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Monash University's School of Media, Film and Journalism (MFJ) attracts outstanding and award-winning staff and students.

Event Alert!📣 Navigating Non-Traditional Research Outputs: making diverse practice research countWhat are you doing on M...
01/09/2026

Event Alert!📣 Navigating Non-Traditional Research Outputs: making diverse practice research count

What are you doing on Monday 28th of September? Come join the School of Media , Film and Journalism workshop in association with the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation

Does your research involve producing creative works such as documentaries, exhibitions, music, festival curation, digital games? How about public sphere interventions such as journalism or policy reports? If so be sure to attend this MFJ workshop Monday 28 September 2pm – 4pm to find out how your practice may be eligible for assessment as a Non-Traditional Research Output.

Deputy Dean Research Prof. Catherine Mills will clarify the definition of NTROs and how they can complement scholarly research while Jo Witheridge and MFJ’s Dr Alison Stieven-Taylor will take us through assessment criteria and how to make an application to the Arts. Workshop Chair Prof. Tony Moore will explain the place of NTRO’s in building research partnerships with industry for ARC and Cat 2-4 projects and engaging the wider community in our discoveries.

You will hear from MFJ colleagues who have successfully had work spanning journalism, exhibitions, documentary and photojournalism classified as NTROs, as well as from those involved in original practice research who will be applying in coming rounds. Speakers include Dr Ben Eltham, Dr Maura Edmond, Prof. Dan Golding and Billy Head.

Over 2 workshop activities you will be invited to share your own practice-based research, think about framing it as an NTRO application, and participate in a concluding discussion about ways the school can enable and support NTRO applications. Register here👉: https://bit.ly/NTROs

This week on Australia’s most serious news show, we recreate the perfect high school day by participating in the illicit...
01/09/2026

This week on Australia’s most serious news show, we recreate the perfect high school day by participating in the illicit to***co market, having a lesson in s*x ed, and avoiding tax.

Watch it on YouTube or using the link in our bio.

 📣Join us for a screening of Earth's Greatest Enemy: Screening and Q&A with renowned journalist and documentarian Abby ...
31/08/2026


📣Join us for a screening of Earth's Greatest Enemy: Screening and Q&A with renowned journalist and documentarian Abby Martin on Thursday 24th of September at 11am-2pm.

Screen Histories and Futures presents Abby Martin’s newest feature documentary, Earth’s Greatest Enemy. The screening will be followed by a virtual Q&A and live discussion moderated by PhD candidate Jack Magnotta. Follow him on the socials.

Earth’s Greatest Enemy reveals a hidden truth behind the climate crisis: the role of the U.S. military as the world’s largest institutional polluter, tracing the link between war, empire, and ecological destruction. Drawing on powerful testimonies from veterans, scientists, and frontline communities, it uncovers how military operations poison ecosystems, accelerate global warming, and sacrifice the future for endless expansion. From Alaska’s melting glaciers to contaminated bases across the U.S. and toxic battlefields abroad, Earth’s Greatest Enemy delivers a provocative and unflinching examination of the untouchable institution playing an outsized role in the climate crisis. Register here: https://bit.ly/EGEMonash

So much for too big to fail… The Struggle returns for another episode where we cover cuts to the NDIS, why your superann...
28/08/2026

So much for too big to fail… The Struggle returns for another episode where we cover cuts to the NDIS, why your superannuation is pretty super, and how to reroute national energy infrastructure.

So, let’s get controversial! After all, the saying goes “all publicity is good publicity.”

Link in bio.

Students and alumni from Monash Journalism were incredibly well represented at the 2026 Kennedy Awards! Just a roundup o...
27/08/2026

Students and alumni from Monash Journalism were incredibly well represented at the 2026 Kennedy Awards! Just a roundup of all the achievements we've covered this week:

Enormous congratulations to MFJ student Ava Cashmore, who has won the coveted Student Journalist of the Year Award.

Monash students Phoebe Valiotis, Olivia Tiralosi and graduate Molly Paynter, now an ABC producer, were also 2026 Kennedy Scholarship finalists.

Monash alumnus Josh Hanrahan teamed with Daily Telegraph colleague Mark Morri to win the Les Kennedy Award for Outstanding Crime Reporting for their Bondi terror coverage.

Monash alumna Suzan Giuliani was also a member of the award-winning digital news team to win a Kennedy award. As the weekend investigations editor at the Saturday and Sunday Telegraph, Suzan has been a successful story breaker, providing exclusive coverage for News Corp’s brands nationally.

Finally, Monash journalism alumnus Chris Gillett teamed with Adele Ferguson and Jade Toomey to win the Outstanding Consumer Affairs category for the Four Corners’ expose, Australia's Childcare Crisis.

This is an incredible result for MFJ. As Head of Journalism Alicia McMillan puts it, "it reinforces the fact Monash students understand the vital role they play as journalists informing the public - whether that be at a state-based level, or during an incident of international significance, such as the Bondi attack" - and "we couldn’t be prouder than to see them celebrated on such an auspicious national stage."

Congratulations again to all the winners and nominees.

The full report can be found here: https://www.monash.edu/arts/news-and-events/articles/ava-cashmore-wins-student-journalist-of-the-year-in-the-kennedy-awards

Congratulations to several Monash Journalism alumni who have earned prestigious recognition at the 2026 Kennedy Awards.M...
26/08/2026

Congratulations to several Monash Journalism alumni who have earned prestigious recognition at the 2026 Kennedy Awards.

Monash alumnus Josh Hanrahan (pictured first) teamed with Daily Telegraph colleague Mark Morri to win the Les Kennedy Award for Outstanding Crime Reporting for their Bondi terror coverage.

Josh, who is chief reporter of the Daily Telegraph, said the Bondi terrorist attack was the biggest story Sydney had seen in decades.

