outwardly heterosexual men is far more common than public discourse has revealed to date. However, amongst the experts its existence has been common knowledge for many years.
"Sue Joseph was already researching this area when David Yeldham's story was made public. She found no shortage of men, practising this secret sexual duality, ready to talk about it. And women, after many years of marriage, discovering their partners' secret lives.
"David Yeldham's suicide put these issues on the public agenda. This book, I believe, explores the issues further, opening them up to a fuller, long overdue discussion." - Associate Professor Wendy Bacon, of Journalism, University of Technology, Sydney
Sue Joseph has been a journalist for 20 years, working both in Australia and Britain. Redirecting her career into journalism education, she is teaching as a part-time lecturer in journalism at the University of Technology, Sydney. Throughout her own degree, she specialised in researching HIV and women and the media.
MEKIM NIUS: South Pacific Media, Politics and Education
Author: David Robie
Price: $35
ISBN 9781 8773 14308
Published by the USP Book Centre, University of the South Pacific, 2004
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The news media is the watchdog of democracy. But in the South Pacific today the Fourth Estate role is under threat from governments seeking statutory regulation, diminished media credibility, dilemmas over ethics and uncertainty over professionalism and training.
Traditionally - with the exception of Papua New Guinea where university education has been the norm - the region's journalists have mostly learned on the job in the newsroom or through vocational short courses funded by foreign donors. However, today's Pacific journalists now more than ever need an education to contend with the complex cultural, development, environmental, historical, legal, political and sociological challenges faced in an era of globalisation.
From the establishment of the region's first journalism school at the University of Papua New Guinea in 1975 with New Zealand aid, Mekim Nius traces three decades of South Pacific media education history. The book draws on interviews, research, two news industry surveys, and the author's personal experience as a Pacific media educator for almost a decade. Mekim Nius argues journalists need to be provided with critical studies, ethical and contextual knowledge matching technical skills to be effective communicators and political mediators with the Pacific's 'new regionalism'.
