Peter Holland (born 1944) (also known as Austin Holland [1] ) is an Australian former broadcaster, interviewer and newsreader, who worked for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in radio and television news from 1966 to 1998 and then Channel Nine from 1998 to 2003. He then became a senior lecturer at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.
In the 1984 federal election he unsuccessfully ran for the seat of Forrest for the Australian Labor Party. [2]
In 1995, he won the Western Australian Citizen Of The Year (community services) award. He won the Premier's Book Award in 1994 for an anthology of Western Australian writing.
In 2003, in the midst of National Nine News' national dominance in the ratings, Holland left his role with local television station STW and took up a full-time teaching post with Edith Cowan University, [1] having been a part-time member of staff since 2001. [3] Since 2005, he has been coordinator of the Graduate Diploma of Broadcasting course at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts at the Edith Cowan University campus. [4] [5]
Holland currently resides in the Perth Hills, where he has lived since 1972.
Edith Dircksey Cowan was an Australian social reformer who worked for the rights and welfare of women and children. She is best known as the first Australian woman to serve as a member of parliament. Cowan has been featured on the reverse of Australia's fifty-dollar note since 1995.
Edith Cowan University (ECU) is a public research university in Western Australia. It is named in honour of the first woman to be elected to an Australian parliament, Edith Cowan, and is the only Australian university named after a woman. Gaining university status in 1991, it was formed from an amalgamation of tertiary colleges with a history dating back to 1902 when the Claremont Teachers College was established, making it the modern descendant of the second tertiary institution in Western Australia.
Dorothy Coade Hewett was an Australian playwright, poet and author, and a romantic feminist icon. In writing and in her life, Hewett was an experimenter. As her circumstances and beliefs changed, she progressed through different literary styles: modernism, socialist realism, expressionism and avant garde. She was a member of the Australian Communist Party in the 1950s and 1960s, which informed her work during that period.
Hal Gibson Pateshall Colebatch was a West Australian author, historian, poet, lecturer, journalist, editor, and lawyer.
Geoffrey Curgenven Bolton was an Australian historian, academic and writer.
The Western Australian Museum is a statutory authority within the Culture and the Arts Portfolio, established under the Museum Act 1969.
Kim Scott is an Australian novelist of Aboriginal Australian ancestry. He is a descendant of the Noongar people of Western Australia.
Civil disturbances in Western Australia include race riots, prison riots, and religious conflicts – often Protestant versus Catholic groups.
Fremantle Press is an independent publisher in Western Australia. Fremantle Press was established by the Fremantle Arts Centre in 1976. It focuses on publishing Western Australian writers and writing.
Philip Salom is an Australian poet and novelist, whose poetry books have drawn widespread acclaim. His 14 collections of poetry and six novels are noted for their originality and expansiveness and surprising differences from title to title. His poetry has won awards in Australia and the UK. His novel Waiting was shortlisted for Australia's prestigious 2017 Miles Franklin Literary Award, the 2017 Prime Minister's Literary Awards and the 2016 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. His well-reviewed novel The Returns (2019) was a finalist in the 2020 Miles Franklin Award. In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, he published The Fifth Season. Since then, he has published Sweeney and the Bicycles (2022). His most recent poetry collection is Hologrammatical (2023).
Jon Doust is a comedian, writer, novelist and professional speaker, born in Bridgetown, Western Australia, who lives in Albany, Western Australia. He gained a BA majoring in English from the Western Australian Institute of Technology and worked in farming, retailing and journalism before pursuing a career in comedy and writing.
Ken Spillman is an Australian writer based in Perth, Western Australia, whose work has spanned diverse genres including poetry, sports writing and literary criticism. He is best known as a prolific author of books for children and young adults. His output also includes a large number of books relating to aspects of Australian social history.
Richard Leo Woldendorp AM was a Dutch-Australian photographer known for his aerial photography of Australian geography.
Elizabeth Ann Byrski is an Australian writer and journalist.
William Hedley Richardson Bunbury, known as Bill Bunbury, is a former radio broadcaster and producer for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and an accomplished historian and writer.
Victor Desmond Courtney was a Western Australian journalist and newspaper editor.
Marcella Polain is an Australian-resident poet, novelist and short fiction writer.
Andrew Burke was a contemporary Australian poet.
Pantjiti Mary McLean is a Ngaatjajarra Aboriginal Australian artist.
Professor Cheryl Kickett-Tucker is a research fellow at Curtin University in Western Australia, in the fields of Australian Aboriginal identity and self-esteem. She is involved in several Aboriginal community development programs, primarily for younger people.
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