Faculty in the Media
FEBRUARY 2013
Faculty in the Media - 28 February 2013
- US Studies Centre visiting expert Susan Pond on the aviation industry's bid to become carbon neutral by 2020, ABC's Business Today.
- Luke Freedman, US Studies Centre, on the US budget sequester, The Conversation.
Faculty in the Media - 27 February 2013
- Dr Helen Young op-ed on Quvenzhané Wallis, race and misogyny at the Oscars, The Conversation.
- Associate Professor Catriona Elder's appointment as visiting professor in Australian Studies at Tokyo University, Central Magazine.
- Associate Professor John Lee op-ed on the dispute between Japan and China over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands, The Australian.
- Professor Geoff Gallop op-ed on how the Labor Party should define itself in terms of workers’ rights, The Australian Financial Review.
- Tom Switzer, US Studies Centre, comments on American affairs, ABC Radio National’s Counterpoint program.
- Professor Emeritus Stuart Rees op-ed on the case of 'Prisoner X' Ben Zygier, ABC's The Drum Online.
Faculty in the Media - 25 February 2013
Faculty in the Media - 22 February 2013
- Professor Peter King on West Papua’s bid for independence from Indonesia, SBS World News Australia.
- Associate Professor Catriona Elder's appointment to the University of Tokyo as visiting professor in Australian Studies, The Australian.
Faculty in the Media - 21 February 2013
- Adjunct Associate Professor John Lee op-ed on Beijing's cyber spies, The Australian.
- Honorary Associate Dr Jessica Milner Davis, coordinator of the Australasian Humour Studies Network, on Australian humour, SBS Radio.
- PhD candidate, Benjamin Moffitt, on Dutch populist politician Geert Wilders, The Conversation.
- Dr Bill Dunn and PhD candidate Claire Parfitt, on the viability of genetically modified crop Golden Rice as a solution to world hunger, The Conversation.
Faculty in the Media - 20 February 2013
- Dr Bates Gill, CEO of the US Studies Centre, op-ed on President Obama’s State of the Union Address, The Australian.
- Undergraduate Arts student, Lauren Pearce, offered one of the first of Corey Payne's Future Direction Network scholarships, The Camden Advertiser.
Faculty in the Media - 19 February 2013
- David Robert Howell, PhD student in US Studies, on the need for Australia to fund research to mitigate asteroid impacts, The Sydney Morning Herald.
- Trevor Cook, Department of Government and International Relations, on the class divide between the two major parties, The Australian Financial Review.
Faculty in the Media - 18 February 2013
- Professor John Keane has written an exclusive article after his interview with Julian Assange, the Conversation.
- US Studies Centre Research Associate Tom Switzer has reviewed “Australia and China at 40”, edited by James Reilly and Jingdong Yuan, The Sydney Morning Herald.
Faculty in the Media - 15 February 2013
- Tom Switzer, US Studies Centre, on President Obama’s State of the Union address, ABC Radio Australia Connect Asia.
- Dr Michael Ondaatje, US Studies Centre, on the State of the Union address, Channel Ten News.
Faculty in the Media - 15 February 2013
- Luke Freeman on Barack Obama's State of the Union address, The Conversation.
- Tom Switzer on Barack Obama's climate change agenda, The Age.
Faculty in the Media - 13 February 2013
- Doctoral Candidate in Government and International Relations, Ainsley Elbra, on the mining tax, The Conversation.
- Professor Barry Spurr, Department of English, on Sylvia Plath and the power of poetry, ABC Classic FM.
- University of Sydney Union president and Media student Astha Rajvanshi on the University's top marks for consulting students, The Australian.
- Professor Michael Burawoy's (University of California) quoted at a seminar for the Department of Sociology and Social Policy, The Australian.
Faculty in the Media - 12 February 2013
Faculty in the Media - 11 February 2013
- Dr Li Baoping, Department of Archaeology, on how to spot porcelain fakes, The Sydney Morning Herald.
- Media and Communications alumnus Simon Greiner's artwork featured on the cover of New Yorker magazine, The Sydney Morning Herald.
- Dr John Lee, Centre for International Security Studies, op-ed on China’s existing and next generation leaders, The Business Spectator.
- US Studies Centre Chief Executive Bates Gill on philanthropy in the US, The Sydney Morning Herald.
- US Studies Centre lecturer Adam Lockyer op-ed on processes used by the White House when deciding whether to kill US citizens abroad, The Australian.
Faculty in the Media - 8 February 2013
Faculty in the Media - 7 February 2013
- Professor Simon Tormey on the upcoming Italian elections, ABC News.
- Professor David Weisbrot AM on his life and background, ABC Classic FM.
Faculty in the Media - 6 February 2013
- Dr Rebecca Sheehan, US Studies Centre, on the faculty's ‘Sex Race and Rock in the USA’ course, The Sydney Morning Herald.
- Dr David Smith, US Studies Centre, on the Superbowl, ABC 702.