Josh and Mark sought their crime contacts to provide the News Corp national audience with an inside picture of the Bondi attack.

“We really prided ourselves on what we did after Bondi because I think Bondi is probably the biggest story Sydney’s seen - before I was born, and maybe the same for Mark,” Josh said.

Josh said they approached the Bondi story like a crime story and spoke with their sources to break their exclusive news. Josh was also part of the Daily Telegraph team to win the Outstanding Digital News Breaking category for its live digital coverage of the Bondi terror attack.

MFJ alumna Suzan Giuliani (second image, right) was also a member of the award-winning digital news team to win a Kennedy award. As the weekend investigations editor at the Saturday and Sunday Telegraph, Suzan has been a successful story breaker, providing exclusive coverage for News Corp’s brands nationally.

Finally, alumnus Chris Gillett (third image, left) teamed with Adele Ferguson and Jade Toomey to win the Outstanding Consumer Affairs category for the Four Corners’ expose, Australia's Childcare Crisis.

Congratulations to all of these alumni, and again to our student Ava Cashmore, Student Journalist of the Year.

The full report can be found here: https://www.monash.edu/arts/news-and-events/articles/ava-cashmore-wins-student-journalist-of-the-year-in-the-kennedy-awards

Congratulations to Monash journalism student Ava Cashmore, who has won the coveted Student Journalist of the Year in the...
26/08/2026

Congratulations to Monash journalism student Ava Cashmore, who has won the coveted Student Journalist of the Year in the 2026 Kennedy Awards!

Ava was presented with her Kennedy trophy before 400 industry leaders and guests at the Royal Randwick Racecourse ballroom in Sydney on Friday, 21 August.

A reporter at Channel 7, Ava was praised for her body of work. She won from a national field, including finalists Zoe Brock (RMIT University) and Jessica O’Bryan (University of Technology Sydney).

“I’m grateful, to say the least,” Ava said after her win. “It was such a special night around so many talented and accomplished people who are also the reason I was in the room in the first place.

“Thank you to everyone who’s given me two minutes of their time, and more.”

Monash students Phoebe Valiotis, Olivia Tiralosi and graduate Molly Paynter, now an ABC producer, were 2026 Kennedy Scholarship finalists.

Kennedy Foundation chairperson Carl Dumbrell said it had been a bumper year for excellent Australian journalism.

“There’s no greater honour than to receive a Kennedy for your work,” Dumbrell said.

“The Kennedy Foundation is extremely proud of its support for those endeavours that are essential to an informed and vital democracy.

“It was such a great night, especially seeing the joy of the winners of our scholarship program for young aspiring journalists.”

Huge congratulations again to Ava on this enormous to achievement, and to our other MFJ students and alumni who won or were nominated for Kennedy Awards - we will spotlight some of them in posts to come! The full list of winners and Monash Journalismstudents/alumni at the Kennedys can be found here: https://www.monash.edu/arts/news-and-events/articles/ava-cashmore-wins-student-journalist-of-the-year-in-the-kennedy-awards

Join us for the latest in the MFJ seminar series, "New Faces in Mad Men: Casting as Aesthetic Strategy," on Monday the 1...
25/08/2026

Join us for the latest in the MFJ seminar series, "New Faces in Mad Men: Casting as Aesthetic Strategy," on Monday the 14th of September.

It has become a cliché to insist that casting is an unappreciated filmmaking craft. However, awards for casting at the BAFTAs and the Academy Awards are a dawning recognition of the contributions that casting directors make. Casting has also been a focus of academic work on the cultural significance and politics of film and television, where issues of stereotyping and representation are prominent concerns. But casting as a matter of aesthetic judgement and consequence has received little attention; matters of casting tend to be elided by a larger focus on performances by those actors who are chosen to appear in a film or television program. By considering the introduction of new characters to the third season of Mad Men, this paper seeks to support the claim that choices of casting are the foundations of aesthetic achievement in filmed fiction, upon which rests the success and sense of most creative choices that follow.

Alex Clayton is Associate Professor in Film and Television at the University of Bristol. His work explores varieties of achievement in fiction film and television, with particular focus on comedy, screen performance, and the construction of viewpoint. He is interested in the kinds of reasons that may be offered to explain an aesthetic response or support a critical appraisal, and in the challenges of description that arise when seeking to account for the specificity of an audiovisual work. He is the author of The Body in Hollywood Slapstick (2007) and Funny How? Sketch Comedy and the Art of Humor (2021).

Elliott Logan is Lecturer in Film, Screen, and Culture at Monash University. His work seeks to articulate the significance of what we see and hear in the human figure in film and television, with a particular focus on the presentation of people over time in serial drama. He is the author of Breaking Bad and Dignity (2016) and Over and Over: Performance, Time, and Resonance in Serial Television Drama (2026).

The Conviction Politics ARC research project based in MFJ now has a YouTube Channel! The link is in our bio, or you can ...
21/08/2026

The Conviction Politics ARC research project based in MFJ now has a YouTube Channel! The link is in our bio, or you can search ConvictionPolitics on YouTube. There are currently just over 20 short documentaries that are live, but new ones will be added every week covering a multitude of topics related to exploitation, reform and rebellion in the British empire and colonial Australia.

Please have a look through the channel and subscribe to support and promote the project.

In an Australian first, The Struggle is proud to present an episode of television that hits every single demographic! If...
20/08/2026

In an Australian first, The Struggle is proud to present an episode of television that hits every single demographic! If you are a gambler, police officer, or have eaten a sandwich before, we’ve got you covered!

Plus South Australia’s AI Royal Commission, workers’ rights, and whatever Hollyboobies are.

Watch it on YouTube or using the link in our bio.

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